‘She Said’ Inspiration Abandons MeToo for Graham Platner

Not every journalist gets a Hollywood closeup.

The New York Times’ Jodi Kantor received just that via the 2022 film “She Said.” And Kantor, as played by Zoe Kazan, deserved it.

Kantor and her colleague, Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan), helped bring down serial abuser Harvey Weinstein with their dogged investigation. They won a Pulitzer Prize for their work.

Their reportage helped kick off the MeToo movement, a plea to hold male predators accountable for their actions.

The film may have flopped in theaters, but it honored their shoe-leather reporting and the victims who bravely stood up to Weinstein.

That matters.

Now, the real Kantor is doing her best to defend a politician who appears guilty of MeToo-style actions. The evidence is damning, but she tried to downplay it on live television.

The person in question? Maine Senatorial hopeful Graham Platner.

Kantor told a CNN panel earlier this week that the allegations against Platner “are not classic MeToo accusations.” And, of course, she had to name drop President Donald Trump along the way.

“They’re not about a boss and a young female employee being subjected to sexual advances. 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.”

Really?

One victim, Lyndsey Fifield, said Platner repeatedly held her so tightly it left marks on her body. He also allegedly locked her in a room overnight against her will.

If those aren’t “classic abuse allegations” … what are?

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Even worse?

Kantor’s own New York Times allegedly downplayed some of the more disturbing details shared by Fifield.

[Fifield] accused the paper of spending almost as much time detailing her conservative ties as they did on her descriptions of Platner’s alarming behavior. She told The Free Press that the Timesdidn’t include her most serious allegations of physical mistreatment until nearly halfway through the story.

Kantor should be ashamed of herself, but as Jimmy Failla often says, “we’re living in the death of shame.” And, in her defense, she has plenty of company.

Platner’s fellow Democrats have been tiptoeing around his many scandals, from his 18-year-old Nazi tattoo to posting a profile on a dating site known for troubling encounters.

John Fetterman calls out Democrats’ support of Graham Platner:

“The only good thing you can say…is he happens to have a D after the end of his name…what are you going to brag about him? Is it his Nazi ink…that he used to mock American heroes…rough up former ex-girlfriends?” pic.twitter.com/gRom8Lo1nx

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 12, 2026

Kantor’s journalism got Hollywood’s attention, and rightly so. Yet that’s another progressive community that refuses to hold Platner accountable or question his fitness for office.

Jimmy Kimmel only recently mentioned Platner, but he did so to mock the GOP. Jon Stewart interviewed the would-be Senatorial candidate, but threw nothing but softballs his way.

And, worst of all, Hollywood’s MeToo army has unofficially stood down rather than protest his candidacy.

What MeToo hypocrisy do you think is the worst of the worst?