Vollmer Public Relations Releases Annual List of Year’s Top PR Blunders!
From call girls to smelly tourists, we’ve seen and heard it all this past year. Nationally ranked Vollmer Public Relations has compiled its annual list of stunts, comments and actions that should have required intensive public relations support and a handful of Rolaids:
· Pay to play U.S. Senate Seat for sale. Act fast! Limited time offer! Only serious offers please. Cash only. Contact Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Or his wife.
· A little higher and he’d be a New York Soprano New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress was hit with two counts of illegal weapons possession after it was discovered he entered a Manhattan night club with a loaded, concealed weapon, shot himself in the leg, club security failed to call police and the hospital did not report the shooting to authorities.
· 12 is the new 16 The Chinese government apparently employed a new form of math in order to get underage athletes into the Summer Olympic Games.
· I can see Russia from my porch Sarah Palin’s painful interview with Katie Couric on CBS.
· Mother of the Year Britney Spears’ mother Lynne Spears announced that she would delay the release of her book on parenting when information was released that her other daughter, 16-year old un-wed, pre-teen role model Jamie Lynn Spears was pregnant with her first child.
· Would you like nuts with that? Civil rights activist and media minister Jesse Jackson, assuming his mic was off on a national TV show (have you paid no attention to your media training?), was caught whispering to another guest that he wanted to "cut [Obama's] [family jewels] off.
· Call me any time New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, famous for his crackdown on prostitution in the state, was caught with his own pants down in a call girl ‘situation’.
· I need a vacation AIG executives, after receiving a company saving $750 billion dollar bailout from the government, went on a luxury company retreat at a cost of $500,000.
· Drive & Whine Following in the missteps of their AIG brethren, Detroit automaker executives came to Washington looking for their bailout, each arriving in their own private jet.
· What happens in Vegas O.J. Simpson was sentenced to years in prison after being convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping in Las Vegas. His conviction came 13 years to the day after he was acquitted in an earlier trial of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman.
· What’s that smell? At ceremonies celebrating the installation of air conditioning in the Capitol Visitor’s Center, Senator Harry Reid commented that members and employees would no longer have to "smell the tourists" on hot summer days (even after his staff advised him not to say it).
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