Amid online chastisement of dawn’s Samantha Armytage,the ABCs Virginia Haussegger weighs in with a details of a job interviewThe Kristin Davis skit on dawn and its fallout for co-host Samantha Armytage was a story that should have lasted a couple of days. Instead it has raged on into a second week and become an grisly slanging match, thanks largely to some unduly harsh words from ABC presenter Virginia Haussegger. The Canberra-based journalist is the face of ABC TV news in the capital where she presents the 7pm bulletin. In an opinion column for the Canberra Times responding to the tasteless skit, or Haussegger singled out Armytage for ridicule and used several unflattering terms including senseless bimbo,daft and ditzy. It was a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Unsurprisingly, Armytage was harm and hit back in a column of her own on news.com.au. “To use petty barbs such as ‘bimbo’, or ‘dumb’,‘ditzy, ‘daft’ to prove a point, and does not invent you a feminist,” Sam wrote. “It makes you a bully.” But the whole spat escalated dramatically on Tuesday after Armytage quipped in an interview that she had to Google Haussegger to find out who she was.
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Source: theguardian.com