Saturday, April 11, 2009

In case of emergency, take your top off.

PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia cable network's early morning broadcast of Good Friday Mass at the Vatican abruptly changed to something wildly different — a 30-second "Girls Gone Wild" ad. Comcast spokesman Jeff Alexander says the 2 a.m. Friday programming glitch was due to a required test of the Emergency Alert System. He says such tests are usually done in the overnight hours. The test automatically tunes viewers to a preselected channel that would provide information in the event of an emergency. But during tests, the channel airs regular programming, which in this case included a paid advertisement for the racy videos. Alexander says the problem affected the network's entire local area, but only one person called to complain.
Of course only one person called to complain. That's because (a) only five people are watching and (b) almost nobody cares.
We're supposed to be offended by a religious program that is interrupted by an ad for a half-naked video, but in reality, we like that stuff. We know because, if we go to their web site and click on "I do not agree," we still get the girly photos (above). You'd think people would call to complain about that. Religious viewers especially, since they hardly see such things - except in the privacy of their homes.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be so popular.

4 comments:

Handsome B. Wonderful said...

Yeah the porn industry wouldn't be a billion dollar industry if it weren't for many conservatives looking at this stuff. It's not just liberals who are fueling the porn industry--bar far.

susan said...

I hate to say it, but do you think people would be upset if instead of a slim, woman, it was an obese 400 lb woman?

I don't see anything wrong with said woman on Comcast- and I m a Comcast subscriber.

I just hope next time this happens it's beefcake instead of boobs.

(grin).

Anthony said...

HBW: Nothing sells better than repressed sexual desire.

susan: I wonder. Somehow, we only like boobs when they're attached to the slim ideal. Otherwise, it's either funny or disgusting. There are probably books on that subject.

And, it's almost never beefcake, shame for you. :)

susan said...

Anthony,

A girl can dream, eh?

BTW, this story just made Google news page- with a story about Marilyn Chambers passing underneath it.....

the symbolism almost has me laughing so hard I might wet myself.