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M.I.A.'s Super Bowl Middle Finger: NFL, NBC Blame Each Other
- Posted on Feb 6th 2012 11:05AM by Theo Spielberg
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Though Madonna promised there would be "no nipples" at the Super Bowl, she didn't say anything about errant digits. The gesture was at once covert enough to escape the seven-second delay (the image was fuzzed out too late) and offensive enough to make headlines.
Both the NFL and NBC issued statements concerning the affair, according to Entertainment Weekly. NBC said, "We apologize for the inappropriate gesture that aired during halftime. It was a spontaneous gesture that our delay system caught late."
Meanwhile, the NFL didn't hesitate to lay the blame squarely on the network claiming, "There was a failure in NBC's delay system. The obscene gesture in the performance was completely inappropriate, very disappointing, and we apologize to our fans" thus sparking a debate on the level of most schoolyard squabbles. NBC was quick to retort, arguing, "The NFL hired the talent and produced the halftime show. Our system was late to obscure the inappropriate gesture and we apologize to our viewers."
M.I.A. is fresh off the success of her new video 'Bad Girls,' which looked as if it was perched to erase the bad press following her most recent album cycle and the old truffle fries incident. However, given that the rapper erroneously has to have a gunshot in just about all of her songs, maybe its not so shocking that while performing at the Super Bowl she made a gesture that said, "America, I'm totally anti-establishment." Because, you know, that doesn't smack of hypocrisy at at all.
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Why is this hag taking up face time on the news? She's nothing but a dressed up old crack ho.' And Madonna?!...its time to hang it up girl...she's as skinny and as devoid of any human flesh as a robot. BORING. I won't be watching either one of these has beens.
And who thinks that Michael J grabbing his crotch had any social or artistic merit? Why do these idiots do this stuff in front of children? Because they are self absorbed crack ho's and psychopaths. When did being a crass, unmannerly, psychopath, gender confused drug addict become art? Boring.....
She needs to go MIA......
February 08 2012 at 12:37 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyPerhaps NBC should monitor who NFL hires for Super Bowl halftime entertainment. NFL should hire American entertainers. What do they expect from anti-american, anti-establishment skanks such as MIA & Madonna! Both are anti-american, anti-establishment, controversial, vulgar, sleazy & both make their home in Britain. Perhaps if the NFL & NBC stuck to quality, American entertainers, they would have this problem. (After all, isn't Super Bowl AND football totally American? Sure is. Foreigners are continually bad-mouthing Americans love of the sport.)
Also, when entertainments do things that the FCC fines NBC & the NFL for, extend that fine to the entertainer, or, just withhold their paycheck.
MIA is complete trash and should go MIA
February 07 2012 at 10:47 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down ReplyAgree totally. And perhaps American companies such as the NFL & NBC should stick with hiring quality AMERICAN
February 08 2012 at 12:16 AM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplySo what if she flipped the finger! What she did is no worse than M. Jackson grabbing his crotch
February 07 2012 at 9:57 PM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down ReplyYou have a good point there! As much as I love MJ & his music, the crotch-grabbing thing was obnoxious & uncomfortable to watch. But then, that was what he was programmed to do. Anything to demoralize society. Perhaps MIA was programmed to do what she did. Most of the entertainers these days are programmed, and their programming encourages the de-moralization of society. Nice, huh.
February 08 2012 at 12:18 AM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyI thought MIA was from England...why didn't she use the 2-finger salute which is the British standard? That would have gone over most viewers' heads but still convey the message.
February 07 2012 at 9:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCan we only find losers for the superbowl halftime show?
February 07 2012 at 8:46 PM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down ReplyWell, when you don't have any talent, then you have to do something with shock value that diverts people's attention away from that fact. And that's what MIA did.
I don't care at all about Nicki Minaj.
But Madonna's talent cannot be denied. She has reinvented herself so many times that I've lost count. Other famed, talented artists want and have performed with her.Many new young performers have used her as a template (Lady Gaga.) She is in fabulous shape. Like her or hate her, this woman has power and talent. Her music is fabulous. If the Rolling Stones and their members can keep going, so can Madonna. Her age does not undermine my admiration for her.
Who let that MIA monkey out of the jungle and up onto stage? First of all, her music sucks and she's a b-rated entertainer at best who thinks she's an A-lister. Second of all, if we didn't let her into North America, she wouldn't even be an entertainer - she'd be doing her laundry on a rock down by the Ganges River.
February 06 2012 at 3:48 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplyApparently millions of her fans don't share your bigotted, stupid opinion anyway. The only monkey here is you
February 07 2012 at 10:00 PM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down ReplyYes, yes egneila, we know you are a fan of MIA. She does have a lot of fans, and they are mostly young, angry twits who really don't care about talent. They just want to be entertained.
February 08 2012 at 12:21 AM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate downI totally agree....I think she ought to go back to the Lake Tanzania and herd sheep, or make a fire out of dung patties, or comb her hair. For dog's sake this is the 21st century and we have some idiotic voodoo twit with no talent jumping around lifting her skirt showing her bush and flipping the bird. And to think that people actually paid to see this crack ho'....whadda rip off.
Was the talent director on drugs when he hired this monkey or what? If "they" want respect, "they" are going to have to start looking and acting like human beings instead of some primitive retro throwback to the caveman days.
I went to the mall today..there were.herds of young men, wearing little boy saggy shorts below their hip line showing their buttocks and underwear just proved to me that they have no more intelligence or common sense than a baboon in heat.
If "they" want respect they are going to have to stop acting like apes.
Who let that MIA monkey out of the jungle and up onto stage? First of all, her music sucks and she's a b-rated entertainer at best who thinks she's an A-lister. Second of all, if we didn't let her into North America, she wouldn't even be an entertainer - she'd be doing her laundry on a rock down by the Ganges River.
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