Congress to probe [Super] Bowl act

[NewJerseyDem]

http://www.thehill.com/news/020304/superbowl.aspx

The chairmen of the House and Senate subcommittees with jurisdiction over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) expressed shock and outrage at Janet Jackson’s briefly exposed right breast as a part of Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show.

The circumstances of Jackson’s exposed anatomy will receive a further airing at hearings later this month in both the House and Senate.

Prior to the widely watched incident, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) had introduced the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004, H.R. 3717, which would impose a 10-fold increase in the current penalty caps for indecency on television. But the exposed breast will receive another round of scrutiny when the House Energy and Commerce Committee considers the bill later this month, said Upton’s spokesman, Sean C. Bonyum.

On the Senate side, a Feb. 11 hearing in the Commerce Committee on its own obscenity bill will provide a forum for appalled lawmakers to register their concerns.

[ixion]

1. I wish these people would stop wasting money on these types

of investigations. They really are a tremendous waste. :-(

[nolabels]

21. They are saving money this way

Squandering resources and funds from the public trust into things like this, corporations are saving a mint. They won't have to worry about all them scandles like Tyco, Enron and Haliburton getting investigated to closely. (If one had enough time and money several of these cesspools could be linked together, showing how they really just one and the same of the ole boys network)

http://www.cerf.cam.ac.uk/opinion/index.php?current=6
The Need for International Regulation of Auditors and Public Companies
by Kern Alexander, CBR and Judge Institute of Management

The scandals and misconduct at major US corporations have exposed major weaknesses in the legal and regulatory standards of corporate governance in the United States. Financial mismanagement and fraudulent earnings misstatements at major public companies, such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia and a host of other companies have wiped away hundreds of billions of $US from the value of investment funds. These vast losses impact not only wealthy investors in mutual funds managed by leading investment banks, but also individual retirement accounts and small company pension plans. The global operations of many of these corporations have also put other economies at risk and in particular foreign investors who have become major investors in US companies in recent years with the result that corporate and auditor wrongdoing in the US will result in great losses for many non-US investors who put great faith in the accuracy of US company reports. Indeed, the call for a new system of audit regulation and tougher penalties for corporate wrongdoing can be heard not only in the US, but also in other important financial markets. The global operations of most publicly listed companies means that their corporate management practices and financial health can impact economies around the globe. Thus, the recent scandals on Wall Street demand not only reform of US corporate governance and auditor standards but also of international standards in these areas.
(snip)

P.s. to think the bought and paid for republican Congress was ever going to investigate and do anything about anything substantial is such a joke on so many levels.

[Born Free]

54. but what will tell our children?

Oh the shame - oh the pain, the hypocritical republicans must feel, here we are watching the most family oriented show on TV and someone shows some breast!!! How disgusting! I bet they will divert the money from the 9/11, pre-war, and CIA outing investigations, just get to the bottom of this outrage and insult to American morals.
Rush is probably so upset he had to snort twice his usual amount to stay high enough for his show.

[saigon68]

83. THEY SHOW CHILDREN SHIT LIKE THIS ON TELEVISION

REMEMBER THE "GRAPHIC" WARNINGS FROM RATHER ET al



This is better?

Well after all this WAS a bad man who wanted to blow up Amerika!!!!

[nankerphelge]

2. Probing?

"The circumstances of Jackson’s exposed anatomy will receive a further airing at hearings later this month in both the House and Senate." "We plan on watching it again and again and again."

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

3. Your tax dollar at work

I sure hope they resolve this critical incident in American History.

[Jackpine Radical]

79. Nothing like a little flash of tittie

to make it perfectly clear where all the boobs are.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

4. So, let me get this straight...

...we have officially lost more than 520 soldiers in Iraq, and who knows how many in Afghanistan, all based on false intelligence estimates supplied by OSP (PNAC), and Congress wants to investigate one bared breast????

Good freakin' Lord.

[baby_bear]

13. Remember Ashcroft and the aluminum breast caper?

What are the priorities of these Republicans? Are they going to ban breast feeding next?

For those in need of recollection of the Ashcroft farce, this is a good source:
http://thetruthmainly.tripod.com/2002/20020304.html

And there are photos available all over the 'net.

What fools. But they are fools spending our money!

s_m

[Betty]

5. I'm sure they'll have to watch the tape

over and over and over.....

[NewJerseyDem]

7. They will probably bring in some technical specialists

To zoom in and provide the maximum definition possible so that they can investigate the potential "wardrobe malfunction."

[oceanpoetry]

6. <sarcasm> I am glad they've got their priorities in order! </sarcasm>

geez! forget about 9-11 investigation, Plame investigation, etc ...

[DenverDem]

8. Typical!

congress is incensed about a beautiful breast while the real obscenity of our public broadcast frequencies being monopolized by power elite propogandists goes unchallenged. That speaks volumes about what congress is really about, and it's not The People's well being.

[NJCher]

46. thank you

You covered all that's important in two sentences.


Cher

[Paschall]

49. You need to qualify that

Those wasting taxpayer money with their outrage and investigations are *Republicans.*

All the more reason to ensure we return Dems to the Congress next fall!

[maxrandb]

74. OMFG!

Really, I want to know when in the hell they are going to investigate why a oxy snortin' pig face is allowed to spew hate 780 hours a year.

[fizzana]

9. This country has lost its collective mind.

n/t

[BigDaddyLove]

17. Good thing we have adults in the White House........

to lead us through these troubled times.

[maggrwaggr]

25. It's time to shut this government down and start a new one

This one is malfunctioning and cannot be fixed.

If this government was a car, what would you do?

You'd junk the piece of shit.

[stevedeshazer]

30. If it was a horse

I'd have to shoot it.

[IndianaGreen]

56. Welcome to Taliban America

Please disregard those flag-draped coffins arriving at Dover AFB and let's concentrate on a nipple flash.

[Mari333]

58. thats exactly right

the horror of it is that. Not one scream of outrage from Congress about our dead and wounded kids and the lack of coverage . Not one. They pretend like its not happening. Only Byrd or Kennedy says something, and they are ignored.

[Wickerman]

10. Anybody seen the anthrax mailer?

priorities, priorities. Better solve this before you figure out a jobs bill or anything to improve US healthcare.

[mrdmk]

11. Looks Janet Jackson did something we could not do

Get CBS into trouble. Of course she needed help.

I do not mind nudity, when it comes to aggression that is a problem. This congress is really out of touch when it comes down to what is destructive to the human race. This country needs to come to its sensibilities.

[Liberalboy]

12. Its a Godamn Breast!

I would much rather see a boob on my TV set then someone firing a gun. When did America become so prudish!

[aquart]

39. Dictatorships despise "decadence."

They always make a big stink about it. Hitler, Stalin.....strict artistic censorship.

[kainah]

14. The breast is obviously worse than flag desecration

I watched the game but not the halftime & from what I've heard, another artist cut a hole in a flag and used it as a poncho. That is, definitely, flag desecration. Isn't that worse? Even in right-wing-whacko land????

But aren't we glad that CBS spared us from the controversial moveon and PETA ads!!!

[yellowcanine]

15. "...exposed anatomy will receive a further airing..."????

whoever wrote this has a sense of humor anyway. Are they going to bring Jackson in for an instant replay? "Aahm sorry, Ms. Jackson, Aah was looking down at my notes and aah missed that. Could you repeat that for my benefit?"

[salinen]

16. Will Janet's boob

be sent to Gitmo?

[yellowcanine]

19. I am sure the Smithsonian will want a plaster impression

of the infamous boob for display in the Natural History Museum.

[yellowcanine]

22. Just remembered.......

They can't do that or Bob Barr will be in there spraying it with Cool Whip and licking it off.

[Mz Pip]

18. Your tax dollars at work!!!

I am so thankful these dudes are working their butts off protecting me from any more boob sightings. <sarcasm>

MzPip
:dem:

[Must_B_Free]

20. You Go GIRL! Way to upstage a nation!

Whan an event. A simple flash of a boob reveals what boobs we all are. Awesome!

tens of thousands deas or wounded and we're worried about something that noone really even saw in the first, until it was turned into the greatest event of this decade.

[maggrwaggr]

23. this is the most outrageous fucking thing I've heard in weeks

We've got a president who took us to war over fabricated stories about the boogeyman ......

He's sticking us with the bill, which includes daily deaths of our soldiers ......

He's got no exit plan .....

It's suddenly become crystal clear that everything he said to get his WAR was a LIE.

And congress wants to investigate THIS? A washed-up singer's publicity stunt?

Every american should be totally ashamed if this is the case.

[fortyfeetunder]

33. This has got to be a terra-ists dream!

The whole friggin country is up in arms about a damned flash of a breast on TV and even courting a damn investigation, while some terra-ist could sneak in a fleet of WMD's into the country and no one would notice. Al-qaida must be salivating at this golden opportunity.

[Corgigal]

24. Republicans have never seen a boob before?

Oh that's right, probably not a black one since 1870 or so.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

27. Sure they have...But they need to probe every last one.

In Jesus' name, no less...

[burrowowl]

26. When are they going to probe Bu$h!

@$($)@$*&@!_!#$)(!#*)!

[bluestateguy]

28. I can't believe this

Today at work I was joking with 2 friends of mine when I said "Well, I think Congress should hold hearings immediately."

I really was joking when I said that, and I was unaware that some people in Warshington are taking the idea seriously.

[mrdmk]

34. That is what happened at CBS

:kick:

[Jazzgirl]

29. Help me understand....

This incident actually warrants action by Congress??!!?? Don't they have better things to spend their time on, like....the budget, the war, the lies, health care, the lies, the lies??!!??

:wtf:

[calimary]

68. They're just getting warmed up to address that MOST pressing issue:

The one that's been singled out in the SOTU, even. The one urgent national crisis that's ripping our country apart, that we desperately need to focus all our time, energy, money and devotion to...

Steroid abuse.

[burrowowl]

31. And why doesn't congress

probe itself for obscenely raising media ownership to 39%.
DAMN THEM!

[Beam Me Up]

32. HOOTERS OF MASS DISTRACTION n/t

:wtf: :argh:

[Solly Mack]

35. Oh piffle...with everything that needs investigating, these snake oil

doctors do this...

[aquart]

36. Are they completely and totally insane?

Why yes.

[Enraged_Ape]

37. Millions for tits, not one cent for...

WMDs...9/11...Enron...Harkin...the secret Energy Meetings.

Unfuckingbelievable. Every day in this country is more outrageous than the last.

[mrdmk]

38. There are to many people involved in the planning

Of a super bowl halftime show for this indiscretion to slip by. This is a planned distraction by Viacom/CBS/MTV.

[Adams Wulff]

52. And you damn right well that Viacom will be vindicated.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

40. Nothing like placing the attention back on the REAL boobs

[Cocoa]

41. Leno actually had a good joke about this

said, we have to wait a year to find out why we went to war, but they'll get to the bottom of Janet's breast in about 48 hours.

Didn't get much of a laugh, but I thought it was right on...

[Voltaire99]

43. Leno's studio audience...

...usually seems to be full of dullards who either don't get or appreciate his jabs at Bush or our oligarchy.

[pfitz59]

42. More rich old white guys.....

obsessing about female sexuality. Udder BS! Moo!

[PaDUer]

44. I read the FEDS

were now investigating..

[Voltaire99]

45. Janet Jackson's boob for president!

Of course, it's going to be hard getting the boob on TV for the presidential debates, but we can worry about details later. Right now at this early stage, it's just important that the boob gets out, presses the flesh, and talks about the kind of leadership it will bring to our great nation.

[Corgigal]

48. LOL

funniest damn post I read tonight.

[gate of the sun]

47. there are alot more important things

for congress to be looking into.....give me a break.

[Seldona]

50. And yet $100k attempted bribery isn't appropriate

to investigate?

Pardon me while I go vomit now.

Burying the Bribe
Investigating Rep. Smith's charge is not "appropriate"?

http://slate.msn.com/id/2094318/

[Zhade]

51. Priorities, you stupid fuckers!

I mean, COME ON, what more do you need to impeach the traitors sitting in the White House? You want a map or something?

TAKE THEM DOWN OR BE CONSIDERED ONE OF THEM!

[SideshowScott]

53. Anything that has anything to do with sex MUST be investigated!

But anything that has to do with the deaths of americans must be ingored...whata times we live in i swear!

[GoBlue]

55. Shock and Awe

is good family TV but a bare breast is offensive. Welcome to FUBAR's world!

[laylah]

57. Probing a bosom

is SO much more important (and of course, for the Repubs, much more gratifying) than probing a stolen election, lies that took us to war, the outing of a CIA agent, 9/11, the ties between the Bushs and Bin Ladens, etc. so quit yer whinin' <sarcasm off>

Jenn

edited to add 9/11 :dunce:

[Mari333]

59. shock and outrage my ass

anyone wanna bet the hookers in DC are paid very well by many of those same congressmen on a weekly basis? what I wouldnt pay for a glimpse at one of those gals black books of names...

[dusty64]

60. Oh brother, I

see they are rushing to investigate the real crimes and scandals. Give me a break.

[CRK7376]

61. Just what we need

a bunch of boobs looking at another boob. Why don't they use the money they are wasting on this investigation for schools since No Child Left Behind is so weak.....?

[MaineDem]

62. What about the aggressive act that caused this

I couldn't care less if her breast was exposed but the way it was done - male aggression - is the real story.

Sorry, the real story is the dead and wounded, the CIA-operative leak, the Cheney-oil company link, the Halliburton deals, the lies in the SOTU, the GOP infiltrating the Dems computers, well, you get the picture.

THis goes beyond common sense!

[Tiberius]

72. Male aggression?

I don't understand what you're saying. What does this have to do with any of those things? An act like this would never happen without at least the two of them discussing it beforehand.

The 20% who think it wasn't planned are living in a delusional world.

[MaineDem]

75. I agree, they were in this together

What I meant was the atmosphere that the act was setting. The lyrics that he'll have her naked and the simulation of tearing off her clothing.

[Lorien]

85. Most of the outrage I'm hearing

isn't directed at Timberlake; it's towards Jackson for daring to possess a breast (and a pierced one at that)! Most reich wingers see women as a source of temptation and evil; Jackson is the one being demonized here for allowing "good Christian men" to entertain impure thoughts. We're turning into another Nation ruled by the Taliban. :-(

[R Hickey]

63. Will the boob investigation be followed by a body cavity search?

Now that Ashcroft, Powell and the GOP congress are all aroused, who can blame them for wanting to go a little further with a bodycavity search of Janet Jackson?

Some alert Republicans are already speculating that deeper probing may finally locate Iraq's WMD, or at least Iraq's hidden plans for weapons programs.

Where are the embedded reporters when we need them, and how long must we wait before Bush alocates the fifty billion dollars needed for an independent investigation of this "person of interest?"

[dansolo]

64. Why can't they just fine Janet/Justin and be done with it? (n/t)

[LoneStarLiberal]

65. Ah, Republican Priorities

What a bunch of stinking hacks. I particularly love Michael "Baby Bell" Powell's comment:

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell also promised further investigation, saying: “That celebration was tainted by a classless, crass and deplorable stunt.”

For the life of me I can't tell if he's talking about the Superbowl halftime show or his own pimp game to bend all of us over for his buddies at Verizon, SBC, and Qwest!

[DinahMoeHum]

66. Goes to show you, Repukes can't kick a duck in the ass. . .

unless they stand on a brick to do it.

And even then, it's a 50/50 chance they'll miss the mark.


:evilgrin:

[maddogesq]

67. Future headline on FAUX. <sarcasm>

CONGREESIONAL COMMITTEE DETERMINES FORMER PRESIDENT WAS CAUSE OF BREAST EXPOSURE AT SUPER BOWL

...Republican leaders urged for more investigation of Clinton's unit.

[qb]

69. Violence good... Sexuality bad... that's all you need to know.

Technically, Janet didn't violate any media standards - her nip was covered. I remember seeing a movie on prime time network TV that showed a dancer wearing nothing but a bikini bottom and pasted-on tassles.

[tom_paine]

70. Jesus H. Jumping Christ! The Imperial Congress let the Busheviks

shred all the Plame evidence for 78 days.

They let the Imperial Family perform whatever confilct-of-interest and fruad and theft of the day while making nary a peep!

But Prince Powell has decreed, and when an Imperial Scion decrees, the Imperial Congress elbows each other out fo the way to see who can lick the most boot.

Disgusting.

What has happened to our once-free, once-proud nation as we wait for the other shoes (hell, the whole other shoestore) to drop?

[annonymous]

71. Why is this worthy of a congressional investigation?

Surely there are more important things to investigate such as:

Halliburton overcharges
Outing a CIA agent
Cheney's secret meetings with energy industry
The whole Iraq fiasco

It goes to show you how shallow our Congress really is.

[Catherine Vincent]

73. This shouldn't surprise anyone.

These same boobs wanted to start an investigation of the INS because it was successful in returning a little boy to his natural father.

[Missy Vixen]

76. Are you kidding me?

Are you F*CKING KIDDING ME?

I realize I'm preaching to the choir here, but I am ASTOUNDED by the following!

>Prior to the widely watched incident, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) had introduced the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004, H.R. 3717, which would impose a 10-fold increase in the current penalty caps for indecency on television. But the exposed breast will receive another round of scrutiny when the House Energy and Commerce Committee considers the bill later this month, said Upton’s spokesman, Sean C. Bonyum.<

Good God Almighty. Has this nation gone insane?

Is there anything, ANYTHING else we could all be focusing on right now? It's over. There is nothing else that they can do to make up for BoobGate. In the meantime, we have 44 million men, women and children without health insurance. There are 500+ dead from the Iraqi dustup, not to mention the thousands who were "merely" maimed or injured. We still have a catastrophically high unemployment rate.

We STILL have not received even the most basic of investigation results from the biggest intelligence breach in the history of this country!

None of it matters. Janet Jackson's breast was on display on live national television for possibly five seconds, and this means that we will have to go through investigation after investigation after investigation on the subject?!?

Hey ladies and gentlemen, I just had an idea: Go to your local department store. Buy a bra. (I think there's a sale right now at Target; they had 2 for $10 last week.) Pin a note to it about any issue you think is more egregious than Janet Jackson's naked breast. MAIL IT to your legislators.

If they're going to be obsessed with breasts, perhaps we need to send them a constant reminder of what kind of boobs we think they all are...

Julie

[Streetdoc270]

77. Yet they say nothing about the View...

Monday morning at 10am on the View one of the hosts pulls her shirt aside reveling a fake but VERY relistic looking breast. This is shown close up, well lit and seen for a good 30 seconds, not just a glimpse in the dark, yet nothing is said about this. The show's producer shown saying to stop showing it that it looked too real, and he was getting angry at her.

[louis-t]

78. "Congress to probe Janet's boobie"

[screembloodymurder]

81. Boobs probe boob

what a headline.

[smirkymonkey]

80. Another Congressional "Probe" on

something of absolutely NO consequence. Would anyone blame me if I didn't pay my taxes this year?? What an f**ing waste of taxpayer $$.

This country is insane. :freak:

[Unforgiven]

82. There is Only one Solution..

to this problem.

Surgically remove the breast for questioning. :(

Then demand a Grand jury 'Probe' of the said breast. It's the only way we will ever know for sure. :)

We need to push for the maximum sentence for this offending breast!


So let's all get 'behind' this 'probe' and be proud 'Patriots' and score a touchdown.

That failing we can just kick a Field goal. :)


Sorry, I just can't deal with this insanity anymore, this nation is out of control........ :(

[leesa]

84. Yup, our worthless Congress in action.

2000, 2002 voter theft, 9-11, Afghanistan, Iraq, coporate corruption, etc, etc

Congress: "Fergedda bout it!"

An exposed breast,

Congress: "The Horror!

[saigon68]

86. Congress: "The Horror!

You got it---Wait until the children see the bloody, shredded, maggot infested corpse of Osama on CBS (with the "Graphic" warning)--- Yummy</Sarcasm>