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The fair and balanced report on FoxNews of the lawsuit filed against Janet Jackson's nipple

Bank worker Terri Carlin wants compensation for herself and millions of viewers "injured" by the lewd behavior of Jackson and fellow performer Justin Timberlake during Sunday's Super Bowl coverage.

On Wednesday Carlin filed a proposed class-action lawsuit in federal court in Knoxville, Tenn., against Jackson, Timberlake, broadcasters MTV and CBS and their parent company, Viacom.

The suit fails to specify what injuries Carlin suffered when she saw Timberlake rip off part of Jackson's costume, exposing her breast, saying only that: "As a direct and proximate result of the broadcast of the acts, [Carlin] and millions of others saw the acts and were caused to suffer outrage, anger, embarrassment and serious injury."

The lawsuit argues the broadcast companies and the singers breached an "implied" contract with viewers not to subject them to sexually explicit acts during what should have been family entertainment.

"All of the defendants knew that the Super Bowl, the preeminent sports event in the United States, would be watched by millions of families and children," says the claim, filed by attorney Wayne Ritchie II.

At no point does the story in any way characterize the lawsuit or the aggrieved party.

Let me.

As Skimble points out, the lady is requesting total revenues from, among other parties, CBS, MTV and Viacom for three years in return for her pain and suffering (as opposed to the somewhat lower [suggested]* cap on recovery by people who are actually, you know, injured).

Class action lawsuit, too. Pretty much the whole country can sign on.

Why, this here woman is trying to use the courts to carry out a broadscale transfer of assets from corporate America to individual americans!

This sort of thing could lead to paying taxes!

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I think it's rather sweet, don't you, that in the wake of its own first trembling virgin experience before the bench, Fox finds itself able to throw off the shackles of its preconceptions and embrace the frivolous lawsuit.

*edit: blog half asleep, see what it gets you

*gasp*

I personally demand a gazillion dollars from the Justice Department, John Ashcroft, the federal government, the New York Times, the class mammalia and whoever made my bathroom mirror. Them twice.

...clutches pearls...

and the choirs of angels in heaven speak to the glory of God, and say in celestial chorus, ewwwwww:

So I'm reading Grace Slick's autobiography (I'll be honest with you, what tipped the balance with me on taking this one home from the warehouse book outlet was a really cool cover, but she has a nice jazzy narrative rhythm most of the time) and I come to this passage:

Because I have the Robin Williams disease -- If-you-can-remember-the-sixties-you-werent-really-there-itis -- I've blanked on what country the Strawberry Fuck was actually in, so I called author Danny Sugarman, who probably knows more about The Doors than they know about themselves.

What countries did we play with The Doors? I asked him.

He gave me the Frankfurt, Copenhagen, London, Amsterdam list.

And where, if you could possibly figure this out, would we have been when I fucked Jim?

Danny took a long pause, and then he said You know, Grace, I'm glad you're telling everybody you screwed Jim. You can't believe the amount of ugly women whove claimed to have fucked him.

I think we can agree that this is the kind of thinking that has made Danny the pagan demigod that he is among prepubescent boys who blew off school to follow a rock band around the country and do drugs and market the resulting ouevre to middle America for the rest of their lives.

Bravo. If I were a sexist, I would say Brava.

oh, I just love Technorati Breaking News

This is the number one listing of the current number one subject of discourse, debate and social commentary in this revolutionary blogtopia (y,sctp) we call our own

Birdie Buggery This is just sick and wrong. Heaven's sake, is no corner . Heaven's sake, is no corner of earth safe from gay propaganda? Given our trash culture, and the way the homosexuals have been pushing their agenda down our throats, I suppose it was inevitable that the "alternative lifestyle" mindset would soon

Kidding. He's kidding. But for a second, I wasn't sure.

edit: o bliss o glee o rapture o joy for all my former woes a thousand times repaid:

same source, same story

Pushing The Agenda

The New York Times is reporting that all animals have gay sex.

The article reads like a push of the gay agenda -- hey all types of animals do it, so it must be normal. I don't think one article can prove that and , even if it did prove it is a cross species behavior they can't prove that it is right behavior or accepted behavior or normal behavior.

He has a shoutout to Kathryn Lopez at the Corner on the same page, kids. He's not kidding.

more breast stuff

seamusd reminds us of the poetically succinct demonstration of the moral priorities of our nation's guardians of public values that was given unto us when the network tried to have a breast excised from Schindler's List so that no-one who tuned in to see still-warm bodies incinerated would be inadvertantly exposed to obscenity.

edit: aha. woops. the money quote (ahem) is here

Limits on the depiction of violence were crossed years ago, and anyone who has seen network reality shows like ABC's "Are You Hot?" or "Temptation Island" on the Fox network understands that network standards about sex are almost as skimpy as cable's. The F.C.C. has jurisdiction over networks, not cable, and its enforcement of indecency statutes is scattered. Last year, the commission received about 240,000 complaints about some 375 different radio and television programs, and issued a total of three fines.

The networks are careful not to violate the mammary taboo. Breasts are shown at varying angles of nudity depending on the hour of the day, but nipples are not normally shown on network television. (The first broadcast of "Schindler's List" was a notable exception. The director, Steven Spielberg, refused to edit his Holocaust film, and NBC went along, assuming viewers would not consider nudity the most disturbing element in the film. The network got complaints anyway.)

For millions of Americans who believe that the violence, sex and nudity on network shows keep growing bolder and sleazier, Janet Jackson's extreme exposure (her metal sunburst enhanced rather than concealed her nipple) was almost welcome. Like federal prosecutors sending Al Capone to jail for tax evasion, critics of all stripes used the Jackson infraction as a chance to vent about far worse, unpunished, offenses.

"The outcry is really about the glaring lack of accountability or responsibility at some of the most important media and entertainment institutions in the country," James P. Steyer, the founder of Common Sense Media, a parents' lobbying group, said. "How could they think this was O.K.?"

Mr. Timberlake did more than just expose Ms. Jackson's breast. The move, a pantomime of sexual assault, is not widely accepted, however commonplace it may be on MTV and at hip-hop concerts. And it was particularly jarring during the testosterone-fueled Super Bowl, an event that to some minds is linked, however speciously, to male violence against women. (A women's advocacy group in 1993 got a lot of attention by stating that rates of spousal abuse were higher on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day, even though research did not support the claim.)

buffs nails

One hesitates to say one told one so.

Well, sometimes one does, anyway.

Two days later, [long-time Post investigative reporter Walter] Pincus, together with Dana Milbank, the Post's White House correspondent, was back with an even more critical story. "As the Bush administration prepares to attack Iraq this week," it began, "it is doing so on the basis of a number of allegations against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that have been challenged?and in some cases disproved ?by the United Nations, European governments and even US intelligence reports." That story appeared on page A13.

The placement of these stories was no accident, Pincus says. "The front pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times are very important in shaping what other people think," he told me. "They're like writing a memo to the White House." But the Post's editors, he said, "went through a whole phase in which they didn't put things on the front page that would make a difference."

via atrios, who also has the coals-to-Newcastle tale of Tom DeLay, through his PAC, expressing his tangible appreciation to Hooters for their openhanded support of his fellow boobs.

(Clearly breasts are following me today. Maybe I should go with the flow and walk backwards)

now this is interesting

If you're having one of those moments when you're looking around local blogtopia (y,sctp) and noone seems to be posting, take a look at this. michaelnolan has asked for nominations from Live Journal users of people whose LJs they follow, and he's friending 250 of them to do research for a projected book on community blogging.

Needless to say, there's some interesting stuff on his friends page.

Full disclosure: I see that I somehow got on the list. Presumably he has a picture of hardboiled eggs on his refrigerator door and his eyes just aren't quite there yet. I think a couple of days of my endless rapidfire posting could take care of that very neatly. Glad I could help...

just an electric pulse from the presidency

I had to shoot him, your honor. He was raping me. Well, technically he was impotent and his zipper was stuck, but he had a penis.

Vice President Dick Cheney defended the war in Iraq and touted the U.S. economy Saturday night while helping the Missouri Republican Party raise more than $500,000 for this year's election.

Cheney, the keynote speaker at the Republicans' annual Lincoln Days, said the evidence indicates that Saddam Hussein had the intent to use weapons of mass destruction, even though inspectors have not found any massive stockpiles.

"We know that Saddam had the capacity to produce weapons of mass destruction," Cheney told the crowd of roughly 800 Republicans at the Renaissance Grand Hotel. "He had the science and technology, and we know that he had the necessary infrastructure because we found the labs."