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Subject: Re: Hypocrisy and right-wing politics fuel furor over Super Bowl
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one day
when babies suck their mothers nipples
they will be sentenced to death
for sexual harrassment
CBS broadcasts live
as they fry the little pooper
but before...
"this is brought to you by the coke company"
Sorrano K. Lovelace wrote:
> Hypocrisy and right-wing politics fuel furor over Super Bowl episode
>
> and hypocritical outpouring of official moral outrage in the US. It has
> given rise to demands for further censoring the television airwaves and
> provided yet another opportunity for whipping up the Christian
>
> The guardians of American decency are up in arms, including National
> Football League (NFL) commissioner Paul Tagliabue, Federal
> Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell, the religious
> right, the Wall Street Journal editorial page and executives from
> corporate giants PepsiCo, America Online and CBS.
>
> Tagliabue, who presides over a multi-billion dollar sport-business that
> more and more seems to recapture the spirit of Roman gladiatorial
> inappropriate and embarrassing to us and our fans. We will change our
> policy, our people and our processes for managing the halftime
> posed on the sidelines for photographs with former president George Bush.
>
> FCC chairman and an advocate of even more concentrated corporate
> my family and I gathered around the television for a celebration.
> Instead, that celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and
> FCC could fine CBS and its approximately 200 affiliates $27,500 per
> station.
>
> even more encouraging to see moms and dads rise up in defense of their
> the usual character of such stage-managed affairs. Extreme right web
> sites and radio talk-show hosts call on their readers and listeners to
> bombard the corporation or government body in question with protests and
>
> sex-obsessed that it raises questions all on its own. In a handful of
> paragraphs, the Journal editors refer with apparently considerable
> on the Viacom entertainment conglomerate (owner of CBS) to rein in its
>
> Executives at soft-drink manufacturer PepsiCo, who buy millions of
> dollars of advertising during the football championship game (this year
> such advertising cost $76,666 a second), are threatening to pull out of
> be no repetition of the Jackson incident. PepsiCo spokesman Mark Dollins
>
> America Online (AOL) is demanding a $7.5 million refund from Viacom
> after announcing plans to cancel its on-demand streaming of the halftime
> surprised and disappointed with certain elements of the show. In
> deference to our membership and fans, AOL and AOL.com will not be
>
> CBS chief Leslie Moonves, last seen in public suppressing the
> unflattering mini-series portrait of former president Ronald Reagan in
> to offer my personal assurances that we are looking into this matter and
>
> One might be forgiven in the face of this moral effluvia for thinking
> that something quite atrocious had occurred on national television. In
> even on American television.
>
> No doubt the Jackson-Justin Timberlake number was tasteless, as was the
> entire Super Bowl program, as it has been every year. Interestingly,
> neither the Journal nor the Christian fundamentalists criticized the
> halftime performance by the talentless rapper Kid Rock, an avowed
> American flag, flanked by a pair of shapely women gyrating in
>
> Nor did they make mention of the patriotic display during the singing of
> were asked to hold up placards of the American flag. Another highlight
> of the pre-game show was the planting of a US flag on a mock moon surface.
>
> The drawing back in horror at the appearance of a naked breast is
> particularly hypocritical and odious. American professional football is
> increasingly violent, played at many positions by almost freakish human
> violence continues off the field. Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play
> in the NFL (1998) alleged that one in five NFL players during the
> 1996-97 season had been charged with a serious crime at one time or
> another.
>
> (In more general terms, the National Coalition on Television Violence
> estimates that American children witness 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts
> of violence on television by the time they finish elementary school.)
>
> The ritualized violence in pro football is accompanied by fetishized
> sexuality. Scantily-clad cheerleaders are a fixture at NFL games. Ian
> spent the postseason blitzing viewers with yet another mindless
> commercial featuring buxom barmaids and cheerleaders, an ad hardening
> testosterone-crazed football culture are to be seen exclusively as
>
> The entire professional football experience in the US is increasingly
> with distracting a discontented and alienated population, providing it
> with vicarious thrills and encouraging its very worst instincts.
>
> The general political and social context in which the breast-baring
> episode takes place makes it all the more obscene. Outraged by Janet
> corporate criminals with the closest connections to the Bush
> administration, and the launching of a war in Iraq, which has already
> killed and maimed tens of thousands, on the basis of outright lies.
> There is something extraordinarily sick about this state of affairs.
>
> The outcome of the Super Bowl incident will no doubt be even greater
> pressure on the television networks to avoid controversy, produce bland
>
> CBS executives have already promised that there will be no repeat of the
> Jackson unveiling or any other untoward occurrence at the Grammy Awards
> February 8. The network has long used a five-second delay to cut audio
> technology making possible split-second video editing. This creates the
> possibility of entirely eliminating unwanted interventions of all types
>
> CBS and the other television networks are being called to order at a
> time of increasing political volatility and flux. The FCC investigation
> of the Super Bowl stunt will no doubt provide a new forum in which to
> discipline and intimidate the entertainment industry. For the Bush
> administration and the extreme right, the supposed need to protect the
> useful pretexts for the generalized assault on free speech and
> democratic rights.
>
> It is worth noting that CBS, in a direct violation of democratic rights,
> refused to air a 30-second spot during the Super Bowl from the liberal
> policies, on the grounds that it rejects all such controversial
> advertising. Viacom, a private corporation, thereby determined what
> millions of Americans could or could not see.
>
> http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/feb2004/bowl-f05.shtml
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