Thanks for the mammory
FTC chairman Michael Powell says he’s “outraged” by the way singer Janet Jackson exposed one of her breasts breast during the halftime show of the Super Bowl.
“Like millions of Americans, my family and I gathered around the television for a celebration,” says Powell in a statement.
“Instead, that celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt. Our nation?s children, parents and citizens deserve better. I have instructed the commission to open an immediate investigation into last night’s broadcast. Our investigation will be thorough and swift.”
At the end of the song Rock Your Body, Jackson allowed Justin Timberlake to uncover her right breast.
CBS, which aired the game, said it, “deeply regrets the incident”.
Powell didn’t say if he thinks the Pepsi-Cola and iTunes Super Bowl ad in which 16 teenaged RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) victims were depicted as criminals was similarly “classless, crass and deplorable” and if he’ll launch a “thorough and swift” investigation into that as well..
Still, the Pepsi/iTunes ad and Jackson’s stunt come as no big surprise.
“Viewers who tuned in expecting a big-time football game saw the Super Bowl of Sleaze instead,” says an MSNBCÂ story here.
“Sexy and violent commercials that included jokes about flatulence and bestiality mercilessly interrupted the CBS telecast of Super Bowl XXXVIII from Houston last night, making it a dubious choice for family viewing,”
February 2nd, 2004 at 9:13 pm
Get over it! Wether it was planned or not, just get over it! Are you scared for life, I doubt it! Are your children scared for life, probably not!! Get off your high horses like you’re better than everyone else and that it “must be the devil’s work” mentality, and take into consideration that it may have just been an accident!
February 2nd, 2004 at 9:14 pm
Get over it! Wether it was planned or not, just get over it! Are you scared for life, I doubt it! Are your children scared for life, probably not!! Get off your high horses like you’re better than everyone else and that it “must be the devil’s work” mentality, and take into consideration that it may have just been an accident! By the way, my name is Heather!
February 2nd, 2004 at 9:26 pm
I’d much rather see 2,700 or so folks dying 40 or 50 times a day cuz it so news worthy. Better yet give me pictures of bloodied and dismembered corpses. victims of Palistinian or Al Qeda suiside bombings. That fare is far more wholsome and publicly acceptable. I can go to sleep at night and not worry that my kids will have bad dreams seein hair teeth n eyeballs everywhere. No tit for me, I say. Just plain and wholsome chrischin approved blood n gore.
February 2nd, 2004 at 10:09 pm
Ah, first of all, I think you mean “scarred” for life–not scared. And no, I will not get over this disgusting display during a family viewing hour! Are they going to have porn stars next year??? Come on, Heather, I’m no prude, but this has gone way too far. We live on the west coast in San Diego and there were gasps from the kids in the room when this happened. There’s time enough to be a grown-up in this world–we need to let our kids be kids and not hurry their growing up years by exposing them to publicity desperate “singers” who need to get their names in the news to make more obscene money. Grow up Heather–I bet you don’t have children.
February 2nd, 2004 at 10:11 pm
Learn to spell, you ignorant slob. One can tell you’re a complete idiot. I agree that violence is disgusting as well, but your saying it’s one or the other borders on the ridiculous. Let’s not have either!!
February 2nd, 2004 at 11:30 pm
The misspellings are intentional, inglish major! I’m not suggesting that we should be forced to choose one or the other. But, until we’re ready to acknowledge our hypocracy and remove such pornographic blood n gore from the airways, demonstrate some tolerance of public displays of tit n pussy. After all each of the latter are life enabing. Blood n gore particularly of the schreaded fetus type are the most base form of pornography.
February 2nd, 2004 at 11:33 pm
I wanted to see football, not tits. It was disgusting, the whole Janet Jackson garters and fishnet deal. Bah.
February 2nd, 2004 at 11:33 pm
I think that all of the advertising that was seen on the Superbowl was ALL crass and objectionable. What’s happened to our society when we accept being subjected to advertising in the Superbowl that consists of horses farting, male erectile dysfunction and a dog biting a man in the crotch? Janet Jackson’s stunt overshadowed all of those who coughed up the $2.4 million dollars for a 30 second ad. And she was PAID for her stunt! I’m sure the fact that she has a new album that was due to be released in March, yet was released today instead had quite a lot to do with it. Have we as a society become so tolerant of lewdness and impropriety that we will accept anything that’s broadcast during a so-called family televison event? I’m sick of the whole thing. As a person with some sense of propriety and decency I object to these stunts. If I want to see two people singing and dry humping each other, I’ll turn my channel on to MTV or HBO. But here…in a public forum such as the Superbowl, I feel it’s totally inappropriate.
February 2nd, 2004 at 11:36 pm
You are 100% right!!
February 3rd, 2004 at 12:42 am
What I love least about the public sewer we call the internet is that there will always be some arrested teenager telling everybody to “get over it”. By definition a “horse” is “high” if it stands anywhere but in the gutter. Someday (maybe) we might actually have a standard of behavior a half notch above the most common (depraived) denominator. Until then I am sooooo glad we have the likes of “Anonymous Coward” to set the rest of use straight. I’m sure he’ll be ready to step up to the plate with the same “deep” insights when hollywood finds a cleaver way to flash his sister, daughter, or mother having sex with a horse! But no worries AC, just remember, there are no trends, and this is no standard except what makes you feel good.
February 3rd, 2004 at 12:43 am
As the entertainment industry struggles to offer the public anything of substance, we are once again subjected to the actions of a mostly unsophisticated group of individuals. Case in point: the Super Bowl halftime show. What a waste of time and energy. Thank goodness I had shut off the television in favor of a trip the the kitchen.
February 3rd, 2004 at 1:03 am
Where can I find the “original” “unretouched” photo? I assure you that I am over “well over” the age of twenty-one (or whatever that legal age now a days) and will be using it for personal enjoyment only. Oh ya, I’m a private individual and am not a law enforcement agent of any sort.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
CS
February 3rd, 2004 at 1:23 am
How low will the beer commercials go before the networks decide to take a stand for some sort of deciency? Farting horses, sex with animals. Oh wait, … the ones we thought were watching out for our best interests; did’nt have the moral standards to cut off the bump and grind, and the humping taking place on their stage. Oh woops! maybe if they would have pulled the plug on that sooner our family would’nt have had to watch the flashing either.
Unamused Parent
February 3rd, 2004 at 3:05 am
“intentional misspellings”??? They say to never argue with a drunk or an idiot–which one are you?
February 3rd, 2004 at 3:09 am
You are so right!! The publicity slut and wanna-be thug Justin shoved this down our throats. We didn’t have a choice whether to watch this obscene display or not. What do you bet that now young boys will try to imitate Justin’s act and grab at girls breasts. I can just hear the outcry now from the idiots who are NOW saying, “it’s just a breast” to crying rape. They’ll wonder what ever gave their son the idea to grab another person’s breast or body part!!!
February 3rd, 2004 at 3:52 am
Iti s an embaressment @ the hypocritical attitude with which this is handled. Where is the investigative attitude for all the crap on tv as is. I believe most the complainer just want a pretense of being righteous. Many shows have almost sex and many far surpassing showing breast are show ie nypd blue. I didn’t even see it although watching my vcr show it clearly as i recorded the whole super bowl. I think screener are a JOKE!!
February 3rd, 2004 at 3:56 am
lern to spel, asshole!
February 3rd, 2004 at 3:48 pm
Well guys, it’s mammary, not mammory. If I want to see nice breasts, I’ll look in the mirror. If I want to listen to good music, I certainly won’t watch the super bowl halftime show. It stunk. If you are a good parent you will expose your kids to good music, and not this derivative crap and rap bull. What’s with the violence message too? A naked breast is not necessarily offensive, enhanced by the way, but the lyrics and clothing, and the ripping thing all suggest that a young man can’t enjoy sex that is gentle and mutually satisfying. If you don’t see that this message is being sent, you have your head in the sand.
February 3rd, 2004 at 4:05 pm
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February 3rd, 2004 at 6:33 pm
Get a life,its just a tit
February 3rd, 2004 at 8:00 pm
you r the most stupidly and idiotically naive person in the world…plus scarred is scarred, not scared, bozo.
February 3rd, 2004 at 8:15 pm
Keee-ryst!
The magazine “The Economist” had the best short description of Americans that I’ve ever seen. It called us “Decadent Puritans”.
50% of us won’t vote, but 90% of us are talking for days about a tiny flash of metal-obscured nipple on a TV screen.
Keee-ryst!
February 3rd, 2004 at 8:45 pm
I don’t understand you Yanks. I kept abreast of Janet and Justin through several American and Canadian TV channels. Invariably, the Americans affected insult and outrage treating the incident with great gravity, while the Canadians treated it as a bit of a lark. Of course, it can be argued that Canadians should get a life as they are usually outraged by napalm and bombs and kids without health insurance, etc. There is something about perspective and balance…
February 3rd, 2004 at 8:58 pm
Congradulations on your accepance to the redneck club.
Now to set things strait. You and your self delusional ideolgy is born from a society that continualy depicts and glorifies humans killing humans and the use of handguns as something cool. Yet is incensed by what most of the world considers just another human part.
The common boob….
boob factoid:
They usulaly develop about the time of puberty and are extreamly useful in feeding small children. In most cases they travel in pairs and can range in size from almost none existant to enormous. The one depicted durring the SB is of average size and apparently has a metal attacment.. thustly not much use for feeding of infants. however infants are atracted to shiny things.
February 3rd, 2004 at 8:59 pm
Congradulations on your accepance to the redneck club.
Now to set things strait. You and your self delusional ideolgy is born from a society that continualy depicts and glorifies humans killing humans and the use of handguns as something cool. Yet is incensed by what most of the world considers just another human part.
The common boob….
boob factoid:
They usulaly develop about the time of puberty and are extreamly useful in feeding small children. In most cases they travel in pairs and can range in size from almost none existant to enormous. The one depicted durring the SB is of average size and apparently has a metal attacment.. thustly not much use for feeding of infants. however infants are atracted to shiny things.
February 4th, 2004 at 12:05 am
Jeez… you guys can’t spell… can’t write your lead-in paragraph without an error… can’t code HTML so it displays properly in a v.6 browser. No wonder you’re having problems finding advertisers.
February 4th, 2004 at 12:21 am
Who cares? The only bad publicity is no publicity! marilou in canada
February 4th, 2004 at 12:29 am
“Redneck club”, “killing Humans”, “Handguns”? I don’t think you scattered this thread enough, you missed several other programmed,off-topic, stereotyped reflexes. You forgot to mention the Pope and the Greenland Ice Cape. But, hey, you’re a rugged individualist who thinks for yourself, right? And besides, in this brave new medium (sic), you’re free to stay off point as long as you stroke your own ________. Did I forget to mention your spelling? Who cares,…after all education is for squares, right? Your “boob factoid” was almost clever, but beside the point. Jackson was there to titillate not to breast feed or do anything else life-affirming. Didn’t any of you pathetic soft porn apologists bother to flunk “Debate” team?…Let me guess, you write for hollywood!
February 4th, 2004 at 12:49 am
If you take the time to read through all of the “No big deal” school and their defense of that position, you find a lot of “deflecton” to other issues. The apparent argument being, “until ‘X’ is straightened out, the MTV-Jackson tit maneuver is to be defended”, etc., blah,blah,blah. Well, sports fans, there’s a lot that could be made better, and then there is the Culture War that is really about trans-generational values. I tuned in to watch the game, NOT to see Jackson’s personal statement on how soooo avante garde (sic) she aspires to be. What she and that other dancing idiot did was off the mark and inappropriate from every point of view except the one that can’t flush this country down the toilet fast enough. What’s worse is the people defending MTV, Jackson, etc. on this and every other site have said more than they would like about the infantile ends the half-educated intellect can be made to defend. Don’t bother to wake up…it will all be over soon enough. Just keep looking in the mirror. You really are soooo clever.
February 4th, 2004 at 2:35 am
let go of my boob no no oooooooooow!
February 4th, 2004 at 5:12 am
In the days where the entire US government’s administration has been caught in outright lies about Iraq and the needless slaughter of thousands of innocent children the best these self-righteous hypocrites can do is be “shocked and awed” by a breast ? Media doing it’s thing.
February 4th, 2004 at 7:56 pm
Not only r u an inglish major but, a prudish lame one at that. Pathetic excuse of a sentient.
February 4th, 2004 at 7:58 pm
Ah, geez! Not another inglish major. Chrisk, i hope ur not a’nuther pathetic prude who’d rather see shreded fetus’ than bare boobs.
February 4th, 2004 at 8:05 pm
Don’t ya no, fines for violating taboos are just another revenue stream for the Sunday collection plate crowd who are tax exempt on one side and tax deductable on the other. Calling them hypocrites derogates the word.
Scam of the ages: old farts, preying on our fear of death and dying, making promises that are emperically unverifiable, encouraging you to believe giving them a lot of money is a good thing, none of which is taxable.
February 4th, 2004 at 8:08 pm
Sunday collection plate crowd, huh?
February 4th, 2004 at 8:11 pm
“…infants are atracted to shiny things”
Heheh…not just infants, I’ll dare say!
February 4th, 2004 at 8:12 pm
nuther prud inglish major, lamer
February 4th, 2004 at 8:15 pm
Yeah! All’a i wann see is the sunday collection plate crowd carrying their signs of shreaded fetus’ in front of women’s clinics. That’s wholesome “chrischin” (for all u inglish majors) fare.
February 4th, 2004 at 8:16 pm
Yeah, go to google and type in “janet jackson.” Enjoy.
February 4th, 2004 at 8:17 pm
Amen!
February 4th, 2004 at 8:18 pm
I’ll bet ur spouse don’t fart either!
February 5th, 2004 at 3:38 am
Or better yet go to the <a href=”http://www.drudgereport.com/mattjj.htm”>Drudge Report.</a>
February 6th, 2004 at 2:46 am
So appropriate it was! A bunch of big boobs on the field, and they all looked better than the one at halftime! Just please stop it from coming to my E-mail. Yuc.
February 20th, 2004 at 9:35 pm
None of you can spell.