{"id":2626211,"date":"2026-07-07T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ms-now-says-quiet-part-out-loud-they-didnt-believe-past-platner-accuser-because-she-was-associated-with-right-wing-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:25:57","slug":"ms-now-says-quiet-part-out-loud-they-didnt-believe-past-platner-accuser-because-she-was-associated-with-right-wing-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ms-now-says-quiet-part-out-loud-they-didnt-believe-past-platner-accuser-because-she-was-associated-with-right-wing-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"MS NOW Says Quiet Part Out Loud: They Didn&#8217;t Believe Past Platner Accuser Because She Was &#8216;Associated with Right-Wing Politics&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fms-now-says-quiet-part-out-loud-they-didnt-believe-past-platner-accuser-because-she-was-associated-with-right-wing-politics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2626211&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A webpage features a &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; button that, when clicked, reveals additional content. The hidden content includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uks-prime-minister-directed-13000-suspected-pedophiles-get-warning-letters-instead-of-prosecution-according-to-rape-gang-report\/\" title=\"UK&#039;s Prime Minister Directed 13,000 Suspected Pedophiles Get Warning Letters Instead of Prosecution, According to Rape Gang ...\">detailed article discussing allegations<\/a> against Graham Platner, a Democratic Senate nominee in Maine. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >article highlights past accusations<\/a> and recent reports of sexual misconduct, including an incident from 2021 where a woman, Jenny Racicot, alleged he forcibly assaulted her while she was intoxicated. it also covers previous allegations from a former girlfriend, as reported by The New York Times, describing abuse and inappropriate behavior. The piece examines how political biases and party loyalties influenced the response to these allegations, emphasizing that accusations from women with certain political affiliations were often believed or dismissed differently. The article criticizes the tendency to uphold &#8220;believe all women&#8221; rhetoric selectively,depending on the individualS political stance,and questions why these serious allegations did not lead to earlier disqualification from the race.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>I guess now that MS NOW has shed its NBC ties, the liberal cable mainstay is free to say the horrible (but clearly true) quiet part out loud.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Graham Platner, that silent part is this: Sure, he\u2019d been credibly accused of partner abuse before and had serious problems with sexual boundaries, but the reason they believed the allegations being made on Monday was that they weren\u2019t being made by a <em>Republican<\/em> who happened to have the misfortune of dating Maine\u2019s Democratic Senate nominee some years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who missed the 57th or 83rd or whatever-th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/depraved-things-watch-fetterman-blast-platner-challenge-prove-didnt-send-d-pics-underage-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thoroughly disqualifying scandal<\/a> the far-left hobbyist oysterman has endured since his insurgent candidacy began last August, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/07\/06\/graham-platner-sexual-assault-allegation-00987737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a> reported on Monday afternoon that a woman Platner had an on-and-off relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-bombshell-sex-allegation-hits-platner-entered-womans-home-uninvited-forced\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused him of raping her<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>From the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The woman, a 41-year-old Maine resident named Jenny Racicot, detailed the alleged incident to POLITICO in three interviews over the past two weeks. POLITICO also spoke with a man Racicot dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident, and reviewed documents, including s between Racicot and her therapist and messages between Racicot and an acquaintance whom she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he ran for office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Racicot said she had an on-and-off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, for more than two years before he entered her rural Maine home uninvited one night in late 2021, deeply intoxicated, and forced himself on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She said she cut off contact with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI remember him grabbing my pelvis and being really forceful of me,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember the specific moment where I thought to myself, like, \u2018This is no longer my choice.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This tracks with virtually everything we know about Platner \u2014 issues with women, issues with drugs and alcohol, issues with consent and abuse \u2014 which kind of raises the question as to why this was allowed to get this far in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>MS NOW spelled it out: The first time around, he abused a conservative. Believe all women, so long as they check the right boxes.<\/p>\n<p>While Platner\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-key-senate-dem-vote-to-oppose-biden-nominee-neera-tanden-for-overly-partisan-statements\/\" title=\"Manchin, Key Senate Dem Vote, To Oppose Biden Nominee Neera Tanden For \u2018Overly Partisan Statements...\">social media history<\/a> had confirmed that the man had serious issues with women and what constituted sexual consent, and rumors had long swirled on social media about how he lived this out in his private life and not just on Reddit, a June <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/04\/us\/politics\/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationships.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> report laid out in graphic detail allegations from a former girlfriend who said that Platner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/breaking-nyt-drops-graham-platner-domestic-violence-bombshell-report-scared-left-marks-wrenched-arms-according-ex-girlfriend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abused her<\/a>, intimidated her, and would cavalierly talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rape-show-dominant-graham-platners-campaign-wont-dispute-shocking-quote-nyt-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about potentially raping<\/a> home intruders, but \u201cnot in a gay way,\u201d just to show them who was dominant.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Platner didn\u2019t dispute the horrifying and grotesquely bizarre rape comments, and the ex-girlfriend said the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/platners-ex-girlfriend-accuses-nyt-sanitizing-abuse-claims-interview-really-set\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">actually sanitized her version<\/a> of events, this somehow wasn\u2019t a clarion call for someone to get him the heck out of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to MS NOW\u2019s Antonia Hylton to spell it out for you after the latest scandal: \u201cPart of, I think, what made it complicated for some Democrats to fully believe the woman who was the center of the last round was that she was associated with right-wing politics.<\/p>\n<p>However, Hylton believes this woman because she was conflicted about supporting Platner\u2019s politics and letting Maine know that they were on the verge of electing a credibly accused rapist:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MSNOW\u2019s Antonia Hylton rips <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lyndseyfifield?\">@LyndseyFifield<\/a>, arguing she was less credible than Jenny Racicot because she\u2019s \u201cassociated with right-wing politics\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jcHXqqCDOT\">pic.twitter.com\/jcHXqqCDOT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/2074230234577064340?\">July 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just so we\u2019re clear here: Lyndsey Fifield, the conservative comms staffer and sometimes-podcaster, didn\u2019t do her career any favors by coming forward about their relationship, which lasted from roughly 2013 to 2015. This isn\u2019t some kind of wild-eyed activist type looking to torpedo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rumors-swirl-multiple-graham-platner-events-abruptly-canceled\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Platner<\/a> by any means necessary, simply someone with a very credible account of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>And the way she was treated by people like Hylton is now the reason we have this allegation. From Politico:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Racicot said she later felt compelled to go public about her experience because the reaction to the Times story was dominated by controversy about another woman, Lyndsey Fifield, who alleged Platner mistreated her and faced attacks because of her ties to the Republican Party. (Contacted by POLITICO, Fifield stood by the allegations she made to the Times and declined to comment further.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, she did comment elsewhere \u2014 like in response to Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who dropped his endorsement of Platner in the wake of the Politico report.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mine weren\u2019t sufficiently troubling or serious for you, right? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ZkTvKLUmY\">https:\/\/t.co\/4ZkTvKLUmY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lyndsey Fifield (@lyndseyfifield) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lyndseyfifield\/status\/2074252081976799695?\">July 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, there should have been plenty of points of departure where Platner\u2019s unfitness for office should have occasioned party officials to hound him from the race. But that moment could have been after Fifield\u2019s allegations went public, in what she says was a whitewashed (but still damning) version, on June 4 \u2014 five days before the Maine primary. Yes, Platner was effectively running unopposed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/maine-dems-nominate-nazi-tattooed-graham-platner-immediately-attacks-susan-collins-reputation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but Gov. Janet Mills<\/a> was still on the ballot for the Democratic nomination, even though she\u2019d dropped her campaign, and a weekend scramble session could have stopped this.<\/p>\n<p>But, no: Believe all women, so long as the woman is a leftist. As for the rest of them, pfft: Who\u2019re you going to believe, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-platner-ex-lover-damning-nazi-tattoo-details-claims-kept-reminder-america-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nazi-sympathizing<\/a> drunkard with a radioactive social media history who can\u2019t even deny that he would talk about raping home intruders to assert dominance, or someone with bad politics?<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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