Again more information is coming out. Details that give credit to Platner’s side of the story. The news doesn’t excuse him, but it sets up why he was at her house and why he was touching her. Again the media has a bias and it is being reported with that bias totally one sided. This report says he was wasted out of his mind black out drunk but again no proof of that. Was the woman here drinking also like the first woman was? I think Saagar is trying too hard to brand Platner, again we need more facts. As he said the woman is accusing Platner of a serious felony and now we need to see if this is going to be a trial in the media which is a slander hit job or a trial in court. The question I have is more going to come out. I like that on morning Joe the host asks for colaberating evedince. She asks what do you have to show him raping the victim? Again if he did it he needs to pay for his crime, I just don’t like how it is coming out, being played up in media, and the timing. Again the reporter admits he can’t produce any evidence. The therapist did not verify that it happened, yet that was reported. The very account I had heard about the exchange between the therapist and the victim has been proven out, it was not about the assault or at the time or the assault. The therapist said she did not recall the victim’s account of the assault but said she vaguely supports women who say they are assaulted. Therrapest keep notes, mine always have so why did she blank on the case details. This is looking a media hit job to drive a progressive candidate out of politics. Hugs
NOTE: Politico’s response to Breaking Points and Drop Site News on the gaps in reporting follows: “This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews and reflects our editorial standards. In interviews with us and in accounts she gave to other outlets, Jenny Racicot said that she told Graham Platner not to come to her home and that he nevertheless showed up there uninvited. POLITICO gave Platner and his campaign ample opportunity to respond to our reporting and to provide any information or documentation they believed contradicted it. If presented with information that materially challenges our reporting, we will report it.” Ryan and Saagar discuss exclusive reporting on key details missing from the Graham Platner story.
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OK, Scottie, I’m out. I cannot with the misogyny, anymore. I’m sorry, and I hope it doesn’t hurt you that I’m leaving, but I simply cannot. My best guess is that since you can still write these things you write, you won’t mind that I’m out the door. It’s been good, and I have nothing but well wishes for you. See ya.
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Hi Ali. I care about you and always will. You need to do what is good for you and I support that. However, I think you have a huge blind spot on this issue that I don’t share. I wish you would have stayed and tried to explain your points and side.
As for me not minding your bailing again that is your projection. I have repeatedly told you how much I admire your voice, but I also said yours is one voice among many. I do mind you bailed but I understand you are doing it to protect yourself and I respect that. You don’t need to; I told you I never monitored nor stopped you from posting what you wished. Your access to the blog remains and I have not recined it.
I know you don’t want to hear this but people do have the ability to change and improve themselves. The woman said she came forward after the first news article had no one backing up her account, meaning she was alone in her account; she voiced it at a time he had no chance to refute it and continue his campaign, and lastly where are her accusations now? She dropped a bomb derailing the best chance we had for winning Maine with serious accusations yet she just dropped out of all media and is not moving forward with any of her serious accusations. Why?
To me this smacks of a jilted lover wanting to get revenge. I could be wrong, but the facts fit. Show me the flaws in my thinking, and I will reconsider. However just to say he is a bad man once and forever is not something I will sign on to.
As I said your standing on the blog stands. Unless you ask me to recind it. You have the right to as always to speak your mind but so do I and others. I welcome the chance to have the discussion. It really is up to you. Best wishes always and hugs.
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Hi Scottie. I’m trying to do a little catch up before bed. Heading to see my parents in the morning. I hope I can ask this of the readership in the most careful of ways, so please use 3rd person and “a friend of mine” type response where needed….
I’ve read a great deal of allegations of sexual abuse committed by politicians lately. I recall something in the past about “SAID” – sexual allegations in divorce – where false allegations are made, and I’ve also read about how powerful people see domination as part of their right, somehow. And, of course, we have the recent past entertainment industry issues, ie: caster’s couch, and I would also like to say that women can abuse men, and men can abuse men, so victims are not a single gender or age group. Having said all of that, is there a rise in abuse, a rise false allegations of abuse, or a rise in past abuses being brought to light???
One thing I do my best to be careful of at work is that I don’t allow any of the women to be talked disrespectfully to or about. Everyone jokes, and especially us “shop rats”, but there is a very distinct line. It is frightening to me as a man in management that someone would get out of line in such a way or that someone would make a false allegation. I say this more than because it would be very difficult from a management perspective; I say this because these are lives that can be destroyed, real pain, real heartache, real consequences. In the past, people were subjected to abuse and kept quiet about it as just a part of the life in that culture and time, and I know that while better received it is not so simple to say “this happened” and be believed.
ok, I’ve made a mess of this. But, one of the problems of our current world and one of the blessings – sort of a two-edged sword – is that we know of events that occur 100’s and 1000’s of miles away in the same ways that we hear about things that happen just a few miles away, or less. The “incidence rate” can seem higher for that reason, the facts can be muddied by short news time and prejudging, and in the end we sit there watching the news and don’t know what to believe.
Thanks!
Randy
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Hi Brother. We talked about this post on the phone but for those reading along the comments that don’t have the benefit of that conversation let me cover a few points here. Yes men can be abused by women and men. I was as a child and as an adult. As a 20 year old I was forced to have sex with a woman against my will due to her rank over me. I ran naked the last time to my unit’s first sargent in tears. He took care of the situation and I became his boyfriend. My female rapest left the unit in the next week. I was raped as a 23 year old by my oldest hellspawn male sibling who kept me hostage for 4 days and raped me repeatedly.
So both males and females can be aggressive sexual predators, and also both men and women can want revenge or want to lash out if they feel they have been rejected. As I said to Ali above, the woman’s reason for coming forward and her silence since say a lot about her reasons for speaking up at the time she did. She sounds to me like a woman who feels scorned and not given the due she feels she is due. I could be wrong, but why nothing since she forced him out of the campaign?
I am a strong believer in that people can daily improve themselves and acheive redemption for past bad acts. No one is perfect. I had a horrific temper in my 20s and still struggle with it to this day. It is part of my fight response to threats. But I saw how my temper was worrying and scaring Ron when we first met and I worked hard and still do to excise that from my person as I have had to do with the hate I once had. I try every day to be a better Scottie today than I was yesterday no matter the cost to me to do so. I believe everyone who wants forgiveness or accepts their faults / failings can have forgiveness if they ask for it and are willing to change. I think it applies to Platner as well.
One last thing. One of my hellspawn siblings who tied me to a stair nanister so her boyfriend could rape me, who forced to orally please him and give him my body has died. In her obituary they dead named me using their name for me knowing that in court documents I forced them to use my name I go by and my married name. Spiteful and hateful even in death. So sad for them. Hugs
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