'Desperate (Housewives) ' MNF Open Not Indecent

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/14/entertainment/main679972.shtml

Federal regulators ruled Monday there was nothing indecent about a steamy introductory segment to ABC's "Monday Night Football" featuring actress Nicollette Sheridan jumping into the arms of football player Terrell Owens.

The segment that aired last November showed Sheridan in a locker room wearing only a towel and provocatively asking the Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver to skip the game for her. She then dropped the towel and leaped into Owens' arms.

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"Although the scene apparently is intended to be titillating, it simply is not graphic or explicit enough to be indecent under our standard," the commission said.

While agreeing with the decision, Democratic Commissioner Michael Copps criticized ABC for airing the segment at a time — 9 p.m. EST — when many children were watching.

"There wasn't much self-discipline in this particular promotion," he said. "As stewards of the airwaves, broadcasters can and should do better."

[Amfortas]

1. when will rightwingers grow up ?

[BrainRants]

2. The "implied" nudity didn't bother them as much as

that big scary black man puttin' his paws and eyeballs on that white woman.

[Roland99]

4. Yeah...that's bad stuff but gay prostitutes in the WH press corps that...

are paid by the GOP are just fine.

[LiberalinNC]

3. IMHO they didn't like it because she is a white woman and he is

African American. And they keep calling us racists!

[fryguy]

5. I know obscenity when I see it...

.....like the naked ass of a cartoon character on Family Guy --- when the hell will the moral thought police ease up?

[VegasWolf]

6. Exactly. The christian fundi were put off because he is black and

she is a white woman. Period.