THIS WASN'T A BLINDSIDE TACKLE, FANS

New York Post ^ | 2/03/04 | PHIL MUSHNICK

[kattracks]

February 3, 2004 -- EVERYONE'S disgusted by Sunday's halftime? They're sickened by the latest pop- cultural national TV ambush? Enough is enough? If that's the case, then a good on ya, both, Janet and Justin! You've accomplished, in a matter of seconds, what proponents of common sense and common decency have failed to do in years of trying.

[johnmorris886]

Then there are those who will rationalize Sunday's halftime with their smug responses, including, "If you don't like it, turn it off - no one's holding a gun to anyone's head," and, "It's up to parents to monitor what their kids watch."

--'If it offends you, don't buy it' -- is both lulling and destructive. Whether you buy it or not, you will be greatly affected by those who do. The aesthetic and moral environment in which you and your family live will be coarsened and degraded. Economists call the effects an activity has on others 'externalities'; why so many of them do not understand the externalities here is a mystery. They understand quite well that a person who decides not to run a smelter will nevertheless be seriously affected if someone else runs one nearby. Robert Bork

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite he placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot he free. Their passions forge their fetters.— Edmund Burke

Liberty, such as deserves the name, is an honest, equitable, diffusive and impartial principle. It is a great and enlarged virtue, and not a sordid, selfish, and illiberal vice. It is the portion of the mass of the citizens, and not the haughty licence of some potent individual or some predominant faction.— Edmund Burke

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

"Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not only of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments and in all the combinations of human society." John Adams

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom." Patrick Henry

[Salman]

FCC chair Michael Powell is outraged? Where's he been?

I believe Michael Powell is outraged at having to enforce the regulations this time.

[Elle Bee]

The following are Viacom owned companies. A conservative parent's worst nightmare.

Remember Simon & Schuster who paid Hillary $8 million for her book & CBS did that lovely hatchet job on President Reagan with Mr. Streisand.

It all makes sense.

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[NYCVirago]

EVERYONE'S disgusted by Sunday's halftime? They're sickened by the latest pop- cultural national TV ambush? Enough is enough? If that's the case, then a good on ya, both, Janet and Justin! You've accomplished, in a matter of seconds, what proponents of common sense and common decency have failed to do in years of trying.

Phil Mushnick, to his credit has been ringing the alarm bell for years about all the trash on TV.

[driftless]

Like the other two networks, it's all about cash. They'd show real, bloody, gladiatorial contests and nude-lesbian mud-wrestling if they could get away with it.

[Dante3]

It is far more than about making money. CBS has an agenda. An accurate film on Reagan would have been far more profitable. CBS also presented a Michael Jackson special after the latest charges. CBS' license should be revoked.

[Houmatt]

ping to post #2

[Bluntpoint]

We need to boycot all nipples.

[Ladysmith]

Excellent quotes. Thank you.

[Northern Yankee]

Give me a flyover of Air Force or Navy jets anytime. It sure beats the heck out of any halftime show the NFL could conjure up!

Of course doing a flyover in a Dome could make it a little tricky for these pilots, but boy wouldn't that be a show!

Maybe they could just strafe the halftime events. *Grins*

[Paul_B]

Perhaps Mushnick's best column. Good needs to come out of this or we've merely lowered the bar for further depredations. At the least, maximum fines and CBS and MTV lose their signal for one day. I have in mind the last Sunday in Feb.

[ClintonBeGone]

Nice quotes. Where in there do these fine men say 'go run to your nanny government and have it do the job you've so failed as a husband to your wife and father to your sons and daughters. Let it put the food on your table, butter your bread, discipline your kids, instill a respect for some type of Deity. What an effeminate and sissified group of men we see in society today. I'm glad I'm not from that generation.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[maggief]

"Had he not seen any of the hundreds of vulgar and violent commercials and network promos that have been so purposefully inserted into all sports telecasts?"

I agree. It's difficult for the family to watch any NFL game on a Sunday afternoon. The games are littered with sleazy promos of shows that are banned in our home.

[peteram]

Upset enough to, say, present a good, old-fashioned, footballesque marching band during next year's halftime? Come to think of it, why not hold a yearlong competition to determine the best two and let 'em go at halftime?

Great Idea!!!

[peteram]

Allow me to expand my thoughts on my post (#16) regarding marching bands. We, the viewing public pays people like Timberlake, Jackson, P.Doofus, and the rest to do what they did. We pay them by buying the products that are advertised (for millions a pop) during the game. That money then goes to these performers.

The marching band idea is a good one because it would give our youngsters something postitive to work towards. They would learn their musical intrument better and learn to work as a team (the band) as well, as they practice all year to compete for a slot on the world's most watched telecast. This is certainly more positive than having some big-ego, self absorbed, narcissic celebrity ripping their clothes off on national TV.

[Doc Savage]

The only good flyover would be a strafing and bombing run of the halftime show. Imagine how "clean" and "refreshed" we would have felt Monday morning knowing that the Air Force "took out the trash!"

[KarlInOhio]

They'd show real, bloody, gladiatorial contests and nude-lesbian mud-wrestling if they could get away with it.

Speaking of that, how did the lingerie bowl go on Sunday?

[flashbunny]

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