First, Motley Crue? what a shitty choice for a band. In the height of their greatness, they were barely suited to lick Eddie Vedder's boots.

Second, yeah NBC should know better.

Third, i bet you good money this was done deliberately to create publicity like this. That's the reason why they used to use all that satanic imagery in the 80's. They weren't really satanists, but pissing off the christians was good publicity. They have been very explicit about this. I think this is version 2.0 of that tactic.

Fourth, I think it is time to throw out the FCC as a content-censoring body.

i blogged more about this, here: http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/the_best_argument_for_abolishing_the_fcc/

actually, according to the supreme court, it *is* the government's job to do that on broadcast channels (FCC v. Pacifica). I'll ignore for the moment your insipid broad overgeneralization that "it's not the government's job to provide a safe environment for children" (what are the police for?).