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CNN Panelist: Ignore Platner Sexting Scandal, Skip ‘Purity Culture’
NewsBusters ^ | 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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1 posted on 06/02/2026 10:15:09 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Do the same for Paxton, then we have a deal.


2 posted on 06/02/2026 10:15:57 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Uhhhhhh....is that pic from CNN or SNL?


3 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. )
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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.


4 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.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Is that a woman dressed as a man?


5 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.)
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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.

6 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. )
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“Jane, you ignorant content creator!”


7 posted on 06/02/2026 10:25:52 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

👍


8 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. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Play this back the next time a. Republican gets in trouble - it won’t carry any weight at all.


9 posted on 06/02/2026 10:35:06 AM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Texas Eagle

Good. Keep him there.


10 posted on 06/02/2026 10:35:17 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Except when talking about Trump then purity is the only thing😎😂😳


11 posted on 06/02/2026 10:39:24 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I prefer my Senators to be like Jimmy Stewart in Mr Smith Goes to Washington.

12 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)
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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….


13 posted on 06/02/2026 10:40:54 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Clearly, the only constituency this loser is going to serve is... himself.


14 posted on 06/02/2026 10:44:23 AM PDT by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: BenLurkin

Wikipedia: “Spehar is a nonbinary lesbian, uses they/them pronouns, and has dyslexia.”


15 posted on 06/02/2026 10:54:07 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Graham Platner, aka P-Hustle, A Connoisseur Of That Signature Chemical Porta -Potty Bouquet : r/Jordan_Peterson_Memes
16 posted on 06/02/2026 10:54:47 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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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.


17 posted on 06/02/2026 11:01:13 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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platner
18 posted on 06/02/2026 11:05:29 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: BenLurkin

Pat from SNL. Shame that skip would be decried as hate today.


19 posted on 06/02/2026 11:22:44 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Eric Swawell says here here.


20 posted on 06/02/2026 11:57:52 AM PDT by Waverunner (Torah! Torah! Torah! my favorite IDF radio code.)
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