OT (sort of): CBS revisited

Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene, but inciting the public to violence
against airplanes and pilots is not. I know! We will disguise all our
airports as unmentionable body parts, and CBS will never be able to do a
story on us again!

--
Christopher J. Campbell
World Famous Flight Instructor
Port Orchard, WA


If you go around beating the Bush, don't complain if you rile the animals.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene, but inciting the public to violence
against airplanes and pilots is not. I know! We will disguise all our
airports as unmentionable body parts, and CBS will never be able to do a
story on us again!

That's it!! The "Big Johnson Airport"? A peculiar shape to the ramp and
taxiways as viewed from above.

C J Campbell wrote:
Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene,

What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a woman's breast
is "obscene"?

The USA is such the embarassment to me sometimes; lately more often than
not.

I agree, I think the reaction is what is obscene.

Most of the older folks I talked to about it today thought it was in poor
taste, but not nearly as poor taste as what they called "music."


"John Harlow" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote:
Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene,

What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a woman's
breast
is "obscene"?

The USA is such the embarassment to me sometimes; lately more often than
not.

I don't know. The metal nosecone that she had covering her nipple very much
resembled the nosecone on a 172.

Oh wait, no. I've confused it for Madonna's.


"C J Campbell" wrote in
:

Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene, but inciting the public to violence
against airplanes and pilots is not. I know! We will disguise all our
airports as unmentionable body parts, and CBS will never be able to do a
story on us again!

"John Harlow" wrote in message
...
| C J Campbell wrote:
| Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
| BWAHAHAHA!
|
| I guess exposing a breast is obscene,
|
| What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a woman's
breast
| is "obscene"?
|
| The USA is such the embarassment to me sometimes; lately more often than
| not.

No matter where you draw the line of decency, there will be people who are
outraged by it. For you it is breasts. Perhaps you have some sort of
fixation? :-)

You have to draw the line somewhere. Personally, I think there is way too
much bare flesh as it is, for both men and women. Everyone seems to want to
go around dressed as some sort of prostitute. Selling sexy clothes, jewelry
and makeup to three year olds is a multi-billion dollar industry in this
country. Now, that really is embarrassing. We spend a fortune fighting child
porn on the one hand and dress kids as porn stars on the other. Talk about a
mixed message....

Maybe I'm just getting old and grouchy, but I long for the days when some
public decorum was expected. It might have been hypocritical on the part of
some, but at least you knew that there were lines you shouldn't cross.

Anyway, I suppose that now we will see it on TV more and more until it
becomes accepted. Then the yahoos will be complaining that it is
embarrassing that we don't allow hard core porn to be broadcast on TV. Allen
Bloom wrote once wrote that patriots made enormous sacrifices to protect
freedom, the best minds were marshaled to develop the most advanced
technology, loving parents scraped and sacrificed, and for what? So that
some eight year old can listen to a drag queen sing the praises of onanism
and murdering parents on his own CD player. What will future generations
think? Bloom noted that a society's greatest excesses always seem normal to
itself. Perhaps our television of today will seem as barbaric and
uncivilized to some future generation as the Roman circuses seem to us.

"John Harlow" wrote in message
What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a woman's
breast
is "obscene"?

I'll be the first to say that a woman's breast doesn't not exactly offend me
under most circumstances.

However, it's obscene when you are watching the SuperBowl with a half-dozen
of your ten year-old's buddies and that kinda crap happens. After it was
over, the silence from those kids was deafening.

I want to introduce my son to the ways of women on my terms, not MTV's and
CBS's. I hope the FCC fines their asses into bankruptcy.

Damnit.

--
Jim Fisher

Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene,

What the hell is wrong with an entire country where showing a
woman's breast is "obscene"?

The USA is such the embarassment to me sometimes; lately more often
than not.

No matter where you draw the line of decency, there will be people
who are outraged by it. For you it is breasts. Perhaps you have some
sort of fixation? :-)

Lol - go back and read what I posted, then try again!

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...
Now the FCC is investigating CBS for broadcasting obscene material.
BWAHAHAHA!

I guess exposing a breast is obscene, but inciting the public to violence
against airplanes and pilots is not. I know! We will disguise all our
airports as unmentionable body parts, and CBS will never be able to do a
story on us again!

Well, I dunno if CBS was "inciting the public to violence against
airplanes and pilots". Inciting the public to think they should
restrict them more, yeah.

Now our local news station is promising an expose' on chemical plants
and storage tanks on the news later this week. Hold me back. I
wonder what poor SOB they misled and misquoted for that.

wrt the BBB (Bare Boobie Broohaha), I sure don't get it. I didn't
see the halftime show, but those rappers and hip-hop types have some
lyrics which are pretty ripe. Then there's standard TV programming,
which seems to have the goal of maximizing the gore and violence
per hour. It's OK to have a halftime show featuring some dude
wrapped in an American flag and singing all kinds of "nasty" but
a little tit has everyone in a tither?

I work with a lot of people from other countries, and the Europeans
typically seem to think it's totally bizarre that in US, it's not
considered "obscene" or improper to show someone being violently
torn to shreds on TV, but a little too much skin or too much
affection is "off limits".

Cheers,
Sydney

"Jim Fisher" wrote in message
.. .
However, it's obscene when you are watching the SuperBowl with a
half-dozen
of your ten year-old's buddies and that kinda crap happens.

As if the rest of the half-time show was in any way suitable for ten year
old kids.

I want to introduce my son to the ways of women on my terms, not MTV's and
CBS's. I hope the FCC fines their asses into bankruptcy.

One exposed breast is NOT "the ways of women". And the sexuality seen in
the rest of the show (and similar performances, in music videos and the
like) is such an enormously obscene caricature of what really happens
between consenting adults, you'd better be well into the explanations by now
if your son is watching that crap.

The reaction of hundreds of millions of prudish adults speaks way more
loudly than a single breast would ever have a hope to. No kid would even
care, if it weren't for the fact that their parents are always having a fit
whenever any skin shows up. Of course, those parents usually don't have any
problem at all with their kids playing Halo and Mortal Kombat, or watching
people (bad guys and good) getting shot up and blown up on TV.

Now *that's* obscene.

Pete