FCC Launches Government Investigation Into Janet's Tits LOL
 

Oh my fucking God, don't these folks in Washington have anything better to do with our money.

Just Off The Wire Services

The chief federal regulator of broadcasting said Monday he is outraged by the Super Bowl halftime show which wound up with singer Justin Timberlake tearing off part of Janet Jackson's costume, exposing her breast.

Timberlake blamed a "wardrobe malfunction," but Federal Communications Commission chief Michael Powell called it "a classless, crass and deplorable stunt."

MTV, which produced the show, and CBS, which broadcast it, both said they had no idea that their halftime show Sunday night would include such a display.

"CBS deeply regrets the incident," spokeswoman LeslieAnne Wade said.

In a statement, Powell said, "I am outraged at what I saw during the halftime show of the Super Bowl. 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."

"I have instructed the commission to open an immediate investigation into last night's broadcast," he said, vowing it would be "thorough and swift." Earlier, an FCC spokeswoman, Suzanne Tetreault, said it was launching a routine investigation because it had received complaints.

The FCC has come under fire from lawmakers and outside groups who say the agency hasn't done enough to shield the public from indecent programming on radio and TV.

Legislation has been introduced in Congress to increase by 10-fold the $27,500 maximum fine that the FCC can levy for indecency. The Bush administration has endorsed the bill raising the fine to $275,000. The agency itself has said it may start issuing the fine per incident rather than per program, and is talking about revoking licenses.

Last month, the FCC proposed a $755,000 fine against Clear Channel Communications for the "Bubba the Love Sponge" program that aired multiple times on four of its Florida radio stations. The fine was a record for a single complaint. The largest cumulative fine for indecency was $1.7 million paid by Infinity Broadcasting in 1995 for various violations by Howard Stern.

"We were extremely disappointed by elements of the MTV-produced halftime show," Joe Browne, NFL executive vice president, said. "They were totally inconsistent with assurances our office was given about the content of the show.

"It's unlikely that MTV will produce another Super Bowl halftime."

Over-the-air television channels cannot air "obscene" material at any time and cannot air "indecent" material between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The FCC defines obscene material as describing sexual conduct "in a patently offensive way" and lacking "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value." Indecent material is not as offensive but still contains references to sex or excretions.

"She's more stylized, she's more feminine, she's more a woman as she dances this time around. There are some shocking moments in there too."



Uh huh.

I just want them to make CBS/MTV/Justin/Janet admit that it was planned. Stop feeding us shit telling us it was a "wardrobe malfunction"

:1orglaugh
what a waste of time and taxpayers money....

I volunteer to go check Janet's tit... just to make sure that it is in fact hers on the video.. :Graucho

Oh, and free of charge to the taxpayers!

Are the Feds going to tell us a woman's breasts are obscene now?

That's totally fucked up and seriously wrong and ridiculous if they do that.

This is just fucking stupid!

If she'd farted the national anthem and fired ping pong balls out her pussy then fair enough,
but flashing a tit for 5 seconds, crazy.

Was there really the need to show here breast or could have it been a good performance with-out it as well?

Think of what it would be like if the FCC didn't make a big stink about this, you'd be seeing 1000s of lame PR stunts every week from now on. Every show would be pulling shit like that and claiming it was just an accident.

If they don't make an example out of them, it's basically a green light for every live broadcaster out there to go ahead and do PR stunts involving any and or all things not normally allowed to be broadcast.

It's hilarious given they show ass-crack on NYPD Blue.

I miss opie and anthony :(

It's not just the boob flash, but the fact that children saw a man rip off a womans clothing and expose her nakedness. Guess what effect that will have on the playground of every elementary school over the next week? Little Johny and Billy all over America are going to be raping little Suzie and Jennifer on the playground because that's what they saw on TV.

LOL, :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I find it to be comical that the very first thing ASHAHAHAHAHA did when he was elected Atty General was to cover a statue in DC where it shows it's bare breast-

Now the FCC wants to do a thorough investigation?
What I saw of Janet 's anatomy anyone can find watching National Geographic-

This regime sure is fucked up when they are concerned over a naked breast on TV instead of the security breach of a completely naked man running on the field and disrupting the biggest even in television.

We are spending millions to protect ourselves from terrorists in airports, and in public places- so how is it that a guy got n wearing a referee uniform?

I find it all completely disturbing.
that's my :2 cents:

LOL what a waste of tax money :1orglaugh

The guy wasn't completely naked, he was wearing a pouch over his package.

Thats fucking ridiculous. The FCC is power-mad.

Say No To Free Tits.

I think the investigation is a bit over the top, but c'mon, that is not appropriate. There were families with children watching the superbowl.

If i had a child, i certainly wouldn't want them getting the idea that tearing off a woman's clothing was okay. The fact that Janet Jackson acted surprised about it only makes that worse. Sort of implied that she didn't want it to happen (although i'm sure she did, and the whole thing was staged, but look at the message it sends).

Wow, he got in disguised as a Referee??

Fuck that is really what should be investigated here. Unbelievable.

i found this incredibly funny
and so should you

Are you guys aware that there is a federal law that prohibits broadcasting indecency between certain hours? (note: I said indecency not obscenity)

Are you aware that immediately following the broadcast of this event the FCC was flooded with calls from people complaining about it?

What do you expect the FCC to do? Nothing?

Personally, I wasn't offended by the boob flash, but I don't blame the FCC for taking action on this. They have a mandate to enforce laws. Blame the law, not the FCC.

The question arises why are a man's nipples ok to show but not a woman's nipples?

I've never understood the double standard.

will they be guzzling down budweisers as well?

OMFGD, I saw a nipple.... call the FCC


The red carpet show for any awards show is normally shown around the 5-7pm hour and some of the outfits women wear are leave much less to the imagination than a 1 second tit flash.

Ask Asskroft, he should be able to tell you.

not the same thing. One is shown during hours where more adults than children will be watching following warnings to the viewers.

The other one was shown during the afternoon, early evening in some places and is always kind of touted as a family thing.

I honestly don't care. I think people are getting way too bent out of shape *INCLUDING A BUNCh OF ADULT WEBMASTERS* over a nipple *that looked as though it were covered with a tassle*

It wouldn't surprise me.

ya, thats the part i picked up on. LOL

personally i think Nelly's performance "It's getting hot in here"
was more nastier,

the dancers took off some clothes

Seriously, they are really getting out of hand here with the police state crap.

That is funny, America has the larges porn industry in the world and that has been like that for years. And they always make a problem about breast ot a nipple. And now that im writing this at 19.37 and they just showd jenet getting her breast out. With a close up. What are these guy make a problem off. Come and live in the Netherlands were they wont make any problems of these things.

lol
yep ... just another double standard.

It's a symptom of male domination in today's society/sexual world. If the female was allowed be as openly sexual as the male - promiscuity would result?lol

When is this planet going to grow up?

It's an investigation, not a judgement. They're required to investigate complaints.

She could be a terrorist... corrupting the youth of our nation with her big saggy tits. ooops... sorry... tit. :)

You're a fag, right?

I think what people are not picking up on here is the "appropriateness" of the situation.

As I stated before I honestly don't care...but I know 90% of you people have the reading comprehension of a rock so I'll be reiterating that over and over...anyway here it goes.

If it had been after 8 or 9pm and was given a warning I don't think people would care.

But at 5:30 in the afternoon it's a bit different.

We have a skewed look at the world, the world we live in goatse and ******* are cool and funny *actually I find them rather repugnant but to each his own* but a majority of the people watching that program yesterday would die in horror if they knew goatse and ******* existed.

They aren't necessarily offended that they saw the nipple...but are maybe offended their child sitting next to them saw it.

My GOD people, it was a boob!!!!!!! All women have them!! Two of them, in fact!
And they expose them several times a day to young children when they're breastfeeding or getting out of the shower or changing clothes...

GET OVER IT ALREADY!!!!!!!

This whole thing is fucking stupid as stupid gets. It was FUNNY.

Showing pictures of soldiers shot through the head is okay, but my god let one boob get flashed and all hell breaks loose.

is her tit pierced?

Amazingly probably half the country would disagree with this post.