Surely you remember the sanctimonious outrage when, during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, Janet Jackson experienced a "wardrobe malfunction" which gave the audience a glipse, lasting nine-sixteenths of a second, of one of Janet Jackson's breasts.
Judging from the hysteria, one might think that children's psyches were forever traumatized by that fleeting moment where, if they were paying attention closely enough, they may have caught that brief shot of a beautiful woman's breast. The end of civilization as we knew it.
So the FCC hit CBS with a $550,000 "indecency" fine.
It reminded me of when former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft spent $8,000 of taxpayer money for drapes to cover two partially nude statues that stand in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice.
Fortunately, cooler heads have prevailed in the CBS case -- for now. Yesterday, here in Philly, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the fine.
The religious "right" will surely be up in arms now. They seem to want their children to believe that our bodies are bad, "dirty", or shameful.
It's no wonder that we hear of so many right-wing politicians, ministers, etc., leading secret sexual lives (secret at least until they get caught).
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