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[Zinix]

 

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Thursday advised Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett to get "gangsta rappers" like Jay Z and Kanye West to say their behavior is wrong if the White House really wants to improve minority communities.

President Barack Obama had invited O'Reilly to the launch of his new initiative called "My Brother's Keeper" earlier Thursday. The program aims to create opportunities and improve conditions for young minority men, but O'Reilly said he doesn't believe the White House sees the "urgency" of the situation in the streets.

"You have to attack the fundamental disease if you want to cure it," O'Reilly told Jarrett. "Now I submit to you that you're gonna have to get people like Jay Z, Kanye West, all these gangsta rappers to knock it off."

"They idolize these guys with the hats on backwards, and the terrible rap lyrics and the drug and all of that," he continued, adding that high-profile figures need to hammer young people with that message to "reverse the peer pressure."

O'Reilly also challenged First Lady Michelle Obama to come on "The Factor" and tell teenage girls "You stop having sex. You stop getting pregnant. This is wrong."

Jarrett said the first lady's mentorship program accomplishes more for young women than a single Fox News interview could, but she conceded that perhaps the outreach program could find some musicians that kids respect to come and speak to them.

"Look, either tell them they do it or you audit them. That's it," O'Reilly joked.

O'Reilly has inveighed against "gangsta" rap culture for over a decade. He called for a boycott of Pepsi back in 2002 that led to Ludacris being dropped from his endorsement deal and debated Jon Stewart in 2011 over the Obama administration's invitation to Common to participate in a poetry event.

Last summer, he used the Trayvon Martin case as a jumping off point in his syndicated column to suggest that rappers like Jay Z, West and Lil' Wayne do a public service ad for the federal government urging kids to reject drugs and violence in order to fight the "black crime problem."

Watch below starting at the 2:30 mark, courtesy of Fox News:

 

 

http://talkingpoints...gangsta_rappers

 

 

Bill really needs to retire from politics already. 

[Raiden]

I have not followed rap since the 90's when I listened to Bone Thugs N Harmony,Eazy E,Coolio and others. My understanding was more modern stuff isn't gangsta.

[LinkKennedy]

I'm not a fan of rap outside of 2pac but come on this is an old argument lol. Let it go.

[Zinix]

I'm not a fan of rap outside of 2pac but come on this is an old argument lol. Let it go.

It's coming from an old school fossil of a politician. lol.

[Raiden]

Since when is Bill a politician? He has always been a TV host,I remember him before we knew he was a jackass on a TV show I watched in the late 80's called inside addition. He's just a loudmouth religious MERcans patriot zealot.

[Cozmo]

First of all, its not the rappers jobs to babysit and mentor these kids on right and wrong, thats the parents jobs. Second, "oreikki" needs to get his head out of his ass. I thinks hes the smartest person in the world and is the best. Hes a mascott for fox at best (which makes him even lower bc its fox), not this leader of the free world he seems to think he his.

[Auzzie Wingman]

> Says nothing about Otaku invasion

> Joke

[KeptMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums]

My main problem with rappers is that they're a big part of why awesome person has become an acceptable thing to say.

[Kokirii]

Since when is Bill a politician? He has always been a TV host,I remember him before we knew he was a jackass on a TV show I watched in the late 80's called inside addition. He's just a loudmouth religious MERcans patriot zealot.

 

You use "religious" and "patriot" as if they are insults.  

 

Also, I don't agree with him on much, but he's right about this.  

[Raiden]

You use "religious" and "patriot" as if they are insults.  

 

Also, I don't agree with him on much, but he's right about this.  

no I used Zealot as an insult.

 

My mom is religious and patriotic but not a zealot. A zealot forces personal views on others and insults them and belittles them for not having the exact same view and no matter what you say or even provide evidence of to differ you are wrong to him and insult you for it and use scare tactics.

Edited by Ryudo, 03 March 2014 - 07:45 AM.

[KeptMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums]

no I used Zealot as an insult.

 

My mom is religious and patriotic but not a zealot. A zealot forces personal views on others and insults them and belittles them for not having the exact same view and no matter what you say or even provide evidence of to differ you are wrong to him and insult you for it and use scare tactics.

Well to be fair I don't really think this about religion. It's more about the fact teenage pregnancy and gang worship is on the rise. I don't think the ideas he proposed would work whatsoever, but I think the problems he stated are indeed problems that need to be solved.

[Raiden]

Well to be fair I don't really think this about religion.

Was talking about him in general and often he forces those views on people and the public..like ocean tides and the moon thing.

[KeptMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums]

Was talking about him in general and often he forces those views on people and the public..like ocean tides and the moon thing.

Eh. The Christian way of forcing views tends to be one of the most peaceful. They literally just talk or at most shout at you. Other religions kill you. Never understood why people even complain about it. It was mandetory I learn evolution, but I didn't say crap about it. You want to talk about forcing views, that's it right there.