{"id":38445,"date":"2020-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/penbo-opens-about-his-opinion-piece-triggered-social-media-storm\/"},"modified":"2020-04-15T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:47:32","slug":"penbo-opens-about-his-opinion-piece-triggered-social-media-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/penbo-opens-about-his-opinion-piece-triggered-social-media-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Penbo Opens Up About His Opinion Piece That Triggered A Social Media Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>David Penberthy says Bettina Arndt\u2019s reaction to his article suggesting she was a \u201ccrappy choice\u201d for an Order of Australia medal only proves his point.<\/h3>\n<p>After the article was published Arndt criticised David for not mentioning that his wife, former MP Kate Ellis, was a \u201clongtime advocate for victims of sexual assault\u201d.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How David Penberthy, author of today&#39;s vile hit job on me, fails to acknowledge his conflict of interest as the husband of former MP Kate Ellis? My campus work poses a direct threat to Ellis&#39; longtime advocacy for victims of sexual assault. Shameful, unethical journalism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/185hbehtPO\">pic.twitter.com\/185hbehtPO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bettina Arndt (@thebettinaarndt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thebettinaarndt\/status\/1228823006144847875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p>Penbo told FIVEAA Breakfast on Monday:<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<blockquote>&#13;\n\t<p>\u201cIt totally proved the point of the article about her weird hostility towards women. I\u2019ve written an article under my own name my wife didn\u2019t even know I was writing the damn thing\u2026 then Arndt, come in spinner, she goes on this mad rant against her, not really against me.<\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n\t<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t really a tub thumping piece. It was quite personal. I wrote it as a divorced person who gets along really well with his ex saying don\u2019t hold all of us divorced blokes up as hopeless victims of a cruel system.\u201d<\/p>&#13;\n<\/blockquote>&#13;\n&#13;\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/rendezview\/divorce-is-painful-enough-without-bettina-ardnt-involved\/news-story\/b7687f8531bc5bc714b687dc162e826d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>READ PENBO\u2019S ARTICLE HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>&#13;\n&#13;\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F1395FIVEAA%2Fvideos%2F531457100909609%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Penberthy says Bettina Arndt\u2019s reaction to his article suggesting she was a \u201ccrappy choice\u201d for an Order of Australia medal only proves his point. After the article was published Arndt criticised David for not mentioning that his wife, former MP Kate Ellis, was a \u201clongtime advocate for victims of sexual assault\u201d. How David Penberthy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,144],"tags":[246,245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-38445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-news","tag-fiveaa-app","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>Penbo Opens Up About His Opinion Piece That Triggered A Social Media Storm - 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\/news\/penbo-opens-about-his-opinion-piece-triggered-social-media-storm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Penbo Opens Up About His Opinion Piece That Triggered A Social Media Storm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"David Penberthy says Bettina Arndt\u2019s reaction to his article suggesting she was a \u201ccrappy choice\u201d for an Order of Australia medal only proves his point. 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