Do you normally plop your kids in front of Spike, MTV, and Comedy Central the rest of the year?

You forgot to mention ABC, NBC…well, most of the other channels. There’s plenty of filth all ’round.
That’s why we’ve never had cable, & we watch on average an hour of TV per week.

Lots of people in Tucson are ticked and some claim they are going to switch away from Comcast Cable. Looks like Comcast is going to end up a victim of this hijack…

Ordinary1 on February 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM

Shoot, they needed this mishap to let them know Comcast is a lousy company? I coulda told ‘em that! :-)

Internet connection sabotaged by provider in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1…

Now the Heidi HO Bowl

the Jawa Report has the Clip, I won’t link out of Respect for hotair.com, although I do respect the Jawa just as much.

Wooootini!

Kaptain Amerika on February 2, 2009 at 1:25 PM

Yes, someone registered a URL and have posted the entire offending hijack.

Lots of people in Tucson are ticked and some claim they are going to switch away from Comcast Cable. Looks like Comcast is going to end up a victim of this hijack, unless it can be shown they were negligent somehow. I do hope they can trace it and throw whoever is responsible in jail.

WOW that would make anyone mad..
I mean who wants to watch a cheesy sex act
When i have something real to watch

Like the superbowl..

I wonder if the liberals will complain?

Somehow i doubt it..

Wooootini!

The problem is that it is getting harder and harder to do due vigilance because liberals are allowing adult material everywhere.

Corsair on February 2, 2009 at 12:33 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Sunday night shift will get the closest look.

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.

Well, at least the Raiders fans.

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.

A Heidi Bowl reference! …I won’t mention that I actually watched that game.

Well, most of it.

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 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.

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.

By popular request. Here’s the video broadcast to Comcast subscribers in Arizona during the Superbowl. Yes, it really is porn. Like, hardcore. Or it’s obviously the beginning of some hardcore porn. So, the NSFW warning here is that you should……

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 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?

DeathToMediaHacks on February 2, 2009 at 11:45 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.

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

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.