Yawn, just be thankful that it wasn’t Michael Jackson’s boobs. 

I couldn't BELIEVE the ruckus over this! Personally,I think it was set up.Even if it wasn't,who cares? If anybody is traumatized by seeing a tit for 1/25th of a second,they belong in the nuthouse anyway.No wonder Europeans think we're unsophisticated!!!

Please.... it was five seconds and barely anyone noticed anything.

As someone, whose name unfortunately escapes me (could it have been H.L. Mencken?), once said, "America is the most sex-repressed and sex-obsessed country in the world."

I think the whole thing is absolutely rediculous. Its a boob. Not a very attractive one either. Lets just call it an anatomy lesson. If you're a girl....you'll be growing a pair. If you're a boy......you'll be grabbing a pair first chance you get. Get over it.

On my Dish Network DVR their is a remote button that skips you a few seconds back to re-watch something. I now call it the Janet Jackson button.

The incident proved that there is a vast number of Americans with entirely too much time on their hands. Who cares?

Ahhh yes the famous "wardrobe malfunction" incident, PURLEASE! They staged this from start to finish and the only reason Justin made an apology is that he knew the extent of how serious this had become. So what, you wanted to make a few headlines by exposing Janet J's Boobies? Well who would the public prefer, hers or Joan Rivers's?

The media attention on this was so over the top, it was almost unbearable to turn on the tv, as every channel had some segment dedicated to the whole event. I'm with IJR---I've certainly seen worse just walking down the street. It's been on tv for years, I don't understand why one "wardrobe malfunction" was what it took to change the way hollywood did their scenes or what the networks would and would not allow on national television.

I was more offended by the reaction to this incident than I was with incident itself - This spoke volumes about the so-called moral majority in this country when a bare naked boobie ( which most people missed anyway ) takes precedent over more pressing moral issues of our time, like the war in Iraq ( I wonder how many troops died during the medias slavish devotion of this non-issue ), the poverty and health care issues that are plaguing our nations poor and uninsured and the fact that we are ranked near the bottom in education compared to the rest of the industrialized world ( which is not suprising, considering the garbage that we let pass for 'news' in this country ). Remember gang, boobies don't kill people, lying Presidents and a failing social infrastructure do...

Good Lord, I couldn't believe the amount of media attention dedicated to one boob. But enough about Al Gore... First off, anybody that was actually watching the halftime show knows that you didn't really see anything. Yeah, I was actually paying attention to the halftime show for whatever reason. It was, maybe, 3 seconds of a boob that was little more than a dot on the screen at the time. Over the next few days, video from seven different angles, and still pictures from three diffent angles, were run and re-run over and over while people complained about the 3 seconds that scarred their children for life. There was thousands times more exposure of Janet's right boob on the news than there was during the Superbowl. In the end, it caused a ripple effect that still hasn't completely stopped moving. Howard Stern going to Sirius Radio, ABC refusing to air Saving Private Ryan, the Nicolette Sheridan Monday Night Football skit (which normally wouldn't have got that much attention), the networks using 5 second delays... All of this can draw a line to Janet Jackson's right tit. I don't know if it was planned, I don't know if it was all a publicity stunt, I just know there was a major overreaction.

Optionfootball below hit the nail with a sledgehammer. What was the NFL thinking when they allowed MTV to host a Super Bowl show? The wardrobe malfunction was simply the coup de grace of an American travesty: from P-Diddy's incoherent mumblings, to the other rapper's incessant crotch grabbing (I think it was Nelly), to Kid Rock's screaming and looking like a homeless Vietnam Vet on PCP, to Justin and Janet's fiasco. I never heard of any of the songs in the show or would ever want to (what kind of lyric is I'll have you undressed before this song is over). Left to their own devices, MTV would have also aired a gang bang of one of the Real World skanks by the dudes from Jackass. MTV was smirking like a punk who left the burning bag of doo-doo on somebody's doorstep after they got away with a relatively light slap on the wrist by the FCC. They enhanced their notoriety while totlly eclipsing the significance of a well-played Super Bowl, which was largely forgotten. The NFL was at least smart enough to have Sir Paul McCartney do this year's show. Every song he did was entertaining and well performed. Have you watched MTV lately? They might as well take the M away from MTV.

this was given way too much attention and made too big a deal over. i personally didnt want to see it but this world and nobody in it are perfect and things can happen. all the attention is what caused so much freaking out over it. it gave the do gooders of the world a band wagon they could jump on and allowed them to set us back

I personally prefer Lil'Kim's boob to Janet's. She had on a purple sequined pasty. High fashion at it's best and Dianna fondling her! Justin, you blew it!

It simply is too much talk about this. They should cut to the chase and put firm rules to all the things that are happening both on an off the field for all people young and old and then enough! Besides, I would say that-what's his name-was the one to blame; we have to question if he delibeartely pulled the cup off. This is not the only time I saw a something like this when I was 11- on a Family Matters episode, Steve pulls off a string and it showed Laura's bra and if you look at it close enough, you can see the nipple concealed. Children at some point will be exposed to erotic stiuatons that is not in televised sports. Can we get this over with already? How come nobody was talking about the famous streaker Mark Roberts at the beginning of the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl? (Though you saw him for only 3 seconds, you should have seen him on Fox Sports Net's The Best Damn Sports Show Period 2 weeks after the game. In the extended video, after doing some Riverdance-like dancing, he was rammed by Patriots #58 Matt Chatham when he was chased by the police!)

Another example of when the press makes way too big out of an incident. okay some people saw her boob.Big deal. No they have to show it over and over Now it has become Who can we punish for this!It has become the topic of discussion on news and talk shows. Let it go. and move on to something more important.

Once again, while I think the time and place for this performance was in poor taste, it is not nearly as obscene or morally questionable as what is shown on television on a regular basis. The uproar that this one little incident has inspired is shocking. Get over it.

Although it wasn't all that great of a thing to be shown on national television. The media has definetly been making too much of a thing about it. Move on and get over it!

What did you expect? MTV is filth, how can this come as a shock? It's sad that a quality organization like the NFL hired these idiots to sponser the half time show.

Dont get me wrong, Im not in favor of the Super Bowl half-time show being turned into a collection of strip tease acts, but this has got to be one of the biggest over-reactions in the history of the world. As usual, we taped the entire show so we could fast forward through to the commercials (somehow that seemed a little perverse in and of itself). So, naturally when the big hoorah about the over-exposed mammary gland started we had to see what the devil everyone was gasping about. I swear on a stack of corgis that had it not been for the extreme media blitz I would never have known what actually took place in that split second of time. Ironically, while so many lily-white saints (many with very questionable credentials of their own) were still delivering cows about it I picked up a People magazine highlighting some of the Oscar night designer gowns and saw stuff that was 10 times more revealing than that little planned or unplanned blooper. Sure, considering the time and place, this was pretty poor taste. Yet, with all that said, the girth of the hypocrisy of our society is still almost surreal at times!

I think it is absolutely ridiculous how long this obsession has carried on...I mean there are so many other horrible things and even cool things going on right now that the media should be paying attention too...and besides...it isn't like Janet is Madonna or something...now if Maddy showed a boob...that would be a whole different story...she is worth talking about...:)~

Considering that Super Bowl halftime shows are essentially orgiastic festivals of vulgarity, being shocked by this is equivalent to being surprised by a turd in a toilet bowl.

Appalled crusaders have provoked a strong knee-jerk reaction across TV networks. It could be a lot worse. Just imagine the madness had it been Janet RENO appalling viewers. But seriously, what's the real reason why the media keeps talking about it? Because the public still finds the stunt TITilating.

It's stuff like this that makes the rest of the world shake their heads. Who gives the slightest f#@k about Janet's naked breast? Every woman has them, and sometimes they aren't covered by anything. It was a silly stunt (and obviously deliberate - no malfunction there) but the naked breast was probably the least obscene thing about a show that depicted sexual assault and simulated intercourse. And we cannot protect our children from everything that we're neurotic about. They will eventually see tits, or have a pair of their own. Our children will eventually have sex, with someone they aren't married to. They will someday administer oral sex to someone who doesn't respect them. Trying to protect them from nudity should not be a priority. Protecting them from television that makes shotgun homicides look like harmless fun should be. This country will probably never get its priorities straight, but one thing we could do is take everyone involved in sensational news media out back, chop off their tongues, and replace them with ethical journalists with integrity.

This is a real who gives a rat's ass subject. Since when was the Super Bowl a Family Show anyway. Beer commercials, scantily clad cheerleaders and enough implicit sex and violence to fill Freud's waiting room. You'd think some folks had never seen a tit before.

Honestly, who really cares? The media spent all last week discussing this pertinent issue. Of course, the culture warriors were the first ones out in denouncing the lewd act. And granted, it was rather tasteless--in that we had to be put through such a talentless half-time show in this year's Super Bowl. We can be so prudish sometimes, I guess it's part of our Puritanical heritage. But it isn't good that we're so focused on such a pointless issue. This might not have much to do with Janet's Boob-boo so much; indeed it's a broad analysis of what our priorities are this election year. Yes, this is now a political issue! Bush's strategy is to use culture war issues like abortion, gay marriage, and yes, stuff like Janet's Boob boo as wedge issues in the election. Why, if you elect the other guy, things are going to get even worse! Bush is going to say (or imply through his surrogates) that we should forget about the weak economy and the bad state of our foreign affairs--you vote for the other guy and gays are going to be getting married, abortions on demand are going to go up and Janet (or Britney or Christina) are going to completely strip in next years Super Bowl. Think about the children! Not that the Democrats are any better. Sad that people would actually buy into such propaganda. This is one war that we need to call a truce on. One side tries to shock and awe us and the other side gets up on their high moral perch and tells them all they're going to hell. The whole thing is getting very old. The culture war is nothing but a distractionary tactic for those in power to get away with murder. The media blathers on and on about celebrity and small wedge issues while our foreign relations deteriorate more and more. We need to get our collective heads out of the sand and realize that there are way more important things out there than these celebrity inconsequences. There are a lot of things that have a direct impact on our lives that are never reported out in the mainstream media. Additionally, we have to hold the powerful accountable and yes that includes the media. If we don't then their power goes unchecked, and this isn't very good. I sincerely hope I'm not talking to the wind here.