The response seems vastly out of proportion to the offense to me.
The latest development in the brouhaha over singer Janet Jackson baring a breast during her halftime show at the Super Bowl is an FCC complaint.…
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26 - David
I dont see the huge deal in this. I understand that younger kids may have been watching, but they should know what the female body is like already. Either through school or from the parents talking to them. If they do not, or if they were shocked, than it is probably the cause of the parents reaction and not directly from the child. I do understand the problem with how it was executed though. Also, I seem to recall an award show where someone came out wearing nothing but a pastie on one breast. I may be wrong, but I believe it was the Grammy awards and Lil Kim that was wearing that. Also, I believe it was Whitney Houston that fondled and played with Lil Kim's breast as well, yet no one cried and screamed about that. I believe because of the large amount of big name singers at the Grammy awards that more teen-agers and younger people would be watching it as well. Certainly more than would want to watch football I would suspect.
27 - Totem
I really didn't see the incident because the half-time entertainment was so boring and inappropriate for a football game.
And I don't give a fig for Janet Jackson's actions.....after all, she's out of that Jackson family, right?
It apparently was over in a few seconds, and I doubt anyone was damaged, except by their parents' over-the-top reactions, as some wise person has already mentioned.
At least this may put a stop to the practice of showing live MTV videos at half-time. Let's see the marching bands, flag twirlers, majorettes and fun stuff normally associated w/ football! It must be really awful to pay so much money to see a big game and have to sit in the stands and watch the half-time show on a TV monitor!
It isn't about wholesome or immoral, it's about good entertainment or poor.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled programming.....:-)
28 - Alexander Finch
Why is America all up in arms about this piffling little incident when we have soldiers dying in Iraq *every* day after "the war is over", a man in the White House who wasn't elected, oil drills poised to destroy the Alaskan Arctic wilderness to keep those wonderful SUVs on the roads and millions of jobs have been shipped overseas, never to return again.
Has everyone simply gone stark, staring mad? Can no one recognize a real problem when it comes up and bites him/her?
Take all your wonderful energy and go out and change our society w/ it!
Vote Democrate before we all starve.
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