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Friday, February 06, 2004 ( 1:19 PM ) Lostcheerio Apparently Justin Timberlake ripped off Janet Jackson's shirt and exposed her breast during the Superbowl halftime show. I was half asleep with the baby on my chest and only vaguely watching, planning to wake up later for Survivor but sleep for everything else. Now there's some big controversy about it all. WHO CARES. WHO CARES ABOUT THIS. There were a bunch of MTV people leaping about in the middle of giant sparklers and scantily clad dancers, saying "I am going to take your clothes off, you will be so naked, you'll have no clothes on, because I will have taken them off!" What do you EXPECT to happen? Everyone to walk off stage in a circumspect manner after bowing politely to the audience? Of course someone's going to yank off someone's clothes and then they'll leap about some more and whatever. It is my opinion that this pot is being stirred by the media because they're tired of the democratic primary and they'd rather talk about literal boobs than figurative ones. Fine. But know this: What happened in our house was what happened in MOST normal people's houses. The woman was sitting there half asleep with the baby on her. The man was sitting there half asleep with the Wall Street Journal on him. Woman waiting for Survivor. Man waiting for next commercial break. Man: Huh. I think she just showed her breast. Woman: Nuh-uh. Get out of town. END OF DISCUSSION. Until the next day on CNN, 50 talking heads are yarping about it. And the man and woman peer at each other dimly and the woman says, "Huh. I guess you were right. Go figure." And then THAT is the end of the discussion. But until MSNBC comes up with something better than showing the heads of the democrats on little donkey-riding cartoon figures in a feature called "Demo-Derby" (sponsored by Liberty Mutual) they'll NEED Janet Jackson's breasts to fill the long hours of the afternoon. Instead of making her stammer out an apology they should have sent her flowers. Peh. Peh peh peh. # |
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