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Cam Newton Slammed for Mocking Female Reporter
Variety ^ | October 4, 2017 | Rebecca Rubin

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.”


TOPICS: Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: camnewton; carolinapanthers; charlotteobserver; jourdanrodrigue; nfl; panthers; sexism; sexist
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To: SpaceBar

An IC engine cookie?


21 posted on 10/04/2017 4:49:58 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: EdnaMode
Cam fumbles again.


22 posted on 10/04/2017 4:50:52 PM PDT by Fedora
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To: forgotten man

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.


23 posted on 10/04/2017 4:53:21 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: forgotten man

24 posted on 10/04/2017 4:55:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

What in the world makes you say that?


25 posted on 10/04/2017 4:59:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: eyedigress
Well, it's not that complicated. You run a pattern...the QB times the throw to the point on the field your supposed to be...you catch the ball.

Wow. Not like calculating escape velocity from earth.

26 posted on 10/04/2017 5:01:45 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: nickcarraway

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.


27 posted on 10/04/2017 5:02:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

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?”


28 posted on 10/04/2017 5:03:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: EdnaMode

Awww, how cute, you're into football!

Uhoh...

29 posted on 10/04/2017 5:06:46 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: EdnaMode

I think he’s right. football is like nuclear physics and only geniuses can understand it.


30 posted on 10/04/2017 5:07:33 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: EdnaMode

the other day ESPN was proudly heralding him for giving what they perceived as the black power salute...


31 posted on 10/04/2017 5:16:18 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


32 posted on 10/04/2017 5:16:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode

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-


33 posted on 10/04/2017 5:19:30 PM PDT by All Blue State
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To: All Blue State

Yeah talk about selective outrage.


34 posted on 10/04/2017 5:23:11 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: SpaceBar

Yeah it does. :D


35 posted on 10/04/2017 5:24:48 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: BenLurkin

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.


36 posted on 10/04/2017 5:26:23 PM PDT by libertarian66
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To: libertarian66

See my post #32


37 posted on 10/04/2017 5:27:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Bernard

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.


38 posted on 10/04/2017 5:31:00 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: eyedigress
I don’t watch them anymore but I kinda know when someone shits their own bed.

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)

39 posted on 10/04/2017 5:31:40 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: BenLurkin

I agree. She tossed him a softball and hung it up high and he slapped it down it the dirt.


40 posted on 10/04/2017 5:33:57 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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