Comcast’s “wardrobe malfunction”
posted at 9:22 am on February 2, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Move over, CBS. Another media conglomerate has some embarrassing questions to answer after a Super Bowl malfunction turned the family fare into the Porn Bowl in Tucson, AZ, where Cardinals fans hoped to see their team blow the Steelers out of the game. Instead, Comcast gave them … well …
Tucsonans watching the Super Bowl got more action than they bargained for when a short clip from an adult movie channel interrupted Comcast’s feed with full male nudity during the final moments of the game.
Officials at Comcast said about 30 seconds from Club Jenna, an adult cable television channel, were shown on the local Super Bowl telecast. The company was still working Sunday night to figure out how it happened. …
The Star newsroom was flooded with calls from irate viewers who said that the porn cut into the game with less than three minutes left to play, just after Arizona Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald scored on a touchdown pass from Kurt Warner to put the team in the lead.
Callers said that the clip showed a woman unzipping a man’s pants, followed by a graphic act between the two.
One of the viewers interviewed by the Star said she thought it was just another commercial at first. With GoDaddy plumbing the depths of bad taste in their ads last night, who could blame her? In fact, who wants to bet that GoDaddy tries this next year?
Comcast officials acknowledge that the problem occurred in their offices at not with the broadcast station, KVOA, which carried the game in Tucson. Oddly, it only occurred on the analog channel for Comcast, and not their HD channel. They’re mystified as to the cause, but I’m guessing that the employees working the Sunday night shift will get the closest look. My bet: someone’s going to get fired over this, and soon … and publicly.
You know, if they’d interrupted the Heidi Bowl like this, Jets and Raiders fans might not have minded so much. Well, at least the Raiders fans.
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That was an ad of “Oh Daddy”.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on February 2, 2009 at 9:25 AM
Yeah, but was he a tight end? Wide receiver?
rightside on February 2, 2009 at 9:26 AM
The weren’t even spared the heartbreak of Pittsburgh’s final touchdown.
What a great game.
originalpechanga on February 2, 2009 at 9:27 AM
No clip?
heh
artist on February 2, 2009 at 9:28 AM
I question the timing. Sexist pigs.
bloggless on February 2, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Oh, I’m sure anybody outraged by this will quickly be labeled “up-tight”, “out of touch” and “irrational”.
I spent the day watching the I Love Lucy marathon with my kids. We didn’t have to worry about any malfunctions of any kind.
ErinF on February 2, 2009 at 9:29 AM
I can’t even shrug over this. Kids may have asked a set of uncomfortable questions, but those under 10 were probably distracted by the next thing and have forgotten about it. Those over 10 are still talking about it right now at school, but they’d probably be talking about boys/girls/boobies/penises either way. Fire the dumbass employees. But the inevitable teeth gnashing, hand wringing and letter writing tsunami is going to be just as tiresom and unnecessary as it was when we all saw Janet’s boob. The kids who saw it have yet to be the same, I think I saw one on the side of the street flashing HIS boobs for crack money.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Best Super Bowl Ever.
Bishop on February 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM
Go Daddies commercials should NOT be allowed during the Super Bowl or any other prime time/family event. I dont care how much money they pay.
There are way too many kids who shouldnt see those commercials and even plenty of adults whod rather not see them. I tell you, the purposeful push to shock and awe with sexual content anymore is just immature in my opinion. We get it, everything is sex sex sex sex. Enough already. Quit pushing this down everyone’s throats.
I am emailing NBC and will complain about the Go Daddy ads. They had no place during that game last night. But no one is surprised anymore. We have come to the point where its just fine to air those ads, and its just fine for every other show to revolve around people sex lives. Every other commercial for a TV show, sex seems to be the premis of the show.
Im a guy, i like sex. But there should be a point where a line is drawn. You cant watch a tv show anymore with out the sexual suggestive commercials, ect. It just seems to me that our morals as a society are getting near the bottom. They cant get much lower.
bucsox79 on February 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM
Don’t give them any ideas.
Slublog on February 2, 2009 at 9:32 AM
It just seems to me that our morals as a society are getting near the bottom. They cant get much lower.
bucsox79 on February 2, 2009 at 9:31 AM
You obviously didn’t see the ‘Barack Ogabe for President’ commercials last year.
Bishop on February 2, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Oh, they can always go lower.
ErinF on February 2, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Psssst. Turn the channel.
rightside on February 2, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Having worked in the cable industry for 10 years during the ’80′s, there are several ways it could have happened, deliberate stupidity being just one. For you deviants out there, start making up your own cable jokes now. It’s too early.
kingsjester on February 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM
If anybody had never seen a swinging Mr. Happy before, that interruption blip sure took care of that.
John Doe on February 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM
I’ll bet Tyler Durden was behind this.
Doughboy on February 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Try watching any sporting event with your 11-year-old daughter. TV people seem to forget that there ARE women who love sports, and we don’t want other women’s anatomy shoved in our faces, erectile dysfunction medication, etc. etc.
rockmom on February 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Isn’t teen pregnancy way down though? Not as down as it was during the Clinton years when Bill supposedly brought our nations to then ultimate lows, but they are still pretty low, especially in the blue states. In fact, aren’t the most socially conservative states also the ones with the highest unwed pregnancy numbers? Maybe the answer is not to attempt to demonize sex. That seems to only make people want it more. Raise your hand if you’ve slept with a particularly freaky catholic girl/boy. Exactly. Rather we should be teaching our kids about the proper context of sex (open about your intentions long or short term, mutual respet, trust) and about the importance of using precautions correctly (double bagging doesnt work in this case). If we wail and shriek and throw our kids from the room when something sexually explicit comes on we give it the power to warp minds. If we’re chill and adult about it…so will they be.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Just a stimulus package ad. That’s all…
Fletch54 on February 2, 2009 at 9:41 AM
You’re right, but the USA has jumped the shark.
jgapinoy on February 2, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Those ED commercials are so much tamer than anything used to sell alcohol. It’s basically nice middle aged couples holding hands and walking down beaches, I think they are romantic and kind of cute. Get it on old people!
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 9:43 AM
Try watching any sporting event with your 11-year-old
daughterson. TV people seem to forget that there AREwomenmen who love sports, and we don’t want other women’sanatomyfeminine hygiene products shoved in our faces,erectile dysfunctionyeast infection medication, tampons, douches, etc. etc.rightside on February 2, 2009 at 9:44 AM
That Lauer interview with Obama bordered on journalistic porn. I’m surprised Lauer wasn’t on his knees.
JammieWearingFool on February 2, 2009 at 9:46 AM
Nobody’s wailing or shrieking.
The ads are irresponsible, & anyone who use that sponsor is just as guilty.
Teen pregnancy rates are lowered when teens kill their unborn children.
jgapinoy on February 2, 2009 at 9:46 AM
I don’t understand the big problem, the refs were screwing the Cards all night right there on TV.
LevStrauss on February 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM
*eyeroll* I haven’t seen a commercial for a douche in a long time (especially since most gynos recognize they are really bad for the viijay). But how exactly are children harmed by a maxi pad commercial, again you have actually know what’s going on already before you can be scandalized by it. And if you know that women have periods, isn’t the cat kind of already out of the bag? As for yeast infections, I went a looong time before figuring out what that was all about. Again how these things effect your children is entirely determined by your own reaction. If you react like an immature brat (eeeeew! a commercial about lady parts!!) then so will your kid.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM
It’s a losing battle Rockmom. Censor talk radio but promote TV porno. I don’t care what some people watch. It’s their business. But lets help a little with keeping it from little kids or even grownups that don’t want to see it.
hawkdriver on February 2, 2009 at 9:47 AM
Close Jammie, but Lauer is no journalist. :^)
rightside on February 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM
I’ve worked in a low budget head end for a cable company before..
it would require someone physically swapping cable feeds on in the head end.
I’m sure Comcast has something more advanced than I worked with.. but someone had to have switched it.
like someone said.. Tyler Durden was at the switch.
DaveC on February 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM
You clearly missed the point of my post.
rightside on February 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Teen birthrates are effected by abortion, not teen pregnancies….duh. Also? Abortions are down too in red states especially, yet they still have the highest teen pregnancy rates. Things that make you go “why doesn’t rabid social conservatism work” and also hmmmmm.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Pics or it didn’t happen.
BohicaTwentyTwo on February 2, 2009 at 9:50 AM
Yeah, uhm… except they are NOT adults. My husband had I Love Lucy pegged in to go to during commercials because of that one for the teen show they were advertising AND the Go Daddy ones AND the Medium, etc. … We’ve had to turn games completely OFF trying to watch a FOX game through all the rubbish.
And on changing the channel… to what do you suggest? We watch Disney pretty much 24/7 around here because everything else is garbage, and what’s not garbage has garbage for commercials.
I’m guessing you don’t have kids. That would explain A LOT.
Oh, and exactly how do you propose that whole talking to them about the proper context of sex when the commercial is about a teen girl who’s pregnant and her boyfriend making excuses in the course of a 3 minute game-break? Just wondering.
UnderstandingisPower on February 2, 2009 at 9:52 AM
A buddy of mine said that when Lauer asked Obama whether Americans should feel safe at night, the linguistic gymnastics that ensued were fairly obscene.
BohicaTwentyTwo on February 2, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Bawney Frank reelection ad?
faraway on February 2, 2009 at 9:54 AM
Reading you post about a viijay is just “creepy”.
Seriously, what is wrong with people not wanting to see everything you think is okay. Sort of like you imposing your morality on them isn’t it? Not the health related ones you were commenting on, but the GoDaddy crap was over the top. If my kid were still small, I’d have turned the channel on that one. Bimbo dressed like a brat doll acting like an idiot trying to show her boobs during the #1 media event of the season is not what little girls or boys should see.
hawkdriver on February 2, 2009 at 9:55 AM
In fact, aren’t the most socially conservative states also the ones with the highest unwed pregnancy numbers?
I know there was supposed to be some weird corollary with this and risque Super Bowl ads….but trying to figure out liberal logic these days requires a nitrogen-cooled supercomputer.
Bishop on February 2, 2009 at 9:56 AM
POV that works when a person is capable of looking at a little human being as either an inconvenience or a commodity.
hawkdriver on February 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM
Rabid anything doesn’t work, but social conservatism does work, especially when it’s based in Judeo-Christian tradition. Faith-based conservatives are generally the happiest people with the best marriages & the most well-behaved kids. That’s worth more than all the money in the world.
jgapinoy on February 2, 2009 at 10:00 AM
I actually missed that particular commercial so I can’t speak to it. And of course people can have whatever reaction they want, changing the channel being the ideal one. My main beef is when a ton of time, energy and money is spent organizing social movements against these kinds of commercials among working/middle class folks but like getting someone to come to a protest against TARP is like pulling teeth. It’s a matter of priorities I guess.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Re. my abortion comment, yes, “duh”. It’s still too early in the morning here in the west.
: P
jgapinoy on February 2, 2009 at 10:01 AM
Wasn’t some group led by Soros undertaking to run TV ads lauding the benefits of the stimulus package this past weekend? Pretty expense ad buy, but he’s got the money.
BuckeyeSam on February 2, 2009 at 10:02 AM
My wife saw that and started slathering her breasts with bean dip.
marklmail on February 2, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Why bother – they think that evolution gave us two ears so that we have to listen to them. I’m not sure of the value derived from the effort.
Fuquay Steve on February 2, 2009 at 10:03 AM
hawkdriver on February 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM
…or a punishment! One of the problems with Liberals is that they think they know more about everything. However, Average Americans are smarter than they think they are. Just look at the reaction to the Porkulous Bill. Parents should be able to raise their children with a moral base. It is not Liberals’ right to usurp that.
kingsjester on February 2, 2009 at 10:03 AM
So we can’t even watch the Super Bowl?
Changing it to what? Most networks are infested with that crappola.
jgapinoy on February 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Sigh.
BuckeyeSam on February 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Obviously Comcast needs to hire an expert.
capitano on February 2, 2009 at 10:04 AM
From lady parts to douche commercials to teen pregnancy to TARP?
Really, try to have a coherent thought.
You talk like Andrew Sullivan, and I also bet that all the old people in the ED ads are having alot more sex than you are.
BigD on February 2, 2009 at 10:05 AM
I heard Arizona “Blew it” – I guess I did not appreciate the context.
jake-the-goose on February 2, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Thank God they could catch the error in time. The game would have turned into a BLOWOUT!
marklmail on February 2, 2009 at 10:10 AM
The first rule of Fight Club….
spmat on February 2, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Or a decompression chamber…
ErinF on February 2, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Most cable systems offer a few hundred channels and the cable box can usually be set up to show only the ones with worthwhile content.
NetFlix also has a large number of streaming movies that come with the monthly subscription. I use it frequently to put on something appropriate for my kids.
dedalus on February 2, 2009 at 10:15 AM
That is the third major malfunction I have read about or experienced with this Super Bowl.
Here in Northern California, we had a Dish/Direct TV satellite feed problem that lasted several minutes and ended up with a blank screen for several seconds before they got it worked out.
The cable company in Manhattan blew it completely and didn’t broadcast the game.
keebs on February 2, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Oooh… low blow… them’s fightin’ words.
ErinF on February 2, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Any details about the “graphic act”? I like to be fully informed.
paul006 on February 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM
These are public airwaves we’re talking about, Hack. Therefore, we conservatives have every right to complain about what is shown on them. It’s no wonder network viewership is down. A lot of us are sick of all the crap.
drflykilla on February 2, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Ahh… The lost Clinton tapes.
RalphyBoy on February 2, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Hey Ed. Thanx for picking this up.
I was at a small get together last night with a few friends from work. One of my friends had brought their 4 year old daughter. When the porn scene first showed up on the screen, there was no nudity. A girl starting to undress a guy. Thankfully, we we able to turn the set off before the “exposure.” I’m so glad. Apparently there were a lot of children exposed to this last night and there are some ticked parents.
What was strange is there were problems with the signal during the entire game. We kept making fun of NBC saying they needed to do a better job with the world’s biggest sporting event. There were several times during the game when the action would freeze, then briefly go to black. A few minutes before the “incident” credits from a movie appeared on screen for maybe 10-15 seconds.
Perhaps the pirates were working on hacking in to the game all game? I hope they catch whoever it was.
Ordinary1 on February 2, 2009 at 10:33 AM
That’s going to be the water-cooler topic today of who saw it. Real exit question should be, “What kind of jokes would we be having if it was Cox instead of Comcast that pulled that?” It would be Cox^2.
SkinnerVic on February 2, 2009 at 10:33 AM
I’d be investigating the Army of the 12 Monkeys …..
jrlingreenbay on February 2, 2009 at 10:33 AM
Actually we only watch maybe one hour of TV per week.
We’ll watch one or two DVDs besides.
But it ought to be safe to watch the Super Bowl.
jgapinoy on February 2, 2009 at 10:40 AM
You know what the cool thing is about this?
The ability and unfettered right to change the channel or turn the television off when the commercials come on.
Amazing that some apparently don’t want to take that responsibility for themselves, and would rather others, even the government, to do that for them.
MadisonConservative on February 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM
The Best Comment Of The Thread Award goes to…
jgapinoy on February 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Hey, hey, hey. We don’t need you discussing yours. Those folks already got 30 seconds of someone else’s.
MadisonConservative on February 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM
She was the wide-receiver…
CliffHanger on February 2, 2009 at 10:43 AM
You ought to be and Comcast should do something material for their subscribers, since this seems to be the result of poor controls on their part.
There is risk in watching anything live, much as there is risk in walking down the street. It should be small, but it is there.
dedalus on February 2, 2009 at 10:46 AM
But you want to make it an obligation.
The ads are supposed to be one of the biggest attractions to watching the game.
jgapinoy on February 2, 2009 at 10:46 AM
It long speaks of those that say that they are so wonderful and cool and if we were such uptight idiots we would be smart and successful too.
Only that is a lie. There isn’t good in this, and if there were real respect from all those “too smart and too cool” people they would also see that the crap they would like to see is available to them 24/7 without forcing it on those that don’t wish to make it a point of their daily fare, and yet would like entry into such traditions as the Super Bowl.
The truth is if you were all that cool, you would be “cool” with that feeling.
The only thing here at risk is the tradition of the Super Bowl, because if people start dropping out because they can’t trust what they watch will be okay, they will stop watching, and eventually the profits of showing this game will go right down your all “too cool” toilet.
Noelie on February 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM
After the woman undid the man’s pants, the man went solo for a bit. That was the climax of the scandal.
haikusrock on February 2, 2009 at 10:48 AM
…in 500 words or less.
Jim Treacher on February 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM
Perhaps your stereotypes are faulty? Assumptions and prejudice against groups of people are usually counterproductive in advancing effective social interaction.
obladioblada on February 2, 2009 at 11:04 AM
How am I making it an obligation? You said yourself that the ads are supposed to be the biggest attraction. Few things are more attractive than sex. If they’re supposed to live up to their reputation, you’re going to have to use common sense about whether you want your children seeing them or not, and then doing a bit of parenting, like my parents did when something came on they didn’t want me to see.
Apparently when I was in fifth or sixth grade, my father, a diehard conservative and news junkie, went out of his way to avoid news reports of a school shooting that had occurred(this was well before Columbine). I went to school and was promptly informed about this incident by my social studies teacher. My father expressed his displeasure with this turn of events, along with the principal, and got an apology.
I didn’t even realize this until some years later when it was brought up in discussion. He took the responsibility to monitor what I got from television. Why are so many other conservatives bristling at that responsibility?
MadisonConservative on February 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM
As many others have noted, we’re still paying for the Janet Jackson slip. Half-time shows have sucked sucked sucked sucked ever since because of the stupid yowling.
rightwingprof on February 2, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Exactly. Some of would like to see Beyonce declare “if you like it that you shoulda put a super bowl ring on it” but no. We get Tom Petty, Paul McCartney and now Springstein. Maybe next year we’ll be lucky enough to get Fleetwood Mac or Paul Anka.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 11:25 AM
You must not have watched! He was! And he did the full oral nasty on the President!
sabbott on February 2, 2009 at 11:26 AM
A Heidi Bowl reference! Boy Ed, you are old. (I won’t mention that I actually watched that game.):-)
Mallard T. Drake on February 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM
About 10 years ago in Springfield, MO, the cable company “accidentally” broadcast the Playboy channel over the Cartoon Network on a day when they canceled school because of snow. It was during the Flintstones and the audio feed didn’t change. During Weekend Update Norm MacDonald said it was the “Best episode ever”.
jbohanon on February 2, 2009 at 11:30 AM
You know what the cool thing is about this?
The ability and unfettered right to change the channel or turn the television off when the commercials come on.
Amazing that some apparently don’t want to take that responsibility for themselves, and would rather others, even the government, to do that for them.
MadisonConservative on February 2, 2009 at 10:41 AM
Its the Super Bowl. Perhaps the only time a family will watch a football game together. You shouldnt have to censor your kids from the Super Bowl. It just shouldnt be that way. But in today’s day, it has come to that. I get what you are saying but my view on this is that it is pretty pathetic when we now have to censor our kids/families from watching the entire Super Bowl.
bucsox79 on February 2, 2009 at 11:34 AM
Meh, when I was a kid we didn’t watch the Super Bowl unless the Pack made it there, and when they did, we didn’t remember the commercials, we remembered Brett running around the field at the end of the game with that big smile on his face.
We worry so much about what commercials do to our kids but they really are no match for actually talking with them and telling them how it is. Kids aren’t going to buy Axe body spray or go register domain names or whatever because some woman jiggles her assets. Now, put a cartoon up there, and you’ve got something.
MadisonConservative on February 2, 2009 at 11:40 AM
This is why one can no longer watch ANYTHING on broadcast TV before viewing it with kids in the room.
This year we were watching it alone. What if my kids had been in the room?
YIKES!
There is no age of innocence anymore.
So sad.
Badger40 on February 2, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Is this going to turn into a ploy to get a free month of cable as some kind of punitive damage? My son popped a boner I want a free month of cable! Ugh, so ridiculous. Good to see the right’s contributing to a culture of “get me my money now, I don’t care how” that’s the REAL moral low in this country.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 11:45 AM
With some kids that can work to minimize or head off any damage.
But no matter how great a parent you are, if your kids are given a steady diet of garbage, don’t be surprised if they turn out to be garbage, no matter how much you talk to them & what you say.
Hang around trash, become trash.
Badger40 on February 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM
I don’t think people need to profit from this. You are right in that regard.
But unfortunately, what other way really makes a business stand up & take notice? FINES, payment, etc.
They need a huge fine imposed upon them to get their attention.
And since they seriously wrong some of their subscribers (the people who thought the Superbowl was safe to watch) they should get some sort of an option to cancel, etc.
Badger40 on February 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
I wasn’t aware that a football game that occurs once a year for 3-4 hours was a steady diet of garbage. Do you normally plop your kids in front of Spike, MTV, and Comedy Central the rest of the year?
MadisonConservative on February 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
I see a “humpbot” parallel! This switch happened “just after Arizona Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald scored…”
I blame HotAir and Allahpundit!
Well, no, not really; but some criminal(it was a crime apparently) apparently thought it was fun to celebrate Fitzgerald’s TD by flashing this porno scene. For those who said this is no big deal, is it no big deal if your own kids of even the youngest ages are flashed by perverts?? It seems that is the logic of some of the preceding comments. And NBC did play a part with its adult “prime-time” commercials; with the Go-Daddy ad showing women about to expose themselves, there was no reason to switch channels until after the indecent exposure.
Either flashing in public should be decriminalized, or NBC and Comcast are liable for a million counts or so of indecent exposure.
G. Charles on February 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM
I hear you on the super bowl being a family friendly event and one that parents should feel safe allowing their kids to watch. But if your kid is getting a “steady diet” of garbage, then that’s on you. Not on comcast or any of the other channels out there. Even though all of our neighbors had cable when I was growing up we didn’t have it. We pretty much weren’t allowed to watch anything but PBS until the age of 11-12 or so. I was the last of my friends to see an R rated movie and it’s only because I went to one at a friends birthday party (it was Friday btw, amazing). I didn’t start drinking till 21, the last of my peers to do so (can’t say the same for marijuana, but hey pick your poison). The point? Is that vigilant parents can work wonders. Both of mine worked I’ll add.
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Well, most of it.
jgapinoy on February 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM
I’d rather watch the super bowl with all it’s glory with my children(now adults) than risk them turning the channel to Keith olbermann. The consequences could be horrific!!!
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on February 2, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Flip the switch! Flip the switch!..Sweet mother of God, please, flip the switch!
Don’t look Ethel! Too late, already got a free shot.
Theirs an old joke here in Ca.
How do you turn a normally nice person into a real A-hole?
Just put a Raiders jacket on them.
Speakup on February 2, 2009 at 12:16 PM
So your parents did a fine job and you were a good person until you moved out of your bedroom down to the basement?
I hope when you mature, you remember the fine Conservative upbringing you had and stop being the prodigal son.
The problem is that it is getting harder and harder to do due vigilance because liberals are allowing adult material everywhere. Call me naive, but you should be able to watch a sporting event with the kids without having to sit with your remote glued to your hand to make sure you catch all the trashy commercials. I am sure glad NBC stopped the PETA commercial, because if it was worse than the godaddy it had to be pretty bad.
Corsair on February 2, 2009 at 12:33 PM
DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 9:49 AM
You make the erroneous assumption that if its a red state that the majority of the people are social conservatives. Many people don’t vote, and many vote red but aren’t social conservatives…and some who are but whose kids make mistakes.
Go back to the statistics of the 50s, how does that teen pregnancy statistic compare? See, “rabid” social conservatism works.
Conservative Voice on February 2, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Comcast has released a statement this morning. Here it is via KVOA, the NBC affiliate here in Tucson.
Ordinary1 on February 2, 2009 at 12:38 PM
With younger kids I do sit with the remote when something isn’t being played from a recording if it isn’t on a channel like Noggin. My kids are young enough to think scantily clad women are funny in their “underwear”. Right now the biggest concern is commercials for violent movies. They are able to comprehend someone hurting another person and I try to fast-forward through content that is too creepy or violent, since it can keep them from sleeping through the night.
dedalus on February 2, 2009 at 12:46 PM
Really.
Have you watched Fox lately? Or FX? Liberals may have a hold on the news media but entertainment networks are owned just as much by righties as lefties, and considering liberals like Hillary and Tipper Gore are just as ready to jump up and demand labeling for video games and “offensive” music, this is hardly a partisan matter.
MadisonConservative on February 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM
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