Justin Timberlake is defending Miley Cyrus and her controversial VMA performance. Justin went on radio station hot 97 and discussed Miley.

Timberlake said about Miley Cyrus, "She's young, take it easy on her," and said it's worth considering the context of the performance. "It's the VMAs. You know what I mean, like, it's not the Grammys," he said. "We're talking about Madonna in a wedding dress humping the stage, we're talking about Britney doing a striptease. This cycle is not uncommon." 

Later, Timberlake added, "If something like that doesn't happen at the VMAs, I feel like it was boring." He also said he enjoyed the teddy bears on stage.

He also told radio station 102.7 "Listen, man, it's the VMAs - what did you guys expect?"

But not everybody agrees with JT, including the conservative pundit

Mika Brzezinski.

Mika Brzezinski got into a heated debate with Matt Lauer on Tuesday's "Today" over the Miley Cyrus MTV VMA performance, which she called "disgusting and disturbing."

"I think the only thing that surprises me is that we're surprised," Matt Lauer said.

Mika Brzezinski, though, wasn't having it. "There's pushing the envelope and there's porn, there's raunchy porn that's disgusting and disturbing and seeing... a 20 year old young woman literally in the process of her undoing and everyone clapping for it and being disturbed by it and talking about it and showing it, which I hope we don't," Brzezinski said. "Don't show it here on my segment, please."

Lauer disagreed, pointing out that Cyrus is a "paid performer" who was part of the year's "most provocative awards show" and performed during a "provocative" song.

The two argued, and Mika Brzezinski kept saying they should "denounce" the performance.

She said, "Oversexualized is one thing. Is it sexual to stick your face in the face of a life-size teddy bear and stick your tongue out? We're talking about raunch, we're not talking about sexualization."

Miley Cyrus performance at the MTV Video Music Awards should have earned her the award of sluttiest performer of the year. Miley, wearing a tiny teddy bear outfit surrounded by women wearing teddy bears as well while singing 'We Can't Stop,' gave a performance that was so utterly talentless and whorish that it left even Will Smith and his family rolling their eyes and holding their breath.

The song was ridiculous with Miley barely dancing and her singing was too vibrato and she looked on drugs. Twitter fans agree with her odd ball performance with comments blowing up the internet.

Here are some of the comments about Miley Cyrus Video Music Awards performance last night:

*Miley Cyrus just ruined my day/week/month/year/life

*Everything about ‪@MileyCyrus performance was talentless and disgusting

*Will Smith was so horrified by the Miley Cyrus performance tonight that he moved his entire family out of Bel Air. ‪#VMA

*To me it seemed like she was trying to channel her inner Madonna a little too hard . Her goal was not to show her talent for music but to shock as many as she could and to blow up twitter while doing it . I really wish the media wouldn't give so much attention to performances like hers and stick to commenting on just the music . Watching her anorexia type body frame twerking like that broke my achy brakey heart ......

*That girl has changed so much. She is disgusting and tacky.

*She's disgusting - no wonder her man is in no rush to marry her.......who wants to be strapped down to a pig like that. Performer or not - she needs to grow up and start acting like a young lady rather than a run down dirty tramp.

Then Miley took off her insane teddy bear get up to wear a Britney Spears inspired two piece tan jumpsuit. She sang with Robin Thicke and was jumping around, dancing, twerking, holding her crotch and ran a foam finger along her private parts with some major pelvic thrusts. The whole thing was absurd.

Miley clearly doesn't have talent. She can't sing or dance and her over the top slutty moves make her officially the worst role model in Hollywood.