Commissioners up in arms over halftime show.

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  1. M.O.M

    M.O.M Founding Member

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    Two of them.
    FCC Commissioner Powell and NFL Commissioner Tagliabue.
    Both upset over the artists Janet Jackson and the teen dance idol's halftime antics.
    I guess neither Commissioner appreciates art?
    They should know that the commerce of art is the only part of commerce protected by the First Amendment.
    Art is not for the common folk to understand, it is only for us to appreciate and be amazed by.
    And pay for with tax dollars, for that matter, if a willing paying audience can't be found.
     
  2. mesquite tiger

    mesquite tiger Diabolical Genius

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    except for that this "art" you speak off was during the most watched television event of the year, during a TV-PG rated program, and seen by houndreds of thousands of children who do not need to see this "art" during the Super Bowl.

    There is a place and time for everything, and that was not it. i hope the FCC fines CBS, Janet Jackson, and Justin Timberlake a lot of money. What they did was tasteless for the forum it was done on, and then to deny it was planned is spineless.

    If it was truelly art, they would have admitted to it...........
     
  3. eric d

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    A woman having her shirt ripped off is not art.
     
  4. M.O.M

    M.O.M Founding Member

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    It is if they say its art.
    That's in the Constitution.
    Under freedom of speech.
    Speech=art=whatever the self-styled artist says is art.
    Where would we be without art?


    QUOTE]Originally posted by eric d
    A woman having her shirt ripped off is not art. [/QUOTE]
     
  5. Bestbank Tiger

    Bestbank Tiger Founding Member

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    I think the original post was sarcasm.
     
  6. M.O.M

    M.O.M Founding Member

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    Is that allowed under the Constitution?
    Who knows.
    Its a shifty document.

     
  7. JSracing

    JSracing Founding Member

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    MOM Janet J's tit is NOT art, what would Be art AND funny as hell would be a Sadaam SCUD missle flying up your's and cottonbowl's arse. The look on your face would be worth MILLIONS.
     
  8. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Rare art painting by Rembrant or Van Gogh - $5,000,000

    A brief glimpse of Janet Jackson's right boob - Free

    Watching a missile armed with "non existant" WMDs fly up Cottonbowel's bowels - PRICELESS
     
  9. Mr. Peabody

    Mr. Peabody Founding Member

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    Her tit was pretty white. Do you think she goes to the same doctor as her brother. Weird?
     
  10. CottonBowl'66

    CottonBowl'66 Founding Member

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    I am still trying to figure out how a white man like Michael Jackson can have two black parents and so many black siblings.

    I suspect there was a peckerwood in the woodpile somewhere along the line.

    (Incidently, for all you right wingers here, since I know you have no sense of humor, THAT WAS A JOKE.)
     

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