06-01-26 Part Two - Breaking Down Graham Platner - Free Transcript | Red Eye Radio

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He is Eric Hurley and I'm Gary McNamara. The whole Graham Platner campaign is so bizarre, where it's actually humorous. I saw one of his campaign people the other day trying to say that the reason that people in Maine

“relate to Platner is because we heard this before, right?”

This is the first time that I saw it again over the weekend. He's real. Real people put out posts like he has put out real people. Get Nazi tattoos and promote that they're a communist. Real people do sexting all the time.

I mean, it's like anything he does has now made him generally an authentic person. He's a real person that real people don't... ...that there are no real people out there that don't believe in communism, Naziism, sexting while married. I mean, it's just, you got through all the stuff that they've got out of some of the things that he has said about, you know, rape whatever.

I mean, the excuses that are made, it is really amazing to watch this in action.

Well, I want to know who these people are hanging around with. I know. Everybody I know's got a Nazi tattoo. No. Come on.

That just makes them real. What are you talking about?

“We have to look when rape happens and what part, you know, and responsibility women hold in that?”

Well, you know, my God. And Democrats are accepting that. Well, he's apologized for it. I don't care. He said it.

If you, if you, if we've always said this, when you say something incredibly radical

and you run for political office and you change it, we don't believe it. No, we don't believe it. We don't. Because I've never said any of those things in my life ever. I've never thought of those things. I would never say those things because I don't believe them.

I believe you say things because you believe them. Yes, especially if you're posting things, saying things out loud. This isn't like hidden tapes, hidden camera kind of things. These are things that were out there were known. You know, it's not like, and it's also not like,

let's say he said something on a, you know, secretly recorded video or audio recording. And he said something like, you know, well, the Nazis weren't all that bad. I'm just joking. I'm just joking. That was just a joke. It's or he called somebody the next day and said, hey, you know, I said something last night.

I meant it as a joke. No, it's when he ran for office that everything started turning around. Oh, well, no, he didn't mean that was so long ago. Well, dude, the guy was born in 1984. I mean, you know, it's maybe that's a 1999.

So, you know, here's the thing.

Pretty much everything in his life was, as far as I'm concerned, not that long ago. And for me, a baby. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I was busy graduating high school and playing in a metal band at 84. Well, actually, in starting my radio career in 84.

And all of this, you know, goes, goes back to this idea of, you know, oh, I want to run for office.

There may be some stuff, by the way, in the past.

Well, you know, people do things.

“Well, what kind of stuff you're talking about?”

You know, a Bernoulli tattoo. Yeah. We think we can make, no, think about the meanings. Think about the conversation work. Think about the conversation.

You know, and it's not like, you know, he posted like a dirty joke or something on social media at some point. I mean, you know, it's not like, you know, he, he said, you know, I'm, I'm, Nickelbacks number one fan. It's not like it's, you know, something that could be disqualifying. Well, that would be disqualifying, liberals would probably go, okay, you're out.

No, but if, you know, it's not something where it was, you know, him, I don't know, with his teenage buddies saying something stupid on a video or, or whatever. And it was sophomore humor or whatever. No, no, no, no, no. These are things that were part of his life that all of a sudden are being excused away only because he's running for office.

Yeah, exactly. You know, but when you see to the level, it's been been taken by the way, you've completely though. Destroyed any democratic attempt to call Trump an Nazi again. Oh, yeah. Yeah, or a fascist.

“Yeah, because remember, the whole Nazi thing, so much that came from,”

Oh, what the, the big lie. You know, the, oh, what was it in Virginia? Is it Virginia? Yeah, the, um, Charlotte Charlottesville. Yeah, the whole Charlottesville thing.

Yeah.

And those, you know, it, it never had you taken the context.

You can't even say, but that was the thing about that. The, the, the actor Michael Rappaport and, and other, a couple of other Hollywood celebrities. That's what changed them. Yeah. So we can, they finally did some research and found the truth.

Right. We can't, we can't pair in the Trump's an Nazi based on what he said. And then we would the full context just like that. He didn't say that at all. Right.

Right. In fact, he went after. Yes. And, and so the Democrats have made it. Sports to go after somebody who has never made a Nazi-like statement.

Right. In fact, when they make a statement going after Nazis becomes the opposite for Democrats. And then when you have somebody who is a Nazi-com, you know, Nazi-self-admitted communist. Yeah. Yeah.

And it's like, well, boys will be boys. Yeah. You know, it makes him, makes him real. And I'm thinking to myself, well, you know, what's real to me is.

I don't know, people like me and you that have never had to delete.

No. Well, except for grammatical errors and go back and correct the grammatical errors afterwards. Yeah. I've never had to delete any post in my life. I've been doing this ad lib.

You know, for going on, I forgot how long it's been. It's been so long. 36, 37 years stock, radio. Radio going on, 44, 45 years. I've never, ever had to retract one thing.

And I've been, you know, it's, it's 15.

“You and I think it's around 50,000 hours that I've been doing this,”

which is an incredible amount of time to do. At least 50 for me. I've been doing it since I was 18. To do unscripted media, not even scripted, unscripted media. Right.

And to me, that's, that's real. That's regular. You sit there and you know what you believe. And when you don't have any outrageous or what we believe are any type of controversial beliefs at all, because I don't believe any of my beliefs that I own are controversial at all.

Right. And we've talked about that a lot. In fact, we spent some time doing the last week saying, What is the far right wing of the Republican party right now? What is a radical position that they hold?

Right. But if you're a conservative, what's a radical position that you hold? Right. There are none. Right.

Not like that. To me, that's real. Yeah. That's real. I know what I think.

I'm clear about my morality. I understand what good character is. Those are the things that I want to promote. And those are the things that I reach for.

I'm never going to get caught in a racial or misogynist.

You know, a comment that is demeaning towards anyone because I don't believe in those things. Right. So there's no chance. I'm not scared of talking to have lived and going, you know, I might slip and say that someday. Right.

You know, and I really don't mean it that, you know, I really don't mean it because I believe in equality for all.

That everybody is less of a human being than I am.

Yeah.

But that's not technically racist.

Maybe in our statistic. Right. Well, that's what it comes down to.

“Just because you guys aren't as good as me.”

Right. That should be held against me. And then the whole thing when they talk about he should try harder. Right. When they talk about hate, I got that down.

I hate everybody. All right. So therefore, how can I be a big it? Exactly. All right.

I want everybody out of my yard. Not just the kids. I treat everybody equally. Don't anybody bother me. Yeah.

Stay human. Just getting a drink of water. And they just hear that point. Yeah. Yeah.

I know it.

What the heck is going on?

You know, it's speaking about race though. Hmm. This is just a bit of love. It's been a topic out there for a few days now. And I saw on the Toronto Sun, Larry Elder, his comment in the Toronto Sun.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz learns the cost of racial identity politics. Hmm. This is such a beautiful story. Yeah.

“The former Democratic National Committee chair representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”

I haven't seen her face for a while. It really hasn't been a minute. It hasn't been a minute. Faces attacks by fellow Democrats for seeking to represent a heavily black congressional district in Florida. Yeah.

About this district in Miami, Harold wrote under the previous map, the population of the majority of the country. And the Newly John 20. District is 40. 5% black.

At least five black Democrats are vine for the seat. Wasserman Schultz's current district is approximately 43% Hispanic. 32% white 15% black and 5% Asian. The district has been redrawn.

And we'll likely be one by Republicans.