Television has certainly reached a new low with Janet Jackson’s display of her anatomy during the Super bowl halftime show. Her act seems to give the message that violence against women is OK, by letting some guy rip off the top of her dress. Somehow it just doesn’t seem right to sit down with your family to watch the Super Bowl and see a violent form of strip tease at the same time. Right after that childish display by two untalented performers, the CBS switchboard lit up, and the uproar continued for a few days in the media.
As one concerned parent put it "We hear a lot about freedom of speech, freedom of choice and tolerance, but a lot of times we forget that with it comes responsibility and accountability. We want to sweep that under our mat. But if we are going to create a society of children who are caring, contributing adult members of society, we've got to step up and stop feeding them a constant diet of filth, sex, violence and obscenity."
Janet Jackson apologized, saying it was her idea but it went too far. Can anybody believe that statement? Her outfit was obviously rigged to tear at the right area around her breast. And CBS is not innocent in the matter either, it could have blocked out the incident with the five second time delay between the live action and the airing on TV, but that didn’t happen. And I hope nobody falls for the story that the time-delay apparatus was not in effect.
As bad as that may be, some of the Super Bowl commercials were actually worse, especially the suggestion of bestiality in a beer commercial, where a monkey asks a human women to go upstairs and have sex with him. Another beer commercial has a horse passing gas in a woman’s face. Now in a short period of time during the Super Bowl, women have been degraded at least three times, with the monkey, the horse, and Jackson’s peep show. The NFL is also to blame for all this. If you hire MTV to put on your halftime show, you can expect to get the same crap that MTV is noted for, crotch-grabbing dance routines and sexual innuendo. (Man, have we come a long way since Bing Crosby).
It’s a shame one of the greatest Super Bowl games ever played will be remembered by the filth we saw during the halftime show, and in some of the commercials. But all this is to be expected, and should not be too surprising to any of us who read Bible prophecy. The End Times will be noted for "Sin will be rampant everywhere" (Matthew 24:12). What can be more "rampant everywhere" than a television broadcast of sin to 90,000,000 people?
If you are interested and want to read more about the filth being aired on TV, read our comments on 7/13/03 "R-Rated Cartoons", 8/03/03 "Violent TV Commercials", and 2/08/04 "TV Violence and Language"
By George Konig
Feb. 15, 2004
www.georgekonig.org
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