We’re evidently in the “pounce” phase of Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner’s Hindenburg of a campaign.
We love consistency, folks.
The funny thing about the “pounce” trope — in which newsrooms divert attention from a Democratic scandal to the Republican and conservative reaction — is that it’s nearly always a dead giveaway that the scandal is indeed … a scandal.
Otherwise, there would be no need to shift focus.
At ABC News, crackerjack correspondent Mary Bruce, like clockwork, accused Republican Senator Susan Collins of “pouncing” on the series of controversies dogging Platner, whom the network correspondent describes as a humble “oyster farmer” who, yes, once had a tattoo “resembling a Nazi symbol.”
There’s a lot to unpack here, not least of which is the insistence that Platner’s tattoo merely resembled the SS symbol rather than being the symbol itself. The tattoo, which Platner has since covered up with a goofy Gaelic dog-thingy, was an exact likeness of the SS “death’s head,” not just a lookalike. Furthermore, former acquaintances and text messages from before the tattoo became public knowledge claim that he was aware of the image’s meaning as far back as 2012 and referred to it as “my Totenkopf.”
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