MSNBC, CNN Ignore Sex Assault Allegations Against Dem Senate Candidate
Mike Franken is accused of having ‘1950s interactions’ with ‘several’ women
Democratic Iowa Senate candidate Mike Franken hugs a supporter / Getty Images Josh Christenson • September 26, 2022 4:10 pm
A Democratic Senate candidate who has raised millions in his bid to unseat Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) was accused last week of sexually assaulting his former campaign manager. MSNBC, CNN, and other national media have yet to give the story any attention.
Mike Franken has raised more than $4.6 million and won the support of prominent Democrats such as Sens. Mark Kelly (Ariz.) and Tim Kaine (Va.) in his Senate run. That effort was derailed on Sept. 19 when he was accused of forcibly kissing his former campaign manager Kim Strope-Boggus, according to a police report she filed in April.
But you might have missed that if you get your news from MSNBC and CNN, which haven’t dedicated a single second of coverage to the alleged sexual misconduct. Likewise, mainstream papers like the New York Times and Washington Post have also failed to report on the allegations.
Politico broke the mainstream media silence on Monday with an interview in which Franken claims the incident never happened and calls the report a “desperate move” from “a Republican paper funded by Chuck Grassley, funded by the Republicans.” The Des Moines Register, Gazette, and other Iowa-based outlets have also reported on the accusation.
Franken is the latest Democrat to benefit from selective media coverage amid a potential scandal. Many mainstream media outlets refused to report on Hunter Biden’s laptop in the runup to the 2020 presidential election. An adviser to disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) bragged last year that MSNBC host Katy Tur read her “spin” on air while discussing Cuomo’s sexual assault allegations.
Grassley campaign spokeswoman Michaela Sundermann told the Washington Free Beacon that “no Republican nominee would be afforded the same treatment” Franken has gotten from national media. Sundermann also denied Franken’s claim that Grassley “funds” the Iowa Field Report.
“The Grassley campaign runs ads on Iowa Field Report—the same practice as every
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