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Well crazy Christains don't think, that's all.

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Those "complaints" are sad and funny at the same time.

And since when do people actually sit, stay, and watch the halftime show anymore?

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The whole problem with FCC content regulation methodology is that they only respond to complaints. 100,000 or even a few thousand complaints from organized groups--some from people who didn't actually see the broadcast in question, but were told about it--are given great weight when 10,000,000 or 50,000,000 viewers saw the broadcast and didn't complain. And now the assholes on both left and right want the FCC to regulate cable content, even though the only rationale for government regulation of broadcast is that the public owns the frequencies and grant networks limited licenses, which doesn't apply to cable, privately owned systems, voluntarily subscribed to.

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The one with the "father" blaming CBS for turning his son gay is laughibly fake.

Thank God these nutjobs don't aren't in politics. Wait a second---

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The FCC is outdated and should be gone in todays world.

But if the FCC gets like 100 complaints they sue the station for millions. BC has a point. A priest in a church could tell hundreds about the Super Bowl and go "Everyone write in and tell the FCC we don't want TV turning our kids gay, that's my job. Little Jimmy come sit on my lap". The FCC needs to be ban now and the south needs to be nuked.

Sorry relitives down there, it's for the good of the country.

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Yes, please get rid of the overt man kissing and semi-phalluc images from football and get it back to its roots: muscular men in tight pants prancing around and dancing on a field of grass.

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I'd love to see them try to fine CBS for the halftime show. After Justin Timberlake & Janet Jackson's stupid stunt (that CBS had no part in), the NFL insisted on producing future halftime shows. So if anything, the FCC needs to fine the NFL, just like they went after Bono, not NBC, for his stunt at the Golden Globes. It shouldn't be the broadcaster's fault if someone who should know how to behave on live television does something stupid. I'm all for having delays on stuff where the public can be dumb, but you'd think that celebrities (vapid as they may be) could at least figure out what to do.

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I wish people would understand that something you see or hear can't "turn" someone gay. You can't change what gender you're attracted to any more than you can change your height. But this is a whole different topic.

Considering the tens of millions of people who watched the superbowl and considering how many stupid people there are in this country, 150 complaints is nothing.

Hell, Bob got that many complaints about his Studio 60 reviews here on TVS. :-)

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During the very same game I saw a man sticking his hands repeatedly between the legs of another man. They even have names for these men: the "center" and the "quarterback." And while the quarterback had his hands between the center's legs, he was yelling to all his friends, probably telling them all how much fun he was having. This can not continue!

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Okay, humanity is LONG overdue for a f***ing extinction! Seriously. Or at the very least we need to consider concentration camps. There is simply nothing funny about the thought that asshats like the guy that thinks his kid will turn gay from watching Prince's phallic shadow are actually out there sucking up my precious oxygen.

So listen up, hairless apes. If you are one of those inbred knuckle draggers that actually wrote a letter to the FCC about this crap, know that my deepest, fondest wish as of this moment is to see you lead into a "shower" and gassed till you stop twitching.

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"Hell, Bob got that many complaints about his Studio 60 reviews here on TVS. :-)"

Well in that case I agree that he should be ban from anything dealing with Studio 60.

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I actually looked at some of the complaints on The Smoking Gun website, and you want to know what the excised part of the "Thanks for making my son GAY!" quote was??

It was "I am actually considering to check him for HIV." What is *wrong* with people?

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The only complaint..actually two that I have is why did Prince perform anyways? And the other is just shut up about this whole gay thing and stop trying to provoke something that is going to cause problems.

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David, there's no need to reinforce stereotypes, like that ridiculous comment (however kidding you may or may not have been) about the priest and the kid on his lap. You're just as bad as the morons who made those FCC complaints.

And also, it's painfully obvious that the first comment was a joke or prank, especially after hearing about the deleted HIV line. There's no way someone can actually think that way, it's too ridiculous.

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I assume some of those are jokes. The guy talking about his inability to perform after seeing the size of Prince's junk obviously ranks as a joke. The gay son thing also seems like a joke.

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