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You simply ask, "Why do we care about a womans breast?" How foolish.

"The issue isn't nudity but the implicit endorsement of acting out male fantasies of violent and invasive non-consensual sexual behavior. Never mind the message it sends to international audiences--say young, angry Muslims, to pick a random example, who may have been wondering whether America really is immoral." He added that this year's game was telecast to 229 countries and territories, including China for the first time."

The total tonage of ignorance of some is always a curiosity.

It's not about a woman's breast and I don't buy the 'glorify rape' overreaction.

It's about something completely crass and tasteless where it simply doesn't belong. The show was bad, it was oversexed, there were nasty dancers in nasty little outfits, and it culminated with a completely idiotic stunt of a gratuitous titty flash in the middle of 'family hour.' If that's what you bought a ticket or tuned in for...fine.

There we get to the crux of the matter. If people want tasteless TV and bare breasts, they have numerous channels on cable and satellite to slake their thirsts or not watch and block the channels out from their kids, etc. But the control is there - to see or not, to make sure the kids don't see...or not. The content is in their control.

An audience of moms, dads, and kids going to the game or watching together with a barbecue or chili cook out don't have that control. They watch the game - that's what they're there for in the stadium or in front of the tube, and they endure the commercials for the game, and sit through a half-time show for the game. Once upon a time, half time shows were marching bands, a hall of fame presentation, something mildly entertaining and innocuous - filler until the 3rd quarter.

This time, an audience was bombarded with a show out of control. Want to watch the game - have to stay in the stadium or stay glued to CBS, it's counting down to kick-off. Hello breasts.

That's where the outrage stems - if MTV/CBS wanted to launch a R or X rated music performance channel, fine, people would know what to expect when they tune in and it would be their choice. But for the halftime of a football game? People did not choose the sex-you-up strip-off.

An entire worldwide audience was treated to something they could not control....in a culture giving every sign that it is out of control.

This only confirms to the young, angry Muslims that they were absolutely RIGHT in cheering the plunge of airliners filled with fuel and American passengers into the WTC and the Pentagon on 9/11/2001. America is the Great Satan, out to twist and pervert the sensibilities of the world. Never mind that Americans on the whole found this behavior as offensive as the young, angry Muslims believed it to be. The fact is that we did not prevent it, as nothing like this would ever have happened on TV programming that originated from Muslim sources.