Al Michaels Made A Horribly Insensitive Harvey Weinstein Joke And The Internet Is Furious


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Everything was so simple. The Giants, against all odds, without Odell Beckham Jr. and most of their receiving corps, were beating the Broncos on Sunday Night Football. It made for some decent programming, the drama and all. Then Al Michaels tried to make an edgy joke using Harvey Weinstein’s world crumbling around him due to decades of alleged sexual harassment finally coming to the fore.

Michaels, possibly using a workshopped analogy, likened the injury woes of the Giants to Weinstein’s “bad week” which consisted of near-countless victims of sexual harassment coming forward to address Weinstein and the prevalence of harassment by men in power towards women(and even Terry Crews).

People weren’t happy about this sloppy and insensitive analogy that almost makes Weinstein a sympathetic character. Not at all. It made light of the people who were abused and feared seeking justice thanks to the influence of Weinstein in their industry and the systematic issue of victim blaming. Weinstein didn’t have a bad week if the accusations are true, he was simply called out for his alleged crimes. It’s the victims who had to relive the nightmare that had the bad week. The bad decades.

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Because the internet moves fast, Al Michaels apologized for the joke.