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Kate Upton Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue cover makes my brain lock up

Wednesday February 15, 2012 Posted 3 months ago by Jon Henseler

To quote one of the great philosophers of our time Jacke Chiles, they're real, and they're spectacular! Honestly I was pondering whether or not to post this when it was released a couple of days ago. Not in blog form necessarily, but I did have a pithy facebook status update and the picture ready to post on B93's facebook page. But just as I was about to click 'update' my brain thought, 'somebody is going to be upset about this and make a stink about it.....also you're out of Captain Crunch....don't to buy some later.....captain crunch captain crunch captain crunch captain crunch...there now I should remember.' And so instead of dealing with the fun police I did what any good radio DJ does when material could potentially be suggestive, I waited until another station posted it first so that I could throw them under the bus if I got in trouble. Life 101 kids. I know Ricky Bobby taught us that if you're not first you're last, but in this instance 'last' also means 'employed.' Which brings us to this morning when one of our company's sister station's put this photo on the station facebook page with some caption that I didn't read because Kate Upton put my brain on screen saver. So I thought to myself, 'alright, now let's see if anything bad happens on the comment section.' I walk downstairs to my office, bring up facebook and the picture is gone from my news feed. Swallowed up like Atlantis or something. I do notice that it still exists in their profile picture feed so I click on it there and sure enough people were getting their panties in a bunch because 'kids use facebook' and 'this content is not appropriate to some of the people that like this station.' Ummmmmm what? Am I on earth anymore? You mean the cover of a magazine that exists in EVERY Wal-Mart, ShopKo, Walgreens and CVS. You mean the cover that was released on NATIONAL TV? Seriously forget about the economy and the jobless rate, this is what's wrong with our country. The loudest voice with the minority opinion wins out because they threw the biggest fit. Not to mention this is the internet we're talking about. THIS is what you're worried about as a parent on the internet? The internet is a lawless wasteland of questionable content. It's like a virtual Lord of the Flies where anything goes. The above picture looks like Sunday church compared to what you can find with a simple Google search. I've heard. So everyone needs to  pump their brakes a little bit on the PC culture. Pictures like this are why George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Hacksaw Jim Duggan fought for our independence and invented the internet.

PS: I will say this is exhibit A of why I am HORRIFIED of having a daughter one day. Like yeah she's making a ton of money on the cover of a national magazine, but there's just no way you can get a good night's sleep knowing that internet tough guys like me are staring at your daughter in a bikini all day.

Double PS: And in the interest of being fair to the ladies, even though we DID publish the Clay Matthews shirtless Muscle and Fitness cover, enjoy: