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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: EdnaMode

I am not much for women in the locker rooms of guys asking questions.

Lets have male reporters inside female locker rooms while they are in various states of undress.

Viva genuine equal treatment.


41 posted on 10/04/2017 5:38:14 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

And i know this was a press conference not in the locker room. I am saying i dont like women in mens locker rooms.


43 posted on 10/04/2017 5:39:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode

Cam lost me when he poured thru a post Super Bowl press conference. Great athlete, entitled ass.


44 posted on 10/04/2017 5:44:49 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (White is the new Black.)
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To: ealgeone

“Not like calculating escape velocity from earth. “

You’re right about that.

Armed with nothing but a slide rule, and a pencil, I learned how to calculate escape velocities (from any celestial object) in 1st year Engineering. I never would have wanted to be anywhere near where the ball was supposed to be, in an NFL game.


45 posted on 10/04/2017 5:44:51 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: EdnaMode

It’s all over Twitter, a real snowstorm of snowflakes.


46 posted on 10/04/2017 5:45:43 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: EdnaMode

“Newton laughed and replied, “It’s funny to hear a female talk about routes like … it’s funny.”


I think it’s funny too.

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47 posted on 10/04/2017 5:47:52 PM PDT by Mears
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To: EdnaMode
in response to good question from female reporter.

Everything you see is scripted. From the on field questions to the daily news from your local TV readers who do nothing but read from their teleprompters...........

48 posted on 10/04/2017 5:51:54 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: EdnaMode

Hey Cam, next time just answer the question. Your editorial comments about the journalist are not required.


49 posted on 10/04/2017 5:53:37 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: EdnaMode

Cam Newton is a low IQ jackass.


50 posted on 10/04/2017 6:17:00 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: EdnaMode

Cam is highly unusual. He’s probably making a play for the best rubber room available after his career ends, which is most likely by Dec. 1.


51 posted on 10/04/2017 6:39:33 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: sergeantdave

I think dressing like a pimp is causing him to think like one.


52 posted on 10/04/2017 6:50:25 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: sergeantdave

I think dressing like a pimp is causing him to think like one.


53 posted on 10/04/2017 6:50:27 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Cecily

Journalists don’t go around sniffing jockstraps in football locker rooms or asking questions from man boys who play with their balls for a living.


54 posted on 10/04/2017 7:01:41 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: EdnaMode

55 posted on 10/04/2017 7:27:00 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: EdnaMode

Sometimes these women sports reporters really try too hard, overusing slang and the lingo of the game. It’s like they’re laying it on a little too thick.


56 posted on 10/04/2017 8:47:13 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: All

Cam Newton is an entitlement mentality IDIOT.
In this age of sports figure as a standard bearer of Social Justice, he just disrespected women all around the country and I’d like to THANK HIM for exposing himself and his ilk as the selfish Neanderthals and hypocrites they are.
Also, Cam Newton is a one-read piece of zhit QB.


57 posted on 10/05/2017 5:51:21 AM PDT by Maverick68
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Considering he decided to honor racist Black Panthers by making the black-power salute, I truly, truly will enjoy every bit of grief that comes his way.


58 posted on 10/05/2017 5:53:41 AM PDT by Maverick68
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The best way to DESTROY Political Correctness and SJW’s is to DESTROY its standard bearers using their own tactics against them.
If you wanna kneel and disrespect millions of Americans (untold numbers who are black) and make a racist salute, then YOU PAY THE PRICE when you DISRESPECT women with a stupid remark.


59 posted on 10/05/2017 5:59:10 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: EdnaMode
Look, Cam Newton is the lead quarterback for the Carolina Panthers. As such, he is the public face of the team, and for him to make remarks like that is not acceptable. We can mostly dismiss Odell Beckham, Jr.'s antics since he is only a wide receiver, but not the lead quarterback.///
60 posted on 10/05/2017 6:48:48 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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