Graham Platner’s Sexts and the Stasi Media

    Byron York has an important piece out at the Washington Examiner. In “Time to See Graham Platner’s Sexts,” York notes that Graham Platner admitted to sending sexual text messages to various women. Who are the women, and what did the texts say? Because our Stasi media is covering for Platner, nobody knows. Here’s Byron York:

To no one’s surprise and some Democratic strategists’ dismay, Graham Platner ran away with the Democratic nomination for senator from Maine. Now, barring some unforeseen development, the whole Platner drama that nobody knew about not that long ago — the Nazi tattoo, the Reddit posts, the sexting — will be part of the Maine Senate race until the general election on Nov. 3.

Of those, the sexting part is most urgent, because we know the least about it of anything else. Now, with Platner, the official Democratic candidate for Senate, it’s time to know more.

    York then notes that “we don’t know much more than was reported in the initial stories published May 30.” The Wall Street Journal reported that Platner’s campaign aides “decided the texts were a private matter that was being handled by the couple in marriage counseling.” The New York Times reported that Platner campaign officials and those close to the campaign said Platner had been texting “up to six” or “as many as a dozen” women. The official told the paper that the texting stopped “before the campaign launched.” 

    The Wall Street Journal also reported that Platner has an account on Kik, a private messaging app often used by men seeking to meet teenage girls. For his profile, Platner posted a “mirror selfie of him shirtless with a towel wrapped around his waist,” the outlet said.

    “Both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times stories were published 11 days ago,” York reports. “In the time since, there have been no meaningful additions to our knowledge about the sexting matter.” York’s conclusion:  

So what don’t we know? Start with the number of women who received Platner’s sexts. Maybe it was six, or maybe it was a dozen. But we don’t know which, nor do we know if that range is accurate.

And what were their ages? We don’t know. And then, what did Platner say in the texts? That’s pretty important, and we know nothing. Did he send any photos, for example, images like his Kik profile photo? We don’t know.

    The hypocrisy of the media in this situation is, of course, off the charts. I’ve posted about the difference between the media – including Jodi Kantor! – covering for Graham Platner and the way they savage Brett Kavanaugh and me in 2018. That savaging included extortion, witness tampering, and death threats, not to mention a honey trap.

    It also included the left trying to exploit some work I had done as a photographer and videographer. The gig started as a side hustle around 2015 when I got hired to photograph an official DC pool party when the regular guy didn’t show up. From there, it developed to the point where I was doing a reel for a top ten contestant on American Idol. Even Alec Baldwin complimented my work. All innocent stuff, celebrating actors, models, and female beauty. (My father worked for National Geographic for thirty years. I know what I’m doing with a camera.) Many of the models went on to get bigger jobs. 

    Of course, when the oppo researchers came for Kavanaugh and me, they tried to turn my work into something scandalous. CNN tried to slime me, and others hinted that the models were drugged or paid off. I closed down my YouTube and Vimeo channels, which miraculously popped up again later, identifying me as “Brett Judge” and announcing, “Here are the girls!” The DNC oppo psychos had saved all the videos. (I’m proud of the work, which survived for a while on the Internet Archive and is still on my computer if I ever get around to going through it again. Maybe they’ll mount an exhibit at MOMA.)

    In 2018, I knew I had nothing to worry about as the people I worked with just told the truth. Of course, in the mania of the Kavanaugh moment, that was far from a sure thing. And yet they did. The models defended me. As pretentious as it sounds, I was an artist just trying to capture beauty, which requires staying within certain lines of good taste. And, as even Jake Tapper wondered at the time, “Why are they so interested in Mark Judge? He’s not running for anything.” They were interested because the American Stasi and their #MeToo ghouls were eager to ruin me if it meant bringing down Brett Kavanaugh. There’s also the reality that the left has become censorious and hostile to art, even if it celebrates female power and beauty, but that’s a different subject.

    People who know me know, as director Doug Liman once put it to me, I’m a 1980s guy. Generation X is pretty easy-going about sex, even as I strive to be a good Catholic. I’m not interested in humiliating Graham Platner or seeing his junk. I just think he should answer a basic question: Is there anything illegal or concerning about your sexts? 

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