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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JDN who wrote (534606)	2/3/2004 11:46:50 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

beer commercials AIMED AT CHILDREN!!!!!>>>>> IMPOTENCE ADS UP THE WAZZOO?????? But something went wrong. When it came time to showcase our aesthetic riches to the world, all we managed to do was to turn aside momentarily from "Jacko's" pedophiliac legal entanglements and dress up his sister in red lingerie and black vinyl armor, a sort of fascist armadillo. She bounded about mumbling incoherently. Nelly came on and "said," over and over, "It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes." Then the genius of Justin Timberlake was applied to ripping off Janet's outfit in a "wardrobe malfunction." The feculent ego known as P. Diddy emerged from backstage, saying: "I'm the definition of half man, half drugs." He was surrounded by strippers dressed as cheerleaders who proceeded to chant, "Hey Diddy, you're so fine / You're so fine you blow my mind / Hey Diddy!" Diddy, we can assume, wrote that, which in this case means he inserted the word "Diddy" into a preexisting song. MTV's halftime extravaganza — a mind-numbing assemblage of huge, meaningless special effects, talentless schlumps, simulated decadence, and extreme musical puerility — was a devastating indictment of American music and American culture. There was not a single moment of artistic meaning, or a moment free of bombastic titillation. Were these folks trying to incite and justify the jihad? Then, of course, there were the much-anticipated advertisements. Perhaps the pressure to deliver something memorable in a 30-second ad that cost more than $1.5 million has brought a whole industry into a moral and creative crisis. Cedric the Entertainer got a bikini wax in the name of Bud Light. Bud also explored horse flatulence in detail (it was a good preview of the halftime music). In a movie commercial, Van Helsing fought Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein in 30 seconds, continuing the replacement of the profound human psychology of horror with the machine psychology of computer animation. The reasonably compelling football game became nothing more than a frame for infinite witlessness.