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M.I.A.'s raised middle finger now stands alongside Janet Jackson's exposed nipple in the rogues' gallery of infamous Super Bowl halftime body parts. And on Monday, the day after the Giants' last-minute win over the Patriots at Super Bowl XLVI, the harrumphing has begun.Midway through Madonna's extravagant Super Bowl halftime show, guest performer M.I.A. flipped the bird to millions of viewers while singing "Give Me All Your Luvin'." Broadcast censors attempted to blur it out, but the timing was off, with the blurred screen happening just moments after M.I.A.'s bird had flown.Perhaps most outraged is the Parents Television Council. PTC President Tim Winter released a statement taking NBC to task for the slipped finger."NBC fumbled and the NFL lied because a performer known as M.I.A. felt it necessary to flip off millions of families," Winter said. "It is unfortunate that a spectacular sporting event was overshadowed once again by broadcasting the selfish acts of a desperate performer."Sunday night, a source close to M.I.A. said the performer had been struck with "a case of adrenaline.""She wasn't thinking," the source said. "It wasn't any kind of statement. She was caught in the moment and she's incredibly sorry."But sorry isn't cutting it for Winter. "The mechanism NBC had in place to catch this type of material completely failed, and the network cannot say it was caught off guard," he said. "It has been eight years since the Janet Jackson striptease, and both NBC and the NFL knew full well what might happen. They chose a lineup full of performers who have based their careers on shock, profanity and titillation. Instead of preventing indecent material, they enabled it.
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"I don't give a fuck about race...I'm white, I'm American, but that shit don't matter. I'm human."
I don't even know who the fuck M.I.A. is.
Life for the sake of life means nothing.
"NBC fumbled and the NFL lied because a performer known as M.I.A. felt it necessary to flip off millions of families,"
There are very few problems that cannot be solved with a good taint punching.
I didn't even see it and no one in my house did... How the hell did anyone else?
Pardon the interruption, good sir/lady; there are aspects of your behavior that I find quite unbecoming, and I must insist most strenuously that I be permitted to assist in resolving these behaviors through the repeated high-velocity cranial introduction of particularly firm building materials.
GIVE ME KNOWLEDGE OR I WILL PUT A CAP IN YO ASS!
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Corinthians 13: 4-7
I'll stop eating beef lamb and pork the same day they start letting me eat vegetarians.
