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OUTRAGE AT CBS AFTER JANET BARES BREAST DURING DINNER HOUR; SUPER BOWL SHOW PUSHES LIMITS
Drudge Report ^ | February 1, 2004 | Drudge Report

Posted on 02/01/2004 6:49:46 PM PST by billorites

Edited on 02/01/2004 6:57:28 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

OUTRAGE AT CBS AFTER JANET BARES BREAST DURING DINNER HOUR; SUPER BOWL SHOW PUSHES LIMITS

**Exclusive**

Top CBS executives approved a musical skit where Janet Jackson would expose her breast during the MTV-produced Super Bowl half-time concert, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

"The decision to go forward went to the very top of the network," a well-placed source explained from New York.

The groundbreaking scene came during the most-watched television broadcast of the year -- and during the dinner hour for the nation's west coast viewers.

In a press release before Sunday's game, CBS's sister outlet. [VIACOM's] MTV promised "Janet's Shocking Moments."

"I'll get you naked by the end of this song," sang performer Justin Timberlake, moments before he ripped off Jackson's top, exposing a bare breast -- the nipple covered by a tassel.

CBS's main New York switchboard was immediately bombarded with complaints about the stunt, netowrk sources said late Sunday.

Developing...

DO NOT POST THE PICTURE


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; nfl; nipplegate; superbowl
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To: newzjunkey
Next Big Game half-time, my big fantasy is to see Nanci Pelosi and Teresa Heinz-Kerry kissing.
101 posted on 02/01/2004 8:39:22 PM PST by lonewacko_dot_com (http://lonewacko.com/blog)
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To: lonewacko_dot_com
Next Big Game half-time, my big fantasy is to see Nanci Pelosi and Teresa Heinz-Kerry kissing.

I vote for the Rolling Stones.

102 posted on 02/01/2004 8:41:45 PM PST by BJungNan
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To: sonofatpatcher2
Edinburgh
103 posted on 02/01/2004 8:47:34 PM PST by ScotchBible
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To: Terry Mross
I live in Houston too. Your right the Super Bowl is for the rich and famous. Makes me sick we Houstonians spend billions for stadiums only to sit back and watch millionaires arrive in their lear jets with the only ticket in town. So many Lear Jets they had to shut down two runways just to park them.
104 posted on 02/01/2004 8:54:54 PM PST by Orange1998
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To: lizbet
Leslie Moonves has just Proved that he thinks the people that watch the SuperBowl are stupid children....Puff Daddy, Kid Rock, Justin Timberlake...etc.....WHO would watch these insiped people??? No one with an IQ over 85 and an age over 25!!

Leslie Moonves.....call your office!

105 posted on 02/01/2004 8:55:08 PM PST by Ann Archy
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To: lizbet
I don't think CBS or MTV planned this; they would found a better subject. Janet Jackson is an obvious casualty of the ongoing conflict between gravity and surgery.
106 posted on 02/01/2004 9:00:24 PM PST by atomic conspiracy ( Anti-war movement: Roadkill on the highway to freedom.)
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To: Terry Mross
Don't worry you can probably catch Janet doing the late show at Rick's tonight.
107 posted on 02/01/2004 9:12:10 PM PST by razorback-bert
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To: jpsb
I'd like to see the FCC fine CBS for the amount of money they MADE today.
108 posted on 02/01/2004 9:28:42 PM PST by BenR2 ((John 3:16: Still True Today.))
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To: DCPatriot

109 posted on 02/01/2004 9:35:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (Socialism is Slavery)
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To: GOP
oh, i love how innocent the NFL acts. they expect me to believe that NO ONE from the NFL saw or heard about this aspect of the show. they just took MTV's word on the 1/2 hour show during the biggest game of their season? come on. they had no input? and just to be clear, i liked the half-time show. but i am a 27 year old male. i can imagine how some older people who were watching with their kids/grandkids might be offended. maybe there should have been a disclaimer at the beginning. but shame on the NFL for pleading ignorance.
110 posted on 02/01/2004 9:40:27 PM PST by thefactor
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To: All
FCC INFO ON HOW TO FILE A COMPLAINT
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html
111 posted on 02/01/2004 9:50:01 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Bobby Chang; All
OHH I SEEE
So to punish I think maybe NO SUPER BOWL FOR YOU CBS

NICE GOIN CBS
112 posted on 02/01/2004 10:15:55 PM PST by SevenofNine (Not everybody in it for truth, justice, and the American way=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: BenR2
Drooling for porn, and posting bible verses...Only on FR!
113 posted on 02/01/2004 10:23:22 PM PST by Guillermo (It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
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To: Guillermo
Drooling for porn, and posting bible verses...Only on FR!

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Drooling for porn?

Oh, puhleeeeeze.

If it can be shown on prime time, it oughtn't be too bad for a news site.
114 posted on 02/01/2004 10:28:43 PM PST by BenR2 ((John 3:16: Still True Today.))
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To: BenR2
Yeah, that's a good attitude.

Let's have "Prime Time" TV be the marker for what's decent and what's not.
115 posted on 02/01/2004 10:33:59 PM PST by Guillermo (It's tough being a Miami Dolphins fan)
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To: Captainpaintball
"Next year, just show the f*ck!ng game, and skip the stuff for the ladies and the queer guys, OK? Is that too much to ask?"

hey, none of that stuff was presented to attract women watchers....they're after the male adolescent viewer,of which we have many here on FR.....

I would be perfectly glad to have just the football personally....just like I would be perfectly happy to have just a parade on Thanksgiving Day and not all the stupid staged presentations.....

when I was young, a football game was a football game and a parade was a parade...

116 posted on 02/01/2004 10:36:47 PM PST by cherry
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To: DCPatriot
The go to Drudge Report.
117 posted on 02/01/2004 11:15:31 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: ClancyJ
Worst halftime show in Superbowl history.

I agree. What's being overlooked is that prior to the Jackson/Timberlake moment of infamy, the first half of the half-time show as a display to the world of the dregs of American culture. When is anyone going to stand up and say that rap music is, by and large, the product of a degraded society?

118 posted on 02/01/2004 11:17:48 PM PST by My2Cents ("Well...there you go again.")
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To: Guillermo
Yeah, that's a good attitude.

Let's have "Prime Time" TV be the marker for what's decent and what's not.

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It's not "an attitude."

It is an observation. This is a news discussion site. That pic was pretty tame by today's standards, and we are discussing it. It seems germane.

Nonetheless, your point is well taken: I don't think we can dare allow TV to be our moral arbiter for anything.
119 posted on 02/01/2004 11:22:59 PM PST by BenR2 ((John 3:16: Still True Today.))
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To: atomic conspiracy
Janet Jackson is an obvious casualty of the ongoing conflict between gravity and surgery.

What? You got something against silicone?

120 posted on 02/02/2004 6:22:27 AM PST by Ole Okie (Bread and circuses and Janet whatshername's flashed breast? Urp!)
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