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LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The Veterans of Foreign Wars have had it up to here with all of the fuss about the exposure of Janet Jackson's bejeweled breast during Sunday (Feb. 1) night's Super Bowl halftime show. Nudity is one thing, but messing with the American flag is a whole other kettle of fish. Hence, the VFW is taking aim at the unofficial Pimp of the Nation, Kid Rock. While a statement from the 104-year-old organization only describes Jackson's pastie flaunting as "nearly lewd," the VFW takes umbrage at Rock's even less revealing attire. The singer and "Biker Boyz" star...

<p>February 5, 2004 -- The Academy Awards have been sucked into Janet Jackson's bare-breast fiasco. ABC has pressured the Academy of Motion Pictures & Sciences to agree to a five-second delay on the Feb. 29 telecast, but the organization is protesting.</p>

Captain RibMan put on three day delay after baring both breasts in strip. "Superhero" blames Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake and a "costume malfunction."

WASHINGTON Washington is in the virtue business this week.Center stage is a riveting father-son drama. (No, not that one.)At the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powell is trying to save America's virtue, while over at the State Department, his father, Colin, is trying to save his own virtue.They are both obsessing about something that should have been there, but suddenly wasn't.The son demanded an explanation for Janet Jackson's missing material, while the father wrestled with an explanation for Saddam Hussein's missing matériel.The son opened an inquiry into something everyone had already seen, as the father defended his speech making the case...

<p>Has our culture gone iredeemably to pot, or can we jump for our lives?</p> <p>On Saturday night Sept. 8, 2001, I did something unusual. I went to Madison Square Garden to watch the taping of a Michael Jackson special that was soon to be aired on CBS. A friend had come to town with tickets and we decided to meet for dinner and go together. We thought it would be fun because we thought it would be strange.</p>

By now the furor over Janet Jackson's unholstered mammary has died down, thanks to Howard Dean professing his clinical boredom with visible bosoms. He's a doctor, he noted, and he sees this sort of thing all the time. (Somewhere Bill Clinton is slapping his forehead: Med school, not politics! Of course! Idiot!) Said Dean of the Federal Communications Commission's pending investigation: "In general, I think the FCC does have a role in promoting some reasonable standard of decency. However, considering what's on television these days, I think the FCC is being pretty silly about investigating this. … I don't find...

Janet Jackson exposing her breast during the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday night has proved to be the most-searched event in the history of the Internet. On Monday, Janet Jackson and the halftime show received 60 times as many searches as the Paris Hilton sex tape and 80 times as many searches as Britney Spears. Jackson was searched 50 times for every request for the topic that normally dominates on the day after the game, Super Bowl commercials. She also received 275 times as many searches as the streaker who ran on the field before the second half, and...

Just to give you a snapshot of the current Democratic Party, in the primaries this week, Dennis Kucinich got three times as many votes in North Dakota as Joe Lieberman did. After that, Lieberman quit the race. In sympathy with Lieberman and facing similar odds – I'm quitting the race too. To my supporters: Hey, we didn't go all the way, but just look how much we accomplished! In his concession speech, Lieberman thanked each one of the Democratic presidential candidates for contributing to the race and thanked Al Sharpton in particular for inciting no additional violence against the Jews....

After glimpsing more of Janet Jackson than they bargained for during a notorious Super Bowl halftime show, television viewers may miss the singer altogether on the upcoming Grammy Awards broadcast. Jackson, whose breast-baring Super Bowl performance sparked a public furor and federal regulatory investigation, will not be appearing as a Grammy Awards presenter as previously planned, according to reports Wednesday on syndicated TV shows "Entertainment Tonight" and "Access Hollywood." "Access Hollywood" added that the CBS network, which carried the Super Bowl telecast and is broadcasting the Grammys this coming Sunday, retracted its invitation for Jackson to introduce a planned Grammy...

So one of Janet Jackson’s puppies slipped the leash during Sunday night’s big Super Bowl halftime show. Offensive? Sure. Tacky? Of course. But there’s nothing surprising about any of that. Tacky, tawdry, crassly sexual - those are modern-day show biz’s trademarks. Complaining about a loose booby during a hip-hop pop-slop halftime show is like complaining that the floor at the car wash is wet. MTV-style “music” is nothing but soft-core porn these days. Why would the Super Bowl be any different? And spare me the anguish expressed on behalf of “the children.” First of all, it’s not children making a...

To: All Viacom Employees From: Mel Karmazin Date: February 03, 2004 RE: Super Bowl Half Time Show As you know, the incident during the Super Bowl's Half Time Show on Sunday has received a significant amount of attention both in the media and in Washington, D.C. Because of the speculation and misinformation about what transpired, I want to update you on the facts and also on what we are doing to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future. First let me say that everyone at Viacom, CBS and MTV was shocked and embarrassed about what transpired at the end...

LOS ANGELES -- On the heels of Janet Jackson's stunning breast-baring incident on Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show, Jackson reportedly will not appear on the CBS Grammys telecast. "Entertainment Tonight" is reporting Jackson won't be participating in a tribute to Luther Vandross on Sunday night. She was previously scheduled to be a part of the Grammy Awards tribute. No reason was available for her departure. Jackson, CBS, MTV, the NFL and Justin Timberlake have all apologized for the Super Bowl's too-revealing halftime show. CBS said Tuesday it would institute a video delay system to avoid any recurrence at Sunday's Grammy...

Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004 NFL Cancels Chasez PerformanceThe NFL has taken one of its first actions in the wake of the controversy surrounding the Super Bowl halftime show by canceling a halftime performance by JC Chasez, a member of Justin Timberlake's band *NSYNC, scheduled for this weekend's Pro Bowl on ESPN.Mr. Chasez was to sing "Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love)," a song that appeared in the soundtrack of the 20th Century Fox movie "Drumline" in 2002. "We thought it was over the top," said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. "It was because of the song, and how we believed it...

OXFORD, Miss. -- What is it about Justin Timberlake? It seems that all the high-profile relationships in which he has been involved have led the girls to sheer desperation. Surely you don't need to be reminded of the infamous Britney Spears and Madonna kiss, followed by Spears' quickie marriage and annulment with Jason Alexander. Spears, however, may have to raise her stakes if she wants to remain in the headlines. Much of the nation understands what I am talking about, just as they know of Janet Jackson's previous relationship to Timberlake and witnessed her exposure during the recent Super Bowl...

As I sat watching the Super Bowl half-time extravaganza, which I have always found to carry the culture level of the Elvis look-alike shows at the Pierre's Lucky Seven Casino and Putt-Putt Golf Range, I muttered, "Who choreographed this thing? Beelzebub?" My 9-year old, who had my hand over his eyes whined, "Mom, I can't see. And who's Beelzebub?" Then the writhing began. Men in red underpants, that appeared to be made of Mylar, were lying on the stage wriggling erotically. Oddly, they were wearing garter belts and Ed Norton hats. It looked like Victoria's Secret's interpretation of the Rugrats'...

<p>The Janet Jackson Breast Across America Super Bowl Stunt -- trademark now pending -- is one of those great stories that encapsulates money, morality, spin, corporate bloat, entertainment banality and the age-old American conundrum of which is worse, sex or violence.</p>

McD's considers options after celebrity's gaffe McDonald’s Corp. is calling “inappropriate” the notorious Super Bowl halftime show incident involving celebrity spokesman Justin Timberlake. But—at least for now—the fast-food giant is sticking with the singer. “There is no change in our relationship,” says a company spokesman. Mr. Timberlake sang and had a brief cameo in one of the first ads in McDonald’s new “I’m lovin’ it” campaign. McDonald’s also sponsored a European tour by Mr. Timberlake that ended last month. Sunday's Super Bowl gaffe—in which Mr. Timberlake removed part of singer Janet Jackson’s costume during a performance and exposed her right...

NEW YORK -- Film director Spike Lee criticized Janet Jackson's surprise breast-baring during the Super Bowl halftime show last weekend as a "new low" of attention-getting antics by entertainers. Meanwhile, Jackson issued another apology in a videotape released to the media. The pop star had apologized Monday night in a written statement. "I am really sorry if I offended anyone. That was truly not my intention," she said. "MTV, CBS, the NFL had no knowledge of this whatsoever, and unfortunately, the whole thing went wrong in the end." At the end of their duet Sunday, Justin Timberlake snatched off part...

Now even Justin is mad at Janet. Justin Timberlake is telling friends Janet Jackson blindsided him with the last-second, breast-baring addition to their Super Bowl act, sources said yesterday. The pop stars' tiff over Sunday's bosom bombshell came as the head of MTV, which produced the halftime show for CBS, blamed Jackson for the peep show seen by an audience of 89 million. "Janet Jackson engineered it," MTV Chief Executive Tom Freston said. "We were Punk'd by Janet Jackson." As fallout over the flop-out grew yesterday, Timberlake was claiming to pals he was bamboozled by Jackson. "She lied to him,"...

<p>So the entire world has now got a taste of what passes for entertainment on MTV every day. That was our reaction to the furor over the MTV-produced Super Bowl halftime show, which network President Judy McGrath described as "exciting" and "great" and marred only by "five seconds none of us knew anything about."</p>