There are dirty tricks, and then there are coordinated attacks meant to move the needle in political races. The latest New York Times opus against Maine’s Graham Platner is sort of more of the same from them, printing allegations and then “letting the people decide” their merit. Except in this case, these stalwarts of journalistic integrity [sic] omitted some rather salient details.
Nonetheless, that was not enough for Fifield, who was aghast this morning that her story featured in the paper of record didn’t receive as much attention in the more skeptical mainstream press as she had hoped, saying to the New York Post, their “watering down bombshell story as ‘gift’ to the Democrat’s campaign.
In 2020, Heather Higgins, chair of the Independent Women’s Forum, where Fifield is a fellow, bragged, “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV, and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!”
Source: Zateo
Lyndsey Fifield, one of three women who described to the New York Times alleged “unsettling” behavior by Graham Platner when they dated him in the 2010s, co-formed a group called “Ladies for Kavanaugh” in defense of then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, when he faced accusations of teenage drunken behavior and alleged sexual assault.
In October 2018, amid a fierce fight over Kavanaugh’s nomination, the New York Post reported: “Inez Stepman and Lindsey [sic] Fifield are two millennial women who co-founded the group Ladies for Kavanaugh to show their support for the nominee when they felt that view was being left out of the public discourse. Their day jobs are in conservative politics, Stepman at [the] Independent Women’s Forum and Fifield at the Heritage Foundation. (Their pro-Kavanaugh group was formed on their own time.)
“In the wake of the baseless, 11th-hour accusations orchestrated to stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation, we couldn’t stay silent anymore,” Fifield told the outlet.
The New York Times, however, was silent about this pretty pertinent part of Fifield’s background when it dropped its big ‘scoop’ on Graham Platner’s “volatile” and “toxic” relationships with former girlfriends, including Fifield, “that were unsettling and at times emotionally wrenching.”
Fifield told the New York Times that she is no longer affiliated with the group, but that also seems to be another lie.
