Bill O'Reilly is at it again. For many years, that self-righteous TV personality has viciously attacked the culture of Hip-hop whenever he gets the opportunity. For those unfamiliar with this guy, he's the host of the most popular show on the extreme right-wing news network Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, very famous for taking on issues that affect the conservative point of views.
But O'Reilly is very known to be involved in controversies.
Do you remember the Ludacris-Pepsi fiasco when the soft drink company decided to drop Ludacris as spokeperson following many complaints about his music, which was characterized as "mysoginistic" and "violent". Do you wanna know who was behind this decision ? You guess it, Bill O'reilly.
He was clearly the culprit of that fiasco when he blasted Ludacris saying that he was a "violent artist" who is giving a bad example for the youth in America. Then, he went on to say audaciously that Britney Spears has a more "positive effect" than Ludacris and Pepsi should have gave her the spot. Pepsi signed the Osbourne family as spokesperson. Furthermore, Hip-Hop mogul Russell Simmons called for the boycott of Pepsi in response to that decision and demanded an apology to Ludacris and some millions dollars to donate on the artist's charities. Eventually, Pepsi settled with Simmons to avoid the boycott as well as with Ludacris even though the company did not formally apologized to him. If I was Ludacris, I would have sued both Pepsi and Bill O'Reilly for millions for damages and interests.
That was, if I'm not mistaken, the beginning of Bill O'Reilly's crusade on Hip Hop.
Recently, Virginia Tech officials have organized a tribute concert for the victims of last spring' s tragic shootings to be held in September. Among featured artists to perform is Nas, whose recent effort "Hip-Hop is Dead" has been well received by fans and critics. Of course, this announcement didn't sit well with Bill O'Reilly and quickly, he jumps on the occasion to denounce the concert and to call for the immediate removal of Nas based on ignorant facts such as his lyrics are promoting gun violence. By the way, Nas has NEVER wrote a song about promoting violence or inciting people to violence. What is very sad it's the fact that O'Reilly didn't do any research on the subject and didn't invite Nas to debate on the issue.
For me, Bill O'Reilly is nothing more than an arrogant, pompous, ignorant and racist scumbag who will do anything to get high ratings. He may be well-respected among a certain group of journalists, but I won't give him any respect as long he uses lies and deceit along with hypocrisy to get his point across.
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