Did some right wing groups go overboard after the Janet Jackson SUper Bowl fiasco? Did a few try to use that incident to push a larger agenda? Sure.
But don’t kid yourself, it was NOT just one or two disgruntled kooks who were angry about that incident.
The uproar, for the most part, was NOT about a brief flash of nipple, in and of itself. It was the fact that CBS put such a display in the middle of a show where that was unwanted and unexpected.
A man who goes to a nudist colony and compains that there are naked people is a moron. A woman who goes to a George Romero festival and complains that there’s violence is an idiot. Practically everyone KNOWS to expect nudity and/or violence at certain times and places.
Little uproar followed Madonna Frecnh kissing Britney Spears at the MTV awards, because everyone EXPECTS such crap at an MTV awards show, and the people who find such stuff offensive aren’t watching. But the Super Bowl is a show that EVERYONE watches, including millions of kids. And millions of parents were furious that Viacom (the conglomerate that owns both CBS and MTV) would stick sexual content on a show where it’s clearly out of place.
Most Americans would probably say, “Leave that stuff on the stations where it belongs, and leave our football games alone.”