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Since everyone is talking about her boob in that halftime of that thing with the people doing whatever they do with that ball, I couldn't help but say:

Only in America.

Only in America would it be the outrage that it is today. I doubt in Sweden it would've been seen as more than tacky, certainly not the big drama that is unfolding here now with NFL, CBS, MTV and everyone else claiming they knew nothing and it was an accident and her wardrobe was faulty and they sincerely apologize and it was a mistake and it will never happen again and won't someone PLEASE think of the children!

Seriously, it's a boob. Move right along, nothing to see here. It's tacky, not shocking nor outrageous. It did not corrupt your children. It did not lead to our collective morals decaying. It is not the end of the civilized world as we know it.

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  • In Thailand they might have jailed someone, but on the street Ms. Jackson would be too old to be given a second look.

    In Singapore someone would have been cained, I suspect.
  • The ones that I read that make the best point aren't the fact that all the "poor children" are being shown a mammary gland so much as that MTV thinks so little of the superbowl viewing public that the only way to be "shocking" is to rip off part of a bra.

    Frankly, with the lead up bumping and grinding before that it was probably anti-climactic. (Personally, I was surfing and only checking in on the game occasionally, usually just in time to see the Pats screw up one drive or another much to my chagrin...)

    • But that's the MTV M.O. Shock the conservative crowd into a hysterical panic so that kids will rebel against that and watch the shows. It's just tacky, and it's only designed to really offend a certain crowd. MTV would never actually start to show nakedness on their daily shows, that'd cost them viewers. But a stunt like this means that kids will have an excuse to rebel against what the kids percieve to be the system/establishment/man/old world/whatever-kids-nowadays-rebel-against and watch the openminded M

      • What they pass off as normal programming on MTV is about as close to showing nakedness and skeeve as you can get. Yeah, they wanted to shock everyone at the superbowl, but that's no suprise. When you invite an outlet for garbage like MTV to the (arguably) most watched event in the US, you have to expect they're going to do something to stir it up.

        Networks like MTV and Disney promote mediocrity and acceptance of everything... accepting everything isn't open-minded, it's no-minded.
  • Last night was the first time I listened to the Drudge Report radio broadcast, and he dedicated the entire show to this "incident". Only one or two callers didn't see anything wrong it, everyone else seems to think their children will be permanently scarred by this. Sure...
  • If you saw it, she had a sort of metallic nipple-cover thing pasted on. Why bother to do that if it wasn't to be deliberately revealed? The whole thing was a staged MTV publicity stunt, and rather than saying "hey, that's rock'n'roll" MTV are cowering like the collective bizatches that they are, saying it's "regrettable".
  • ...the evening news on the state channel ARD (which is usually rather dreary and boring) showed the "incident" in slow motion, and the reporters highly amused themselves at the reaction 'over there'.

    By contrast, in Germany they routinely show breasts in TV and print ads and so on, and no one cares. For that matter, there was a rather funny ad campaign for a plumber in Lower Saxony, where a rather shapely female butt was shown, with a radiator Photoshopped in and sticking out from between the cheeks, with

    • ...the evening news on the state channel ARD (which is usually rather dreary and boring) showed the "incident" in slow motion, and the reporters highly amused themselves at the reaction 'over there'.

      Well, I can understand some objection: I don't normally expect sporting events to feature nudity, unless it's mud-wrestling ;-)

      By contrast, in Germany they routinely show breasts in TV and print ads and so on, and no one cares.

      I've certainly seen some in the US as well, albeit more segregated; Hustler and

      • I don't normally expect sporting events to feature nudity, unless it's mud-wrestling ;-)

        Spoilsport. ;-)

        Could make the sport rather more interesting, I say. Nude cheerleaders!

        Hustler and Penthouse don't seem to require their models to wear abayas, anyway...

        How about burqas? Would make for an interesting porn mag...

        On the plus side, at least we aren't stuck with the ridiculous rules about green blood.

        I always joked that it was rather offensive to Vulcans. ;->

        Nor governments attempting to

      • I don't normally expect sporting events to feature nudity, unless it's mud-wrestling ;-)

        I guess you've never seen women's water polo. Suits get ripped off quite often.

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