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Enough with the media's righteous indignation

Is anyone else weary of the media's puritainical outrage concerning the infamous "wardrobe malfunction?" Perhaps some of you good-hearted people know nothing of America's Pop Culture, and I can excuse your righteous indignation, but as for the well-learned men and women gasping at that sad display of blah, blah, blah...

This wasn't the first time a pasty-clad tata has aired during prime time folks.

While MTV has distanced itself from the breast-baring extravaganza, it is par for its course.

Does nobody recall the awards show in which Lil Kim wore an outfit that cut up over one shoulder leaving one breast fully exposed save a green pasty that tastefully matched her half-a-bodysuit. Cut from the same cloth. And this wasn't just a flash of crass. She bounced onto stage to present an award with Diana Ross who playfully groped Lil Kim's breast. This incident did not furl the media's brow in the least. Indeed, snapshots of the episode ran on the covers of grocery store magazines, and is still featured in full frame in MTV's "Top 100 Craziest Moments In T.V.", or whatever they're doing this week. Then it breaks to commercial to hawk zit cream.

Every second of every day there must be a "Girls Gone Wild" commercial airing somewhere in which young women are baring there breasts with nothing more than a small virtual pasty that reads the words "censored."

There used to be a time when cartoons greeted children coming home from school. Now we have a buffet of debauchery. From men french kissing donkeys, throwing up on old women for sexual gratification, and women baring it all for a string of "Jerry Beads".

This trash isn't limited to talk shows. Even shows that are explicity marketed to children have refernces to penis-size and pornography, and that was just one episode I happened to watch. And just yesterday, the daytime "family sitcom", The Hughley's, centered on father getting into trouble for buying his wife a dildo. The dildo remained a prop throughout the half hour episode, being borrwed by the neighbors, et al.

No doubt, some Americans hadn't realized where we were as a culture. But this cannot be said for the media types gracing our air waves, expessing the how-could-she outrage. Sex sells. And so does righteous indignation. That is probably the heart of America's culture.