Sorry if this has allready been posted. Chuckster was on The Factor tonight, I missed it, but the replay will be on in fifteen minutes. Get the popcorn ready!
o'reilly is really fascinated with Ludacris, isn't he? I've heard him mention the rapper SO MANY times in different occasions!
Chuck said on Letterman that he's lost as much as 1 MILLION dollars gambling in a weekend! Damn, but I missed the O'Reilly show! Anyone see it? I can just imagine what he told O'reilly!
o'reilly was really getting on him for his past indiscretions that landed him in jail. he was telling barkley that he should be a role model for young people, and not like rappers like Ludacris and Snoop Dogg who advocate drugs, drinking, and promiscuity in their music. Barkley kept retorting with the fact that its the media's fault b/c they choose to glorify the indiscretions of prominent african americans rather than report the rappers, athletes, and entertainers that are good, wholesome people. pretty tame interview for o'reilly. perhaps he was scared chuck would sit on him if he got him too upset?
He found out that the 13 year old that was shot in Maryland was a big Tracy McGrady fan, so he sent him a video get well card and an autographed jersey. He's won me as a fan. http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2002/1009/1443501.html
no, o'reilly didn't say a word about McGrady. but i am glad that espn.com chose to report his generous doings on their main page. i have a newfound respect for that man.
What would be the point of O'Reilly reporting on McGrady? McGrady's not part of the problem. O'Reilly thinks there is a problem here-- media glorificiation of inappropriate role models-- so he's focusing on instances of that.
actually, i thought it was Barkley who thought the media was glorifying the wrong people. O'Reilly kept talking about the people being glorified. He didn't talk about the media being at fault, but the lawbreakers for not being more responsible.
I understand that, but he's part of the media, and he could start to glorify the positive things that athletes, musicians, and entertainers in general do. I'm willing to be the positive greatly outweighs the negative.
Well, that's probably true. I think he's trying to be a counter-balance to what he sees as too much positive focus on negative people. I also think his primary motivation is ratings and not solutions-- if the problem gets solved, so much the better, but the best outcome for him is always outrage. I don't regularly watch O'Reilly, but the one time I saw him do a show on Ludacris, he was attacking Pepsi and MTV and any other conglomerate that could semi-reasonably be held responsible for glorifying thugs. He takes sort of a scattershot approach to things-- all the better to find a target he can make angry enough to come on his show.
True, but in my mind, I'm more willing to watch and listen if you observe both sides of things. Focus on the good and bad. Oh well...I'm watching some crappy sitcom when he comes on anyway.
I'm split on O'Reily, in the case of Ludacris, I think he's wrong for picking on him so much. I don't listen to rap, but from what I've seen on MTV, Ludacris is pretty tame compared to other rappers and musicians. I think O'Reily was upset because this guy isn't singing about wholesome things like getting married and having kids, yet is shooting up the charts. Ludacris comes off as more goofy to me. From what I've seen, I'm pretty sure that in O'Reily's mind, rappers like Ludacris are the reason african americans aren't 100% equal with whites. He just seems to simplify things too much.
