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CNN Panelist: Ignore Platner Sexting Scandal, Skip ‘Purity Culture’
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| Mark Finkelstein
Posted on 06/02/2026 10:15:09 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
On Monday’s edition of CNN's This Morning, a panel discussed the Senate race in Maine.
CNN panelist and TikTok babbler V. Spehar weighed in:
"We need to be talking about what we're gonna do for people, not what any kind of scandal coming up is, because there's so much getting lost in the conversations that we're having if we're trying to police, and do purity culture on every single candidate, and that's kind of an issue."
Great point, V! Because the Democrats and the liberal media haven't spent years obsessing over every real and imagined scandal involving Donald Trump, or literally policing him, right down to mug shots and multiple criminal trials. Oh, wait.
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Do the same for Paxton, then we have a deal.
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:15:57 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
("I am Charlie Kirk!")
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Uhhhhhh....is that pic from CNN or SNL?
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:17:10 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
To: patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; frank ballenger; ...
Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.
No, that’s NOT James Talarico on the right. It’s V. Spehar.
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:17:46 AM PDT
by
governsleastgovernsbest
(Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Is that a woman dressed as a man?
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:19:55 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
The double standard was glaring. For Democrats and their media allies, scandals are only disqualifying when they involve Republicans.If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:23:57 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
To: Texas Eagle
“Jane, you ignorant content creator!”
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:25:52 AM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:28:34 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Play this back the next time a. Republican gets in trouble - it won’t carry any weight at all.
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:35:06 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(We are all Charlie Kirk now)
To: Texas Eagle
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:35:17 AM PDT
by
cowboyusa
(YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Except when talking about Trump then purity is the only thing😎😂😳
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:39:24 AM PDT
by
blitz128
To: governsleastgovernsbest
I prefer my Senators to be like Jimmy Stewart in Mr Smith Goes to Washington.
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:39:46 AM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
To: Texas Eagle
Scandals do matter when they want to end one of their own otherwise nothing to see here move along, sharp as a tack, bjs in the oral office….
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:40:54 AM PDT
by
blitz128
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Clearly, the only constituency this loser is going to serve is... himself.
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:44:23 AM PDT
by
alancarp
(George Orwell was an optimist.)
To: BenLurkin
Wikipedia: “Spehar is a nonbinary lesbian, uses they/them pronouns, and has dyslexia.”
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:54:07 AM PDT
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governsleastgovernsbest
(Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
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posted on
06/02/2026 10:54:47 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Import the third world. Become the second world.)
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Yep, as they were saying over on DU, “I don’t care what he did so long as he gets elected and votes with the D’s”.
They MUST find a way to hold on to power. if they lose this one, they could be in REAL trouble very soon.
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
06/02/2026 11:05:29 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(Import the third world. Become the second world.)
To: BenLurkin
Pat from SNL. Shame that skip would be decried as hate today.
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Eric Swawell says here here.
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posted on
06/02/2026 11:57:52 AM PDT
by
Waverunner
(Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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