[Judith Anne]

MTV's statement is about as believable as "my dog ate my homework." I think they're revelling in the outrage of middle Americans and patting themselves on the back for all the free publicity.

I think they're putrid. I feel sorry for any little girl or boy who thinks Jackson and Timberlake are cool...

An America where this could happen is not the America I grew up in, this "freedom" is not the freedom that our soldiers fought and died for, and I am outraged that this made it onto television with 133,000,000 watchers.

Janet Jackson's behavior and Justin Timberlake's behavior are indefensible. Not because of the sight of a breast, not because of a cheap publicity stunt, but because this belongs in a strip joint, NOT on broadcast television in the half-time show of a major football game. It was inappropriate and planned, OBVIOUSLY. One more reason to never watch the alphabet networks, as if I needed one.

[Publius6961]

I think they're revelling in the outrage of middle Americans and patting themselves on the back for all the free publicity.

Ha ha?
What "free" publicity?

I was watching a recorded movie when I wondered what was happening in the superbowl. After a couple of minutes of what seemed unrehearsed chaos, a frenzy of mindless jabbering and still no hint of what the halftime score was, the image of a Michael Jackson wannabe pose in a cage was all it took for me to say "I'm outta here" and went back to my movie.

I missed the planned "shock value". Darn.

[EggsAckley]

I'm late to this party, but I had to tell you that I COULDN'T AGREE with you MORE. Well said.