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The New York Times set up Graham Platner’s ex to make him look better, so now what, we don’t ‘believe all women?’

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This should be the political bombshell of the season, but it was delivered in bubble wrap.

Yesterday the New York Times published an investigative piece on Graham Platner, a political newcomer in Maine poised to nab the Democratic nomination for the upcoming Senate race.

Despite containing serious accusations of physical abuse and more evidence that he lied about his Nazi tattoo for 17 years, it was presented in an incredibly passive manner.

Most of his alleged damning acts were buried so deep in the story, you needed an excavator to get there.

The rather charitable headline read, “Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior,” when it should have said “Ex-Girlfriend says Platner was physically abusive, locked her in a room.”

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