Moral Failure and Super Bowl Antics

Props to Jim Jones of Power 97.5 http://www.power97.com/DJsAndShows/Jim.aspx for calling out an organization that is outraged at the Super Bowl halftime performance by Madonna. The reason they are outraged is because supposedly Madonna (since I wrote this I have now realized that it was one of the performers on stage with her and not Madonna herself) flipped the bird (yeah, that's the middle finger and not a dead pigeon) either to the fans, the camera or both during her short halftime concert. Now I watched the entire halftime show and didn't even notice this gesture. I guess I was too entranced in all the other performances on stage that I didn't notice a little finger go up for a slight moment. And now this organization demands a repentant action to take place by either the NBC network who aired it or by the NFL who organized it because 100 million American viewers saw something that is unacceptable.

Meanwhile right after the Super Bowl was finished we thought we'd catch up on the world news and the top story was of Syrian locals pleading for foreign intervention on the atrocities that are happening to innocent civilians time and time again of which have recently become even more harsh. The National News showed only part of the videos that were taken because they didn't want the public being overly horrified by pictures of one guys leg that was completely blown off who looked to be a teenager and another guy who's lower jaw and throat had been severely, and I mean severely, damaged.

But no, we have an entire organization that is concerned with the middle finger! Like we've never heard or seen it before! Like a bleep on the TV for a swear replacement really takes away from it.

Side note: We were watching a cooking show the other day when one participant said, "What the bleep..." and yeah Isaac, my 8 year old son, responded, "I know what he said!" and snickered to himself. Great job not letting the public know what's going on! Great job! (THICK SARCASM INTENDED!!)   

So I just turned to Power 97 for a brief moment and heard Jim Jones call these exact two instances out as a moral failure and I totally agree! I took the time to call him up and tell him that I totally supported what he said on air. I told him that I work at a church and that so often collectively as a people we don't hear the horrific cries screaming for our attention and we take time to notice the tiny hiccups instead. The mole hill so often becomes the mountain in our small and secluded lives. Oh God forgive us!

PS. I enjoyed the halftime show and thought that the 53 year old Madonna still had a lot of energy and of course did everything to an extreme the only way she knows how!