Today on the drive to work, the radio was playing clips from a media relations training video for the San Francisco 49ers. It featured their PR director Kirk Reynolds delivering an important message to the players about building a strong relationship with the media, accepting the diversity of San Francisco culture, and respecting female reporters in the locker room. Naturally he gave this message from the showers wearing nothing but a towel surrounded by topless women.
Apparently this was just the icing on a degrading, racially slandering gay bashing cake. In a mere 15 minute video he managed to alienate the mayor, the Asian community, the lesbian community, the Asian lesbian community (boy were they pissed), the women community and the human community of San Francisco.
After a source leaked the video to the local media, he was forced to issue a statement:
“Did I push it too far? I did,” Reynolds said. “The ideas of the tape are appropriate for the locker room — though some of the subjects were inappropriate for the values of this organization, and mine, frankly.”
and mine?? So when he was pretending to be a minister at a lesbian wedding ceremony encouraging the brides to get it on, no one could have been more offended than himself, frankly. Why the 49ers asked him to resign is beyond me.
Now it may be instinctive to call this man an idiot, because…well he is. But is there a grain of genius buried under his several multiple layers of retardation? I have to admit if my training videos in high school had featured topless women, I would probably be a professor at MIT by now. Provided of course they were Asian lesbians.