Gutfeld! Monologues - The Media Backpedals on Platner

Episode Date: July 9, 2026

As seen on Gutfeld! Greg talks about how the media is backpedaling on Graham Platner's shocking past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If I were in your situation. Good evening, everyone. So by the time that this show airs, and battle Democrat Senate candidate, Graham Platner, might have already dropped out of the race in Maine. His friends believe that he plans on returning to private life, where he can focus on his true passion, raping. Meanwhile, Democrats are looking for a replacement for Platner.

So if you're a Nazi and a rapist who likes jerking off in porta-potties, you may already qualify. It's a limited time, so act now, and don't worry, we don't do background checks. Yet more grisly details of Platner's behavior emerged, including one ex who claims Platner would slip his condom off during sex without asking permission. But his defenders claim that this practice only shows Graham's relentless passion for recycling. Gets applause. Thank you.

Thank you. New York City's mayor, Mom Dani, also called for Plattner to drop out of the race, adding, though I encourage him to continue hating Jews. A government official says he's confident an under-construction Manhattan skyscraper is finally stable and upright. Here's the official.

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Well, don't forget about old English. English, said one woman. We'll be back with more Gutfeld. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FNRadio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 order to order. Please drink responsibly. All right. So by the time we air, Platner may have already pulled the plug and raped four more people.

But the amazing story is watching the media act like they weren't complicit in. protecting him. And now they're backpedaling faster than Don Lemon walking into a hooters. The New York Times, Michelle Goldberg, dropped a piece on the lessons learned saying, while I'm assigning blame, I shouldn't leave out myself. Last October, when stories about Plattenor's tattoo and Reddit post first broke, I went to Maine to write about him. I tried to convey what I saw a campaign that was electrifying angry Maine voters. But I deeply regret that, Impressed by Plattenor's political charisma. I wrote that he was nothing like the edged lord caricature I encountered online.

If anything, he seems to be significantly worse. It's almost as though she was hypnotized by his public speaking. Where have we heard that before, huh? But talk about timely. It took her eight months to divulge. Platner was a bad dude. Eight months. Look for her expose next week about how,

Ted Bundy is kind of a jerk. So she admits we screwed up, but who the hell is we? It's not me and it's not you. It's really just them, the liberal media, defending this guy. And now they're like the Washington generals switching jerseys in the last minute, hoping we'll believe they were the Harlem Globetrotters all along. Look, the Times already had this accuser's account, but they played it down. And instead played up another accuser, a Republican,

knowing that version could still be dismissed as partisan, which gave the accused assaulter a way out, something he apparently doesn't like to give women. So now the second accuser speaks out, and she's progressive, which means it's one of their own, and they can't just cover it up like a Nazi tattoo. They couldn't smear war veterans any further by claiming PTSD excuses rape.

And once it became obvious platinum was doomed, everybody suddenly found their conscience. They waited until the last, minute to abandon ship. Like when I dumped Taylor Swift the day before she turned 29. It's a rule. Here's Chris and Rachel saying they never bought Plattenor's defense. There was a few different ways I asked, two different ways of, is there anything else out there?

He basically said no, but I didn't necessarily feel like that no was 100% convincing. That no felt like a little wobbly. say it. I think other people who heard the no felt like it was a little wobbly, too. When you did that interview, you were very insistent with him on. I was like, that doesn't sound like a categorical clear, no, but I think you and I had the same, I at least had the same inkling that you did there. Oh, really? You did. You do he was guilty, and you didn't tell us until a month later. Well, maybe that's true. But what's also true is your silence protected him. So once again, like Biden's brain and Hunter's laptop and every other cover

up, they're trying to rewrite the cover up, a cover up that blew up in their faces like an edible arrangement from the Unabomber. And we've heard from others like Rokane and Liz Warren, our two favorite Indians. Thank you. They're making the argument that Dems just wanted a fighter, a fighter. That's the defense. Well, true. He is a guy that won't let the word. no, stop him. But that's a lousy criteria. After all, a rapy Nazi can be a fighter, but you think you could find a fighter

who isn't a scumbag? I guess it's tough, though, when you've chased all the good guys out of your party. Look with the Dems champion as men. Swalwell, waltz, Gavin, and let's not forget their women, who are also men.

Who is doing their background checks? MS-13? Nothing about these dudes is normal. Yet the media pretends otherwise until something ugly comes out. Then the media pretends they knew it all along, which they did. They just didn't care. Listen ad free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts. And Amazon Prime members can listen to this show, ad free on the Amazon Music app.