What's wrong with you, Sports Illustrated?

T Sports Illustrated's decision to ask Christine Blasey Ford to present her Inspiration Award for the year 2018 is so wrong that it's hard to know where to start.

To begin with, it is said that the magazine's treatment of Ford is more worthy of a top athlete than that of a 52-year-old woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted almost 40 years ago at high school.

Ford was not chosen for his significant affiliation with the award winner, former gymnast Rachael Denhollander, whose testimony eventually led to the fall of sexual predator Larry Nassar. Ford has not been chosen for professional or personal achievements. Ford was chosen because she claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, claiming that she had failed to prove it.

Sexual assault is obviously a serious matter. But by describing Ford as a kind of victim of violence by a celebrity, the magazine devalued its Inspiration Award of the Year and the reason for its award well below the content deserved. Ford could also have appeared in the video saying, "Hello, I'm Christine Blasey Ford. You may remember me since I told Congress that I had been raped. It may sound silly, but it's 100% why Ford was chosen and that's what's really silly.

Do you know who they could have asked to hand over the prize? All the other gymnasts who were also abused by Nassar – who, by the way, proved to have accomplished what they had said that he had done beyond a reasonable doubt.

Then there is the question of what Ford says in the endorsement video. To put it simply, it's clumsily complacent.

"I am impressed by you and I will always be inspired by you," says Ford. "By taking action, you have taken a huge risk and you have galvanized future generations, even when the chances seem minimal."

She adds, "The lesson to remember is what we all have the power to create change and we can not be defined by the actions of others. "

Ford definitely talks about Denhollander and not about herself. I promise.

Finally, Sports Illustrated chose to pay tribute to the victim of a convicted sex predator with a woman who has not yet provided contemporaneous corroborating evidence to support her allegation – which, in turn elsewhere, Kavanaugh has credibly refused repeatedly. Sports Illustrated has mitigated the seriousness of the Nassar nightmare by relating it to Ford's fragile and untested story. Worse still, Sports Illustrated has eclipsed the winner of his acclaimed award by handing it to the woman at the center of one of the ugliest and most controversial political struggles of the past 30 years.

Do you know what people are talking about this week in newsrooms and on social media? They do not talk so much about Denhollander or the fact that his testimony led to the fall of Nassar. They talk about the fact that the Sports Illustrated video marks Ford's first public appearance since his testimony at the Sept. 27 Congress.

The magazine even sold its price by highlighting Ford's appearance.

"In her first public statement since September, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford awarded Rachael Denhollander the Sports Illustrated Inspiration of the Year Award," he tweeted enthusiastically this week .

All this leads to the simple question: what's wrong with you, Sports Illustrated?