this is the golden age of grotesque!

Hmmm....let's analyze this.

"I am outraged at what I saw during the halftime show of the Super Bowl," the FCC chairman said in a statement. "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. Our nation's children, parents and citizens deserve better."

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Powell said his unhappiness with the halftime show went beyond Jackson's exposure. It "wasn't even the most offensive part," the FCC chief said in an interview. "It was the finale of something that was offensive. The whole performance was onstage copulation." He added, "This really crossed a heinous line."

It seems to me that Mr. Powell has a problem with the youth culture in general, which is responsible for putting people like Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Simpson, P. Diddy, Nelly and Kid Rock, up on the Super Bowl stage in the first place. If Jackson and Timberlake's performance was not dictated by mass consumerism and the market for sexual innuendo in the teen and twenty-something popular culture, then obviously there must be some big celebrity conspiracy to confound social morals at all costs! Supply and demand, Mr. Powell. The market has spoken, and it says "nipple."

P.S.: This really reminds me of that one Seinfeld episode...heh. At any rate, be sure to check out the BEST IN FILM 2003!