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Internal Viacom Memo on Super Bowl Halftime
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| February 03, 2004
| Mel Karmazin, Viacom
Posted on 02/04/2004 1:49:01 PM PST by IonInsights
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To: IronJack
Great parody! BTW, if Viacom were *really* upset about this, and if this were really all Janet's fault, then why not ban her from ever appearing on MTV again? They did that to Andrew Dice Clay, after all.
To: IonInsights
misinformation about what transpired Translation: You only think you know what you saw. Allow us, Viaspinmastercom, to properly interpret what you think your eyes saw.
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posted on
02/04/2004 3:44:26 PM PST
by
Colofornian
(Timberlake & Jackson should have been hogged tied & arrested alongside the streaker)
To: Exit148
The rest of the performance didn't bother them?Every time some pompous public figure claims he was watching with his children and grandchildren and was stunned by the breast explant I am sickened at the idea that they were still watching what was clearly out of line debauchery. MTV is not allowed in our home regardless of age. We don't subscribe to XXX PPV either.
And then I realize that these pompous jackasses weren't really watching that crap with their family; they were really at the local 'gentlemen's club' getting a lap dance from their hooker honey.
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posted on
02/04/2004 3:51:07 PM PST
by
harrowup
(So perfect I'm naturally humble)
To: coloradan
Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation. And thanks for the mammaries.
Well, the Super Bowl was rated tripel X.
See XXX
Joke courtesy of Jay Leno...
To: IonInsights
Viacom, CBS and MTV was shocked and embarrassed about what transpired at the end of our half time performance... Original line deleted after the above: "Well, not really. (I mean we @ Viacom show a lot more porn that what children saw on Showtime every night...it actually takes quite a bit more to shock and titillate us)."
Embarrassed footnote tucked away: "Nobody's ever attempted to previously hold us accountable for what we air...'tis a humbling experience for hundreds of thousands of folks and the FCC to tell us that we are not the gods of the airwaves." Note: CBS' Martin Franks' quote in Tuesday article saying "our air time"--momentarily forgetting, of course, that the air waves belong to the public.
What? MTV folks embarrassed? Why those modest rascals. Here they were shydogs all this while about 'xposin' flesh and I thought otherwise. What say we all write Viacom & MTV a memo apologizin' for jumpin' to conclusions and false assumptions about the emotional make-up of these gatekeepers.
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posted on
02/04/2004 3:54:24 PM PST
by
Colofornian
(Timberlake & Jackson should have been hogged tied & arrested alongside the streaker)
To: IonInsights
Ms. Jackson's...unplanned...display Back-office Viacom discussion that went into this phrase: "Nope. We're just a patsy. In fact, so were the performers. Nobody planned this. It just happened via spontaneous combustion. Yeah, that was it. There was no conspiracy 'tween the J performers. It was...it was...the law of gravity...yeah, an act of God. Seamstress? What seamstress? Choreographer? What choreographer? Why do you need choreography pertaining to a song about a girl gettin' naked?"
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posted on
02/04/2004 4:01:08 PM PST
by
Colofornian
(Timberlake & Jackson should have been hogged tied & arrested alongside the streaker)
To: TommyDale
After reading it again, I am convinced that it is merely a deliberately leaked memo to cover someone's backside It's also a way of letting all employees know what the official story is. They contradict it at their own peril.
To: IonInsights
I have been assured that we would never have allowed the incident to take place had we known in advance. Translation: "We may sink low when we think the watchdogs aren't watchin', but even we aren't so stupid to be stuck with the wrath of the NFL and folks-at-large by giving anyone any official go-ahead.
"Can't say we haven't learned how to wink, nod & turn our head 45 to 90 degrees over the years."
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posted on
02/04/2004 4:08:13 PM PST
by
Colofornian
(Timberlake & Jackson should have been hogged tied & arrested alongside the streaker)
To: IonInsights
we value and take seriously the public trust that is given to us. Ah, yes. That "trust" thing. Time to veto it. We, John Q. Public, own the airwaves. You, Viacom, have flunked in your stewardship of these...License Renewal: Rejected!
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posted on
02/04/2004 4:11:24 PM PST
by
Colofornian
(Timberlake & Jackson should have been hogged tied & arrested alongside the streaker)
To: IonInsights
After the first paragraph the
"adult" voice from the Peanuts animation cartoons starting playing in my head.
50
posted on
02/04/2004 4:11:26 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(John Kerry is nothing more than Ted Kennedy without a dead girl in the car.)
To: gorush
"Thanks for keeping us abreast of the situation." "And thanks for the mammaries."
Udderly sophomoric!
Glad you didn't suck up to them.
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posted on
02/04/2004 4:15:51 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(John Kerry is nothing more than Ted Kennedy without a dead girl in the car.)
To: N. Theknow
After the first paragraph the "adult" voice from the Peanuts animation cartoons starting playing in my head.Phwaaaa Phwaaa --- PhwaPhwa PhwaPhwa Phwaaaa Phwaa
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posted on
02/04/2004 4:24:35 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Peace through Strength)
To: IronJack
To: All Viacom Employees
Cc: Mel Karmazin
From: Justin Timberlake
Date: February 03, 2004
RE: Super Bowl Half Time Show
Don't be so quick to walk away. Dance with me. I wanna rock your body, please stay. Dance with me; you don't have to admit you wanna play. Dance with me. Just let me rock you till the break of day. Dance with me; got time, but I don't mind.
Just wanna rock you girl, I'll have whatever you have. Come on, just give it up girl. See I've been watching you, I like the way you move. So go ahead, girl, just do that ass shaking thing you do.
So you grab your girls and you grab a couple more and you all come meet me in the middle of the floor. Said the air is thick, it's smelling right so you blast to the left and you sail to the right. I don't mean no harm, just wanna rock you girl. Make a move, but be calm; let's go, let's give it up girl. See it appears to me you like the way I move. I'll tell you what I'm gonna do, pull you close and share my groove.
Talk to me boy. No disrespect, I don't mean no harm. Talk to me boy, but I can't wait to have you in my arms. Talk to me boy. Hurry up cause you're taking too long. Talk to me boy, better have you naked by the end of this song. Are you feeling me? Let's do something. Let's make a bet, cause I, gotta have you naked by the end of this song.
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posted on
02/04/2004 4:53:10 PM PST
by
BraveMan
To: harrowup
"
~~~~~ and was stunned by the breast explant~~~~~""Breast explant"??
LOLOL!
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posted on
02/04/2004 5:03:15 PM PST
by
Exit148
To: IonInsights
"It was the breast of times.. It was the worst of times." ... my caption
Mike Shelton - OC Register
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:58:32 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ...... /~normsrevenge - FoR California Propositions/Initiatives info...)
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