Media Outlet Lets The Mask Slip
Now that MS NOW has cut its NBC ties, the liberal cable mainstay apparently feels free to say the ugly quiet part out loud. In Graham Platner’s case, that quiet part is this: Democrats had already heard troubling allegations about him before. He had been accused of partner abuse. There were already serious questions about […]
Now that MS NOW has cut its NBC ties, the liberal cable mainstay apparently feels free to say the ugly quiet part out loud.
In Graham Platner’s case, that quiet part is this: Democrats had already heard troubling allegations about him before. He had been accused of partner abuse. There were already serious questions about his behavior toward women and his understanding of sexual boundaries. But the latest allegation, the one they seemed more willing to accept, was not coming from a Republican woman who had once dated Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee.
For anyone who has lost track of the many scandals surrounding Platner since his insurgent campaign began last August, Politico reported Monday afternoon that a woman who had an on-and-off relationship with him accused him of raping her in 2021.
The woman, 41-year-old Maine resident Jenny Racicot, described the alleged incident to Politico in three interviews over two weeks. Politico also spoke with a man Racicot had dated and confided in after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents that included emails between Racicot and her therapist, along with messages between Racicot and an acquaintance she had warned years earlier not to get involved with Platner.
Racicot said she and Platner had been in an on-and-off relationship for more than two years before, one night in late 2021, he allegedly entered her rural Maine home uninvited while deeply intoxicated and forced himself on her as she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact after telling him the encounter was not consensual.
“I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,” Racicot told Politico. “I remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, ‘This is no longer my choice.’”
The allegation fits a broader pattern of concerns that have followed Platner: issues involving women, alcohol, consent, and abuse. That raises the obvious question of why his candidacy was allowed to get this far in the first place.
MS NOW’s answer, whether intentional or not, was revealing. The earlier accuser was conservative. Apparently, “believe all women” comes with fine print.