We watched the Super Bowl - who didn't - and were paying a fair amount of attention to the halftime show, but never even had a hint that anything "peculiar" had happened until I ran downstairs and did a quick check of Blogcritics. We were getting 5,000 visitors an hour. This was noteworthy. The Janet Boob Bomb had hit. The fallout continues to reverberate through the media, the political sphere, and has forced a discussion on the state of the culture:…
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26 - HW Saxton Jr.
Breast Super Bowl Ever? Nah,Actually I
think it was kind of a bust............
27 - jim@resonation.ca
Since Kid Rock has had his dick inside Pamela Lee, who is a Canadian, that's denatured him, made him un-'murrican. It's like a disease, the cooze flu, you all got it.
Jeez, the worst part y'all believe this.
28 - Mac Diva
Pam Anderson is Canadian?
BTW, I decided she was a ditz when she insisted cats and dogs should be fed only vegetables on the old Bill Maher show. I'm a vegetarian and pro-animal rights, but that's just wack.
29 - jim@resonation.ca
I'm watching a piece on CBC teevee about John Edwards run for the presidency, and you still fly the confederate flag two centuries later?
What the fuck is wrong with you people? I was there two decades ago and you were fucked up, havent't you learned anything?
30 - Mac Diva
What's his face said:
. . .you are a just another comments troll dressed up like a journalist.
Actually, I had just taken a shower and was naked when I wrote that.
(Sitting back to await outrage. Naked commenting. Naked blogging can't be far behind. Then naked journalism. No wonder the country is goin' to Hell in a handbasket and all that.)
31 - jim@resonation.ca
Yes, Pam Anderson is Canadian, and the sad fact is she should have made Kid Rock a better man.
32 - Mac Diva
Jim, I have a feeling you may have already crossed the line into (gasp!) naked blogging. Feel free to go on and admit it.
33 - JimC
Of course, with some beaver tails and maple surup I'm sure I can make MacDiva (now that she's nekkid) a better woman.
34 - JimC
This news report: Pastor Mansbridge just said:
George Bush Just Did An About Face
Heheh, bush face, oh wait, it's about nuclear weapons. that's not good. duck and cover.
I'm going under the covers until the noodle house next starts tomorrow, because if the noodle house is in business that is good.
35 - Janet Love
I think it really was an accident. Initially, it looked like she was wearing a pasty, which would imply it was planned, but re-viewing (and re-viewing, and re-viewing - hey, we can have fun with this all day) the video, it's clear that it's actually an exotic sort of piercing.
Here is the video, for those who want to re-review it too!
Should this be on prime-time? Nope, probably not, the USA just isn't ready for it, clearly - or we wouldn't all be so abuzz here about it!
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36 - Antfreeze
There's a huge disconnect here people. It's not the boob, it's the way they got it some air time. It's becomming common to do anything you want now days, regardless of the laws, and then either claim it was an accident, or just pay the fine and move on. If you could just pay the fine for murdering your ignorant boss, wouldn't you? It's a boob this year. Next year I predict Kid Rock takes out his shlong and shakes it at us. Oooh it's just a dick. Haven't you seen a dick before? Half the population has one, 2/3 of the population are one.
37 - TDavid
Great breast coverage, Blogcritics! Congrats on the traffic mileston yesterday :)
38 - Eric Olsen
Thanks TD! Right place at the right time with the right people.
39 - TDavid
BTW, for those who believe Justin Timberlake, I don't buy for a second that this was 'accidental'.
40 - Jim Carruthers
I don't know which is worse, the faked outrage in the media about this, or the apparent fact that the head of the FCC doesn't watch teevee. He wasn't aware that women have tits. And don't you try to change his mind, because he'll sue your ass off.
Yep, proof that breasts are like toy trains -- they're made for kids, but dad winds up playing with them all the time.
41 - Jim Carruthers
Here's what all this whatnot about the Superbowl flapdoodle made me do in the bathroom.
Oy, my nuts!
42 - Mark Saleski
...we warned you to remove yer nutwarmers first.
43 - Jim Carruthers
Y'know since the whole Super Bowl is just about marketing, and all about marketing, how come nobody has said:
Got Milk?
44 - Jim Carruthers
I meant to link to this, but it didn't take.
It's just Larry David running around with his pants round his ankles, I've sometimes felt like that. Except not rich and all. Just pant's and in pain. Actually most of the time, pant's and in pain.
45 - Dave
POIT
46 - nickie
hey i wanna see her fu#@%^ Boob agaiN! REPLAY! ... everyone nheeds to take a hike and realize that we all have them!
47 - KGB
This link shows the true, insidious nature of the alleged "nipple shield".
48 - Eric Olsen
Nice one, comrade.
49 - Bartikus
If I show my testicles to your kids as they are coming out school.....what will happen to me?lol
Will it be the end of the world?
Will it be the death of us all if I were to go to jail?
Apparently it would be if Janet met the same fate!
LOL Free Speech my ass!
50 - Ned Richards
Andrew Jackson? Normal? I guess being a genocidal eccentric backwoods nutso IS more normal (especially when he was president) than MOST of the Jackson family...
51 - TWEETIE
what the difference in janet's covered up nipple and everyday videoes that has ass and titties hanging out as well as usin the words shake the ass whoe or phrases like show them titties.a breast is something we all have and one will ost likely see rather itis our own or someone elses. she was once vote to best the woman with the most beautiful breast now she is being looked down on for what she did at the superbowl. Just think maybe she did it to take some attention off her brother. and to mtv and the grammies this is the UNITED STATES THE LAND OF THE FREE AND BRAVE.
52 - Tishelle
What's the difference between this and all the other nudity on TV? Basically, it's awareness or a warning. I'm not particularly uptight about it. I just think that something like 'the halftime show will contain nudity - parental discretion advised' would have made a world of difference. I would not make a habit of watching MTV with my kids in the room because I think they're too young to witness some of what goes on. They're 7 and 9 and I don't delude myself into thinking that their innocence will last forever, but I'd like to let them stay children a little while longer. They really didn't need to see that. My son plays tinymite football and we figured he would enjoy watching the Superbowl. I did not expect my kids to witness what would, in reality, amount to a sexual assault. What's done is done though. Make them pay a fine or whatever and hope that it won't hapen again.
53 - Eric Olsen
Very sensible Tichelle, I agree with your perspective, and a warning like that before the halftime show would have diffused the "violation" aspect of public outrage.
Of course in theory MTV didn't know what was coming.
54 - marcel swaby
i think that the live showing of the halftime show should have been delade becuse of the showing brest and thing like that
55 - ankhsenaten
I'm sorry...are there actually people who think that was an accident??? LMMFAO! And what's with the Xena warrior princess nipple hubcap?
56 - Eric Olsen
Obviously the "action" wasn't accidental, both Timberlake and Janet have stated they planned it. But I do believe her when she says the red material was supposed to stay in place.
That anyone thought any aspect of it was a good idea is still pretty hard to believe.
57 - kurt
i love see them and most man do . like to see more if i can
58 - jim
janet is just another [edited] like her child molesting brother.money and fame has to many people kissing your black ass to prosicute you;
59 - jim
janet and michael are just two other niggers that with money and fame = no conviction.
60 - Melinda James
Can we leave Janet alone with the superbowl crap?! GEEZ!!Madonna's been masturbating on stage and shakin' & showin her titties for 20 years! And Janet has a nipple slip for one little moment in time and OMG!!!! Lets BURN & NAIL her to the cross! WE ARE SUCH A SOCIETY OF HYPOCRITES & ASSES!!!!!!!!
61 - Black Boy Dunk champ
I think in waz the greatest janet is smoking hot and that made my day it was a shity superbowl any way