Clear Channel: Stern too racy, Spears racy but wholesome?????

[LynneSin]

http://www.imdb.com/PeopleNews/#6

Britney Spears' Onyx Hotel tour has kicked off to a bad start, she has been accused of making "desperate attempts to shock". Spears began her North American tour in San Diego, California, on March 2, and when it hit Los Angeles on Monday, it failed to impress Los Angeles Daily News critic Fred Shuster. He writes, "Spears was wheeled on stage in a tall chariot, looking for all the world like a statue of Lenin, if the Russian dictator had been a beefy bottle-blond aerobics instructor. The robotic pelvic thrusts began almost immediately. Much has been made of the show's allegedly racy content. But as a second male dancer's head was being pulled into Spears' crotch Monday, the night's sole irony became enticingly clear - the tour is promoted by Clear Channel, the radio broadcasting giant that recently dropped Howard Stern from six of its stations and has taken a self-congratulatory stand against what it called public decency. More troubling is Spears' continued inability to realize how dull she is when she's not acting as glorified ringmaster. As she sat down at the piano to simulate a ballad 'that's close to my heart' she announced that after all she'd suffered at the hands of the press, 'At the end of the day, it's made me what I am today.' A frat boy in the back row had a rejoinder: 'Whatever.' Toxic might be the best way to describe Spears' Onyx Hotel roadshow."

[GOPisEvil]

1. Wow...Clear Channel hypocritical? Say it isn't so!

[LynneSin]

3. Here's her review from the LA Daily News

http://u.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,211~23540~2006506,00.html

In another desperate attempt to shock, writhing couples in beds held center stage while silhouettes of rutting performers played on screens above. For titillation, the valet parking attendants outside had sexier moves.

[GOPisEvil]

5. Here's what is REALLY obscene!

As ticket holders entered the arena, vendors stationed every few feet hawked outrageously priced items: programs $25, binocular rentals $25, Spears yoga pants $60, T-shirts $35, posters $10.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Yoga pants??? God, things have changed. It used to be a $10

black Tshirt with the bands' latest album cover on it and tour dates on the back. Now we have yoga pants? :shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

9. My birthday's in June.

Please HESITATE to buy those for me. :eyes:

[SCDem]

2. Britney seems to have become a real skank

I mean she started out all wholesome and everything and now.... too much make up or too much skin or something... you can barely recognize her anymore. Not that I ever listened to her songs but you see on commercials or MTV or whatever and there is just a total difference and not for the better in my opinion.

[DarkPhenyx]

4. Stern was public access.

You have to buy tickets, or subscribe to cable to see Britney. One would hope, vainly prehaps, that if she pulled a buys face into her crotch on public TV she'd get fined too. Not to mention sued for endangering the life of the poor man. Who knows what he'd catch down there.

[LynneSin]

6. True - but the irony here is Clear Channel is her sponser

Seriously - think about it.

[DarkPhenyx]

15. Respectfully disagree.

It would only be ironic if they were sponsering live human hunts, or something similar, on public access media but cracking on Stern for being offensive.

The two venues are completely seperate and do not fall under the same set of rules.

[Limbought]

7. The Sweet Little Girl Next Door

NOT!!!

[LagaLover]

11. But DAMN

she is HOT!

[Colin Ex]

31. What are you talking about, dude?

I've seen blocks of wax that are sexier than that.

-C

[LagaLover]

33. Your opinion...

Many find her very sexy

[DenverDem]

10. Obvious point, Stern is Anti-bushler, Brit is a GOP whore.

"Obscene" is measured by political leaning, not salacious behavior.

[LagaLover]

12. Wow!

I just love when men call sexually provocative women "whores" with absolutely nothing to back up that contention. Do you pay for it often?

[DenverDem]

13. Britanny supports the pretzeldent publicly.

I call all who support an unelected fraud "whores", especially the press. I don't find Britanny Spears sexually provacative, rather sexually repulsive.

Peddle your pseduofeminist misdirection elsewhere.

[LagaLover]

14. A whore is one who sells

sex for money and the word "whore" as a derogatory term. I don't appreciate a young woman being called a whore, just because you don't like her politics. BTW, it's spelled Britney. Seems since you know so much about her, you ought to at least know how to spell her name.

[LynneSin]

16. Rush Limbaugh and Tucker Carlson are WHORES

And I can list a long name of men that I also consider a whore. Denver said it best, Britney isn't a whore because she dresses in an 'interesting' manner. She's a whore because she sucks up to Bush. Obviously because Clear Channel got rid of Stern, a recent and very vocal opponent against Bush, but sponsering Britney Spears tour shows that Clear Channel is probably the biggest whore out there!

BTW - Big time feminist too!!!

[LagaLover]

17. So one who supports a particular

political person or party is a "whore" based on another's perception of that particular political person or party? Does that make Michael Moore a whore? What about Al Franken?

My point: I'm sick of name-calling. Why do we have to label people in such a manner? Why do we have to a 21 year-old woman, who probably doesn't have any strong political beliefs, because she doesn't know any better, a vile name like "whore." When did we become so uncivil?

[DenverDem]

18. America became uncivil when Newt Gengrich got into congress.

We are in an uncivil war for this country's future and civility will only get our asses kicked. What's obscene is what's going on in the white house and house of congress.

Britttteny knows exactly what she is doing by supporting her overlords' overlord and she is most certainly selling sex for super big bucks and by any definition of the word she is a WHORE.

[LagaLover]

19. No, she is not;

and therein lies part of the problem. The incivility, the purposeful misuse of words to defame and defile, it's dividing us all. BOTH sides do it; but I NEVER thought I'd see liberals, the people I count on for acceptance and tolerance, stoop to the levels of the divisive bomb throwers from the far right.

It's WRONG to call a 21 year old woman a whore unless she engages in sexual activity for money. To do otherwise is to purposely misuse words to defame. Aren't we more tolerant than that?

[DenverDem]

22. Enjoy your civility in the civilian internment camps.

Your guards will appreciate your temerity.

[LagaLover]

23. And that has what to do

with calling Britney a whore? Talk about a non sequitor.

[DenverDem]

25. That's where civility will get you in the 21st century.

Britttttttteny dresses like a whore, sells her product through acting like a whore on stage and in videos and whores out her politics to the men paying her millions. If it quacks like a duck.

This woman is a reprehensible role model and unworthy of defense.

[LagaLover]

26. LMAO

Frustrated are we?

[DenverDem]

29. Wooooooo, good rejoinder.

Actually, I'm only frustrated by the preponderance of stupidity in Amerikan culture.

[LagaLover]

32. It's stupid

for people to like Britney Spears? Oh, I see. I didn't realize you were the arbitor of what is stupid and what is "smart" with respect to American culture. Please post a list so we all know what meets the new Culture Czar's approval.

Personal, I don't like Britney's music much, but some of it is passable.

[thebigidea]

35. some of it is passable? I didn't realize YOU were the arbiter of culture

Why is your opinion weightier?

[LagaLover]

36. Not at all

passable WRT MY taste, no one else's.

[thebigidea]

38. so why shriek at an opposing opinion like that?

[chenGOD]

39. if you don't think Britney Spears is selling sexual activity,

what do you think strippers are doing? Dancing?

It's pretty obvious that Britney Spears is trying to make money by arousing the "prurient interest" of young men everywhere. It sure ain't the talent that's selling records.

[LagaLover]

40. She's selling sexual activity?

And how many of her fans is she having intercourse with? engaging in oral sex with? performing digital gratification on?

[chenGOD]

41. Do you think:

a: stripping is a form of sexual activity?
b: cybersex is a form of sexual activity?
c: masturbation is a form of sexual activity?


if you answer yes to any of them, then Britney Spears is certainly selling sexual activity.

I am not a prude, and personally I don't care if someone decides they want to be the star of gangbang girls 37. But to say that Britney is not using sexuality to sell records (ie make money) is just flat-out living in denial.

[LagaLover]

42. In response to your questions

1. No
2. Only if one is masturbating during it.
3. Yes

And Britney is not masturbating anyone nor engaging in cybersex with anyone. She is definitely using sex to sell records, but she is not engaging in sexual activity for money.

[DenverDem]

43. In her latest vid, she plays an airline flight attendant,

spills wine in an old businessman's crotch, rubs it "dry" while the businessman appears to have an orgasm.

Splain that one away.

BTW, say hello to the other drones in the Scaifeco boiler room.

Enough intellectual energy wasted on this bs red herring silliness.

Britttttttttteny is uquestionably a WHORE no matter how you define it.

[LagaLover]

44. Video

Real Life....Video...Real Life...See the difference?

Another frustrated middle-aged man calling a woman he can never have a whore. I love it!

[DenverDem]

45. Still pushing the "frustration" meme?

Given the existance of my beautiful wife this is an absurd theory. I wouldn't trade her for a thousand slutty fat assed whores like Britttttttttttteny.


Reality.....Denial.
Reality.....Denial.
See the difference.

[LagaLover]

46. Wow!

Now she's a slut as well as a whore. Sounds like you have issues with women overtly expressing their sexuality. Nest you'll be saying "She deserved it! Look how that harlot dresses and dances. She's just a temptress!"

Get off the meme, meme. You come across as a man unable to cope with a young woman's overt sexuality.

[DenverDem]

47. Christina Aguillera, now that's overt sexuality I can support.

And she can sing.

[LagaLover]

48. No argument there N/T

[LynneSin]

20. I don't see them as that but I'm sure Free Republic calls them that

:shrug:

[LagaLover]

21. I'll bet they do

And those guys are definitely not whores! That's why I don't like the whole name-calling bit!

[thebigidea]

24. lets refrain from namecalling and call our opponents heroes

Dick Cheney is a good man, he is the front line in our ongoing battle against tooth decay.

Do you have any other requests? Might as well, now that you're in a lecturing mood. Bulleted points would be nice.

[LagaLover]

27. Where did I say we should praise our

opponents? And since when is Britney Spears my opponent?

[thebigidea]

28. well, the conversation went on to whores in the political sense

which is the sense in which that poster invoked the term, despite your efforts to paint it otherwise.

[LagaLover]

30. And even so

We should call our political "opponents" names?

[thebigidea]

34. no, we should treat 2004 like tea with the Queen.

Our only solution is to behave like Joe Lieberman - that's the path to victory.

JOEMENTUM FOREVER!

If you can't say something nice about the Republican Party - why, don't say anything at all.

So would you consider Kerry's "crooks and liars" comment beyond the pale as well?

[LagaLover]

37. No,

I would not. I have no doubt that Kerry has facts with which he can use to support his use of those terms.

Nothing wrong with facts. I, and it is personal with me, don't agree with name-calling for the sake of name-calling. Calling a crook, a crook, is valid. Calling a liar, a liar, is valid. Calling Britney Spears a whore is not. IMHO.