Michelle Cottle

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To discuss Republican desperation ahead of the midterms, a string of scandals, and Pete Hegseth's bid to televise an execution, I'm pleased to welcome three of the most trenchant observers of our politics, and they are Michelle Cottle, the politics correspondent for The New York Times Opinion section, where she writes deep dives and appears regularly in the section's podcast.

She's been reporting on national politics since the Clinton administration, and always happy to say these words, it's her first time on The Roundtable.

Hope it won't be the last.

Michelle Cottle, thanks so much for joining.

Be gentle.

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I mean, we are in a moment in this culture where the glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and mistreating women is kind of making you a cool kid.

Actually, it's not doing anything of the sort, and to blame the Cornell 7, which is what Michelle Cottle of ABC News this week was saying there, is kind of absurd because Joe Biden was president at the time that the Cornell 7 event happened.

But aside from that, this is an interesting argument that I have not heard the – The the the feminists among us, the progressives among us, the progressive feminists, the man haters among us make.

She said that you cannot be in any way not responsible for the messages you send, no matter how drunk you are.

Yeah, New York Times.

Was it, what was her name? Cottle?

It was Michelle Cottle.

Yeah.

Um, and here's what she says, quote, "We can go to the president for this one," meaning the Cornell Seven rape case.

I just wouldn't do it because I'm not dumb.

Yeah.

You know when the New York Times columnist Cottle says this culture where the glorification of being thuggish and swaggering and mistreating women.

Media narrative, social media debate will emerge with which the fraternity members become associated with Trump, the woman becomes associated with the forces of good and decency standing up to Trump.

On ABC News' This Week on Sunday-" New York Times' Michelle Cottle pointed to a series of noxious social media messages the fraternity members sent about the woman.

Quote, you c- this is what she said, "You can't send those messages no matter how drunk you are as a frat boy without having some kind of misunderstanding about what women are there for and whether this is a real person you're dealing with," she said.

And who might be to blame for that? She pointed to Trump.

Letitia James on, um, on it.

But, uh, so, you know, I, I also included for us for this, this, this conversation that I found annoying, um, and, uh, the article's entitled Cornell in the Age of Impunity, and it's a conversation between Michelle Cottle and, um, Jamelle Bouie, who is amazing, who I absolutely adore, and, um, David, uh, what's his last name? David...

French.

I'll find it.

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This is Michelle Cottle.

She's a columnist at The New York Times.

Listen to this commentary from her about the Cornell Seven situation.