Posted on 10/04/2017 4:31:45 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Cam Newton is under fire for making a sexist comment to a female reporter during a press conference on Wednesday.
Carolina Panthers beat writer Jourdan Rodrigue asked the quarterback about wide receiver Devin Funchess’ improvements on the field. “I know you take a lot of pride in seeing your receivers play well,” Rodrigue said during the briefing. “Devin Funchess has really seemed to embrace the physicality of his routes and getting those extra yards. Does that give you a little bit of enjoyment to see him kind of truck-sticking people out there?”
Newton laughed and replied, “It’s funny to hear a female talk about routes like … it’s funny.”
Rodrigue responded to Newton’s comments on Twitter writing, “I don’t think it’s ‘funny’ to be a female and talk about routes. I think it’s my job.” Later she wrote, “I spoke with him after and it was worse. I chose not to share, because I have an actual job to do today and one he will not keep me from.”
Fellow journalists came to Rodrigue’s defense on Twitter. One wrote, “Brutal, sexist answer from Cam Newton in response to good question from female reporter. And the body language was just as bad.” Another said, “What frustrates me about Cam Newton’s comments: He’s not joking around with friends, he’s being condescending to a reporter doing her job.”
Lindsay Jones, who also covers the NFL, reminded everyone that women covering sports is nothing new. “Oh come on. Welcome to 2017 Cam Newton,” she said. “[Jourdan Rodrigue] deserves better than that.”
An IC engine cookie?
I will bet this was her last NFL interview.
I don’t watch them anymore but I kinda know when someone shits their own bed.
What in the world makes you say that?
Wow. Not like calculating escape velocity from earth.
Other than he has a crap attitude towards women? The fact that the NFL has more than a few Muslim players.
I don’t know if he’s a Muslim or not, one way or the other. But he sure sounds like he’s been hanging around Muslims.
Did you actually read the article. Him saying he’s never heard a woman use certain terminology means he has a “crap attitude towards women?”
Awww, how cute, you're into football!
Uhoh...
I think he’s right. football is like nuclear physics and only geniuses can understand it.
the other day ESPN was proudly heralding him for giving what they perceived as the black power salute...
Surely he has been asked knowledgeable questions by female reporter before. He had to have been; there are too many female NFL fans for this not to have happened.
And, the softball question she asked was a designed to elicit a positive response for him, his teammates and the franchise.
There is something painfully warped in his attitude towards women; otherwise his response to this question makes no sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buexPrazrq4
Notwithstanding how funny it may or may not sound to him, it’s a legitimate question and one for which it is in his best interest, as well as that of his franchise and of the the NFL overall to answer at least dispassionately, if he is too immature to manage being respectful.
This is funny! The NFL can insult my race, my beliefs, my religion, my country, my president, my flag, and that’s okay, but they seemed to cross the line by mocking a female reporter- LMAO-
Yeah talk about selective outrage.
Yeah it does. :D
Muslims? You’re inventing nonsense without basis. The man said it’s humorous to hear females speak about a specific aspect of football as if they are subject matter experts.
Which it is! It’s American football - it has nothing to do with females. Much like say Sumo wrestling or being a special forces operator or urinating standing up. What he said was clear, objective and factual. Unlike random fabricated statements about Muslims.
See my post #32
She’s trying to be hip by using the hot new phrase for knocking people over?
Since I am not up on the NFL I don’t know what the latest lingo these brain dead losers use.
Cam Newton has been doing that in his own bed for years. Was it last year when he never even showed up for player appreciation day. He's an arrogant jerk. (and a bad driver although the local cops cover up for him)
I agree. She tossed him a softball and hung it up high and he slapped it down it the dirt.
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