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BROADCAST BIAS: Platner’s nomination exposes media double standards … again

Networks largely ignored Nazi tattoo for months, only covering it when sexting and abuse allegations emerged

By Tim Graham Fox News

Published June 13, 2026 7:00am EDT

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'The View' co-hosts feud over Graham Platner, whether to support scandal-plagued Maine Democrat

Some co-hosts of "The View" called out Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner as the panel remained divided about whether to support him after his Tuesday primary win.

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Radical leftist Graham Platner easily seized the Democrat nomination for the U.S. Senate in Maine on Tuesday, despite a semi-truckload of scandal baggage. It began last year with the revelation that Platner had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, and it was not a swastika – it was a "Totenkopf," the symbol of the S.S. troops that guarded the death camps in the Holocaust.

The broadcast networks avoided the subject of Platner and his tattoo for months. On April 22, a National Public Radio story skipped over it. So much for the show being titled "All Things Considered." Steve Mistler of Maine Public Radio reported: "Platner's well-documented controversies — including past offensive social media posts about sexual assault, rural white voters and the tipping habits of black people — haven't scared off high-profile endorsements," like those of Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others. Platner was painted as having populist momentum.

The TV networks arrived when a new scandal emerged on May 31: Platner had engaged in sexting with a number of women while he was newly married. We learned this because his embarrassed wife Amy warned campaign officials that it might become........

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