OT (sort of): CBS revisited

Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene, but inciting the public to violence
against airplanes and pilots is not. I know! We will disguise all our
airports as unmentionable body parts, and CBS will never be able to do a
story on us again!

--
Christopher J. Campbell
World Famous Flight Instructor
Port Orchard, WA


If you go around beating the Bush, don't complain if you rile the animals.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene, but inciting the public to violence
against airplanes and pilots is not. I know! We will disguise all our
airports as unmentionable body parts, and CBS will never be able to do a
story on us again!

That's it!! The "Big Johnson Airport"? A peculiar shape to the ramp and
taxiways as viewed from above.

C J Campbell wrote:
Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene,

What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a woman's breast
is "obscene"?

The USA is such the embarassment to me sometimes; lately more often than
not.

I agree, I think the reaction is what is obscene.

Most of the older folks I talked to about it today thought it was in poor
taste, but not nearly as poor taste as what they called "music."


"John Harlow" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:
Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene,

What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a woman's
breast
is "obscene"?

The USA is such the embarassment to me sometimes; lately more often than
not.

"John Harlow" wrote in message
What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a woman's
breast
is "obscene"?

I'll be the first to say that a woman's breast doesn't not exactly offend me
under most circumstances.

However, it's obscene when you are watching the SuperBowl with a half-dozen
of your ten year-old's buddies and that kinda crap happens. After it was
over, the silence from those kids was deafening.

I want to introduce my son to the ways of women on my terms, not MTV's and
CBS's. I hope the FCC fines their asses into bankruptcy.

Damnit.

--
Jim Fisher

"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
.. .
However, it's obscene when you are watching the SuperBowl with a
half-dozen
of your ten year-old's buddies and that kinda crap happens.

As if the rest of the half-time show was in any way suitable for ten year
old kids.

I want to introduce my son to the ways of women on my terms, not MTV's and
CBS's. I hope the FCC fines their asses into bankruptcy.

One exposed breast is NOT "the ways of women". And the sexuality seen in
the rest of the show (and similar performances, in music videos and the
like) is such an enormously obscene caricature of what really happens
between consenting adults, you'd better be well into the explanations by now
if your son is watching that crap.

The reaction of hundreds of millions of prudish adults speaks way more
loudly than a single breast would ever have a hope to. No kid would even
care, if it weren't for the fact that their parents are always having a fit
whenever any skin shows up. Of course, those parents usually don't have any
problem at all with their kids playing Halo and Mortal Kombat, or watching
people (bad guys and good) getting shot up and blown up on TV.

Now *that's* obscene.

Pete

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
you'd better be well into the explanations by now
if your son is watching that crap.

That's just it, Peter, he does not watch that crap. He sure likes football
and the Panthers. Next year, I will definately plan some occupying events
for haltime . . . And keep MTV out of my house for a few more years.

No kid would even
care, if it weren't for the fact that their parents are always having a
fit
whenever any skin shows up.

You are exposing your obtuse ignorance again, Pete. Of COURSE kids care
about that crap! Most would stare at naked pictures all day long if they
could. Even at ten years old. They would eat only ice cream, stay up late,
forgo school and live in a fort unless someone who has some semblance of
values tightens their reins and demonstrates boundaries of manners and
taste.

So how many kids do you have, Peter?

--
Jim Fisher

"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
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That's just it, Peter, he does not watch that crap.

I don't get it. If he doesn't watch that crap, how'd he see the breast in
question?

You are exposing your obtuse ignorance again, Pete. Of COURSE kids care
about that crap! Most would stare at naked pictures all day long if they
could. Even at ten years old.

I didn't say they wouldn't. I said it's primarily because of the way their
parents react to even the slightest hint of nudity. If you want to reply to
posts that weren't written, I'll just leave you to that and not even bother
trying to clear things up for you.

So how many kids do you have, Peter?

One. What's that got to do with anything? You don't need to have a child
to understand how the way society in general reacts to, and allows to be
broadcast, any variety of potentially offensive subjects affects how
children (and people in general) react to those potentially offensive
subjects.

There are lots of societies where an exposed breast is no big deal, and
where children aren't shocked by them. The USA just doesn't happen to be
one of them.

Pete

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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|
| One exposed breast is NOT "the ways of women". And the sexuality seen in
| the rest of the show (and similar performances, in music videos and the
| like) is such an enormously obscene caricature of what really happens
| between consenting adults, you'd better be well into the explanations by
now
| if your son is watching that crap.
|

I did not watch that crap and I avoid it wherever it is on display. I doubt
if my son or daughter saw it, either.

| The reaction of hundreds of millions of prudish adults speaks way more
| loudly than a single breast would ever have a hope to. No kid would even
| care, if it weren't for the fact that their parents are always having a
fit
| whenever any skin shows up. Of course, those parents usually don't have
any
| problem at all with their kids playing Halo and Mortal Kombat, or watching
| people (bad guys and good) getting shot up and blown up on TV.

As a matter of fact, I do care about kids playing violent video games, and
my kids now care about their kids. Neither my kids nor their children even
own a video game player.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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As a matter of fact, I do care about kids playing violent video games, and
my kids now care about their kids. Neither my kids nor their children even
own a video game player.

Which is great. You are one of those rare parents that supervises and
censors their children in a consistent manner. That has nothing to do with
how most parents raise their kids in this country, nor with the attitude
most people in this country have regarding sex and violence.

I applaud your hard-nosed, honorable approach to parenting. But the uproar
over the exposed breast is still absurd, given the context.

Pete