The rules don’t apply.
In a post-Weinstein era punctuated by a sense of no tolerance and a promise that time is up, Sam Newman, his furrowed eyebrows, pointed fingers and outlandish cynicism bellows into our homes every week, illuminated by the bright lights of the industry and held up by a world that won’t let him fall.
The rules don’t apply.
After all, last night Newman proved we can call time on misogyny and the men that sprout its poison, but our calls will never come to him. Sam Newman can do whatever he pleases, because if you’re Sam Newman, the rules don’t apply.
In case you missed it, yesterday was International Women’s Day; a powerful day to celebrate women and a day to press for change.
Sam Newman fronted the Footy Show for their first show of the season.
“Now, Sam I have got to ask you, you have made the headlines the last couple of weeks,” Eddie McGuire asked Newman across the panel, referencing recent reports about his running for mayor.
“Even your nemesis at the Herald Sun Susie O’Brien is writing that it could well be conceivable that you could be the next Lord Mayor of Melbourne,” McGuire went on.
Watch Sam Newman make vile comments about Susie O’Brien on The Footy Show. Post continues after video.
Top Comments
Oh Channel Nein. You stay in the 1970s then, the rest of us have grown up and moved on.
Let's all be honest here. It's marketing, controversy sells and they know it works because we watch it on TV or click on it on a web-site - there are numerous people who currently make a living off this sort of thing from every spectrum or medium
I'm not mentioning their names, but Sam Newman is just yet another boring clone amongst many others who make their living off this.