# It was a naked TIT. And by God someone is going to pay, and pay big. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515 "2004-09-22T17:14:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/21 "2004-09-22T20:31:48Z")
Hey, why stop at one $550,000 fine to the CBS network? Let’s nail every CBS affiliate in the country at $50k a pop. That’ll learn’em. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/22 "2004-09-22T20:51:03Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > (I don’t think us furriners can complain to US regulatory bodies, though.) And the FCC doesn’t regulate content of cable networks, so you’re out of luck there, too. ---
**Author:** ![MelCthefirst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@MelCthefirst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MelCthefirst)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/23 "2004-09-22T20:56:35Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > **WARNING - link involves a bare bum.** > > Compare that to Australia. Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins (AUS) stepped on her skirt and removed it, revealing her thong. It was all shown on TV here without alarm. We were subjected to [this](http://www.celebritymoviearchive.com/tour/movie.php/10590) without any fines. > > Apparently there is a more revealing front shot. So we get both this bare bottom moment and the Jackson breat moment, all on the 6pm news (not to mention to promos too). Is the news considered a family show? Why aren’t kiwi kids going crazy over all this nudity? Oh, wait a minute, we have one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the developed world…down with primetime TV nudity! ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/24 "2004-09-22T21:06:26Z")
Don’t you people understand!?!? Football is all about promoting violence, alcohol, and fatty foods, not sex! For Janet to show her breast like that would only have been appropriate it had been punched, had beer poured on it, or had her nipple been pierced by a cheeto. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/25 "2004-09-22T21:09:31Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Don’t you people understand!?!? Football is all about promoting violence, alcohol, and fatty foods, not sex! For Janet to show her breast like that would only have been appropriate it had been punched, had beer poured on it, or had her nipple been pierced by a cheeto. cough **cheerleaders** cough ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/26 "2004-09-22T21:10:49Z")
[voiceover] CBS - Keeping abreast of events [/v] I rather liked the Aussie girl’s ass. She’s a cutie. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/27 "2004-09-22T21:11:07Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > cough **cheerleaders** cough Prove that they don’t have Cheeto pierced nipples. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/28 "2004-09-22T21:12:40Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > cough **cheerleaders** cough Hush, you are making me look stupid :mad: If you wanted to get really silly about it, you could point out all of what is essentially groping that football players do after the ball is snapped with all of the homoerotic whatnot that comes with it, but that would just be _too_ silly ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/29 "2004-09-22T21:14:04Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Prove that they don’t have Cheeto pierced nipples. CRUNCH! munch munch munch ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/30 "2004-09-22T21:18:30Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > And the FCC doesn’t regulate content of cable networks, so you’re out of luck there, too. [Not so](http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/complain.html), **Captain**. > [@](#): > > Generally, the rules concerning the content of programming on cable channels are not as strict as the rules concerning programming content on non-cable channels. If you object to programming on a cable system, you may contact the FCC to determine what rules may be applicable and what action may be appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![brad\_d](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@brad\_d](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brad_d)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/31 "2004-09-22T21:18:48Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > Timberlake and Jackson don’t hold the FCC licenses and didn’t air the offensive material. CBS did, and, under the law, a licensee is responsible for the programming it airs. I guess this is what it boils down to, nonsensical though it may be. The FCC only has the authority to fine CBS, and since they apparently feel that they’ve gotta fine somebody… That it was a live broadcast in which (IMO) CBS could not have reasonably foreseen the baring of a naked tit does not appear to have been given any credence as a mitigating factor. Why, I am at a loss to explain. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/32 "2004-09-22T21:25:17Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > Prove that they don’t have Cheeto pierced nipples. :dubious: :dubious: :dubious: Have you _seen_ the outfits they wear? ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/33 "2004-09-22T21:44:45Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t even agree that the boob flash was inappropriate. Not one child in human history has ever been harmed by the sight of a tit. It seems that a bunch of tits, were fined by some other tits, to protect a load of self righteous tits, who were exposed to a bit of a tit, by a complete pair of tits. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/34 "2004-09-22T21:45:34Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > **WARNING - link involves a bare bum.** > > Compare that to Australia. Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins (AUS) stepped on her skirt and removed it, revealing her thong. It was all shown on TV here without alarm. We were subjected to [this](http://www.celebritymoviearchive.com/tour/movie.php/10590) without any fines. > > Apparently there is a more revealing front shot. Wow, that never happens at _our_ Westfield Shoppingtowns. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/35 "2004-09-22T21:53:29Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > :dubious: :dubious: :dubious: > Have you _seen_ the outfits they wear? Yes I have, but I was hoping you would provide links to some pictures. You know, to refresh my memory. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/36 "2004-09-22T22:35:15Z")
> [@brad\_d](#): > > That it was a live broadcast in which (IMO) CBS could not have reasonably foreseen the baring of a naked tit does not appear to have been given any credence as a mitigating factor. Why, I am at a loss to explain. Here’s the decision (in PDF), and please note this is a notice of apparent liability. Viacom will be free to argue the fine is too high or that they shouldn’t be blamed: [http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs\_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-209A1.pdf](http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-209A1.pdf) And, the decision discusses why the fine is being imposed against just the Viacom licenses and not CBS affiliates. It says that Viacom was involved in planning the halftime show, and while they might not have known that the breast would be bared, they knew that that portion of the show was sexually provocative. > [@](#): > > In sum, even assuming that neither CBS nor MTV had advance knowledge that Ms. Jackson’s breast would be exposed during her broadcast performance, the record clearly establishes that officials of CBS and MTV did have prior knowledge of, indeed were intricately involved in the planning process for, and tacitly approved, the sexually provocative nature of the Jackson/Timberlake segment. Moreover, they extensively promoted this aspect of the broadcast in a manner designed to pander, titillate and shock. Viacom made a calculated and deliberate decision to air the Jackson/Timberlake segment containing material that would shock Super Bowl viewers, and to accurately promote it as such. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/37 "2004-09-22T22:59:04Z")
And let’s not forget the lawsuit filed by the man who claimed to have been served up a heapin’ helpin’ of Mental Anguish® by the sight of the Jackson Boobie™. This man should be hit in the head with a brick. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/38 "2004-09-22T23:37:38Z")
For a 1-1/2 inch nipple, thats $77,809.08 per a square inch, $11,204,508 per square foot, or $488,068,368,000 per acre…that’s some “prime” real estate… ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/39 "2004-09-22T23:46:24Z")
I’m shocked that nobody has pointed this out yet, but it wasn’t _truly_ a naked TIT. It had a pretty little sun adorning it 😃 Sam ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515/40 "2004-09-23T00:43:47Z")
> [@neuroman](#): > > Hey, why stop at one $550,000 fine to the CBS network? Let’s nail every CBS affiliate in the country at $50k a pop. That’ll learn’em. Y’know what? If an affiliate, nervous about the inevitable randiness of the halftime show, had taken it upon themselves to locally delay CBS’s broadcast by ten seconds, just in case, and had been able to cut the video feed so as to avoid showing that horrible, horrible mammary gland to the public, they would have gotten thousands of complaints from people disappointed at their inability to participate in the national brouhaha. You can’t win here, folks. It’s also worth mentioning that the BoobFlash is the #1 most replayed moment in TiVo history. Says something, I think. “Oh look how horrible it is! Let’s watch it again. Oh my God that’s disgusting. Roll it back. Damn, this just keeps getting worse and worse. One more time…” :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-a-naked-tit-and-by-god-someone-is-going-to-pay-and-pay-big/265515.md?page=3)