The Watchdog with David Bozell

The media have spent a decade playing Six Degrees of Adolf Hitler with Donald Trump.

Every speech. Every policy. Every facial expression. Somewhere, somehow, Hitler.

But when Democrat Senate hopeful Graham Platner showed up with an SS Totenkopf tattoo, offensive Reddit posts, and a trail of deeply disturbing assault allegations, the media suddenly misplaced their Nazi detector.

Poof. Gone.

For months, the Democrat Party, and in turn the media, had big plans for Platner. He was the golden boy in Maine, the Democrat supposedly capable of knocking off Susan Collins. So the media/Democrat pep squad did what it does best: grabbed the pom-poms and looked the other way.

A new MRC 2.0 special report, released first as a Fox News Digital exclusive, shows just how impressive the disappearing act was.

Between November and May, Apple News and Google News ran zero stories about Platner’s mounting scandals. Zero. Meanwhile, major right-leaning outlets published at least 112 stories on the controversies.

One hundred and twelve stories went into the Apple-Google Bermuda Triangle.

Millions of smartphone users saw none of them.

The New York Post and Fox News’ Outnumbered also featured our findings.

Why the blackout? Follow the polling.

A late-October poll showed Platner as the Democrat best positioned to beat Collins. As I told Fox News, "For months, while Platner looked like the one Democrat who could beat Susan Collins, the two most powerful news apps in America buried scandal after scandal. Then the polls turned, Platner became a liability, and suddenly the blackout ended.”

Funny how the algorithm found its glasses at precisely the right moment.

Once Platner started slipping and Democrat Party leaders began urging him to step aside, the embargo vanished. Suddenly, Apple News and Google News discovered negative Platner stories. Twelve of them appeared in just two days.

Beelzebub could run with a “D” next to his name, and the media would ask about his infrastructure plan, provided the polling looked good.

Morals? Integrity? Please.

Winning is the point. Power is the prize. The media are there to help.

Apple News and Google News are up to their ears in election meddling. MRC has spent nearly four decades exposing partisan advocacy masquerading as journalism. MRC 2.0 is now following the racket directly onto the smartphones in millions of American pockets.

And, unlike the algorithms, we don’t stop looking when the polls tell us to.

Take it easy,

David Bozell
President