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M.I.A. Flips Bird During Super Bowl Halftime Show; NBC Apologizes (VIDEO)

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Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show has gotten a lot of attention (because it was the Super Bowl halftime show), but it pretty much went off without controversy.

Until people pointed out that guest performer M.I.A. had given viewers the middle finger.

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Even though most viewers probably didn’t consider it a big deal, flipping the bird is always a source of media hyperventilation.

Plus, ever since Janet Jackson’s nipple made a surprise appearance for a half-second during the 2004 halftime show, Super Bowl observers (and politicians, advocacy groups, the FCC, etc.) always seem primed to declare controversy.

UPDATE: NBC is now apologizing.

“We apologize for the inappropriate gesture that aired during halftime,” said the network in statement. “It was a spontaneous gesture that our delay system caught late.”

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  • http://twitter.com/Nathiest Nathiest

    And that one single digit move gets her all the press. Brilliant!

  • Angel_kisses525

    Seriously, people are complaining because she flipped the middle finger…OMG, there’s other issues to worry about in the world…Lots of people flip the middle finger, it’s nothing new, it’s just people making a big deal out of nothing…

  • lexoxo

    i didn’t even notice. i was a little more interested in maddona and not M.I.A.

  • http://twitter.com/Mgon Mgon

    It was a finger malfunction! ROFL

  • rad

    I bet Madonna is VERY upset with M.I.A!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000572157647 Diana Tourville

    Best part of the show! lol

  • bocroq

    I caught it and KNEW it was going to cause some kind of controversy. It’s pretty immature but it got her the attention she wanted. Lame. When can we see a great artist perform at half-time? Madonna looked so awkward trying to “dance”. I get why she lip synced…but did Nicki Minaj really have to pretend rap?

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  • Anonymous

    Yea, and there are more important things than the Super Bowl too, but people still worry about it like their life depends on it.

  • Danny

    LOL I love how the media always has to find something in a performance to make bigger than it is. Between Madonna’s ‘fall’ (which was her leg going back down accidentally) and this finger, what about the performance itself? They always do that. Like when Christina Aguilera fell at the end of her grammy’s performance, that was BARELY on camera, but EVERYONE noticed that because of the media. Anyway, old example, just saying.

  • Anonymous

    How ~edgy of you MIA. Watch out, we got a badass over here.

  • Kris

    Flippin’ a nipple… Flippin’ the bird… My vote for next year is for one of the performers to go full monty and REALLY give people something to laugh/complain about

  • Danymarc

    Génial, superbe le spectacle de Madona. Pour le doigt, et bien c’est une crispation momentané du geste artistique de la main qui s’est soldé par une paralysie d’un doigt qui n’a suivit le mouvement! J’ai bien apprécié le match, superbe, et ce qui m’a beaucoup plu c’est le respect des spectateurs dans les gradins, bravo a eu aussi qui nous ont donné une très belle image du votre esprit sportif.

  • DGB

    How boring…Madonna looked ‘Photo-shopped’ looks of make-up no real close up …and really old to me…she missed a climb up in one spo, and when they were grabbing her legs she looked stiff…As for the ‘flip’….come on, that’s so old doing something ‘controversial’ ….what a bore…

  • Bqlightyear

    Another stupid Negro stunt! Ain’t it enough that the majority of white American’s have no Slavery history, yet we continue to endure Black Stupidity?

  • Tony

    Off yourself and do the world a favor.

  • Anonymous

    Wow you are an incredibly ignorant ass. White people do stupid things like this too!

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  • Trm1201

    Wow! You are a dumb ass…

  • The Truth

    More racist stupidity from someone hiding behind a computer.

  • Guest

    FYI she’s Indian you stupid, racist douchebag.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=658361960 Elle O’Elle

    have you listened to any of her songs? she is the original bad ass. And as for the finger, listen to the lyrics, it was apt :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=658361960 Elle O’Elle

    that isn’t just ignorance, it’s straight out fucken racism.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=658361960 Elle O’Elle

    she’s Sri Lanken :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/RTCastleberry R.T. Castleberry

    Frankly, I hope Madonna finds MIA, breaks that finger off and shoves it up her keister. After all the careful planning by Madonna, she must be livid that a washed up singer screwed up the show.

  • Krissie

    Somehow I doubt Madonna planned every single second of the halftime show all by herself…

  • Dick Neu

    Who is she????? Some skag no one will know in a year like most of these ” singers”

  • Dick Neu

    Like when we watch your all black award shows! No racism there! There is more racism from the black man to whites then we even think about!

  • Nicety

    I don’t think the point here is to measure who is more racist.I have found this wonderful invention you may have heard of it,it is called a remote.I use it when there is something on I don’t want to watch.You may try it the next time you don’t want to watch one of the “all black award shows.” I don’t think anyone forces you to watch.Even if your TV only has that one channel that shows the “all black award shows” their is an off button and if that doesn’t work just unplug the damn thing.FYI artist these days (black and white) are crossing over so their is rarely an all black or an all white award show. #IMJUSTSAYING!!!!!!!!! Comments like yours and Bqlightyear proves that racism is an equal issue among blacks and whites.This is a race that neither side is winning.

  • None

    what do you expect from an ugly biatch rappa!

  • Pahcwh1

    great game!!!!!

  • Mrodriguez440

    I CAN”T STAND HER SHE IS WACK…….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brenda-Mills/100000377591626 Brenda Mills

    Just Low Class.

  • Teenee Klassis

    I’m those girls in the background waving their vaginas was more vulgar than the middle finger. I dare you to find a rapper with a better message. What’s Madonna’s message?

  • Veronique1980

    UMMMMMMM, She is NOT black. NOT AT ALL!!! Being dark doesnt make her black. LOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLOL The stupidity here is ALL YOURS!!!! Pfffffffft

  • Mary_who7

    Wow big deal so she flipped the camera off as she was singing “I dont give a shit” there are far worse shit on TV than that

  • guest

    she is saying i dont give a shit….. it was probably just in to moment

  • URANUS

    MADONNA CANNOT DANCE, ESPECIALLY IN HEELS SINCE SHE JOINED AARP!

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