Josh Marshall
Role at the time: Founder of Talking Points Memo, writing on its Editors' Blog
Condemned
Response to this claim
Mike Collins staffed his congressional office with people who hold neo-Nazi or white nationalist views.
“Ossoff didn’t call Mike Collins a Nazi. ... This isn’t some random swipe. It’s been one of the biggest stories of the campaign season that week after week reporters keep finding members of Collins campaign, political operation or family who are associated with far-right or neo-Nazi individuals and organizations or who distribute anti-Semitic propaganda. This is merely an aggressive statement of facts that are unambiguously in the public record.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Dominance Politics, Elite Gatekeeping and Jon OssoffSecond paragraph
Editors' Blog post in which Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall responds to David Brooks's criticism of Ossoff's debate remark.
Why we used this label
The reference point is Collins's staffing and associations as Ossoff characterized them. Marshall calls Ossoff's charge "an aggressive statement of facts" in the public record, saying the associations Ossoff described are real, so the statement condemns them.