"Isn't the first rule of PR, like the first rule of medicine, "Do no harm"?"

It may be, but the second rule is "there's no such thing as bad publicity"

Like I've posted on my blog: Nobody is complaining about the snuff films being made by the Oakland Raiders. What a double standard.

Pfft. This is why the Forty Niners have been sucking for the last decade. They play in the most nancified city in the US. I'm just waiting for their official name to change to the "Gender Neutral Sporting Event Participants" or something equally lame. San Francisco is a complete jackass festival, and this is only one aspect of it.

I mean, come on: is a world without soft-core porn based promotional videos really a world we want to live in? I think not!

I've got to say I could care less about the "outrages" on this video. The crime here is really just complete moronitude and not any mortal sin.

So you object because other people will object?

Also, it's "couldn't care less". I think this had been explained to you already.

As for the "snuff film", that term is used to mean a movie where somebody is actually murdered. If they actually murdered people in the film, then I agree that is terrible. But I somehow doubt it. If these are just pretend murders, then what's the big deal? At least it has something to do with football, as football is in part about inflicting violence on your opponents (within the rules, of course).

Still, I have to hand it to him. He managed to fit lesbians, soft-porn, topless women, gay marriage, and slurs against at least two ethnic groups all into one 15-minute video. I'm exhausted just thinking about it. If he added a car chase, some gunplay, and a wise-cracking animal side-kick, he could option it to Hollywood.

I dunno Z. In San Francisco, you could shoot all of that in one take.

Yeah, you keep right on joking, Dave.

Don't you people get it? This is worse than Abu Ghraib!

Okay, football players watching lesbian porn, and no one has hit on the obvious explaination yet?

They just got caught doing what any bunch of guys at an all male sports camp would be doing and had to come up with a PC explaination. Hence the PR dweebs with their "diversity training". Now if you'll excuse me I have to go down to the, uh, local "Diversity Media Training Center" and screen some gender diverse training films.

If you know what I mean. ;^)

The PC twits who pump out the local (SF) 10pm news went bizzerk over this last night. Only missing children and local soliders killed in Iraq get more continous airtime. All manner of righteous indignation and moral preening by the reporters/anchors, followed by "man-on-the-street" sound bytes, culminating in the predictably scripted apologies from 49er managment.

About the only portion of the newscast that made any sense at all was the reaction of an obviously gay dude filmed in the Castro district. His comment (paraphrased) was: "What's the big deal? It was childish and silly, which is pretty typical of most pro athletes, isn't it?"

Lost amidst all the frothy condemnation and fake contrition is the fact that it was childish, and silly, and probably pretty fucking funny too (haven't watched it yet), and hard as the PC totalitarians might try to eradicate it, this is the essence of the boys locker room. Get used to it.

Stumbo,

Don't be ridiculous. NOTHING is worse than Abu Ghraib. Except maybe Gitmo.

Frankly I question the timing of this video. Someone is trying to distract us from the Abu Ghraib scandal.

And all this phony moralizing is coming from the city that is home to the Mitchell brothers (producers of Behind the Green Door) world-famous O'Farrell Theater, where the lap dance was more or less invented.

And where you can drop a whole lotta bucks in a hurry. According to a friend of mine.

Ah, but Michael, it's an anything goes, free-for-all here in SF. What ever floats your boat is A-OK, unless of course you happen to be an evil oppressor a straight male. Those types are 2nd class citizens. If you happen to be a straight male of the Christian persuasion you may as well draw a bullseye on your chest.

keggin:

it's an anything goes, free-for-all here in SF.

Which is what make your city so special. Even if you're an an evil oppressor straight Christian male, you can still have have a great time at the Exotic Erotic Halloween Ball. People are generally really nice in SF.

Been there, done that.

Michael,

Let's agree to disagree on the disposition of SF's population

Why do guys who take daily interracial group showers, need sensitivity training?