BS: Janet Jacksons Breast

Subject: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Raptor
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 02:29 PM

In what was the worst halftime show ever Justin Timberlake exposed Janet's Breast as he sang I'm Gonna have you naked by the end of this song!

Was it planed or not. He claimed it was a wardrobe Failure!

If you don't care please don't post!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Midchuck
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 02:36 PM

I think the Democrats' best chance for the presidency in this year's election is to get Janet Jackson's right breast into the primaries as a candidate.

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Justa Picker
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 02:37 PM

...or Hillary's left.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Kim C
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 02:56 PM

I think it was planned from the start. Why would she have had the nipple jewelry on if she didn't plan on showing it?

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 02:57 PM

I heard about it on the news this morning. I don't watch football, and didn't know who was playing. But who cares? It's just a boob. You see them on tv all of the time, though usually they're completely dressed. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: GUEST,keeping abreast of the issue
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 03:12 PM

keeping abreast of the issue

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 03:14 PM

"But who cares? It's just a boob"

Zactly...

"You see them on tv all of the time, though usually they're completely dressed"

Yer not watching the right channels then!

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 03:33 PM

A tempest in a C-cup.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 03:47 PM

If it wasn't planned, why didn't she smack Timberlake upsida the head when he did it?

Tasteless. Worse, it seems to say that such actions are okay. This has to be some sort of anti-pinnacle.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Raptor
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 03:51 PM

I'm still triing to figger out who thought anyone would want to see Justin Timberlake perform in the first place!

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Benjamin
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 03:54 PM

Now is it just me, or does Janet surprisingly resemble her brother AFTER all of his plastic surgeries?

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 03:59 PM

Hey! OUCH!!!!????

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 04:03 PM

Why can't I stop making up something like

Come watch the show men, gather round
Make up the nachos right!
No matter if the Budweiser fails
We'll have a roaring night!
Here the Superbowl plods along
Here teevee executives woo the throng
While Justin Timberlake sings a song
And shows Janet Jackson's breast!

(tune "Stonewall Jackson's Way")

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 04:20 PM

Two sets of idiots - first Trousersnake himself who (presumably to cover the fact that he sings nearly as badly as I do) groped the best end (and indeed the best singing end) of Kylie Minogue on stage and so no doubt imagined he could get away with anything, and now is so unoriginal as to put JJ in the unenviable position of either seeming complaisant about his assault or smacking him in the mouth and spoiling the song - and second the great American public who howl like the silliest Victorians about seeing a thing all women have two of!

Perhaps he puts on this fake masculinity to cover for his most unmasculine voice.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Pseudolus
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 04:21 PM

Well, the Super Bowl has really just gone the same route as the rest of the entertainment industry. It's all about shock and what can we do that has never been done before. Between reality TV (which is anything BUT real!) and halftime shows and daytime talk shows, I'm pretty tired of TV altogether! By the way, in the middle of the boob exposing and the singing (oh wait, it was Justin Timberlake...sheesh!), and the other feeble attempts at music, a football game broke out, a pretty good one at that, arguable one of the best in Super Bowl history...kinda wonder if anyone noticed...

Frank

P.S. The commercials used to be the best part of the Super Bowl, even they were kinda sad this year....

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Pseudolus
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 04:23 PM

If Janet was in an unenviable position, she put herself there...there's no doubt that she knew what was coming....

just my two cents....
Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Raptor
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 04:28 PM

Don't Blame The Superbowl Blame MTV.They Have Killed Rock And Roll and now they are wreaking pop if that can be done.

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Deckman
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 04:34 PM

Obviously no one found this to be a titallating moment! Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 04:45 PM

Well, I missed the whole "debacle". I was too busy playing with the set that were made available to me at the time.

But I'm as indifferent to this "big deal" as I was when Britney tongue-rassled Madonna a while ago. It's the kind of crap Some celebs do to stay in the (using the term loosely) news.

So I guess I don't care. Sorry for posting, Raptor.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:02 PM

I just think the whole thing is funnier than hell!

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:09 PM

Rapaire, the word you need is "nadir".

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:10 PM

Who is Justin Timberlake? And how come 20 quick posts to this breast thread while my mastitis went almost ignored?

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:12 PM

Maybe because you didn't have a big hunk of shrapnell attached to your nipple, SINS....   ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:13 PM

I didn't ignore it SINS, but I didn't have anything to add that might have helped.

I think Justin Timberlake needs help in relating to women.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:17 PM

all this over a boob...

Last time I checked you could find them on very nearly ALL the women in the world... and on way too many of the men as well!

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 05:41 PM

Tom Shales of the Washington Post reviews it all..

(I watched very little of the game...they were running the movie "Independance Day" opposite...I don't know which was sillier!

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Charley Noble
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:29 PM

Thanks for the link. From where I was watching I wasn't aware that anything unusal was going on.

But the real story was the game. How about them Pats!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble, who only watches one football game a year and this one was well worth it!

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:30 PM

The most horrible thing about this is the bloody little adverts telling me I've won the hourly prize if I ring some number in the middle of nowhere at a premium rate, that pop up when I opened the link and now won't bloody go away!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:36 PM

Whether or not Janet Jackson knew what was coming, am I the only one who thinks it was both tasteless and degrading?

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:39 PM

To be honest, that costume looked like it was just an accident waiting to happen.... who wears titrings like that unless they are actually wanting them to be seen?

Actually, other than S&M practitioners, who wears titrings like that?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 06:44 PM

I'd like to know how she does the Star of Bethlehem trick with her nipple ?

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Ed.
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 07:08 PM

I think it was planned from the start. Why would she have had the nipple jewelry on if she didn't plan on showing it?

Kim C pretty much says it all on that question. Quite why the media (and the public)(and Mudcat) are so bothered about the sight of a woman's breast is another point entirely

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: katlaughing
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 07:18 PM

No kidding. It's just another instance of this society's need to grow up and get over the bullshit puritanism from hundreds of years ago. Our cable company even blocks out breasts when they are supposed to be bared. Gawd forbid anyone might see a woman's breasts. Talk about double standards; half-naked men are a dime a dozen on tv.

I have no opinion on Jackson and what she did or did not plan, but the reaction in this country is just ridiculous!

Topless Wimmin Unite!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Amergin
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 07:35 PM

just a publicity ploy...

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Dharmabum
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 07:53 PM

The evening news reported tonight that CBS was swamped with complaints from irate parents, because their children were subjected to "Brief"nudity, during what was dinner hour for much of the nation.

OK,let me get this straight...........It's ok to watch a bunch of guys slamming into each other,breaking bones & whatnot.....BUT,NO TITTIES ALLOWED!!!!!
OK,I think I got it. Sheesh,there's just so many durned rules to remember!

Actually,I was surfing between the game & Cspan last night.
I just happened to be watching some politicians speechifying when the halftime incident took place.

And to think,I could have had T instead of A !


    DB.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 07:56 PM

While Mister Timberlake has been an aspirant of the Temple's highest virtues for many years, it is important, in the interests of being up front, to emphasize that the Temple never required his support and never provided him any offer of employment. He is not currently enrolled in any of our Sensitive Touch Advanced Spiritual Training, and has not attended any Temple services for a number of years.

Brother Tactile Underwire
Director of Haptic Maneuvers and Sensibilities
Temple of the Golden Globes

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 08:00 PM

I am amazed that nobody from the States has commented so far on Beyoncé's excruciating rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner before the game.

Or has everybody just become blasé after having heard the anthem mangled at every Superbowl ?

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:07 PM

I'm not against displaying bare breasts or unbare breasts. I just don't think that Timberlake should have done what he did -- if JJ wanted 'em bared, she should have bared 'em. Could have been VERY erotic. Instead we get tacky tasteless sado-degradation.

I understand that the football game was really pretty good.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:14 PM

Sorry Murray, most people agree that Beyonce did a stunning rendition of the anthem.

As much as I have no problem with nudity and free speech, it was a rather inappropriate act.

I can tell you with that MTV had nothing to do with Janet Jackson revealing her breast. My statement is based on more than my opinion.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Amos
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:23 PM

Sins:

In your thread, you didn't provide real time images such as those associated with the Drudge report on Ms Jackson's breast. Taunting Kendall just isn't the same thing!! :>)

I would say that is a significant degree of difference, at a very primtive and crude level.

Only mentioned because you asked...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:31 PM

So, was a male entertainer doing some bodice ripping to expose a female entertainer's breast more or less tasteless than the dry humping dance routines? Or more or less tasteless than the dancers e doing a synchronized bodice ripping routine, dressed as cheerleaders (two, three, four)? Or was it more less tasteless than the horse farting in a woman's face in the beer commercial?

Then there is that winning spirit, the Pats victory riot in Boston, which not only included hours of intense, violent rioting, but also resulted in one death when a drunk SUV driver backed into the crowd?

Hey--Superbowl Sunday is the essence of Republican American Values (tm) at work!

Anyone remember Hunter Thompson's writing about Nixon, the Redskins, and the ritualistic, orgiastic aspects of Superbowl Sunday?

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:39 PM

Considering the beer was Budweiser, a horse fart does seem appropriate.

I have only watched one Super Bowl in my lifetime. I find football to be very boring, and the fact that Super Bowl Sunday has become an unofficial national holiday is yet another way that corporate America has sucked in the public.   

I love the irony that most American "sports" fans continually knock soccer because of all the supposed fan violence, yet the violence and deaths that occured last night are ignored, or perhaps they have been obscured by Janet Jackson's boob.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:46 PM

It has been rumored in certain circles that George W Bush once attended a Superbowl party hosted by Thompson, back in his cocaine days.

Talk about Freak Power.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: open mike
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 09:58 PM

the part that pisses me off the most is that Move On lobbied to no avail to have their prize-winning ad viewed during the event. It would have led to some sensible controversy, as opposed to the senseless babble inspired by the actual goings-on.see move on web site for more info
One Thing That Won't Be Tackled on Sunday: Issues
By Eli Pariser
Campaigns Director, MoveOn.org Voter Fund
http://www.moveon.org/r?484


When the Super Bowl is beamed into living rooms around the world Sunday, you can expect to see TV spots hyping cars, beer, razor blades, three different erectile dysfunction cures, toilet paper and snack foods.


The ads will be slick and clever, lavishly produced, brilliant in their marketing. Some, no doubt, will be sexually suggestive or violent. Most will cost $2 million to $3 million to produce and broadcast.

But here's what you won't see: a single ad about the big issues that face our country today.
Outrageous as it may sound, CBS has decided that ads selling erectile dysfunction medicines and toilet paper are appropriate for Americans, but serious discussion should be banned. An ad about our country, our war, our president, the state of our schools or the size of our budget deficit? That, in the eyes of CBS officialdom, would be too controversial.
We know, because we tried. We thought that the Super Bowl, with 130 million viewers, would be a great place to get our message out. So we held a contest on the Internet to select the best ad we could possibly run. The ad we selected — from 1,500 submissions — shows children cleaning offices, washing dishes and hauling trash. It ends with the question: "Guess who's going to pay off President Bush's $1-trillion deficit?" (It's viewable at http://www.MoveOn.org ).
But even though we were willing to pony up the $1.6 million to pay for it, CBS refused to sell us the time, citing what it says is a 50-year-old policy prohibiting ads that take stands on controversial public policy issues.
CBS claims its policy is designed to keep the Citibanks and Microsofts of the world from buying time to tell Americans how to think. "It is designed to prevent those with means to produce and purchase network advertising from having undue influence on 'controversial issues of public importance,' " the network said this week.
Sounds fair, doesn't it? But what it really means is that if McDonald's buys an ad promoting its tasty Big Mac, no one can run an ad that says Big Macs are full of fat and unhealthful. Pfizer can run a spot saying it's "helping people in need" get medicine, but we can't air an ad saying that Pfizer lobbied to weaken the new Medicare bill to prop up drug prices. Halliburton has slick ads that stress its role supporting the troops in Iraq. But CBS would reject an ad that pointed to Halliburton's profiteering.
The fewer issue ads run, the more time there is for ads with mud-wrestling women selling beer and leggy models peddling fast cars. CBS execs think Americans love mindless consumerism more than anything else and that it's their duty to pander to this.
But with "fairness" doctrines no longer governing the airwaves and the media more concentrated each day, it's getting harder and harder to engage regular people in political discourse. Even the town square has been replaced, in most communities, by private malls, where politics is not encouraged.
Instead of taking every opportunity to promote civic discussion, commercial broadcasters like CBS shrink away. The airwaves are, more than ever, private enterprises. And for that we pay a price: As public political speech becomes more difficult and infrequent, the public becomes less engaged in the policies, processes and laws that govern us.
"Controversy" isn't the real problem. Network front offices love it when one group or another protests sexy babes in bikinis peddling beer brands, or violent video games in which the highest body count wins. That builds buzz.
The CBS policy represents the triumph of corporate self-interest over the public interest. This is the same CBS, after all, that yanked the Ronald Reagan miniseries recently when Republican bigwigs complained. As Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) noted this week, "These are the same executives at CBS who successfully lobbied this Congress to change the FCC rules on TV station ownership to their corporate advantage." CBS simply would rather not risk offending powerful people in Washington who decide such critical regulatory matters.
But try getting that issue into a 30-second spot for Super Bowl audiences

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 10:09 PM

Or how about the irony of the Dubya White House sponsoring anti-drug ads?

Just say no to fear and loathing on the campaign trail?

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 10:12 PM

Sorry, but I still disagree Openmike.   Since you seem to have watched the Super Bowl as you mentioned the spots they aired, why wouldn't you have boycotted the game if you felt that strongly about moveon's spot not being allowed on?

As good as moveon's spot may be, it doesn't belong on the Super Bowl. The letter you copied makes some good points about the unhealthy product that sells, but if CBS changed it's policy it would open up to every group, right and left, with an issue that they feel is important. This is a network, and believe it or not, it has nothing to do with the right to free speech.

I did not watch the game, not because I was supporting Moveon (although I like their work), but because I don't care for football and all the hype. I'm sure the ads were crap last night. What did anyone expect? However, no one should have the right to tell someone else how to do their business. Even if it is a corporation like Viacom.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 10:18 PM

If the Conservative Broadcasting System was so concerned about not airing advocacy commercials about political issues, then why did it accept and run the Dubya White House anti-drug ad?

I pray the American voters will do to the Bush White House what Frodo did to Mordor.

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 10:30 PM

You have a good point guest. I guess the arguement would be, who is pro-drug abuse?

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: open mike
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 10:57 PM

no i did not watch the stupid bowl--never have--always consider it a
day to take a hike or enjoy nature as those who are ususally busy
spoiling it are at home keeping the woods safe for nature lovers..

Subject: RE: BS: Janet Jacksons Breast
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 11:03 PM

We thought we'd be really smart one year, when the Dallas Cowboys were playing in the SuperBowl. We'd go to the mall instead and have the whole place to ourselves. Idiotic Texans, they actually closed the malls on that Superbowl Sunday. What a disappointment that was!

SRS