What Was The Most Offensive Part of The Super Bowl Halftime Show?

[Plaid Adder]

Why should Janet have all the opprobrium? Vote for your favorite piece of offensiveness!

[LynneSin]

1. The fact they would air that offensive halftime show and not the Move On..

commericial

:shrug:

[ithacan]

2. Other: CBS refusal to run Move-On ad

although I did not watch the game or the half-time, it does sound absolutely awful. The Moon Landing in particular sounds incredibly bad.

[ithacan]

3. ...

(somehow the same post got posted twice...)

[phillybri]

4. What's that about Toby Keith?

:shrug:

[Plaid Adder]

7. "Beer for my Horses"

It's ambiguous, but if "take all the rope in Texas and go hang 'em high" is not a reference to lynching, I dunno what it is. Maybe someone can explain it to me...I'm not familiar with Toby's oeuvre.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[ironflange]

14. Maybe he's referring to, uh, Christmas ornaments?

:shrug:

[underpants]

5. Ever? I'd have to say El Vez

[jmowreader]

12. Oh come on, El Vez is cute!

In the greater scheme of offensiveness, I find camp much less harmful than jingoism.

[liberal72]

6. I think it was Nelly that was grabbing himself.

n/t

[Plaid Adder]

8. Whoops

Was not entirely clear on exactly who Nelly was. Will fix.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[trumad]

9. I wouldn't know...

I subscribed to the lingere football game on another channel.

[frylock]

10. aerosmith should have been doing the county fair tour a decade ago..

go away already!!

[T Roosevelt]

11. It was televised

[Alenne]

13. none of the above

I'm not as easily offended as my fellow American.

[NightTrain]

15. I went for the Timberlake option.

Honestly, that was my initial reaction when I heard about the booby incident: "Why the hell was Janet Jackson wasting her time and talent performing with Justin fucking Timberlake?"

That was right up there (or should I say, right down there?) with Aretha Franklin recording a duet with George Michael back in 1987--and having it become Lady Soul's second biggest pop hit ever! :puke:

[SiobhanClancy]

16. The most offensive thing...

is that this bit of nonsense is getting about 1000 times more coverage than the fact that the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl:(

[stanwyck]

17. What focus group from hell came up

with these "entertainers"? Toby Keith? Kid Rock? Justin Timberlake? Did the Bush twins get to select this year's halftime show? Considering the demographics of who actually watches the game, why (out of the hundreds of talented musicians in this country) did MTV select these marginally talented people? Good game. Sad little commercials. And pathetic half-time show of writhing bodies lip synching inane lyrics. We're sorry, Panthers and Patriots. You deserved better. And so did the viewers.

[neebob]

18. Does it have to be on the halftime show?

Because I didn't find any of these things particularly offensive - just lame and stupid. Kid Rock is far more disgusting in general than anything he wears on a given day. I was more offended by President Scumbag's appearance before the game. And disturbed by the helicopters flying over at the end of the national anthem. And what about P. Diddy's coat? That was offensive.

[LTR]

19. The fact that all SB halftime shows absolutely suck!

They were bad with Up With People. They suck now with all these hack pop acts (although they scored some points with U2, Sting and Paul McCartney in recent years).

Aerosmith hasn't been good for twenty years.