One thing that has been so revealing in all the scandals surrounding the guy the Democrats have nominated as their candidate for the Senate in Maine, Graham Platner, is how all the "believe all women" party was suddenly dismissive of the allegations that he had been demeaning and abusive to women.
Suddenly, all of that believing women stuff seemed to go by the boards, or they were scrambling and twisting themselves into pretzels to justify the conflict in their positions, like Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17).
READ MORE: New: Watch Ro Khanna Twist Himself Into a Pretzel on Platner, With Surprising Take on Allegations
But you have to check this media hot take from The New York Times' Jodi Kantor doing a spot on the controversy on CNN. Curtis Houck of the Media Research Center explained in his X post that she had done some of the "MeToo" cases. Listen to how she tries to distinguish Platner from those cases, saying this is "different."
WATCH: New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor – who wrote many of the #MeToo stories – DEFENDS Graham Platner and DISMISSES the allegations against him by @LyndseyFifield and other ex-girlfriends because they were not “abuse” and women saying they just “did not like what” they saw… pic.twitter.com/qMSSXa3XNU
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 10, 2026
“Well, let’s talk about what they may or may not be willing to overlook. The accusations against Graham Platner are not classic MeToo accusations. They’re not about a boss and a young female employee being subjected to sexual advances. They’re — they were mostly made in the context of consensual relationships. There are these, like, very sensational texts about sex. There are allegations from former girlfriends that are not — the way my colleagues reported them were not like classic abuse allegations. They were mostly like, 'being his boyfriend gave me a view into him and I did not like what I saw. His character was scary. He had this Nazi tattoo.' Et cetera.”
“There was one allegation of crossing a line physically. But I think that means that these are pretty different accusations than, say, the one that — the ones that President Trump faced. And, of course, in the Access Hollywood tape, President Trump bragged about grabbing women against their will. And so I think it speaks to the kind of confusion of the long, post-MeToo moment in which, like, gender related accusations get bundled together. But they’re actually very different.”
Is she kidding? That's embarrassing, frankly.
Let's review, then, some of what is alleged against Platner that Kantor is saying are "not like classic abuse allegations," in her mind.
But she said he regularly grabbed her by the shoulders — sometimes hard enough to leave marks — and, on one occasion, yanked her out of a cab by her wrist after an argument when she wanted to stay in the car.
During one argument, she recalled, he twisted her arm behind her back, shoved her into a bedroom and held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was “calm.” Eventually, Ms. Fifield said,she fell asleep and left the next morning.
“It hurt,” she said. But she added: “It didn’t cause an injury, it didn’t break my arm.”
So much for "MeToo" when you come up with "D" differences like this. And that's not just one allegation of "crossing the line physically."
Then there's that pivot to President Donald Trump, saying "he bragged about grabbing women against their will." Well, no, he did not. While what he said was crude, bur what he said was that when you are a star, they "let you do it." That's not the same thing at all. But apparently, grabbing an arm, twisting it behind a woman's back, shoving her into a room, and keeping the door closed is a different type of "grabbing." Sorry, lady, it's not "classic."
But Democrats and the media don't seem to care as they go over the slide for this guy, even with more likely to come out. This clip had jaws dropping, with people thinking Kantor had torched any credibility she may have had. Here's just one example:
This is so embarrassing I find it physically difficult to watch. https://t.co/CcR7a3Cb2f
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) June 11, 2026
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