Graham Platner, the far left Democrat running for a U.S. Senate seat in Maine recently appeared on CBS News and appeared to blame his Nazi tattoo and other internet-related controversies on the culture of the United States Military.
Journalist Major Garrett, who amazingly used to work for FOX News, bends over backwards to try to help Platner through this segment, asking him nicely if there are things other than PTSD which might be to blame for his many controversial remarks on Reddit and other sites.
Even in their tweet about this story, CBS News says that Platner’s tattoo ‘resembled’ a Nazi symbol, which is incorrect:
In response to controversy surrounding a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol and comments he made previously on Reddit, Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner says “much of it was because of the culture I had come out of.”
This community note was added to their tweet:
His tattoo was not “resembling” a Nazi symbol. His tattoo *was* a Nazi symbol, specifically the second version of the SS-Totenkopf, used from 1934 to 1945 by German SS.
In the video below, Platner comments:
“When I left the military, I came out of a hyper-masculine, hyper-violent place,” he says. “I did four tours in the infantry. We have a crude sense of humor in the infantry. We certainly have a, I would say, narrow view of a lot of topics, and that colored my opinions and my beliefs.”
Hellbound and Down 