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I'm tired of people saying "everybody is fixated" on the "one" incident.

We're not. The whole thing was sleazy and you'd have been hearing about it except the final act was indeed the transcendent moment of sleaze.

Believe me, I was not surprised to hear about Michael Jackson, who years and years ago did a SuperBowl halftime show and I watched aghast as he did the crotch-grabbing (it was a brand new public display that since has been copied ad nauseum) while surrounded by little kids on the stage. A few years later when the first allegations arose I had to wonder who could be surprised?

Just because the focus is on the one, doesn't mean the rest is being disregarded, nor should this act be ignored and the rest focused on.

And while I'm on the subject, and before I move on, I heard MSNBC replay Katie Couric from this morning. While she didn't like it, she pointed out that MTV and other award shows have had these performers parading their breasts darn near naked for awhile. She and others (though she agreed this was not right) miss that it wasn't just revealing, it was the entire act, as you point out, plus the act of Timberlake aggressively exposing her. It's all context and the big picture and the where it was performed. And now they lie about it and won't even own up to their clever little plan to "shock" the nation.

I heard Katie's clip on Laura Ingrahm this morning and read Howie Dean's comments on this scandal.

Both Katie and Howard seem to dismiss this outrage when one considers just what can be seem flipping around the dial on cable. They live in their ivory towers and don't consider that some of us out here in flyover country deliberately don't subscribe to cable (which would fund such programming from our subscription fees even if we didn't watch it).

The FCC regulates air broadcasters in ways the cable industry is not regulated. HBO shows full frontal nudity these days (their "Real Sex" program has shown she-males and a whole lot of disgusting stuff). Would that be acceptable on a network broadcast of "the big game"?