About this episode

The episode critiques Fox News' promotion of a conspiracy theory regarding the Democratic Party's manipulation of a Senate race in Maine.

Last week on Fox News guests and hosts alike seemed to all come up with the exact same conspiracy theory about the Democratic Party and control of the U.S. Senate. According to the Fox News narrative party leaders decided to pick a deeply flawed yet charismatic blue collar oyster farmer, Graham Platner, to run for the U.S. Senate in Maine. The second he started to dip in the polls the Democratic machine convinced one of his ex-girlfriends to tell the press that Graham sexually assaulted her. When Platner dropped out of the race the Democratic establishment would replace him with their preferred candidate - someone less radical and more likely to defeat Susan Collins, a moderate Republican who has represented Maine in the U.S. Senate for over 29 years. Did this theory make any sense? No, but that wasn’t going to stop anyone at Fox from promoting it. Platner’s many shortcomings and disastrous personal life was somehow all part of the master plan to disenfranchise voters and sneak in a new candidate at the last minute to run against a well-funded incumbent. Also last week as more evidence came out during the preliminary hearing for the suspect in the murder of conservative political…

Topics covered

• conspiracy theories
• political narratives
• media criticism
• election dynamics
• sexual assault allegations

Keywords

• Fox News
• Graham Platner
• conspiracy theory
• Democratic Party
• Charlie Kirk
• political manipulation
• Maine Senate race

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fox News, Democratic Party, Susan Collins

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