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Bill O'Reilly, who according to Bill O'Reilly has always gone out of his way to serve underprivileged youth, is not a fan of Beyoncé's sexy jam "Partition," not because there are no references in the song to his own sexual preferences (laying a "falafel" on someone's "pussy" , but because he thinks it sets a bad example for young black girls.
Sitting down with Russell Simons, the Fox News anchor complained:
"Explain this: Beyoncé...She puts out a new album with a video that glorifies having sex in the back of a limousine. Teenage girls look up to Beyoncé, particularly girls of color...Why on Earth would this woman do that? Why would she do it when she knows the devastation that unwanted pregnancies...and fractured families why would Beyoncé do that?"
You're dodging the question,"he badgered, somehow failing to realize that only person who could actually answer the question Why would Beyoncé do that? is Beyoncé herself. "I believe an entertainer like Beyoncé and a mogul like you have an obligation to protect children. Not put out exploitive garbage that you know harms impressionable children. I think Beyoncé what she has done here is inexplicable and I'm asking you, Russell Simmons, to explain it to me."
Simmons responded by stating that, with his own children, he's not worried about the big scary threat of pop music because his "daughters make choices based on the inspiration we give them as parents." Of course, what O'Reilly unsurprisingly fails to consider is that Beyoncé becoming her own sexual agent is, in it's own way, a very radical and important notion. Then there's the fact that the man she sings about having sex with in "Partition" is her partner of 10 years, husband Jay Z. The couple at least outwardly display all the monogamous values that many ascribe to the "traditional" American couple only, for people like O'Reilly, that's still not good enough. Why? Maybe because Jay Z and Beyoncé are black and therefore can never fit the mold of what is "right." http://jezebel.com/bill-oreilly-is-the-latest-to-take-issue-with-beyonce-1541381749
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Just think she's awful.
Warpy
(111,383 posts)I don't have a problem with her, but drag queens who are fixated on her are usually season losers, eliminated very quickly on "Drag Race."
Uh, guys, that character is a loser.
JI7
(89,279 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Warpy
(111,383 posts)and that point is that he's not a kid and it's not his choice and it's certainly none of his business.
Hell, she's in the business of entertaining and she does it very well. If bloviating right wing gasbags had their way, 100% of TV would be on the level of Romper Room (in language their base understands, at least) and kids would be wrapped in layers of cotton batting and stuffed safely into closets where they would never see, hear or learn a damned thing.
Put that old goat out to pasture. His 15 minutes expired a good 20 years ago.
Right you are.
sibelian
(7,804 posts)Stuffed with schlubby, twisted emotions and cartoonish pseudo-morality.
He isn't interested in reality. He's interested in Bill O'Reilly.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)butterfly77
(17,609 posts)Miley and Justin?
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)And has said that she is no longer a role model to young girls
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)that Bill is only focused on "girls of color":
...so Justin and Miley get a pass because they're white.
Remember, Bill's not racist...
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)So that's a good lesson to teach kids, right? Avoid sex in the back of a van
Shoulders of Giants
(370 posts)Until she does, O'Loofah can stuff it.
llmart
(15,557 posts)I'd rather teenaged girls watch Beyonce than Bill O'Reilly.
Enough said.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)he's doing to ppl like my dad who gets nuttier by the day. As far as Beyonce goes, her shit is bangin & her an Jay-Z are doing what they need to do.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)His outrage always seems to be directed at persons of color.
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)as long as he spells my name right