Obsessing on Janet Jackson’s Breast 

There are so many worthwhile projects for the federal government, including studying how to provide medical services to the needy and our senior citizens. Instead, funds and resources are being misappropriated by agencies like the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to appease a few religious conservatives in determining why Janet Jackson’s breast was exposed on national television during the Super Bowl.

It has already been determined (by her own admission) that Janet Jackson plotted alone to expose her breast at the end of a mind-numbing half-time show. Yet the FCC and the network, which televised the game, want to continue to investigate a three second episode that will turn up nothing we don’t already know. Janet Jackson is guilty of trying to create publicity for herself in order to revive a career that is past its prime. Janet (Ms. Jackson, if you haven’t seen her breast), in her late 30s, wants desperately to maintain a youthful, hip appearance to keep a new generation of music buyers interested in her songs. Unfortunately, the only thing that exposing her breasts has done for Janet Jackson is provoked the conservative house wives and religion fanatics of this country to lean on the FCC to conduct a number of investigations.

To these self-righteous people (with way too much time in their hands), a partly nude woman on television is a sign that our society has weakening morals and the family values that every one should live by are being sacrificed. These ultra-conservatives think they know the proper way all of us should live, and they know that Janet Jackson is only one of many astray sinners who need to be corrected.

Let’s move on. There are many things on television that offend me more than Janet Jackson’s exposed breast. How about we focus on coaching our president to say nuclear instead of nucular. Let’s make sure we hold politicians accountable for their actions as public servants, and that campaign promises (like health care reforms) become agenda issues when individuals get elected. Let’s ask the politicians why we’re spending so much on this “investigation” when we’re dealing with a record deficit and declining medical services.

To the ultra-religious and conservative freaks, stop obsessing on Janet Jackson’s breast and focus on real problems.