It's now official.

The NFL has no sense of humor and Fox Television has no, uhm, testosterone.

NFL executives are upset because of an ad by GoDaddy.com which made fun of Janet Jackson's wardrobe "malfunction" in last year's halftime show.

The satirical piece aired once during the Super Bowl but was pulled by Fox. The ad was deemed to have content "out of step" with the tenor set by the other ads in the program according to a Fox spokesman.

Okay, let's see if we can follow that line of reasoning. The most popular ad featured a man holding a knife on a cat, and another featured a man frozen to death because he was too stupid to put the top up on his convertible. They were okay, but a woman whose skimpy top strap breaks while a congressional committee member breaths air through an oxygen mask is wrong for the Super Bowl.

This makes about as much sense as deciding that Paul McCartney is "safe" entertainment for the Super Bowl.

Actually I love this nonsense. I've been a Beatles fan since I was old enough to walk, and while Fox and NFL executives extolled Paul McCartney's "family values" for the Super Bowl, rock and roll fans had to laugh.

Sir Paul's play list included a song about a bitchy starlet who cons a poor sucker into driving a car she doesn't own, a song entitled "Live and Let Die" (warm Christian sentiments no doubt), a song that was decried as prejudiced against Jews when it was released (Hey Jude – which was really about John Lennon's son) and of course my favorite song, "Get Back" about homosexuality and lesbianism.

When the Beatles first came to the U.S., Christian groups screamed and yelled about their long hair, their songs – which were considered sexually explicit – and their general rebellious nature against authority. When John Lennon said it was sad that they were now more popular than Jesus Christ, the Christians sponsored record burning parties all over the country and Lennon was forced to apologize because his words were taken out of context.

Paul McCartney came out in the 60s and admitted to using LSD, which sent the squares and Christians off pulling their hair, gnashing their teeth and screaming anew.

But in 2005 McCartney is now the quintessential example of family values – singing the same songs.

Don't get me wrong. I loved the music. I enjoyed the halftime show and enjoyed watching thousands of fans, many of whom weren't born when the song was written, sing the chorus to Hey Jude with Paul.

It made me sad that John and George weren't around and I kept expecting to see Ringo pop in for a song or two on drums.

It was absolutely wonderful to see a man who can actually sing perform instead of Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson – of whom I'm still convinced only exposed herself so we would make sure we knew she wasn't Michael.

Stupidity runs rampant in the media though, so I can't expect too much from the NFL and especially not from my favorite idiots, the people at Fox Network.

How can I single out Fox, you ask?

Well, I'm glad you asked.

You can pick on them for their right-wing bias or for their loud-mouthed hucksters like Bill O'Reilly. But I think the best indictment of the Fox Network is that the executives there continue to employ Geraldo Rivera.

Geraldo Rivera has been lowering the bar for journalists for most of his life and just when you thought he'd hit rock bottom, he dug a little deeper. This time he announced to the world that if Michael Jackson isn't innocent he'll shave off his big fat mustache.

Even Fox spokesmen laughed at that. "You don't need a comment from me," one of them said the other day. "Geraldo certainly knows how to get attention."

So does a naked hooker standing in front of the White House.

And she has more credibility than Geraldo.

So, what's next? Geraldo in a Super Bowl ad for GoDaddy.com, or perhaps a mustache-less Geraldo playing with Sir Paul?