Curse Words For Janet Jackson (It's Morford, what do you expect?)

sfgate.com ^ | February 4, 2003 | Mark Morford, San Francisco's prodigal son/daughter

[El Conservador]

Jaws were clenched. Brows were furrowed. Scowls were scowled. Fake sanctimony was hissed. Pasty cellulitic butts were scrunched. This is what happened.

Just last week, well before Janet Jackson reignited her limp career in the most nipple-riffic PR stunt in months, uptight members of Congress from all corners squeezed their narrow ideologies into little fiery balls and decided to berate, as they so often do, radio and TV for being "vile, crude, disgusting, and awful," yo hey pot kettle black. And, lo, lightning did not strike them dead on the spot.

[hobbes1]

....for an afternoon of wholesome macho homoerotic skull-bashing NFL violence and ...Yes, a woman's flesh is unspeakable evil

Well, now the Former Anal Virgin tells us exactly how he sees it....

Football, Large men in tight pants = Turn on. Womans Flesh = Turn Off.

[George W. Bush]

She really has her panties in a bunch over this one.

The usual hate-merchandising from a middle-aged adolescent whose joie de vivre is a lament that others will not embrace his nihilism.

[Cicero]

He's a "dog lover" too? Lock up your pets.

[jjm2111]

He's in rare form today. Forgot his Zoloft perhaps?

[70times7]

ardent dog lover

Dogs beware!

[Quilla]

An ardent dog lover at that ... I better lock up all fifteen.

[swampfox98]

Michael Powell, sanctimonious head of the FCC, he of the flagrant corporate whoring who recently tried to cram through new rules that would've allowed a handful of media giants to own almost every media outlet in the nation, is actually launching a probe into the Janet episode. How cute.

No, its not cute. It is what Powell should do and more power to him. If a Conservative had issued a statement like this one about a son of a black politician, he'd be tarred and feathered by the filthy perverted liberal press. Can you say "racist comments"?

[.cnI redruM]

Morford almost gives me the impression that he wishes children saw pornography more often. He should be strapped in a chair like the guy in A Clockwork Orange and exposed to 100 hours of straight bestiality.

[Made In The USA]

What sad pathetic person Mr. Morford is.

I approach the scandal as such: Watching the football game with my family, which includes very young kids, I see lewd behavior. It is not about my acknowledged right-wing mindset, but rather my wish to raise kids appropriately.

I doubt Mr. Morford will ever have the priviledge of raising a child, and pray that he will find a 'better path to follow' should he.

His ranting is a pathetic retort to what a failure popular entertainment has degraded to. An otherwise outstanding football game becomes a venue for another whacked-out Jackson to illustrate how screwed up they really are.

[johnb838]

Bullcrap. The MTV producer types have no right to come into America's living rooms under false pretenses with a show laden with sexual and S&M references and costumes and crotch-grabbing, and grinding, and simulated sexual violence, and then wind up with a vulgar display of vulgar nudity. If people don't want their kids watching that garbage it is up to them, not to freaks like Morford, thank God. But to pretend that this is a family show and then insert this spew into family prime time television hours is over the top and a blatant attempt to push the envelope of bad taste that is allowed over the airwaves.

Fight the powers. I think people ought to send CBS a message by avoiding the Grammys like a plague this weekend.

[daviddennis]

I think he has a point.

If a kid sees a bare breast, exactly what is wrong with that?

After all, it wasn't long since he fed from one, in many cases.

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[freekitty]

Janet's little stunt was probably also designed to take the camera off her brother, Michael too.

[mabelkitty]

Why are we wasting bandwidth on giving this guy free access to 100,000 pairs of registered eyes?

I don't donate to prop up a freak.

[Humidston]

>>I'll bet that got a five penis rating from you on the ol' Wank-O-Meter©, didn't it Miss Morford?<<

The best. The absolute Best!

[Bluntpoint]

Morford, the voice of the common man:

[johnb838]

It's not the breast, we've long become desensitized to that. It's the one-upmanship of shock TV and its sliming its way into broadcast, family night television, and the most watched show of the year without warning to boot, that is offensive. It is a big fat hairy camels nose (or something else) under the tent, one might say, and must be fought every step of the way. IOW, this has gone quite far enough. I hope another million or so will stop watching network TV, or at least CBS over this. Send a message and don't watch the Grammys.

[johnb838]

It's fun to blast miss morford.

[NYCVirago]

Morford misses the point, as usual. He thinks he's the only one who was offended by the commercials and by the rest of the halftime show, while everybody else is only upset by nipplegate. If he had bothered to read one of the many, many, articles written about this, he'd see that this is not the case.

[bigcheese]

Ah jeez, Ms. Morford... do we need to go through this again?

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[Old Professer]

Other than being a frustrated pay-per-use played-out flaccid fag reduced to ejaculating his aspermatic rage into cold cyberspace while chilling the remains of his refried bean brain with Chateau de Rothschild and dribbling on his oft-stained keyboard, old Morford ain't such a bad guy - he actually nailed a lot of what's wrong with sports-extravagancic excess.

If they ever do a biographic on him, they have to get Robin Williams to play the lead.