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For over a week, Washington, D.C., was abuzz with rumors of a big story coming from the New York Times about Democrat Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner \u2014 himself once a fixture for many young political staffers in the capital while serving as a bartender at the Tune Inn.<\/p>\n

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Although you likely won\u2019t read about it on social media, the Times story mentions serious allegations against Platner: that he physically abused an ex-girlfriend \u2014 including grabbing her shoulders so hard that he left bruises and twisting her arm behind her back, shoving her into a room, and locking her in there overnight. Another ex-girlfriend shared that she cut off contact with Platner after a drunken episode that was apparently too disturbing to retell.<\/p>\n

But these allegations are buried under mountains of campaign flack bullshit and then packaged as \u201cintimidating\u201d and \u201cunsettling.\u201d Normal people have another phrase for it: domestic abuse.<\/p>\n

That characterization is by design.<\/p>\n

Let me be clear: the New York Times story was not journalism. It was a a soft catch-and-kill operation. It was a favor to Platner\u2019s campaign, a disservice to readers, and an insult to the women who say they were hurt by him. (RELATED: Nazi-Tattooed Senate Candidate Accused Of Physically Abusing Ex-Girlfriend)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of those victims is my friend.<\/p>\n

Before my journey back into journalism, I spent a long stint working in political communications and public relations. I know how to arrange a catch and kill, and more importantly, I know how to set up a soft catch and kill when a more definitive end cannot be arranged.<\/p>\n

The term \u2018catch and kill\u2018 refers to a shady practice where a public relations firm or consultant works with a friendly news outlet that was pitched or \u2018stumbled\u2019 upon a negative story about a client to effectively \u2018catch\u2019 and then \u2018kill\u2019 the story \u2014 or delay it until it no longer has impact.<\/p>\n

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A \u2018soft catch and kill\u2019 works similarly, though it mostly involves the publication still running the story in a timely manner, but the details are softened or buried deep in the narrative to soften the bite. The outlet can claim it did its job, but they\u2019ve given the target just enough wiggle room to survive.<\/p>\n

The Times\u2019s goal here was not to fairly give hearing to allegations against Platner; it was to play Fifield for a sucker, give her story just enough air that the Democrat Party\u2019s cretin media and consultant class could zero in on it and crush it. (RELATED: Top Graham Platner Adviser Threatened To Defame Female Staffer Over Sexting Scandal)<\/strong><\/p>\n

And it becomes very, very obvious with a careful read of the story and the response.<\/p>\n

The Times\u2019s supposed vaunted expos\u00e9 on Platner buries its lede 22-paragraphs in to the piece. By the time readers got to the allegations that should have opened the article, they had already been marched through campaign spin, euphemistic mush, and ex-girlfriend character witness.<\/p>\n

In fact, for the first third of the New York Times expose, they focused on women provided to the newspaper by the Platner campaign \u2014 who, of course, sang the degenerate former bartender\u2019s praises. And frankly, that is all many readers will come away with, because that is about as far as their attention span lets them get into the narrative. Which is, again, the point.<\/p>\n

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Prior to publication, I\u2019m told that the Times spoke to two women who had credibly accused Platner of sexual assault. This detail was revealed to Fifield \u2014 likely in an effort to encourage her to divulge more of her story. Those women\u2019s allegations never made it into the story. They were effectively \u2018killed\u2019 by the Times\u2019s editors and by Platner\u2019s attorneys, I\u2019m told.<\/p>\n

The Platner campaign was originally only given two hours to respond, but that stretched into 24 hours \u2014 I\u2019m told at the behest of the New York Times\u2019s editors. This is beyond malpractice, especially when the interview subjects are told otherwise.<\/p>\n

The goal was to create enough doubt and ambiguity regarding Platner\u2019s disgusting behavior to let my friend, Lyndsey Fifield, be smeared by Democrat Party operatives like Emma Vigeland and partisan media hacks like Krystal Ball.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s exactly what they did.<\/p>\n

\u201cNYT published uncorroborated accusations against @grahamformaine of \u2018unsettling\u2019 and \u2018toxic\u2019 behavior that came from a Heritage staffer who previously worked for a conservative org that backs Collins,\u201d Ball wrote in a post on X late Thursday.<\/p>\n

My private thoughts about Ball aside, the known partisan media personality is performing \u2014 albeit likely unwittingly \u2014 her role in the catch and kill impeccably.<\/p>\n

For Vigeland\u2019s part, she takes the dubious line of attack, declaring, \u201cSo, unless there\u2019s something else coming, the big NYT expos\u00e9 is that Platner was a bad boyfriend to some women but also a good boyfriend to other women?\u201d<\/p>\n

Even more telling, and perhaps a tip of the hat to the nature of this soft catch and kill, is the fact that numerous Democrat aligned influencers and operatives were essentially flooding the zone on social media in the hours before<\/em> the story was published. Somehow, they knew that one of the women was an activist in the conservative movement \u2014 a detail that surmisably came from the New York Times or from the Platner campaign, or both, ahead of publication. Others appear to have known details that were cut from the story.<\/p>\n

I can see the fingerprints of a soft catch and kill all over the New York Times\u2019s report on Platner. As I said, I\u2019ve arranged both hard and soft catch and kills in the past as a public relations hack. Make no mistake, this is what we\u2019re seeing play out here, and the reporters and editors at the Times should be ashamed.<\/p>\n

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The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller.<\/i><\/p>\n

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