go FCC censorship!!

[loserbutt]

Comparing last year's half time show to this years, this years's was 10 times better! No more barely clad "urban" dancers, no more pimps and hos and trying to be "risque." No, we got PAUL MCCARTNEY!! and he played Beatles songs!! Live! With a cool show! awesome, just awesome. Thank you FCC. :rolleyes:

[mrazntre]

i was hoping ashlee simpson woulda got the nod. :)

[tommyhtown]

I don't know the credit should go to the FCC, but props to the production company and Paul McCartney. This year halftime show was way better than last year for sure.

[loserbutt]

well, if the FCC hadn't given CBS so much shit for the Janet Jackson breast flap then the NFL would never have fired MTV and we'd have yet another bling bling super bowl half time show. but this year, it was a red-meat midwestern rock show (red state too), and with Paul McCartney it had some critical ummph to it!

[ism]

It was especially appropriate to have one of America's foremost musicians performing songs that exemplify "building bridges" during this time of war.

[hooligan]

It was especially appropriate to have one of America's foremost musicians performing songs that exemplify "building bridges" during this time of war.


Isn't it how the state department exported jazz during the cold war?

[deez nuts]

I don't know the credit should go to the FCC, but props to the production company and Paul McCartney. This year halftime show was way better than last year for sure.

i agree although i liked justin timberlake's performance. but, that janet jackson is just a freak and needs to be locked up along with her "i like to sleep with little boys" brother.

[TB4000]

Super "Bored" with Halftime
Monday February 7 5:10 PM ET

By Joal Ryan

If Janet Jackson's Super Bowl transgression was titillating the audience, then Paul McCartney's was boring the audience, according to viewers who lodged email complaints with the Federal Communications Commission in the wake of Sunday's big game.

A year after the FCC logged more than 500,000 complaints over Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl halftime show, the governmental watchdog had received exactly two complaints by Monday afternoon over McCartney's fully clothed set.

In both cases, viewers complained of being "bored" by McCartney's 12-minute, four-song showcase of Beatles and Wings classics, including "Hey, Jude," FCC spokeswoman Rosemary Kimball said Monday.

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Boring or not (and some TV writers did not disagree with that assessment), McCartney's performance was heavily TiVo'd, registering 5 percent more viewers than last year's Jackson fiasco, according to the replay-device company, and heavily watched.

The Super Bowl (halftime show included) had its usual hold on the TV nation, with 86.1 million watching the New England Patriots-Philadelphia Eagles football contest on Fox. That's down 4 percent from last year.

As an entertainment event, critics found the Patriots' 24-21 win over the Eagles as methodical and plodding as the musical acts and commercials.

Daily Variety likened McCartney's efforts to "damage control for last year's Janet Jackson incident." Still, wrote Brian Lowry, "Sir Paul delivered."

The New York Times' Jon Pareles noted that McCartney did manage to perform an unexpurgated version of "Get Back," complete with its references to "California grass" and crossdressing, with the NFL's blessing. "What was once mildly risqué is now merely droll," he wrote.

In USA Today, Michael Hiestand observed that the halftime show "returned to its traditional role--something that sits well with chips and dip."

The ads, which took almost as much heat last year as Jackson, also went down easier. Participants in USA Today's annual ranking of Super Bowl commercials sounded grateful for the lack of spots about four-hour erections and horses passing gas.

A Bud Light commercial featuring a pilot jumping out of skydiving plane in pursuit of a six-pack of the beer was the survey's top-rated commercial; Napster's lone Super Bowl entry, a spot comparing its service to iTunes, was the lowest-rated.

Commercials teasing would-be blockbuster movies received middling responses, per USA Today's data. Will Smith's Hitch was the highest-rated among the film spots; Warner Bros.' Batman Begins teaser the lowest-rated.

CareerBuilder.com, the job-search site, scored big with three spots featuring chimps--the commercials ranked fourth, fifth and six in the newspaper's survey.

Web builder GoDaddy.com's spoof on the Jackson wardrobe malfunction hung in the middle of the pack in the USA Today rankings. At the FCC, it was the undisputed number one.

No commercial or broadcast moment prompted more complaints--eight--than GoDaddy.com's, according to Kimball. (All told, the FCC recorded just 33.)

Also-rans in the complaint department included: Cialis (five viewers had a beef with the game's lone erectile-dysfunction sponsor); Fox announcer Joe Buck (one viewer wanted him "removed" from the booth); and last year's halftime show (three viewers apparently were still reeling from Jackson's breast).

Kimball said the FCC received two thank yous from viewers who appreciated the toned-down proceedings.

Apparently, sometimes boring can be a good thing.

[Faithless]

You go! Go Daddy!

GoDaddy.com hires same actress from pulled commercial (http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=36102)

By Tony Natale, Tribune
The "Go Daddy Girl" — the woman with the broken tank top strap featured in a controversial Super Bowl television commercial — isn’t finished.

Bob Parsons, president and founder of GoDaddy.com, a Scottsdale-based domain register for computer Web sites, said his firm has purchased time for at least two new commercials featuring Nikki Cappelli, the actress who grabbed national attention after she appeared in the Super Bowl commercial.

"We just finished producing two additional television commercials, both featuring the Go Daddy Girl (Cappelli)," Parsons reported on his Web site. "These will air after the Super Bowl and are a more direct response oriented in nature."

Nima Kelly, vice president of public relations for GoDaddy.com, said the commercials will begin running later this week on ESPN, MSNBC, the Sci-Fi Channel, USA Network, A &E and Bravo.

"They will be completely different from the Super Bowl commercial," Kelly said. "There will be no committees or dancing, but they will feature the same actress."

Parson’s 30-second commercial ran during the first quarter of the game watched by more than 80 million viewers, but was pulled before its second appearance scheduled for the final two minutes of the game.

The NFL and Fox Broad- casting Co. agreed to withhold the second running of the commercial, which focused on a young woman whose tank top strap breaks during her appearance before a "censorship committee," mostly of aging men.

The commercial was described as a "parody of the censorship" that is taking place today, wrote Parsons, referring to the anguish caused among broadcast corporations last year when Janet Jackson’s right breast was exposed during the Super Bowl halftime.

The pulled commercial and the two, yet-to-be-viewed commercials were produced in Los Angeles by professional actors, including Cappelli.

Brian McCarthy, spokesman for the NFL, said the football league objected to the commercial after it aired during the first quarter of the game.

"We did have a conversation with Fox after the spot aired and we expressed our belief that the spot was inappropriate," McCarthy said.

"But, ultimately, it was Fox’s decision to not air it again," he said. "We (the NFL) don’t have control of advertising. We don’t sell it, nor do we have an opportunity to review it prior to its airing."

Jon Nesvig, president of advertising sales for Fox, said the ad was pulled because it was "out of step."

Lou D’Ermilio, senior vice president of communications at Fox’s New York City headquarters, said he had no information about a potential refund for GoDaddy.com for the second commercial spot.

Parsons said he wired additional funds to Fox for the last two minutes of playtime, bringing his costs for both Super Bowl commercials to more than $3 million.

No other executives at Fox or the NFL could be reached for comment about refunds.

The GoDaddy.com ad was among more than 50 commercials that ran during the less than three hours of the Super Bowl, costing buyers an estimated $200 million.

Sunday’s commercial was the company’s first attempt at what is planned as a major national and international advertising campaign, Parsons said.

[thaite]

Comparing last year's half time show to this years, this years's was 10 times better! No more barely clad "urban" dancers, no more pimps and hos and trying to be "risque." No, we got PAUL MCCARTNEY!! and he played Beatles songs!! Live! With a cool show! awesome, just awesome. Thank you FCC. :rolleyes:

Hey, you think that's bad? That was just one incident in one year.

Look at the chicks in high school and college these days and see how risque and sexy they're dressing. Now, what did I get to look at when I was in college? Grunge. :mad:

[loserbutt]

Hey, you think that's bad? That was just one incident in one year.

Look at the chicks in high school and college these days and see how risque and sexy they're dressing. Now, what did I get to look at when I was in college? Grunge. :mad:

hahahahahhahaa!

god, it's so true. Kurt Cobain was a sellout!

[Faithless]

A commentary on that "California Grass" and the other stuff --

Political correctness out of control in America (http://www.quchronicle.com/news/2005/02/16/Commentary/Political.Correctness.Out.Of.Control.In.America-865190.shtml)
By Rob Ettman
Published: Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Why are some Americans such babies? Ever since last year's wardrobe malfunction at the Super Bowl, millions of people have been contacting the FCC about things that they believe are offensive. And even though this year's Super Bowl was tamed down to make sure no one could possibly be offended by any of the material shown, people still managed to find material to be offended with.

This year's most complained about part of the Super Bowl was surprisingly not the GoDaddy.com ad which showed a model losing a strap to her shirt while testifying in front of a grand jury, but instead was during Paul McCartney's halftime show. You read that right, the former Beatle who was brought in to perform during halftime to bring it credibility, brought also the most complaints. The reason: because during his second song, the Beatles hit "Get Back" there are lyrics that refer to "that California grass."

This is just ridiculous. Those lyrics, which have been a part of rock n' roll history and has been played on the radio for years, is now being complained against by some over-protecting parents who truly believe that if their children hear those lyrics, they will be tempted to try that California grass. People who find that line offensive should have all their rights taken away and be deported from this country out of stupidity.

Another complaint during the Super Bowl came from an ad in which everyone was staring at a guy walking down the street, including one of the members of Queer Eye For The Straight Guy who was also staring at him. You can always count on the homophobes to complain about something so trivial like that.

What is scary is that these complaints will actually result in the FCC handing down sanctions and punishments for material as non-offensive as this. In fact, George W. Bush just urged the FCC to be tougher in its punishments stating that they have a right to protect America's families from inappropriate material. My solution is to just tell these parents to not let their kids watch it if they believe it's inappropriate. Why have all of us normal people suffer because of some people who can not take a few jokes or drug references?

This brings me to the biggest and most putrid censorship so far this decade. The state of Mississippi just recently banned The Daily Show's new book America: The Book in all their libraries, because of the game they include in the book which has the Supreme Court Justices naked, and you have to cut out their robes and put it on them. From now on, the New York Times number one bestseller for almost two months will not be found in any library in Mississippi. Leave it to the state where its residences can barely spell the state they live in, to ban a book because of "lewd" material.

To ban a book could quite possibly be the least American thing that can ever be done in this country. To censor something that was able to be written because of our First Amendment's freedom of speech makes the entire idea of American democracy almost non-existent. The state of Mississippi should be ashamed of itself and if it continues to ban books then it should do the rest of us a favor and secede from this union because that is not what America is all about.

People who complain to the FCC about the material they see on television or hear on the radio should really stop being such pansies and grow up. If there is something that you might not like then deal with it and boycott the show. Just do not file complaints and demand that something be done because the rest of us, who can take jokes, do not need to have our entertainment censored. Grow up America before we lose all ability to express ourselves any way we want to.