‘Licking the butt of a stuff bear’: Miley Cyrus VMA Twerking Results in Ludicrous FCC Complaints | HO

Apparently there a whole bunch of people who don’t have anything better to do than complain to the Federal Communications Commission about Miley Cyrus’s dance moves.

The Smoking Gun obtained more than 150 pages of FCC complaints about the pop stars act at MTV’s Video Music Awards last month, which The Huffington Post has conveniently posted as a single, 161-page document.

Some of them are fairly absurd. A few choice excerpts from The Smoking Gun’s highlight reel:

* Cyrus accused of “licking the butt of a stuff bear.”

* “Humped him like a bitch in heat.”

* Cyrus “touched the genitals of an older man while performing music.”

* “GOD HELP THIS NATION.”

* Cyrus was “acting like a devil flicking that tongue as deamons do.”

* Cyrus engaged in “implied s3xual acts with bears.”

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* “As an educator I have to stand up and say, ‘Enough is enough.'”

* Cyrus appeared “like she just coked up back stage ….really !!!!!”

* “Dry humping, which they call twerking apparently.”

* “I was subjugated to 4 minutes of Miley Cyrus.”

Subjugated! Practically tortured!

The joke’s on the complainers, though, as the FCC doesn’t actually regulate indecency on cable networks like MTV. Thank goodness!

As the agency explains, it stays its hand from the higher end of the channel line-up “because cable and satellite services are subscription-based.” As a result “viewers of these services have greater control over the programming content that comes into their homes.”
Over the years, of course, various legislative nanniers have argued that the FCC ought to extend its censorious reach to cover pay-cable networks. But what incidents like this suggest is that we ought to seriously consider the opposite approach: taking the FCC off watch for broadcast as well.

For many if not most viewers, there’s little meaningful distinction between cable and broadcast networks at this point. And people have just as much control over what comes into their homes, and what they watch, regardless of the source.

So the hands-off logic that applies to cable ought to apply to broadcast as well: Just as there’s no good reason to police what MTV can and can’t show, becuase people can always choose to watch something else, there’s no good reason for federal censors to limit what the broadcast networks can show.

Miley Cyrus bans herself from twerking on 59-date Bangerz world tour to avoid bad press

Pop’s most controversial star Miley Cyrus has banned herself from “twerking” throughout her forthcoming world tour.

The singer, who shocked the world last year when she began her trademark gyrating dance moves, instead wants her fans to listen to her music and realise that she can sing.

Miley, 21, has told her record company bosses that she will not have her 59-date tour plagued with criticism over her antics.

A source close to the former Hannah Montana star revealed: “Miley is well aware of the controversy that her twerking caused last year and while she is not at all regretful of it, she doesn’t want it to define her concerts.
“She has written the show herself, it’s like a play and it has a theme but more than anything Miley wants the world to see that she can actually sing.

“Since June, when the twerking became infamous, Miley doesn’t feel that she has always been portrayed as a serious artist but someone who just bends over and behaves in a raunchy manner.

“She thinks her raw talent has been overshadowed by this and wants to put it right. She will though, of course, be wearing raunchy-style outfits but that is as far as it will be going.”?Miley – daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus – begins her string of gigs this Friday in Vancouver.

NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 25: Robert Thicke and Miley Cyrus perform during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center on August 25, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for MTV) (Image: FilmMagic)

She arrives in the UK on May 6 when she will play London’s O2 Arena. She will play a further five shows, plus one in Dublin.

Sources close to the Wrecking Ball singer say that she can’t wait to get to the UK because she’s looking forward to enjoying the nightlife that we have to offer.

Speaking of her excitement at her forthcoming tour, Miley said: “The tour is like a play, there will be these intermissions. I’m going to mix things up so every night gets to be a fresh show.

“We’ve got things exploding, everything, everywhere. I want my fans to get their worth out of it. I want things to fall out of the sky or me throw things out, I want things fans get to keep and things you can’t buy on the website. It’s just something you can get, you have to come to the show to have.”

She will also have special guests joining her on stage but is yet to confirm who they will be on the British leg of the tour.

Miley came under huge scrutiny in August when millions saw her twerk with American singer Robin Thicke to a mix of her hit We Can’t Stop and his, Blurred Lines at MTV’s VMA’s.

Her antics were criticised across the globe but in December, she did the same again with a man dressed as Santa Claus at the Jingle Ball in Minnesota, America in December.

The source added: “Miley is a clever girl, she knows what she’s doing and indeed, what her fans want so this is all her decision.”