The latest revelations about Maine’s Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is certainly a political sex scandal, but also a media scandal. And over the past few days, the liberal media have desperately tried to cover their tracks and claim innocence, to the point that some have shifted the blame to other news outlets, including those ideologically aligned with them. That’s exactly what MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell attempted on Tuesday’s episode of The Last Word, as he painted himself as a longtime Platner skeptic.
“We've been very careful about what campaigns we have focused on here,” O’Donnell began his grueling, nearly 30-minute-long coverage. He talked about Platner longer than he talked about Trump, which was probably the first time in a while that the orange-skinned boogeyman has managed to avoid O’Donnell’s squinty glare for longer than five minutes.
“And the reason that this program never once covered the Graham Platner campaign for Senate in Maine is that those other stories are more important, and that that candidate did not appear to me to be the kind of candidate who could make it all the way to November,” O’Donnell explained
