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OK. Seriously. This Terrell Owens - Desperate Housewives thing has got to stop. For those of you that don't know, T.O. and Nicolette Sheridan starred in a skit before the Monday Night Football game in which Sheridan (from the show Desperate Housewives) dropped her towel in front of T.o. exposing her naked back to the camera. The point was she was attempting to seduce T.O. to not play in the game and was successful. Not very creative or funny and an example of seemingly harmless cross promotion.

People just friggin lost it.

With all the shameless content that comes through on the television today, people are up in arms about someone's naked BACK. The FCC has already launched an investigation to determine if they will fine ABC, which is owned by Disney (the family company that brought us a penis drawn on the cover of The Little Mermaid), for this outrage. An officer from the FCC scolded them much like an adult scolds a child when they get caught smoking saying, "I wonder what Walt Disney would think of this if he were alive?" which is the equivalent of: "You're lucky your father isn't alive to see this!" The FCC needs to be stopped. They treated the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident as if CBS had broadcast the Spice channel by accident for half an hour. This of course was in response to gargantuan public outrage...outrage I say! It leads me to this: This nation has to lighten up. It was a naked B-A-C-K. People have to jump out of that extreme family values station wagon and take a deep breath in the sometimes smoggy air of modern entertainment. Better yet, parents could have watched this presentation with there kids and explained the situation. "Now Jimmy that's what happens when you get famous. Women will like you more if you have money and play professional football.. which of course you will never do. Because you run a 5.2 forty. And you're soft like ice cream." Just giving the kid realistic expectations.

So I was thinking that was bad enough, BUT THEN a bunch of people come out and say that the spot was racist because Terrell owens happens to be African American and apparently it perpetuated racial stereotypes.

(Crickets chirping...)

WHAT?! It was a star from ABC's hottest new show (which is pretty cool by the way) and the star and MVP of the league so far this year! That is it. End of list! No innuendos, no stereotypes, none of that. When I see stuff like this, it makes me hate life. Aight, gotta roll out for the weekend. Take care, peeps.

BTW- Jaime, when you read this my email is nholtsla@alumni.nmu.edu I didn't get your previous email, so try again.

I'm finished,
Nate