And watching cartoons will make me an Olympic wrestler
This post was published 2 years 8 months 17 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.People complaining about the Super Bowl halftime show? Where do these people come from? Underneath powerlines while sitting back drinking anti-freeze? Come on! Check out the Smoking Gun which reports on a growing number of individuals unhappy with the Super Bowl halftime show.
This year’s Super Bowl telecast generated about 150 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, with the bulk of the beefs centering on Prince’s halftime performance and a Snickers commercial. As seen in the letters on the following pages, many correspondents were upset because they believed that the rock star was manipulating his guitar as if it were a penis. As one viewer noted in an e-mail, the “pro-homosexual theme” of this year’s event, telecast on CBS, was “disgraceful.” The writer added that “just because 6% of the population is gay,” porn did not need to be included in the broadcast. Another purportedly offended viewer was concerned that the halftime show would have an unfortunate lasting effect on his son, who “hoped to be a quarterback and now he will turn out gay.
Does anyone else scratch their heads in disbelief reading stories like this? A whole slew of complaints aimed at CBS for airing certain commercials which purportedly altered or have the power of changing an individuals direction in life.
I certainly don’t scratch my head. It is always safe to assume that there will be complaints about the decency of everything. If TV were reduced to still shots of Apples and someone showed a Pear, someone from the right would believe the Pear to be pornographic and start to fume.
Phantomdata–
well, as everybody knows, a pear is just an apple with a banana in its pocket.
And a peach is just an apple showing its asscrack.
Pear porn.
“the rock star was manipulating his guitar as if it were a penis”
That makes me laugh, you know, cause only gay men have penis’.
Prince is a legend, I personally don’t like “American rules football” (i’m still upset about “soccer” still not being called football here, but I digress) but I did tuned in to watch prince tear it up at the half. They should be DAMN happy that his purple-ness rocked their tv. I think it is slowly becoming the nation’s new pass time to complain about what’s on tv. Just turn it off.
Ha, some of these are jokes, I’m sure. The one about the kid turning out gay also includes the line “I am actually considering to check him for HIV.”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=F8LDsluYPK0
Is this from the same nation that allows rappers like Snoop Dogg or Akon to exist?
“I wanna ‘love’ you, you already know”. Get your priorities sorted. A phallic symbol is fun, and anything BUT gay. Most skylines are full of phallic symbols.
Pear Porn: http://itp.nyu.edu/~cf831/commlab/images/agescheidt_pear.jpg
Americans are funny (having said that, I was with hundreds of Americans for a year, and they were all completely sane… but I certainly have experienced some of that BS going on surrounding so called “bad influences”)
Ugh, cant we all just get a dong.. er..along..