Guttfield on Platner - what I said

Amid all the hoopla over Platner’s Nazi tattoo and phony oyster “business” — $5,000 annual sales, sole customer was his mother’s restaurant”, I kept pointing out that the media, even the conservative media, was mostly ignoring the real, larger issue: his Democratic Socialists of America /communist agenda. The left side media’s silence on their hero’s platform because of course they agreed with all of it, and anything that distracted the attention on middle-of-the-road voters was all to the good; the conservatives, however, dropped the ball.

Forget the sweatshirt; look at his policies

Gutfeld then turned to the substance of Platner's far-left platform, arguing that the folksy image built around him was designed to distract from it rather than from his personal baggage. "They kept saying this guy was relatable, a normal guy, but I think this was all camouflage, not for his sexual escapades, but for his policies," he said.

He rattled off the specifics reporters glossed over. "By focusing on the mustache and the truck driving, you didn't talk about free Medicaid, trans, defunding police, BLM, Antifa," Gutfeld said. "There's nothing folksy about his beliefs; it's pure chaos."

"He has all the stuff of that campus town coffee shop where the coffee mugs don't match," he said. "And all the flyers on the wall are for No Kings rallies and bail funds and rent strikes." He added that Platner is "a walking billboard for decolonization and free Palestine rallies," and insisted "that is not a normal guy just because he wears a sweatshirt."

Gutfeld's sharpest point came when he contrasted Platner with Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate Republican far removed from MAGA politics. "They keep portraying this guy as far worse, evil than voting for Susan Collins," he said. "That was their apocalypse, an elderly, benign liberal Republican who's about as MAGA as Sally Field."

Gutfeld closed by pointing out just how far the goalposts had moved. "And yet that choice, oh, not her, drove women in Maine to grieve, grieve over a guy with a Nazi tattoo who may or may not have raped a few women," he said. "They grieve over him."

Platner may be gone, for now, but his fellow DSA are still in office or running for office across the country, so the fight continues.