06/01/2026
Conservative logic…
He’s horrible cause he had consensual adult sexual interactions…
He’s fine…he only r***d a child, move on.
The mainstream media has a bias problem against real progressive candidates — and the numbers prove it.
On May 30, the Wall Street Journal and New York Times broke the story that Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner had allegedly sexted multiple women while married. Within 48 hours, the coverage was wall-to-wall: NYT, WSJ, CNN (two stories), NBC News (two stories), CBS News, ABC News, Washington Post, Associated Press, HuffPost, Axios (two stories), WBUR (story & broadcast), MS NOW, and Bangor Daily News (two stories) — roughly 20 distinct stories in under two days. The story dominated Sunday morning shows. Senators were cornered for comment. It hasn’t stopped since.
Now consider this: In February, NPR’s investigative team revealed that Trump’s DOJ had illegally withheld FBI files documenting a woman’s allegation that Donald Trump forced her to perform oral s*x on her when she was only 13 years old — then punched her in the head. She was interviewed by the FBI four times. The allegation appeared in an internal FBI PowerPoint under “Prominent Names.” House Democrats confirmed the DOJ appeared to have broken the law by burying it.
Within 48 hours of that story breaking, coverage came from NPR, CNN, NBC News, CBS News, The Guardian, ABC News, USA Today, PBS NewsHour, and the Washington Post. Roughly 10 stories (half that of coverage of Platner scandal).
The New York Times didn’t write a single story dedicated to the topic.
The paper that dropped everything to expose a progressive Senate candidate’s consensual adult sexting apparently couldn’t find the bandwidth to cover FBI-documented allegations that the sitting president of the United States r*ped a child.
This is the definition of media bias: a corporate press that writes hit-pieces portraying adult consensual behavior as “breaking news” when the story is about a progressive but treat horrific Republican crimes against children as minor infractions.
A Senate candidate’s texts to adult women: 20+ stories in 48 hours.
A president’s alleged r*pe of a 13-year-old, buried by his own DOJ: 10 stories, then silence.
The New York Times knows exactly what they’re doing.