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MIA's middle finger has caused some dramz

  • February 6, 2012
  • Mikey

World Peace was in doubt this morning after MIA made an "obscene gesture" to a billion Super Bowl viewers during  Madonna's half-time performance.

Super Bowl broad­caster NBC have apo­lo­gised for the 'scandal' saying MIA's middle finger was "com­pletely inap­pro­pri­ate, very dis­ap­point­ing, and we apologize to our fans".

In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, the TV station blamed the slip-up on a "failure in NBC's delay system", which would have obscured the obscenity and preserved American decency.

The delay system did in fact blur the per­form­ance one second after the event — well done everyone — which you can watch with parental super­vi­sion from 7:40 here.

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