https://twitter.com/xmasape/status/919751547160088577
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.
https://twitter.com/TaylorDrysdale/status/919752205351219201
al michaels is gonna want that one back, good god.
— beng (@kicknyrgios) October 16, 2017
Al Michaels made a Harvey Weinstein joke pic.twitter.com/eOYROQgXtL
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) October 16, 2017
you don't have to make jokes about sexual assault, it's really not that hard
— chad (@mad_charkulics) October 16, 2017
REPEAT AFTER ME. sexual 👏🏼 assault 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 joking 👏🏼 matter 👏🏼
— kelly cohen (@ByKellyCohen) October 16, 2017
Al Michaels: "The Giants are having a worse week than Harvey Weinstein" pic.twitter.com/R76VJEquCk
— Josiah Johnson (@KingJosiah54) October 16, 2017
Way to make light of a serial sexual assaulter, Al Michaels. Already know NFL doesn't give a shit about women, thanks for cementing it.
— Spillygal (@borken_cookie) October 16, 2017
Al Michaels just tried making a Harvey Weinstein joke. It didn't work.
— Zack Rosenblatt (@ZackBlatt) October 16, 2017
Al Michaels is probably the best play-by-play guy in history. But boy… that was a big, big lapse in judgment.
— Doug Farrar ✍ (@NFL_DougFarrar) October 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/BrockOgami/status/919751582463299584
Al Michaels: “The Giants had a worse week than Harvey Weinstein”
Must be funny UNLESS YOU HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN A VICTIM OF ASSAULT. @SNFonNBC— Lisa Guerrero 💃🏽 (@4lisaguerrero) October 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/thesafeparrot/status/919761399290753024
Because the internet moves fast, Al Michaels apologized for the joke.
Al Michaels' apology for Weinstein joke pic.twitter.com/QrIPTb6l2X
— Superdrunkmark69 (@cjzer0) October 16, 2017
