Miranda Devine: Eddie McGuire 'cops it on the chin' for King Kong remark? Pull the other one

SO is Eddie McGuire the face of racism now? No, of course not.

SO is Eddie McGuire the face of racism now?

A fat Irish guy who thought it was funny to say Adam Goodes should promote King Kong, the musical?

No, of course not.

Will he be hauled out of his seat and dragged into a room to be interrogated by police without representation for two hours until he's a sobbing mess?

Of course not.

He's a rich, important media superstar and pillar of the AFL establishment.

That kind of treatment by the AFL and its media toadies is reserved for defenceless 13-year-old girls.

Oh, the irony. The AFL has been hoist on its own petard; its hypocritical fraud there for all to see.

There was McGuire, the president of Collingwood, on Triple M radio on Wednesday morning joking around about the King Kong musical.

"Get Adam Goodes down for it, d'you reckon?

"You know, the big, not the ape thing, the whole thing"

His press conference to try to explain away "the situation", as he called it, was a disgrace. We saw the great Eddie McGuire disintegrate before our eyes.

The AFL's anti-racism carry-on has been exposed as a tokenistic, politically correct fraud

Full of self pity, patting himself on the back for "copping it on the chin" and claiming that every waking moment of his life is devoted to stamping out racism.

Pull the other one, Eddie.

But when asked the obvious question about the 13-year-old girl who has been vilified all week for calling Goodes an "ape" at the MCG, he couldn't see the parallel.

"I don't understand the question," he tried, all wide-eyed innocence.

"No, it's not linked, mate.

"I wasn't racially vilifying anyone this morning."

What's Eddie's excuse?

He was tired.

The AFL's anti-racism carry-on has been exposed as a tokenistic, politically correct fraud, insulting to indigenous players and a totalitarian exercise for unsuspecting fans.

So Eddie, you're not getting the benefit of the doubt from me because you and your mates never gave it to a child.

She didn't racially vilify anyone either, but you offered her up as a sacrificial lamb to be mauled all week so you could pretend you've stamped out racism.

All week Collingwood and the AFL left that little girl and her family out to dry.

She lives with sisters, aged 15 and 16, and her single mother, on a disability pension with agoraphobia, anxiety and depression.

Yet no one bothered calling to see how they were coping with the stress of public vilification, until late on Tuesday, when someone from Collingwood rang the family, perhaps after getting wind a column putting their side was in the works.

The only people to emerge from this sordid tale with their dignity intact are the 13-year-old and her mother, Joanne.