O'Reilly's Ludacris Rant Was, Well ---- Ludicrous

Katie J

Bill O'Reilly's rant agains Ludacris came in a dismal second to his damning parents of teens.
This morning, Bill O'Reilly really outdid himself by wildly raving on for an hour on his radio show about how horrid Ludacris is, right after he did the "horrid" by kicked a guest off the air who disagreed with him.

Now, BillO has every right -- not to be obnoxiously rude to a guest -- but to disagree with anyone about anything. He can be critical; he can opine; he can boycott certain products; he can change the radio or television station. He has that right as we all do.

It's just that some of us use a degree of logic when we choose to disagree. In his ravings, he also included his usual condemnation of the parents of the kids who buy and listen to Ludacris.

BillO, stop blaming the parents for their kids' choices in music. Parents are too easy a target.

Unlike O'Reilly, I remember what it was like when I was a teenager, nor have I forgotten what I went through with my own teenage children. Yes, parents must and should maintain some control over their children who are living under their roofs. But the idea of having total, absolute or even partial control over every move their kids make is also ludicrous.

Perhaps BillO's fogotten all the things he did as a teen that were in direct defiance of his parents. Once a kid is out of the house, in school, visiting friends...parents have lost control.

We can forbid them from buying Ludacris CDs; we can forbid them from buying violent video games; we can put restrictors on their computers; we can forbid them for doing a plethora of things...until they walk out the door. Once they are in the environment of the "big bad world", we've lost control, and we can't stop them from buying, listening or doing anything.

Hell, we can't even stop them from eating "junk food," so how are we supposed to stop them from listening to musicians who haven't undergone extensive lab experiments of social acceptability and received the BillO Seal of Approval.

Remember when Larry Flint put a bounty on George Bush's nose for anybody who could come up with the "goods" on Bush's prior nefarious activities?

The baffoon, the Mr.-Always-Talk-the-Moral-High- Ground, the hypocrite, the culture warrior, BillO, is deserving of the same tactics.

It would be so nice to see a mole planted in the O'Reilly household and all of its big bad world extensions. How delicious it would be to have someone follow his kids around to see what they're listen to, what video games they're playing, and everything else they might be doing or might have done, just to see how much control he now has, or has ever had over his own kids.



Sandy Sand...yes, that's her real name...as her mother did not have a sense of humor, she married the name. Sandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM.


Follow the closure of the Chronicle's doors after serving the West Valley as a community newspaper for nearly fifty years, she moved on to be the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier in Burbank.

Currently Sandy is a frequent guest columnist whose articles appear in the L.A. Daily News.

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