CNNSI 10 Spot
From Rowe and then OBrien:
When American sports fans and legislators get up in arms over scandals such as Janet Jackson's Super Bowl striptease, the rest of the world chuckles at our prudery. Consider the comments of Scottish Formula 1 driver David Coulthard as Exhibit A of the wider parameters enjoyed by our colleagues overseas. At the Canadian Grand Prix, a female TV reporter asked the driver if he had practiced using a new button that controls a car's speed before it emerges from the pits. Coulthard replied, on live TV, "Yeah, I have. I've been imagining it's your nipples so I'm being a bit more gentle when I take my finger off." The reporter then giggled and sent it back to the studio. Imagine all the hand-wringing Stateside if the same comment had been uttered by, say, Jeff Gordon.
When American sports fans and legislators get up in arms over scandals such as Janet Jackson's Super Bowl striptease, the rest of the world chuckles at our prudery. Consider the comments of Scottish Formula 1 driver David Coulthard as Exhibit A of the wider parameters enjoyed by our colleagues overseas. At the Canadian Grand Prix, a female TV reporter asked the driver if he had practiced using a new button that controls a car's speed before it emerges from the pits. Coulthard replied, on live TV, "Yeah, I have. I've been imagining it's your nipples so I'm being a bit more gentle when I take my finger off." The reporter then giggled and sent it back to the studio. Imagine all the hand-wringing Stateside if the same comment had been uttered by, say, Jeff Gordon.
