Here is the interview of the Killers where the controversy took place. The quote is tamer reading the whole article, but going close to saying what they said will bring about a lot of enemies.

Although I agree with Goodman that this was very bad PR, I have to admit that it has received a decent amount of exposure. Like all types of advertising, the context of stories disappear after a certain amount of time, thereby the bad PR functions in itself as good PR sooner or later.

Essentially, their interview, and Flowers quote, will end up good PR. But don’t jump on the shock-advertising bandwagon yet; do your homework before you do something drastic to your image. Some cases of bad PR have caused irreversible harm to images of people, programs, businesses, and entire industries. Denny’s and minority workers/ customers, Britney Spears and the pop industry, Janet Jackson and the Superbowl, John Lennon and Jesus Christ. This is but the smallest sample you will find, but I hope the examples and your memory will prove my point.