Amanda Marcotte
Role at the time: Salon senior politics writer publishing a column
Defended or excused
Statement summary
Marcotte defended Ossoff's remark and attributed the backlash to male insecurity.
“Beneath the right's meltdown over Ossoff's relatively tame comment about Harp was a molten layer of male insecurity.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Marcotte defends Ossoff's remark about HarpParagraph beginning Beneath the right's meltdown
Marcotte calls Ossoff's comment relatively tame and attributes the backlash to male insecurity.
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She calls the disputed remark relatively tame and criticizes the reaction to it.