I don’t have ESPN at the moment, but what I have seen of Andrews is a smart interviewer, and knows her stuff.

Namely, how long until NFL season opens?

Oh, excuse me. When talking about the “suicide” bombers of the “religion of peace” they’re “suicide bombers”. When those 17 or 12 or 213 Christian bombers did the same thing, they were murderers, right?

BTW, I’m using one of Napolitano’s dreams when talking about the bombing incidents in Chicago last weekend. Like most of her other fantasies about reality, they didn’t happen. Wonder why?

And remember folks, watch out for those Republicans! They’re as bad as the Taliban!

Are there no sports fans here other than me and Cat fancier ST herself? Anyhow: I AM familiar with Erin Andrews. Her role on ESPN is to report from the sidelines at college football, basketball, and baseball games. (She fills in for Peter Gammons on the Sunday Night Baseball telecasts from time to time, too.) She’s cast as America’s sports sweetheart–her good looks are more Betty than Veronica. She’s the kind of sexy woman you WOULD bring home to mom. This is why ESPN has her covering college sports.

The reason why she’s on “hiatus” now isn’t because she’s been traumatized (although I wouldn’t blame her if she has been), but because there are no college events for her to cover until the college football season starts.

Normally, during football season she does the Thursday night Big East games, and during basketball season she usually works the Big Ten circuit, although here she is covering last year’s TN-Memphis game, at a time when the winner would be no. 1 ranked.

I suspect this is the video that people are “kvetching” about, although I personally don’t think the coach has done anything improper. And as you’ll see, Ms. Andrews is dressed appropriately.

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“Never thought I would see a woman go with the ’she was asking for it’ take. Thought that was only for chauvinist male pigs,” one commenter wrote on the sports blog “The Big Lead.”

Apparently that commenter was asleep throughout the entire pants-down Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton.

One cannot exist typically in this society without being inundated daily, hourly, with blatant sexual images. On TV one sees advertisements for everything from bras and panties to menstrual napkins. What is “normal female attire” for young people now would have put streetwalkers to shame before 1960.

That said, there is not a single excuse to assume that a woman, any woman, is “asking for it” anytime, anywhere, without actually verbalizing “it”, and even beyond that the privacy of one’s own room/home should be such that whoever did the dastardly deed should spend more than a couple of years in prison and wear a “sexual offender” label for the rest of his life.

As a side note, I wonder if this would have been ok with Letterman if the victim had been Palin or one of her daughters? Just askin’.

I suspect this woman’s issue with her is similar to the left’s feminists and other women’s issue with Sarah Palin, the “green eyed monster” rears it’s ugly head far too often among these types. An attractive woman who is accomplished and successful in her field, why, she must be denigrated and destroyed, how dare she be more attractive and successful and better adjusted than they are!!!

I loathe this kind of attitude, and you are right ST it is the same thing as the “well she deserved to be raped” BS spouted by misogynistic types everywhere.

This was the same deplorable argument some men made decades ago to justify a woman being raped… if only she had not brought it upon herself. Victim becomes vilified. The Women’s Movement has taken a giant step backward. Brennan is a disgrace not just to her profession, but to all women.

Maybe this is a difference between West and South (or male vs. female? ), but I saw nothing unduly provocative in the way she was dressed for her work. She’s hot, but no more so than a lot of female sports reporters. Unless the peeper is emotionally disturbed (which I assume he is), I can’t see any reason why her dress should, as Christine Brennan implied, mean she was asking for it.

(Side note: If it was an ESPN colleague who did this, I should hope other ESPN staffers would have the decency to take him out back and punch his lights out.)

Bottom line is, Andrews was in the privacy of her hotel room and deserved to have that respected, regardless of how dressed or undressed she was.

I’m assuming, of course, that Andrews isn’t dressing like a pole dancer and making undue and inappropriate physical contact with the men she interviews. But there’s something about an attractive woman succeeding that brings out the ugliest side of the left – exhibit A being the recent Playboy online sewage about which conservative women the author would like to rape.

But this is the worst of Brennan’s comments:

there are 100s of women sports journalists who have never had this happen to them.

Yes, and there are thousands of women who are never raped. That doesn’t mean whose who are victims deserve it or encourage it.