Considering The Media Were OK With Trump's Known Adulteries And Those Of Countless Other Rich Women And Men

including Susan Collins' maybe their going after Graham Platner is a class issue.

After writing this, I wondered how many stories per day have been filed about the "scandals" of Graham Planter as opposed to past and proven sex scandals with an added boost of hypocrisy, like Henry Hyde's adulterous affair as he was chasing after Bill Clinton's sex life,  Newt Gingrich's dumping of his first wife for the woman he was having an affair with as she was fighting cancer.   And that's not to mention the many, many stories that are never touched in the media when it's a member of their own profession posing as a moral arbitor.  

I wrote about Mika Brezinski's hypocrisy in questioning whether given his known minor issue of talking dirty with consenting adults online, if Graham Planter had the moral purity to go after Donald Trump for his Epstein involvement.   She could have certainly asked Susan Collins that same question,  Susan Collins is known to have been involved with her husband as his previous wife was fighting cancer which is a lot sleazier than the "scandal" that has blown up against Graham Platner's online sexy TALK.  Which his wife and he have reportedly worked through PRIVATELY and he stopped doing it.    It's reported that Collin's husband, who she was seeing for quite a while before, divorced his wife while she was ill.  Exactly what Newt Gingrich did to his first wife. 

And then there's the reemergence of Donald Trump's old pro liar, Kellyanne Conway who lied about what he's accused of WHILE WORKING FOR THE KNOW EPSTEIN CLASS #1 GUEST STAR IN THE EPSTEIN FILE,  THE MAN WHO MIKA AND JOE GAVE PHONE CALL SEGEMENTS TO ON THEIR MORNING SHOW AS HE WAS A KNOWN ADULTERER RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT AT A TIME HIS KNOWN FRIENDSHIP WITH EPSTEIN DURING THE PERIOD OF EPSTEIN'S KNOWN CRIMES  WERE PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORD.  

And, as mentioned last night, the media who is going after Graham Planter to put a general sense of unease around him IS FULL TO THE TOP OF REPORTERS, OPINION SCRIBBLERS, EDITORS, PUBLISHERS AND RIGHT ON UP TO OWNERS WHOSE OWN MORAL HISTORIES DISQUALIFIES THEM FROM THROWING THE FIRST NOT TO MENITION THE NEXT STONES IN THAT REGARD.   Everyone from David Brookes and his dumping his first wife for a far younger woman, to the likes of Rupert Murdoch whose fortune was, in no small part, built on peddling pornography,  the soft core titty pics to the hard core stuff.  And with his known history.  

I remember while I was studying medieval and later history in high school and college that it was striking how the monarchs and nobility and aristocracy and, yes, the clergy were such notable adulterers, fornicators, rapists, etc. whose sexual sins were known but who seldom to never suffered the consequences  meted out when the same became known of among the peasants.  The same is certainly true in American history in which the rich and famous and connected had sex with whomever they wanted to,  most famously Thomas Jefferson who raped at least one of the young girls he kept in slavery - the very crime of Epstein and Trump and the billionaires Epstein serviced - but who will be lionized as he is every 4th of July.   And what he, as a member of the Southern aristocracy did, was common practice, so common that it was remarked on how many of the children among the enslaved looked like family members of their enslavers - one of the reported attractions of the girl Sally Hemmings to Jefferson was that she was almost the spitting image of his late wife - we can be in little doubt as to why that may have been. 

But the same thing that is commonly accepted and acceptable when it is known to be done by the rich,  both men and Women,  certainly in the media class - itself now an appendage of the show-biz industry which is like a pack of dogs or herd of cats in perpetual heat is presented as having no moral disqualification at all.   It's hilarious for Republicans of any kind to be pretending to get the vapors about this, considering how many of its biggest figures have really sordid histories,  Ronald Reagan and his Hollywood past, Newt Gingrich who, like Trump, seems to have committed adultery with all of his wives - the present Mrs. Gingrich was screwing him while he was married and while she was a choir member at the National Cathedral - several of Gingrich's replacements as Republican Speaker's of the House including Denny Hastert who is known to have been a serial pedophile sexual abuser who is the highest member of the government to have ever served a prison sentence.   The present Republican caucus as well as the Trump regime are full of sexual sinners, likely sexual criminals as a number of them are either suspected of or known to have been in the Epstein class.   Then there's their gentleman's agreement policy on the likes of Lindsay Graham and many others who, if a Democrat shared their sexual history, they'd go after hammer and tongs. And don't forget the several accusations that the current Judiciary Chairman, Jim Jordan knew about the sexual harassment going on against his wrestling team members at Ohio State while he did nothing about it.   I'd like to know the monthly percentage of stories about that as compared to the coverage that Graham Platner has faced.   I'd put years to weeks that the media firestorm over Platner has been far heavier and more concentrated. 

I think they're going after Graham Platner on the basis of him being a blue collar man from a small state, someone who from an early age grew up doing physical labor, who went into the military as a means of advancement and who went back to physical labor.   It's certainly an issue of class and, not improbably, him not coming from a place like New York or California or Virgina or even Ohio.  Certainly a likely issue in the NYT's  treatment of him.   It was one of the things that was certainly part of the media's sandbagging of the man who may well have been our most moral president,  Jimmy Carter whose Georgian farmer origin was likely an issue for the media elite, as certainly was Bill Clinton's Arkansas origin was in their willingness to make his history an issue.   Susan Collins, as a guaranteed to never vote against the financial interests of the Epstein class and the big media moguls, is given a pass in that regard.  

There is more than a little it of outrage among the national media that their hit job on Graham Platner doesn't seem to have worked and, if my observation, shared with many others may well have driven up the Planter vote in Maine, it increased his support. It also may be the final hurrah of the influence of the traditional big media outlets like the Times and the cabloids.   I hope that's right because it will certainly mean that at least a lot of Mainers have seen through their games and their self-interest and snobbery.   Maybe it's because we've experienced the snobbery of so many elites from away who have colonized Maine.  Especially those from the NYC area.   I think they look on Graham Platner as an uppity rustic.  One who doesn't aspire to be their handmaid like Susan Collins has so reliably been.