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Ferguson Hires PR Co. --- Can you spot the glaring cluelessness? (Original Post) kpete Aug 2014 OP
d'oh Voice for Peace Aug 2014 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Boom Sound 416 Aug 2014 #2
U Gots 2 Be Kiddin Me iloveObama12 Aug 2014 #3
once again women are called to clean up and sanitze a mess made by men? nt msongs Aug 2014 #4
Hey PR Firm.. Clue.. Arrest Darren Wilson Cha Aug 2014 #5
Racial profiling? LOL, oh man...stupid god damn racist assholes randys1 Aug 2014 #6
Guess who they'll be targeting with their PR campaign. Iggo Aug 2014 #7
The implications of this are no laughing matter underthematrix Aug 2014 #8
What! onecaliberal Aug 2014 #9
anyone got a good "face-palm"? KittyWampus Aug 2014 #10
Here ya go: VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #11
The entire PR team is almost all women!! MindPilot Aug 2014 #12
Hmmmmm Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2014 #13
Oh groan ..... etherealtruth Aug 2014 #14
I wonder what this will do for the PR of the PR firm? MohRokTah Aug 2014 #15
Personal note of sorts: when Bigtree first posted the story earlier today (subsequently VanGoghRocks Aug 2014 #16
White, Off-White, Lilly White, Eggshell White....and on it goes. RagAss Aug 2014 #17
This is for real? cui bono Aug 2014 #18
Look like youngsters with little if any world experiences Submariner Aug 2014 #19
One of the other tweets said: Gidney N Cloyd Aug 2014 #20

Response to kpete (Original post)

randys1

(16,286 posts)
6. Racial profiling? LOL, oh man...stupid god damn racist assholes
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 06:42 PM
Aug 2014

who dont have the first god damn clue about white superiority...

Who want to forget about the past and some of it NOT the past.

and then this?

Jesus fecking krist on a popsicle stick

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
8. The implications of this are no laughing matter
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 06:45 PM
Aug 2014

particularly if they are getting help louie gohmert or lyin ryan

 

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)
12. The entire PR team is almost all women!!
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 07:02 PM
Aug 2014

Don't they realize that the men on the Ferguson PD will under-represented?!

etherealtruth

(22,165 posts)
14. Oh groan .....
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 07:06 PM
Aug 2014

Not that these folk could not do an exemplary job (I don't know anything about them) ... but it certainly is not a show of good faith or an interest in diversity

 

VanGoghRocks

(621 posts)
16. Personal note of sorts: when Bigtree first posted the story earlier today (subsequently
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 07:12 PM
Aug 2014

retracted due to questions about its sourcing), I took it upon myself to call CommonGrounds to find out what they were all about.

Pressing 'O' for "operator" put me into an endless phone loop with a Sartrean No Exit.

Pressing Extension 224 for the first person in the list, Denise Bentale, got me voicemail.

In short, like Major Major Major Major of Catch 22, you can only speak to this PR firm when it's out of the office.

Submariner

(12,503 posts)
19. Look like youngsters with little if any world experiences
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 08:03 PM
Aug 2014

that would qualify them to be spoke-persons for anything.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,833 posts)
20. One of the other tweets said:
Mon Aug 18, 2014, 08:10 PM
Aug 2014

'Everyone in this picture looks like they've said "We don't keep cash in the store" at their last job.'

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