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"narrow minded suffocating zealotry" ???

George W. Bush saved the world so you could mouth such inanities. Maybe he shouldn't have done so.

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It's the biggest event in the world, and of course children saw it.

Look, I'm in my 20s. I love the 18+ shows like Entourage, the Sopranos, etc. but there are specific warnings in place there. If a parent doesn't want their children exposed to this sort of thing, they should be able to know about it in advance and prevent them from watching.

Accident or not, this is serious, and there should be fines handed out. If it takes a while to figure out who knew what was going down I'm ok with it. Better to get it right.

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I was actually watching her performance and didn't catch the boob, so if any kid did manage to see it, unless their parents actually confirmed said boob or played it over and over on tivo, this would have had absolutely no impact on any life. Instead they've spent years telling us how horrific boobs are. Well, I have two, I see them every day and I couldn't give a sh*t.

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Did the outraged parents use blindfolds when breast-feeding their young children?

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It was a silly bit of vulgarity, and it could actually have been an accident (given her bright red under-attire, I suspect that was all that was supposed to have been "flashed"). Anyway, find me one kid who was traumatized... and I'll show you a kid who sadly was not breast-fed. Much ado about nothing.

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What's offensive about a breast? What's more damaging - a quick second of accidental breast-flash or discussions about how offensive they are, combined with repeated, repeated, repeated airing of the clip or screengrabs? If people were really concerned, the best thing to do would be stop to talking about it rather than bringing it up at every opportunity.

We're not talking porn here, we're talking about a natural part of the body of half the world's population, which a kid spends half of his toddler life staring at.

We need to stop confusing kids with silly, pointless taboos.

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"It's like a bit of the narrow-minded, suffocating zealotry of the last administration is still gasping for breath."

Gasping for breath? What else does the republican party have except for their narrow-minded, suffocating zealotry? It's their core principle!

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Well, I agree with you, but saying the government can't fine someone doesn't waste taxpayer dollars. It actually prevents the government from collecting revenue (the fine).

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Like Modwild, I was watching and missed it.

Even after all this time, the hypocrisy is staggering.

On the one hand, you have a multi-hour extravaganza of men beating the smeg out of each other interspersed with commercials for erectile dysfunction and spots for beer featuring frolicking women wearing way less than Ms. Jackson.

On the other hand, you have a fleeting glimpse of a breast without the nipple showing which a significant portion of the people actively watching didn't catch.

Why is it that the former is Wholesome Family Entertainment, while the latter is a harbinger of The Fall of American Civilization?

Personally, I'm of the more skin, less violence contingent. And yes, I'm a parent.

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You, sir, are an ass. Why are you wasting time demagoguing the previous administration? Why don't you move on dot org and pay attention to the current issues of the times? The Supreme Court telling a lower court to reconsider their opinion in a different context wastes no dollars. Not a single one. The same judges get paid the same money, the same clerks work in the same offices, the same janitors clean the same building.

But no, its far easier to make snarky remarks blaming a previous executive administration for some standard legal procedure to drive up those blog hits and blog comments. "O noes, its teh Bush again! Lolzorz!"

Next time you troll for comments, can you at least TRY and inject some intelligence into your rambling?

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All the people posting "what's the big deal about a breast" are missing the point that it's not your kid, and therefore your judgement as to what is or isn't a big deal asically doesn't mean beans. If you don't want their values imposed upon you, then you can't turn around and insist that they adopt your values.

Seeing the breast isn't the issue. Not being given the choice as to whether you wanted to is. If viewers had been allowed to make an informed choice - "this sporting event may contain nudity and awful music" - then anybody complaining can STFU. But the fact is, the surprise represented someone imposing their moral judgment and values upon millions of households without any warning or consent. If a Christian group hijacked the public airways in the middle of "Family Guy" I doubt it would be cavalierly dismissed with a "what's so awful about hearing about Jesus". And it shouldn't be. Insuring that citizens don't violate the rights of other citizens is pretty much a cut and dry governmental function, the government has a vested interest in making sure this sort of thing doesn't happen via a state regulated media. Which means this is one of the few things the government has done is recent memory that actually is a legitimate use of tax dollars.

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How is this going to save Chuck?

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Biggest event in the world? Are you on drugs? Whilst it may be the biggest event in the US, 99% of the rest of the world couldn't care less. Whereas in comparison the Soccer World Cup where apart from the US, Canada, & Australia most of the world does care, and the Olympics where most of the world does care. And back on topic. it's a boob, get over it. 50% of the worlds population have 2 of them, she wasn't even showing her nipple, and the network had nothing to do with it. It was just those Jackson & Timberlake. It's a massive waste of money.

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I think sending our children to die in the dessert on a lie is more damaging to them than a breast, but that's just me.

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I have a solution that would be long term and never cause a fine for a boob incident. Quit pushing puritan views!!! Jeez...if we didn't make such a huge deal out of it...guess what?...it then wouldn't be a big deal. I wonder how many kids are messed up from the hundreds of times their face was pushed into their mothers boobs...or taking baths and showers with a parent...or seeing any parents naked. Come on! Drop the puritanical crap!

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