That’s entertainment?…
I believe my nine-year-old daughter should be able to watch the Super Bowl with me without being exposed to Janet Jackson’s boob or Kid Rock’s desecration of the American Flag. CBS apologized for the boob. They should also apologize for Kid Rock. (Geez, they showed the boob but not the streaker!)
I believe in free speech. I support, as part of that right, your right to desecrate the flag. But don’t ever do it in front of me! I’ll exercise my right to defend it.
The game was boring until the end. The commercials? Geez, this was perhaps the worst year in recent memory for the commercials. The one interesting thing, from a sociological point of view, was the difference Budweiser perceives in the drinkers of Bud Light versus Budweiser. According to their commercials last night, the former are, apparently, frat boys who enjoy potty humor and the latter are, well, fairly normal boomers like me (the ref getting yelled at by his wife was a scream).
The funniest line of the entire evening wasn’t meant to be funny. In the list of side effects for the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis was this dire warning (paraphrased): If an erection lasts more than four hours, seek immediate medical attention. No kidding.
UPDATE (1:50 p.m.): Slate reviews the commercials.
UPDATE (4 Feb. 11:35 a.m.): A reader sent e-mail wondering how it is I justify my defense of free speech with my apparent willingness to assault someone exercising the very free speech I purport to uphold. Good question. I wish the writer had left a public comment. First, I am guilty of over-writing in the heat of the moment–a ubiquitous transgression among bloggers (although that is no excuse). Second, while the writer’s interpretation is certainly valid, I would say that “defending” a flag from, for example, being burned in public would not necessarily require an assault. But it might. And I left myself open to exactly the charge he makes. I make no defense except to say that I would, within the limits of my abilities, try to prevent a flag from being burned. Until I am put in that situation, I cannot say what that defense might include. I would hope that my ability to speak in the flag’s defense would be enough.
One more on the ‘Superbowl’
I wasn’t going to say more about yesterdays marketing event that had a football game scattered through it but then I read Andrew Cline’s post and thought I’d just react to it. First:I believe my nine-year-old daughter should be able to watch the Super …
Thank God for male ADD – my 14 year old son was over at a friend’s house last night for a Super Bowl party, and my guess is that he was too jazzed up on Mountain Dew and X-Box games to notice Janet Jackson’s mammary – otherwise, I’m sure I would have heard all about it!
The news made more of the streaker then the boob yet we didn’t see the streaker when we watched the game. The commercials were pretty stupid except I loved the Budweiser Donkey one. It was soo cute and it says to little kids that if you try hard you can do anything.:)
I saw in the paper that the streaker has done this at least 300 times, and even has a website – something like http://www.thestreaker.com.uk
Wearing your flag on your sleeve; wearing your flag as a smock; wearing a flag without any marks; wearing the flag in glowing red white and blue as in your picture. Not desecration. The sartorial flag; the rhetorical flag. Fragments. Not desecration. Burning it; tearing it; cutting into little pieces: desecration. In today’s world it looked better than normal.
thelrd in TEXAS where Johnson did desecrate it in 1984 at the Reagan nominating convention.
Okay, perhaps Larry needs to review the Rules and Regulations for displaying the flag. And what? No comment about tossing the flag over your head and letting someone wad it up into a ball and let it sit on the floor for the remainder of your set on stage?!
Okay, perhaps Larry needs to review the Rules and Regulations for displaying the flag. And what? No comment about tossing the flag over your head and letting someone wad it up into a ball and let it sit on the floor for the remainder of your set on stage?!