Rush Is Right: Did You Expect Better From this Culture? [Rush on last nite's Super Bowl]

Rush Limbaugh ^ | 2/1/2003 | Rush Limbaugh

[RJayneJ]

I think it would have been a little more 'titillating' if it had popped out on it's own, It looked stupid and clumsy the way they freed that puppy.

[Lijahsbubbe]

I hear what you're saying, but I think it was a big deal, and it crossed another boundary.

I think we've become so morally decayed that alot of conservatives cannot even justify their outrage, unless we say it's bad for the children to see.

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, children or no children, it's bad, and now is the time to gather collective anger and make ourselves heard, no matter how much we've let slide in the past.

[muawiyah]

Certainly all of us remember Soupy Sales, and who was that guy who used to get soused every afternoon on Mogen David Wine?

Benny Hill (as seen here on late-night reruns) frequently crossed the line because he always acted as if it were live or on stage!

BTW, my grandfather was one of the first guys in America to have a television, and he lived in a city with 2 of the very first channels. We used to go visit on Sunday afternoons simply because television would be "on"!

[Gordian Blade]

I keep reading this stuff and getting more and more amazed. I watched the whole game and I didn't see - or at least remember - any commercials or the half-time show. Why? I was doing other stuff and was only paying attention when the game was actually going on. It was really a pretty good game, but who is talking about it? It's like I was in a parallel universe while everyone else was watching a different SuperBowl!

[new cruelty]

It was a pretty good game. The last minutes of the 2nd and 4th quarters in particular.

[SerpentDove]

I know Rush sometimes highlights absurdity by being absurd, but he seemed to be ridiculing people who were rightly outraged.

He seemed to be saying that we all live in a sewer anyway, so we should just sit back and live in the filth without whining. Maybe some people live in the toilet and think it's no big deal, but others value family time in front of the TV during the Superbowl. It is a tradition with some families, and to suggest that outrage is uncalled for is beyond ridiculous.

Well, fortunately, a very huge number of people were properly outraged and went into action. Our local news broke in an said the phone lines were burning up at the local CBS affiliate, and it had all been hostile feedback to this garbage that was intentionally thrown in the faces of the Superbowl audience.

It was an intentional, stealth maneuver, and now it is compounded by intelligence-insulting lies.

Sorry, the proper response to the outrageous is to be outraged.

I rarely disagree with Rush, but I think he really missed the mark on this one. But admittedly, maybe I just misunderstood what he was trying to say. I hope so.

[Khurkris]

Rush is spot on with his views. As usual.
My neighbor paid $19.95 for the 'Lingerie Bowl'. It was over in time for him to switch back to 1/2 time and catch the 'wardrobe failure.' He said the lingerie bowl was classier than SB 1/2 time. I guess I agree, 1/2 time sucked.

[I still care]

I don't think his point was it wasn't a big deal -he was being sarcastic.

What I got from what he said was that we shouldn't be surprised. This has been going on more and more blatently, and nobody seemed to notice or care - and suddenly it pops up on a family show and everyone is horrified.

Society is getting more and more tacky and crass and it seems nobody has really been noticing, and suddenly Janet exposes her breast on TV and where has everyone been the last few years?

The commercials were disgusting and juvenile, the half time show decadent, and this is where we are as a culture - how many parents let their kids watch MTV where this sludge is pumped out 24 hours a day and they don't KNOW what is happening?

It's like the dog has been making in the porch and nobody ever noticed, and suddenly it made in the living room in front of company and it got stepped in. And people suddenly start screaming at the dog like they never knew it was making in the house.

[tcuoohjohn]

Well...I suspect that the heavens won't fall and the Republic won't crumble over the issue of a breast.

It's also rather amusing that various talk show tub thumpers are using this issue for the same purposes as Jackson and Timberlake. Ratings boosts. I had to laugh watching Joe Scarborough's show this evening in which he railed at length about the boob issue but never failed to have a continuous film loop of the "breast event" playing. As Scarborough talked the camera would go full screen at the critical moment and a very thin digital mask was used to obscure the offending mammary. I would guess that boob boo-boo was shown some 30 times on Scarborough's show. Such creative outrage is amusing and rather ironic.

[LWalk18]

I agree with Rush...why would you let your kids watch any of the halftime show once you saw how it was going? It did not suddenly get raunchy- Nelly rapped his segment while grabbing his privates, the whole dance with Janet and Justin was rauchy, not just the final seconds. If you had children watching, you saw all of that bumping and grinding for ten minutes, plenty of time to change the channel. I think Rush is pointing out why did it take Janet's naked breast to stimulate controversy- if she had not it would all been taken as a matter of course.

[savedbygrace]

The McDonalds spot showed a guy eating his McD food while watching the game and his wife reminds him he was supposed to put the wash in the dryer.

As he does that, distracted by the game, he inadvertently puts the McD wrapper in the dryer with the cloths.

Cut to the man coming into the kitchen where his wife is washing the dishes or something. He catches a whiff of McDs on his wife's blouse. He starts to get romantic.

Then they both get romantic, right in the kitchen.

[willieroe]

Our local news broke in an said the phone lines were burning up at the local CBS affiliate, and it had all been hostile feedback to this garbage that was intentionally thrown in the faces of the Superbowl audience.

Really? My local CBS affiliate news (Memphis) is gloating over the episode, and the station management hasn't apologized publicly for their network's feed.

[SerpentDove]

I agree that that is probably the point Rush was trying to make...but it seems to me he could have articulated his point much better. Very poor communications from El Rushbo IMHO.

MANY people, including me and most likely millions of Super Bowl viewers, do not subject ourselves to the garbage on cable TV, by choice. And we have every right to be shocked and outraged by what we saw broadcast that night.

[judgeandjury]

I mean, we've had Britney kissing Madonna, this is nothing.

Britney kissing Madonna rated a zero in my book. In many cultures around the world, not only is it common for women to kiss each other on the lips (and I'm not talking about homosexual women) but it is also common for men to kiss on the lips. But here in the U.S. we make such a big deal out of it. Gee, Britney's and Madonna's lips touched for a whole second. Yawn.

[LWalk18]

Hey...how many people saw "The Kiss" on MTV Music Awards versus on all the news shows in the days afterwards, all while the media feigned "outrage". Janet's cheap publicity stunt doesn't deserve all of this free attention.

[SerpentDove]

>>I agree with Rush...why would you let your kids watch any of the halftime show once you saw how it was going?<<

I wasn't watching it with children.

Do I have to be watching it with children to be disgusted and appalled?

[Born Conservative]

[Happy2BMe]

If you want to see it . . .

What America Has Become

[SerpentDove]

For whatever reason, maybe because it's a conservative area, our local news is pretty conservative. At least for the most part.

[Scenic Sounds]

Rush is right about all this - our media culture is sinking by the day. It's like our media is being operated by a bunch of drug addicts now. ;-)