Slimed at the Super Bowl

By Jack Mason
February 6, 2004

It's about time someone in a position to do something about the flood of gutterized sexuality that daily assaults the eye and ear and spirit on the public airways has decided that there should be accountability.

I wasn't tuned in during much of the Super Bowl, and wasn't watching at all during half-time, however there's been so much publicity about the debasing and libidinous lyrics, the crude choreography and costuming, and the performers' coarse and callow behavior that I feel like I've been slimed vicariously anyhow.

It seems obvious, though, that the proposed $27000 fine is basically a hand-slap, a pretty paltry "consequence". The price for the assault ought to begin with at least triple the amount that each perpetrator received from their participation in this Super Bowl sexual molestation of 89 million Americans.