Musburger Seems To Take A Shot At Comment-Gate Silliness

"Some feel Musburger referring to Webb as attractive was just another example of men objectifying women during a sports broadcast.  OK.  But here’s guessing the chit-chatting women on ABC’s “The View” have probably said from time to time that a male actor or signer is handsome. Don’tcha think?

Poor fellas, always objectified."

Don't be obtuse, now. I agree that ESPN singling out Musburger was silly, because they're all just as bad, but it is undeniable that the media in general (which includes men and women) pays a creepy and disproportionate amount of attention to women's bodies. Even if Webb seems to have reaped some kind of benefits from the attention shown her during the broadcast, no one asked her for her consent before making her into a sex object on national television. That's the problem. The patriarchy allows men to assume that all women's bodies are available for public comment all the time, and that's sexist and creepy and wrong. Webb wasn't a public figure (or at least wasn't performing as one simply by being at her boyfriend's football game). Men do not suffer anything comparable.

I watched and listened to that live and I must say I got a chuckle out of Brent's comment. The apology baloney is just that. Yes, he may not have been smooth...that might have been creepy, but his statement was neither wrong or creepy as delivered. Let's get real folks, she is a beautiful woman who is Miss Alabama. She wants people to look at her!!! Also, he is simply commenting on what the guy/gal in the truck put on the screen, as usual, ad nauseum. And if there is anyone reading this that was offended, please, get over yourself.

ESPN shows cheerleaders all the time. They made sure to show Ms. Alabama every time McCarron thew a pass. Now they act offend for this??? Musburger knows how one little slip of the tongue can cost someone he was at CBS when Jimmy the Greek was fired. Funny thing is he's not Marv Albert.

If you were offended by his comments (they were a little creepy, but I mean offended), then I ask you - what would YOU have said in the second half of a 42-14 mercy killing?

Well it was pretty clear to me he said "it"

Let me see if I got this straight.

We fully endorse our young girls and women being paraded around in a football stadium in what amounts to the same amount of cloth as their underwear, doing dance routines with a flag and or pom poms, posing on occaision in sexually suggestive routines, and we're okay with the cameras focusing on them at least 10 times a game, but we get up in arms because a guy verbalizes what everybody knows?

Personally, I thought Brent's comments were just sophomoric and clumsy. Not deliberately offensive, but stupidly delivered. They were not clever, not humorous, just an old guy trying to compliment AJs girl friend while tripping over his tongue. But, because most folks really are interested in who the best looking and famous people date, the woman gets a bump up in marketability and attention. And Brent gets hammered for saying something "offensive." I thought they should have docked his pay because he could not figure out how to say what we were all thinking without coming off as blubbering.

He said what the readers of People Magazine and Oprah's inquiring minds want to know (and there are millions and millions of them), at the level of sophistication most of them have, and because that is true, she gets invited on the view, a program populated by hideously unattractive people. Yep, I actually said that.

Next time Brent, figure out a way to comment on the attractiveness of a Miss Alabama (how obvious is that) without damaging your taste buds by stepping on them.