The Smoking Gun has bought a small sampling of the outraged letters & email to the commissioner of the FCC over the Janet Jackson Boobage situation.
Some of them are so funny, and not meaning to be. There are some gems towards the end.
Mainly, this made my day.
nuts.
I thought I was posting this in MPSIMS.
Mods, please trebuchet it over…
Thanks.
This was telling: “But while so many complainants claimed to have been shocked at the site of Jackson’s breast, not a single e-mail provided to TSG (pursuant to a Freedom of Information request) was sent the night of the game. It wasn’t until the American Family Association and other conservative groups began screaming that the FCC’s mailbox began to swell.”
You mean that people didn’t send email to an unknown address on a Sunday afternoon? That many didn’t move to action until someone provided a convenient email address and they were behind their screens at work on Monday?
Do you really think the entire group of outraged citizens is so stupid that not one could have found said email address on his own? Well, ok, maybe…considering what they’re outraged over.
Well, when did you stop beating your wife?
I know that it simply didn’t occur to me to send a complaint. I’m used to complaints being ignored. In fact, I wasn’t even watching the Super Bowl and didn’t send email. However, you might consider that there are other reasons that people didn’t jump up from their couches and rush to send a missive off to the FCC right away.
Wait…you mean you would have complained if it had occurred to you to do so???
I just want to clarify that I’m not dissing you; I’m curious about what you found objectionable about the event, assuming you really would have complained about it.
Best “you guys up in arms about Tittygate are douchebags” quote ever- “I did not see any commercials for Chuck E Cheese”.
That whole series of letters was priceless. I’m going to church next week (a baptist church ought to do nicely) to ask if anyone caught Justin’s penis hanging out of his fly. That ought to keep 'em busy for a while…
I hope #4 was a joke because it made me laugh.
This one said it had enclosures. I wonder what they were?
Y’know, all these letters ( and these were a sampling) would make an outstanding coffee table book.
Everything divided into sections: The Coherent; Rambling and harmless; Restraints Needed and the Just Plain Funny.
I would buy it. It would be an interesting trip ( if not scary) into the minds of some people.
4 was good, but I really liked 8. Apparently now Janet’s breast is responsible for infanticide and murder of senior citizens.
I can’t believe that out of the first 11 letters, only number 11 actually made any sense and was worthy of a response.
Wonder what the attached image file was??
This is my favorite:
What I love is the random capitalization–not having the whole word in caps as if to add emphasis, but just soem word capitalized in the middle of the sentence. The grammar skills of this nation are just shocking!
Another good one:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jjfcc15.html
“Pull the pine cone out of your collective butts, you bunch of misguided uptight puritans.”
This (from #5) is so great: “The horse thing was really bad. I can’t even remember what they were advertising.”
But it gets better! Letter #9, in its entirety: “The Titty Bowl halftime program was bad besides the titty showing. Last thing I want to see is one of Janet Jackson’s middle aged tits with the aveola showing, Ugh gross.”
And the award for Typo of the Day goes to #10:
So true. It is difficult to effect young people over TV; the old-fashioned way is still my favorite.
I think L’ll use this quote from # 20 as my new sig.
Go to hell you nazi goverment daughter of an illigitimate street walking hooker from hell.
I have to say I do agree with the one letter writer that I was more put out by the horse farting gag than Janet’s breast exposure. What the heck were they selling anyway?