The Journo That Sparked The Eddie McGuire Controversy Responds To Sam Newman’s Abuse

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Last night on The Footy Show, as expected, Sam Newman spoke words – in reference to the joke Eddie McGuire made at the expense of Caroline Wilson – and they weren’t good.

Newman launched into Wilson, saying:

“Now, you can understand if you’re going to want to be equal and treated equally the point is don’t complain when it’s too equal.

The jig’s up Caro [Wilson], honestly and truly. You are becoming an embarrassment. Even if you were under water you’d still be talking.”

Yep, does he just thrive on being awful?

But it wasn’t just the attack on Wilson that has provoked controversy, but Newman’s words about the journalist that originally wrote about the Triple M tasteless joke.

Erin Riley first covered the controversy and has been copping a disgusting amount of vitriol online. On The Footy Show last night she was pretty much called a ‘piece of shit’ by Newman, along with the other people that had sparked the outrage. As Newman states:

‘Those excrement that have weighed into this, I would like to mention their names. But as no one reads, watches or listens to them because they’re in second tier media outlets, I won’t bother. If you spray a piece of excrement with perfume or put after-shave on a piece of excrement, at the end of the day it’s still a piece of excrement.’

Riley had a few biting words to say about Newman in response.

The most ludicrous abuse Riley seems to be getting from McGuire sympathisers on social media is that she should mind her own business and not get involved – despite sparking the whole damn controversy.

With definite sexist undertones that this isn’t ‘women’s business’.

Others have tried with the old ‘female attention seeking’ trope – that is a comeback almost always solely targetting at female journos.