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McDonald's To Drop Timberlake Sponsorship - Timberlake also stood to jeopardize a marketing relationship with McDonald's although a spokesman for the fast food giant said Monday -- while declining to say whether Timberlake will appear in future ads -- "everyone involved has said it was an unfortunate incident and their apologies are in order."

<p>NEW YORK — Janet Jackson's red lace garment was supposed to remain over her breast when Justin Timberlake tore off part of her bustier during their Super Bowl halftime performance, the superstar said through a spokeswoman Tuesday.</p> <p>In a statement released Monday night, Jackson said the stunt that revealed a breast clad only in a sun-shaped "nipple shield" in front of some 89 million viewers went awry after being planned at the last minute.</p>

A network insider insisted that nothing like last night's bodice-ripping had happened during rehearsals, which were closely watched by CBS suits to make sure there was no hanky-panky, except of course the simulated-sex dance. "That's why the rehearsals were so closely watched," the CBS insider said. But while CBS was protesting its ignorance and innocence, MTV -- both are owned by Viacom, remember -- was still bragging about it as of midnight. "Janet Gets Nasty!" MTV crowed on its Web site. "Janet Jackson got nasty at the MTV-produced Super Bowl Halftime Show," the cable network boasted. "Jaws across the country...

Common Sense Media has posted the e-mail addresses and phone numbers for Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV, Judy McGrath, president of MTV, and Les Moonves, chairman and CEO of CBS, on its web site (www.commonsensemedia.org).

I will admit that I don’t normally watch football, but I sure was on Sunday. As fate would have it, I arrived at a Super Bowl Party at Halftime. As they say, timing is everything. Those of you who read my book The Death of Right and Wrong were not entirely surprised by what you saw Sunday night masquerading as the Halftime show—a variety of so-called singers and dancers providing nothing less than a Peep Show for your family. All day long I’ve been fascinated with the focus being on the baring of Jackson’s breast during the family hour on...

Janet Jackson apologized last night for her breast-baring bungle at the Super Bowl - but it did little to stem the growing tempest in a C cup. Nipplegate, which started as a halftime stunt, became a full-time national obsession yesterday - hitting even the highest reaches of government. The head of the FCC decried Jackson's breast-baring end to her Super Bowl act with Justin Timberlake as "classless, crass and deplorable" - and kicked off a probe that could cost CBS big bucks. As the controversy raged on, the superstar singer insisted the Super Bowl slip-out was simply an accident. "It...

The Super Bowl halftime show was an exercise in egregious bad taste by CBS and the National Football League. The dirty dancing, sexually explicit lyrics and Janet Jackson's anything-to-shock display were, to put it mildly, inappropriate at a national event broadcast during prime family viewing. CBS President Leslie Moonves and NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue should be caned for turning the production over to the bright lights at MTV, an organization that makes a considerable buck peddling booty-shaking and trash-talking to teenagers. It probably seemed like a hip thing to do - and a smart way to appeal to a younger...

NFL's show lower than Kid Rock's IQ Here's my early nomination for Biggest Lie of the 21st Century: "It's for the children.'' Never in history have we talked more and done less "for the children.'' Like some character in a Dickens story, we're constantly boasting about how much we care for the children, while we starve them on a thin gruel of mushy morality and poisonous pop culture. Such as the Super Bowl halftime show. How many parents sat semi-paralyzed through that extravaganza of bad taste, itching to grab the remote and turn it off, silently wondering, "How much worse...

<p>Before the Super Bowl, MTV promised on its Web site that "regardless of the outcome," singer Janet Jackson and other halftime performers would ensure the football game "goes down in history." Mission accomplished.</p> <p>Monday, the Bush administration, the National Football League and a host of others reacted harshly to Ms. Jackson's halftime duet with Justin Timberlake, who tugged at her black bustier during the song and exposed her right breast, bare except for a metal nipple ornament.</p>

<p>For me, the most entertaining aspect of the Super Bowl halftime show was the NFL's immediate ``outrage,'' CBS's ``apology'' and Janet Jackson's and Justin Timberlake's explanation of this ``embarrassing accident.''</p> <p>Soon after Sunday night's game, copies of these carefully crafted statements were passed out to reporters at Reliant Stadium. Easily manipulated media members perhaps considered this ``a quick and upfront response to an unfortunate situation.'' No cover up here, during or after the show. Right?</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>February 3, 2004 -- After paying for a halftime show - and instead getting a peep show - AOL may demand some of its money back. The Super Bowl was supposed to be AOL's chance to shine - the first salvo in its new $200 million advertising campaign.</p>

<p>February 3, 2004 -- CBS is moving to bounce Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake from next Sunday's Grammy Awards amid the national uproar following their X-rated, prime-time Super Bowl stunt. Sources told The Post the network will demand the two stars be tossed from 46th Annual Grammy Awards if CBS's probe shows the duo schemed in advance to expose Jackson's pierced breast during the halftime spectacle.</p>

Maybe it's appropriate that Super Bowls are numbered with Roman numerals. Sunday's Super Bowl XXXVIII, featured a halftime show that could have served as backdrop for one Caligula's orgies. Remember Super Bowl XXXIV? The halftime entertainment was produced by Walt Disney Productions. This year's was put on by MTV, and the difference was as stark as heaven and hell, between good tast and garbage. The commercials also reflected what the networks apparently think about our remaining "community standards." Janet Jackson, a member of America's most dysfunctional family, bared a breast during her onstage gyrations. There were the ususal network apologies...

OBSCENE ON TV!Family groups lash out at CBS, NFLStrong reaction to Janet Jackson breast flash during halftime show Posted: February 2, 20045:00 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Family-oriented organizations strongly denounced CBS, the NFL and MTV today for the broadcast of nudity on the Super Bowl halftime show yesterday. As WorldNetDaily reported, during the last song of the show, singer Timberlake reached across Janet Jackson's leather gladiator outfit and pulled off the covering to her right breast, exposing her to millions of viewers. The move came as Timberlake sang the lyric: "Going to have you naked by the end of this song."...

Cultural terrorism Posted: February 3, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com There we were, my precious 11-year-old daughter and I, curled up on the couch, anxiously awaiting the Super Bowl halftime extravaganza. Let's be clear about this: We weren't watching the game – not a single minute of it. Nope, we were having a girls' fun night running back and forth between decorating her room and trying to catch the much-awaited halftime spectacle. And boy, what a spectacle it was. Janet "Flashing" Jackson and all. Halftime had already started before we realized it, so we quickly scrambled to catch the rest of...

OBSCENE ON TV!FCC chair 'outraged' by breast 'stunt'Michael Powell orders probe of halftime-show flashing incident Posted: February 2, 200412:55 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communication Commission, decried the showing of Janet Jackson's breast during the Super Bowl halftime show yesterday, calling it "a classless, crass and deplorable stunt." Singer Justin Timberlake pulled off part of Jackson's costume near the end of the show as he sang the lyrics, "I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song," exposing her right breast, which sported a metal nipple decoration. Both CBS and MTV, which produced the...

The anything-but 'Super' Bowl Posted: February 3, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com I forced myself to watch some of the Super Bowl. I know I'm out of step with most Americans on this, but a long time ago I turned away from it. I stopped watching the event and even being interested in NFL Football. It wasn't so much the games themselves that offended me, but what came with it – the exploitation of viewers, the way it distracts Americans important things, the ads, the hoopla, the way the entertainment industry used it to promote sex and cultural degradation. To me,...

<p>Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell yesterday ordered an investigation of the Super Bowl halftime show, in which Justin Timberlake tore off part of fellow singer Janet Jackson's costume, exposing her breast.</p> <p>"I am outraged at what I saw during the halftime show," Mr. Powell said. "Like millions of Americans, my family and I gathered around the television for a celebration. Instead, that celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt."</p>

Super Bowl Sleaze Justin and Janet's half-time antics made the erectile-dysfunction ads look dignified. I have been watching the Super Bowl since I was nine years old. I still remember so many of the highlights, beginning with the miraculous connections of Terry Bradshaw and Lynn Swann in Super Bowl X, in Miami. I still love watching the Super Bowl and I make a Super Bowl party for my kids every year. But while the game is usually wonderful, the half-time show is becoming increasingly depraved. It would be nice if we football fans could watch the NFL championship game as...