Okay, here's my thoughts

I'm putting this under sports for lack of a better idea.

I was reading this FOX story about the half-time show:

The two singers were performing a flirtatious duet to end the halftime show, and at the song's finish, Timberlake reached across Jackson's leather gladiator outfit and pulled off the covering to her right breast.

The network quickly cut away from the shot, and did not mention the incident on the air.

Timberlake said he did not intend to expose Jackson's breast.

[...]

"We were extremely disappointed by elements of the MTV-produced halftime show," Joe Browne, NFL executive vice president, said. "They were totally inconsistent with assurances our office was given about the content of the show.

"It's unlikely that MTV will produce another Super Bowl halftime."

MTV issued a contrite statement, saying the incident was "unrehearsed, unplanned, completely unintentional."

Let's assume, for the moment, that I believe this was an accident.¹ I don't know what made them think this was an appropriate ending even without the bared flesh. At the end of the song Timberlake came up from behind Jackson and started feeling her up. (I really know of no better way to describe it.) I was sitting there thinking, "I can't believe they're doing this. Don't they know this is supposed to be a family show?"

And then he rips off part of her top.

On another note, he was clearly trying to pull something off, so if he wasn't trying to expose her breast, what was he doing?

I've seen a lot of things done in bad taste, but this takes the cake.

¹I don't. The only question for me is whose idea it was.

Comments

[Larry]

Ah well... As I heard off the pulpit during chapel one morning 30 years ago, "What exactly do you expect from somebody going to hell?". The only thing that you're going to hear from Ms. Jackson and Mr. Timberlake is denials; after all there is a lot of money on the line here. It (nudity and vulgarity) is going to get MUCH worse in the years ahead.

[blogbaby]

I'm mostly disappointed in the NFL. They made the decision to hire MTV to produce the half-time extravaganza. Not only was the "finale" a major oops, but Kid Rock, Nelly's incessant crotch-grabbing wasn't suitable for family entertainment. I'd say MTV, the NFL, Ms. Jackson and Mr. Timberlake all got exactly what they wanted.

[Willy]

Let's face it...MTV had a captive audience and they took full advantage of it. In no way was that an accidental performance unless it was Justins intention to bare both breasts.
Beyond that, MTV has become arrogant in their belief that they know more about sexuality than I as a parent.
My question is this...Now that we have such an "openness about sexuality", what is left for them to sing and gyrate about?