USA Today columnist blames Peeping Tom victim

By Michelle Malkin  •  July 24, 2009 01:31 PM

Erin Andrews is an ESPN reporter. Some sick person planted hidden cameras in her hotel room and splashed video of her while she was dressing all over the Internet.

Andrews happens to be young, beautiful, and a stylish dresser — prompting USA Today columnist Christine Brennan to write on Twitter that Andrews is essentially to blame for the appalling invasion of her privacy.

Yes, she did:

Women sports journalists need to be smart and not play to the frat house. There are tons of nuts out there.

Erin Andrews incident is bad, but to add perspective: there are 100s of women sports journalists who have never had this happen to them.

Brennan repeated the same sentiments on a talk radio program.

I have a feeling Ms. Brennan would get along swimmingly with Bonnie “You deserve to be on a rape list” Erbe.

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  1. #754404
    On July 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am, yohannbiimu said:

    On July 24th, 2009 at 1:40 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Where has common decency gone in our culture?

    I mean, really…?

    In a nation where misogyny, violence, and hate are considered “fair game” in so many of our communities, “common decency” is sadly dead. Standards for behavior that used to be considered essential for a thriving, vibrant people have been thrown into the sewer, in favor of stuff that that the left calls “real.”

    It is a culture of death, because in its natural progression, communities that have embraced it are dying. They are crime-ridden, uneducated, paranoid, populated with unmarried mothers and fatherless children, roaming their streets looking for the next means to satisfy their basest desires. They are also ending an enormous number of their pregnancies in abortion, and thus lowering their notion of the value of human life.

    And this is solely a leftist phenomenon. They feed into it in order to create people who are perpetually in need, with nothing within their communities to fall back upon. Their maintaining power in the country is dependent upon the crime-ridden, blood-soaked urban areas of the country, that are, naturally, the “bluest” spots you will find. Where culture has degenerated into the most base, barbaric notions of “standards” for what is and isn’t acceptable, the Democratic Party has ruled for many a decade, with no end in sight.

    That is a simple, straightforward fact. It cannot be refuted.

  2. #754408
    On July 25th, 2009 at 11:18 am, greenfairie said:

    Sisterhood, schmisterhood. This is why I don’t buy the crap left-wing feminism is selling.

  3. #754428
    On July 25th, 2009 at 12:02 pm, jdtruly said:

    Sounds like a “journalist” who needs to follow the example of her fearless leader and “recalibrate” her comments.

  4. #754595
    On July 25th, 2009 at 4:23 pm, puhiawa said:

    Andrews must be related to a Republican or something.

  5. #754866
    On July 25th, 2009 at 8:54 pm, Sergeant Tim said:

    Christine Brennan and Bonnie Erbe (left) ought to be made to wear burkas. After all, they should live up to the societal dictates the offer are correct. They should wear them not because they are unattractive but to hide the beauties and therefore not inflame the brutes to attack them. Stand by the sisters, Ms Brennan and Ms Erbe.

  6. #754940
    On July 25th, 2009 at 9:50 pm, rlwo2008 said:

    I think all the ESPN women are cool. I like them all.

  7. #754942
    On July 25th, 2009 at 9:51 pm, rlwo2008 said:

    Well, maybe not all.

  8. #754961
    On July 25th, 2009 at 10:12 pm, BOB said:

    On July 24th, 2009 at 2:18 pm, Flyoverman said:
    If a man had made those comments, they would have already been walked to the door by Human Resources.

    Maybe she should wear horn rimmed glasses. But there are guys with a glasses fetish so……
    Brennan is an idiot.

    Any woman who looks good without horned rim glasses will also look good with horned rims glasses, especially if she…..oh, …never mind.LOL

  9. #755084
    On July 26th, 2009 at 7:07 am, William said:

    In all honesty I had no idea who Erin Andrews was or is.

    Now that the news outlets and blog sites talked about Erin Andrews being filmed naked in her hotel room by a “peeping tom” I now know who Erin Andrews is.

    I looked Erin Andrews up on Google and I perused a few normal, decent photographs of Erin (no nudity).

    Yes, Erin Andrews is very attractive.

    Yes, Erin Andrews has an impressive figure (or body).

    Yes, she has an attractive, pretty face.

    One could actually say, accurately, that she is a beautiful woman.

    Any man or woman who accuses of Erin Andrews of causing a peeping tom to photograph her and distribute her naked image across the Internet world wide has issues. That isn’t even in the same stupid class of idiotic statements as when someone blames a rape victim for the rape based on how she is dressed or that she was waiting at a bus stop, or that she allowed a “trusted friend” into her home, not knowing that he would rape her.

    Blaming the victim, especially in a case like this, makes the accuser sound like someone with BIG problems.

    Of course those who invaded her privacy like that and who placed her exposed, naked image taken without her permission or knowledge out there for all the world to see should be found, arrested, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, including a hefty fine, meaning millions. The same should go for any woman or man or child who is subjected to similar abuse by ne’er do well peeping toms distributing “private” images of them as in Erin’s case.

    Now that I’ve stated my opinion regarding the violation of Erin Andrew’s privacy I have a question regarding reporters and access to locker rooms.

    Is Erin Andrews one of the female reporters who walk around inside male athletes’ locker rooms while the athletes are dressing and undressing, showering, etc.?

    Do male reporters walk around inside female athletes’ locker rooms while female athletes are walking around inside, dressing and undressing, showering, etc?

    If so, isn’t that a double standard?

    If so, why is it forced upon male athletes to endure female athletes traipsing around their locker room, while the males are assigned the moniker “pig,” “offensive,” etc., if they are considered rude or insensitive or disrespectful under those circumstances?

    Woman treat men like that as well. Do we see or hear women berated for their similar behavior?

    Will we ever see a male reporter interview the beautiful female athlete, women’s Softball star Jennie Finch while she is naked or half naked in the women’s team locker room?

    Will we ever see a male reporter interview the women from the USA women’s soccer team while they are naked or half naked in the female locker room?

    I do watch sports, such as the mixed martial arts, like the UFC, as well as Football, Baseball, Basketball, Karate, Judo, Track and Field, Boxing, Equestrian, Auto Racing, Bicycling, such as the Tour d’France, Gymnastics, Swimming, Rodeo, etc.

    I don’t have the interest in watching the interviews in the locker room because many of the athletes tend to have terrible speaking skills. They sound like Barrack Hussein Obama (Peace Be Unto Him. Praise His Holy Name. Let every head bow at the mention of His Name. All Honor and Glory be Unto Him, our Savior, our Lord, our Messiah, Mister Hope and Change, Mister “Yes, We can!” Bow before Him in worship and submission. He will heal you of all infirmities! Give Him your worries and He will give you Peace. Have faith in Him and He will take care of all your needs ………. /sarcasm off) when they speak – with a gazillion “filler” words tossed in – “aaaahhh, uhhh, well, uuuum, uh, I, uh, like, and uh, well I uh, you know? you know? um uh, I uh …” ad nauseum.

    If I want to listen to someone with excellent speaking skills Ill listen to Dr. Thomas Sowell, Michelle Malkin, Larry Elder, Walter Williams, to name a few, but I have long ago grown tired of the mindless drivel and fillers that spew from the mouths of so many athletes. They don’t appear to give any information that I can use or learn from. They just talk and answer dumb questions or they go off on a tangent and answer some question they were never even asked in the first place.

    Has anyone else noticed that about athletes and interviews?

  10. #755090
    On July 26th, 2009 at 7:56 am, SalsaNChips said:

    First I’ve heard of this (don’t monitor the pulse of latest Internet scandals anymore).

    Pisses me off though, the arrogance of the people who did this.

    What I’m wondering though is — they know approx. when the video was shot (December – January) and it would be a fairly simple matter for Erin to retrace her calendar for that period, find out what hotels she stayed at, identify the location where the video was shot (the actual room), then have the ESPN lawyers subpoena the hotel records, employees, who was staying in the room next door, etc. as well as a search of the room to find the camera, if it is still installed, which may provide clues as to who installed it.

    Why hasn’t any of this been done (ok, maybe it has, just no word of it yet)?

  11. #755376
    On July 26th, 2009 at 2:40 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Why hasn’t any of this been done (ok, maybe it has, just no word of it yet)?

    If she were to file a lawsuit against the hotel, they would ID the employee in a heartbeat.

  12. #755464
    On July 26th, 2009 at 6:01 pm, RachelD said:

    I remember Christine Brennan writing a Post magazine column about being a woman sports reporter, in which she addressed the question of what male athletes think of women reporters like her in locker rooms. Her point was that, no, she doesn’t see a whole lot, she is not a voyeur, and she has a job to do.

    By the way, I can’t think of any women athletes who give interviews in a state of undress that would make them uncomfortable around the opposite sex. But men do, and that’s all right with them as long as they’re talking to other men?

  13. #758743
    On July 29th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, purealchemy said:

    Hey, all you pikers!
    We’re doing a marathon on the thread for “Don’t Taze Me Bro’” on previous entry page.
    Trying to hit 3,000 messages in a thread.
    You have nothing better to do, right? LOL

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