{"id":28801,"date":"2017-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/mike-smithson-fires-up-over-accusations-made-against-him-online\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T00:00:00","slug":"mike-smithson-fires-up-over-accusations-made-against-him-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/mike-smithson-fires-up-over-accusations-made-against-him-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Smithson Fires Up Over Accusations Made Against Him Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Channel 7\u2019s Mike Smithson has called out local member Michael Atkinson for \u201coffensive\u201d tweets after Mr Atkinson announced he was taking a break from social media.<\/h3>\n<p>Atkinson said during the week he would take a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MickAtko\/status\/932579081417195520\" target=\"_blank\">long vacation<\/a>\u201d from his socials after tagging two female politicians in an inappropriate tweet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/smithson-parli.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cIt was nice to see that he actually admitted he shouldn\u2019t have done this,\u201d Smithson told FIVEAA on Wednesday.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cHe\u2019s accused me on Twitter on many occasion of barracking for Nick Xenophon, which I found slightly offensive. I don\u2019t barrack for anyone &#8212; whether it be Nick Xenophon or certainly not Mick Atkinson or others.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI don\u2019t even bother replying to him, in fact I was going to block him at one stage because I found his tweets quite annoying.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cMick I think needs to back off on these knee jerk reactions and usually pretty barbed criticisms towards people &#8212; certainly reporters.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cif you want to have a crack at me, ring me up and have a crack at me &#8212; and he probably will in about five minutes&#8217; time.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIVEAABreakfast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FIVEAABreakfast<\/a> podcast with David &amp; Will:<br><br>iTunes <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1oMwAb\">https:\/\/t.co\/NmIb1oMwAb<\/a><br>Online <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ry2nqTCUqx\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ry2nqTCUqx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YXrKHIezcN\">pic.twitter.com\/YXrKHIezcN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FIVEAA (@1395FIVEAA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1395FIVEAA\/status\/933119083331178496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2017<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Channel 7\u2019s Mike Smithson has called out local member Michael Atkinson for \u201coffensive\u201d tweets after Mr Atkinson announced he was taking a break from social media. Atkinson said during the week he would take a \u201clong vacation\u201d from his socials after tagging two female politicians in an inappropriate tweet. \u201cIt was nice to see that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-28801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mike Smithson Fires Up Over Accusations Made Against Him Online - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/mike-smithson-fires-up-over-accusations-made-against-him-online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mike Smithson Fires Up Over Accusations Made Against Him Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Channel 7\u2019s Mike Smithson has called out local member Michael Atkinson for \u201coffensive\u201d tweets after Mr Atkinson announced he was taking a break from social media. 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