Some girl drops a towel on Monday Night Football and we see her back. Her NAKED, NAKED, horribly NAKED back! Little kids shouldn’t be exposed to this! I mean… they can be exposed to grown men endlessly beating the shit out of each other on the football field, sure, but not a naked back!!!

It’s been five days and somehow people are still expressing outrage over it.

The only thing offensive about this was that ABC used NFL players to promote their horrible programming- I think we can do without that. If it was truly offensive you’d think Entertainment Tonight wouldn’t air it in the middle of the day and that ESPN wouldn’t have aired it every hour on the hour.

The more troubling question is this: Would this be a big deal if it had been a black chick? Or a white player? Could this be a race thing? (I admit, I’m always the last to see that angle… but I’m cribbing that thought from Howard Stern’s show a few days ago.)

So which is it, hopeless puritanism or latent racism?

Update:
My God- how naive of me… check out what Limbaugh said about the skit:

Even Rush Limbaugh, who made a racially charged critique of McNabb last season, chimed in on his radio show, saying he was “shocked” by the content, which was “too close to this Kobe Bryant situation for comfort.”

I’m sure I’m pointing out the obvious here, but that’s an incredibly racist thing to say. Are we to understand that every time a black man and a white woman are in the same room a rape case will result?

Rush- whatever it is you’re taking this week, do us all a favor and double the dosage.