Al Michaels half-ass attempt at humor. He does it all the time with his little offbeat one liners and has been doing it since he's been on the air @ ABC.
This PC stuff is ridiculous - I get it it may have been too soon but he had to apologize? Come on...
Said the Giants week was almost as bad as Harvey Weinsteins. Big fucking deal.
For real! Geeez, people have their panties in a wad. If he joke was on a certain person in the WH and his bad week, I don't think there would be nearly the "outrage." I dare say, no one on NBC would then make Michaels apologize in that instance. The double standards is getting absurd at this point between what's allowable on one side and what's not on the other.
And someone must have read Michaels the riot act, because after a commercial break he came back with an apology. When's the last time you heard someone apologize for putting their foot in their mouth that quickly?
Of course, Michaels is at least old, and can play the whole 'Back in the day' card. James Corden did something just as stupid, what's his excuse?
Al Michaels half-ass attempt at humor. He does it all the time with his little offbeat one liners and has been doing it since he's been on the air @ ABC.
This PC stuff is ridiculous - I get it it may have been too soon but he had to apologize? Come on...
Rape is not something that should be joked about. That is not me being PC, but just stating the obvious. That being said, I do agree with your first paragraph that Al Michaels tries to be funny, but there is something off about his references.
your daughter getting date raped has absolutely nothing to do with Al Michaels except to heighten your outrage at comments that have nothing to do with her.
24 hrs in the ER with cops and drs last yr when my 20 yr old daughter was date raped. But ya , you kow Im just being PC...
Ok, I know people who have been raped as well. But the joke really wasn't pointing at rape specifically. It was pointing to someone who's been under intense scrutiny.
its not about being PC. I forgot about it almost immediately. Its the PC whiners that I have a problem with. Some jokes just arent funny. Anyway at least we won a game.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
At this point, allegations of rape. Mel Brooks, a truly funny man, nailed it recently when he said that PC was the death of comedy. This coming from a guy , a Jew, who made a spoof musical about Hitler, the embodiment of evil.
I take it you regard yourself as a libertarian . What should concern you is not Michaels comment, which in no way condoned rape or sexual harassment . Rather it was the manner in which the hammer came down on Al. He's never been afraid to advance conservative commentary . For crissakes , he admits to golfing with Limbaugh. Oh, and I laughed . I thought it was funny.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
This. To say it was in poor taste is putting it lightly. There's a reason why he apologized the very next segment.
I'd bet money that the reason he apologized had less to do with actually being sorry and more to do with knowing he was about to get slammed by hypersensitive social media white knights.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
At this point, allegations of rape. Mel Brooks, a truly funny man, nailed it recently when he said that PC was the death of comedy. This coming from a guy , a Jew, who made a spoof musical about Hitler, the embodiment of evil.
I take it you regard yourself as a libertarian . What should concern you is not Michaels comment, which in no way condoned rape or sexual harassment . Rather it was the manner in which the hammer came down on Al. He's never been afraid to advance conservative commentary . For crissakes , he admits to golfing with Limbaugh. Oh, and I laughed . I thought it was funny.
You somehow associate that with conservative commentary?
People are really much dumber than anyone gives them credit for.
I think you should change your handle. I know too many people who are obese and the word "fat" is offensive and derogatory. People die from being overweight. Its not funny.
You know, one of those places where you figure you don't have to hear about Weinstein, the Vegas shooting, etc.
Credit to them though - he said something stupid, and apologized for it. That should be the end of it. The Corden response was much more ridiculous, a series of tweets talking about how he was not trying to shame the victim but the aggressor.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
At this point, allegations of rape. Mel Brooks, a truly funny man, nailed it recently when he said that PC was the death of comedy. This coming from a guy , a Jew, who made a spoof musical about Hitler, the embodiment of evil.
I take it you regard yourself as a libertarian . What should concern you is not Michaels comment, which in no way condoned rape or sexual harassment . Rather it was the manner in which the hammer came down on Al. He's never been afraid to advance conservative commentary . For crissakes , he admits to golfing with Limbaugh. Oh, and I laughed . I thought it was funny.
You somehow associate that with conservative commentary?
People are really much dumber than anyone gives them credit for.
Fuck you, you jerkoff. What I meant is Michaels has always been anti-PC. The political spectrum doesn't influence it at all.
Pea brain, consider this. A few years back I attended the stage redux of Thr Producers. When I got to my seat ,I discovered that Dolph Schayes ((RIP) was seated next to me, along with Naomi , his wife . I began to feel uncomfortable . They were a Jewish couple. You know what? Dolph laughed his sacks off throughout the whole play.
Now dickless , consider this: That play probably couldn't be done today. Certainly within 10 years it would not. And that is the conservative point I'm trying to make. We are losing the First Anendment.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
At this point, allegations of rape. Mel Brooks, a truly funny man, nailed it recently when he said that PC was the death of comedy. This coming from a guy , a Jew, who made a spoof musical about Hitler, the embodiment of evil.
I take it you regard yourself as a libertarian . What should concern you is not Michaels comment, which in no way condoned rape or sexual harassment . Rather it was the manner in which the hammer came down on Al. He's never been afraid to advance conservative commentary . For crissakes , he admits to golfing with Limbaugh. Oh, and I laughed . I thought it was funny.
You somehow associate that with conservative commentary?
People are really much dumber than anyone gives them credit for.
Fuck you, you jerkoff. What I meant is Michaels has always been anti-PC. The political spectrum doesn't influence it at all.
Pea brain, consider this. A few years back I attended the stage redux of Thr Producers. When I got to my seat ,I discovered that Dolph Schayes ((RIP) was seated next to me, along with Naomi , his wife . I began to feel uncomfortable . They were a Jewish couple. You know what? Dolph laughed his sacks off throughout the whole play.
Now dickless , consider this: That play probably couldn't be done today. Certainly within 10 years it would not. And that is the conservative point I'm trying to make. We are losing the First Anendment.
Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind with the First Amendment, protecting rape jokes during football broadcasts.
That play could be made the same way today - the same way they have movies and other art that gets protested left and right.
But convince your feeble, elderly mind that America is circling down the shit tubes because a half in the bag Al Michaels says something stupid on TV and gets called out for it, that's brilliant.
It was a stupid joke, not meant to demean anyone Â
he's a sports broadcaster and he made light of the week had by a guy who has been finally outed this week for being a sexual predator. His comment essentially conveys "boy, Harvey Weinstein can't catch a break this week." There are a lot of people, women especially, who think our society takes sexual assault against women way too lightly
It was inappropriate and it was necessary that he apologized immediately on air. Michaels isn't a comedian, this wasn't a comedy club, and this wasn't a joke in someone's living room.
It's even more cringe-worthy when you consider how much the NFL is trying to show that it cares about stopping violence against women, it seems even more tone-deaf.
It doesn't make Al Michaels a terrible person. But it was an idiotic decision to make that joke at best; at worst, it suggests a person who takes sexual assault lightly.
Or he thought the Giants were coming off a really shitty week. Â
Because rape is so funny, isn't it Al?
He's is going to catch a ton of shit for it over the next couple days
It was nothing. Maybe he tried to be funny. It wasn't funny but it was nothing to get worked up about.
Late night guys are ripping the fool. "Don't eat the basil at the Weinsteins...". And things like that.
Michaels wasn't funny. Maybe he thought it would be. Who cares? it wasn't something that should be a problem for the guy.
Because rape is so funny, isn't it Al?
There have been an awful lot of jokes told about Harvey Weinstein over the last week on TV.
Their major objective is to get someone canned so they can carve another notch into their gunstocks.
There was nothing wrong with what he said. He was not demeaning rape or sexual asssult
This PC bullshit is out of control
This PC stuff is ridiculous - I get it it may have been too soon but he had to apologize? Come on...
For real! Geeez, people have their panties in a wad. If he joke was on a certain person in the WH and his bad week, I don't think there would be nearly the "outrage." I dare say, no one on NBC would then make Michaels apologize in that instance. The double standards is getting absurd at this point between what's allowable on one side and what's not on the other.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
Of course, Michaels is at least old, and can play the whole 'Back in the day' card. James Corden did something just as stupid, what's his excuse?
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
It was an AWFUL joke. Beyond cringeworthy. I said so in the game thread at the time.
This PC stuff is ridiculous - I get it it may have been too soon but he had to apologize? Come on...
Rape is not something that should be joked about. That is not me being PC, but just stating the obvious. That being said, I do agree with your first paragraph that Al Michaels tries to be funny, but there is something off about his references.
If anything, he's saying that the Giants had one hell of a shitty week.
But the time it takes to have to explain this doesn't seem worth it - far less effort goes into hearing something and taking the faux outrage stance.
HE SAID WHAT!!!
Good grief. I can't fathom how people can spend so much energy looking for things to be offended over. It has to be exhausting.
Ok, I know people who have been raped as well. But the joke really wasn't pointing at rape specifically. It was pointing to someone who's been under intense scrutiny.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
This. To say it was in poor taste is putting it lightly. There's a reason why he apologized the very next segment.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
At this point, allegations of rape. Mel Brooks, a truly funny man, nailed it recently when he said that PC was the death of comedy. This coming from a guy , a Jew, who made a spoof musical about Hitler, the embodiment of evil.
I take it you regard yourself as a libertarian . What should concern you is not Michaels comment, which in no way condoned rape or sexual harassment . Rather it was the manner in which the hammer came down on Al. He's never been afraid to advance conservative commentary . For crissakes , he admits to golfing with Limbaugh. Oh, and I laughed . I thought it was funny.
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I don't understand the responses here.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
This. To say it was in poor taste is putting it lightly. There's a reason why he apologized the very next segment.
I'd bet money that the reason he apologized had less to do with actually being sorry and more to do with knowing he was about to get slammed by hypersensitive social media white knights.
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I don't understand the responses here.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
At this point, allegations of rape. Mel Brooks, a truly funny man, nailed it recently when he said that PC was the death of comedy. This coming from a guy , a Jew, who made a spoof musical about Hitler, the embodiment of evil.
I take it you regard yourself as a libertarian . What should concern you is not Michaels comment, which in no way condoned rape or sexual harassment . Rather it was the manner in which the hammer came down on Al. He's never been afraid to advance conservative commentary . For crissakes , he admits to golfing with Limbaugh. Oh, and I laughed . I thought it was funny.
You somehow associate that with conservative commentary?
People are really much dumber than anyone gives them credit for.
I think you should change your handle. I know too many people who are obese and the word "fat" is offensive and derogatory. People die from being overweight. Its not funny.
You know, one of those places where you figure you don't have to hear about Weinstein, the Vegas shooting, etc.
Credit to them though - he said something stupid, and apologized for it. That should be the end of it. The Corden response was much more ridiculous, a series of tweets talking about how he was not trying to shame the victim but the aggressor.
haha!
Eric from BBI : Admin : 1:19 am : link : reply
Tone deaf.
Because rape is so funny, isn't it Al?
It's a typical lefty response he's a friggen tool .
Vanzetti : 2:22 am : link : reply
Relax
There was nothing wrong with what he said. He was not demeaning rape or sexual asssult
This PC bullshit is out of control
Have you seen the new laws in La La Land ? I doubt the rape victims see any humor in this but carry on ...
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In comment 13651357 Eric from BBI said:
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I don't understand the responses here.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
At this point, allegations of rape. Mel Brooks, a truly funny man, nailed it recently when he said that PC was the death of comedy. This coming from a guy , a Jew, who made a spoof musical about Hitler, the embodiment of evil.
I take it you regard yourself as a libertarian . What should concern you is not Michaels comment, which in no way condoned rape or sexual harassment . Rather it was the manner in which the hammer came down on Al. He's never been afraid to advance conservative commentary . For crissakes , he admits to golfing with Limbaugh. Oh, and I laughed . I thought it was funny.
You somehow associate that with conservative commentary?
People are really much dumber than anyone gives them credit for.
Fuck you, you jerkoff. What I meant is Michaels has always been anti-PC. The political spectrum doesn't influence it at all.
Pea brain, consider this. A few years back I attended the stage redux of Thr Producers. When I got to my seat ,I discovered that Dolph Schayes ((RIP) was seated next to me, along with Naomi , his wife . I began to feel uncomfortable . They were a Jewish couple. You know what? Dolph laughed his sacks off throughout the whole play.
Now dickless , consider this: That play probably couldn't be done today. Certainly within 10 years it would not. And that is the conservative point I'm trying to make. We are losing the First Anendment.
spare me
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In comment 13651357 Eric from BBI said:
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I don't understand the responses here.
We're talking about RAPE. Do you guys even understand what RAPE actually is?
What if Michaels had said, the Giants have had as bad a week as the shooting victims in Las Vegas?
Ha ha ha ha ...
At this point, allegations of rape. Mel Brooks, a truly funny man, nailed it recently when he said that PC was the death of comedy. This coming from a guy , a Jew, who made a spoof musical about Hitler, the embodiment of evil.
I take it you regard yourself as a libertarian . What should concern you is not Michaels comment, which in no way condoned rape or sexual harassment . Rather it was the manner in which the hammer came down on Al. He's never been afraid to advance conservative commentary . For crissakes , he admits to golfing with Limbaugh. Oh, and I laughed . I thought it was funny.
You somehow associate that with conservative commentary?
People are really much dumber than anyone gives them credit for.
Fuck you, you jerkoff. What I meant is Michaels has always been anti-PC. The political spectrum doesn't influence it at all.
Pea brain, consider this. A few years back I attended the stage redux of Thr Producers. When I got to my seat ,I discovered that Dolph Schayes ((RIP) was seated next to me, along with Naomi , his wife . I began to feel uncomfortable . They were a Jewish couple. You know what? Dolph laughed his sacks off throughout the whole play.
Now dickless , consider this: That play probably couldn't be done today. Certainly within 10 years it would not. And that is the conservative point I'm trying to make. We are losing the First Anendment.
Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what the Founding Fathers had in mind with the First Amendment, protecting rape jokes during football broadcasts.
That play could be made the same way today - the same way they have movies and other art that gets protested left and right.
But convince your feeble, elderly mind that America is circling down the shit tubes because a half in the bag Al Michaels says something stupid on TV and gets called out for it, that's brilliant.
Nothing PC about it.
It was inappropriate and it was necessary that he apologized immediately on air. Michaels isn't a comedian, this wasn't a comedy club, and this wasn't a joke in someone's living room.
It's even more cringe-worthy when you consider how much the NFL is trying to show that it cares about stopping violence against women, it seems even more tone-deaf.
It doesn't make Al Michaels a terrible person. But it was an idiotic decision to make that joke at best; at worst, it suggests a person who takes sexual assault lightly.