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Boobgate: Janet exposed!
I wanted to see a picture of Janet Jackson's boob this morning, but of course all that the mainstream Internet media were showing were the before-and-after photos -- the photos before Justin Timberlake exposed her right bosom during last night's Super Bowl halftime show and the photos afterward, when she was covering it up. Where, I wondered, would I be able to see a during photo of Janet's breast?
Within seconds, I typed in www.drudgereport.com, because all of the sleazy shit ends up there, and there, on the home page, sure enough, was a picture of Janet's right one.
But the picture later disappeared from drudgereport.com today, and I wondered, Now where am I going to get a picture of Janet's mammary for my weblog?
I remembered that the French aren't hung up on nudity like we Americans are, so I went to Yahoo! News, and, sure enough, the French press agency AFP unabashedly has pictures of Janet's teat on Yahoo! News (see above). I was surprised to discover that the British press agency Reuters also has pictures of Janet's hooter on Yahoo! News (also see above). (The puritanical U.S.-based Associated Press does not have such pictures on Yahoo! News.)
Now, I'm a gay man and I wanted to see Janet's jug, so I'm thinking that Internet servers are working overtime, and that pictures of Janet's goods (good?) are going to get me an awful lot of hits.
The story behind Boobgate is that Timberlake was supposed to remove only the piece of black leather (well, it looks like leather, anyway) that covered Janet's boob, leaving the red lace beneath still covering her boob, but that the lace came off with the leather. (Stevie Nicks' song "Leather and Lace" is in my head now; maybe Janet and Justin can record a remake.)
The ever-vigilant Federal Communications Commission -- ever-vigilant except where preventing media monopolies is concerned, that is -- is to investigate Boobgate for possible violation of FCC indecency and/or obscenity rules. While it's at it, I hope that the FCC does something about the fact that "real" people deceiving and betraying each other and eating live maggots passes for entertainment on television these days. And I hope that the FCC also does something about FOX News. And various members of the Bush regime going on television over and over again trying to falsely link Iraq to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and repeatedly lying about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction -- now that's fucking obscene.
Finally, I have a suggestion for next year's Super Bowl halftime show: Justin Timberlake wears a black leather codpiece that Janet Jackson suddenly, unexpectedly removes, "accidentally" also removing the red thong beneath it.
7:29:55 PM 
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