"Some would say...Bill O'Reilly is an A**HOLE"

     I’m at loss for words over this man; I guess I should feel more sorry for him than anything.  He gives republicans and conservatives a bad name.  I apologize for the foul language in the title of the blog, but after seeing and hearing the way this so called journalist speaks to his guests and others; I would rather punch his teeth in.  Now, I don’t condone violence and I think we should all say a prayer for Bill to be at peace with himself and the rest of the world.  His outbursts and rants are just part of the show or he might actually have a mental disorder, but it’s all for ratings and it comes down to making money for FOX news.  We all have to remember that these media outlets are profit centered businesses.  Bill is contreversial which makes people love him or hate him.  When Howard Stern was on the radio, people that loved him listened to him and people that hated him, listened to him even more. Fair and Balanced?  I don’t think so.  Anyone who thinks otherwise, needs our prayers too.        

   How about that Nancy Grace, my other favorite cable news commentator.  Actually, she’s another one that makes my skin crawl when I hear her.  Nancy Grace is, by far, the rudest female personality on television. She uses her time on television to act superior to every single person that she comes in contact with.  Grace uses her loud, obnoxious voice to speak over her guests. Her even more grating dialect rises above everyone that she interviews. Most of the time, she will not even listen to other points of view. Grace is too busy formulating what she is going to say after someone stops talking that she did not listen to a single word they said. There is no point trying to express a viewpoint other than her own, because she is always prepared to push her point of view. She does not even take the time to act diplomatically and attempt to negate opposing viewpoints; she just insults people who hold them.

16 and Pregnant. Really?

"16 and Pregnant" Really?

 



 

 

 

 

   16 and pregnant, sounds more like an oxymoron than a title to a reality show for teen moms.  The world or should I say society has definitely changed since I was 16.  I can remember when MTV was nothing more than music videos, good videos and music, now it’s a bunch of crap.  Reality shows like the Jersey Shore, the Real World, and the Hills have taken over primetime MTV and also taken over the covers of popular magazines.  When I was a teenager, the words sixteen and pregnant were never put into the same sentence, it was just unheard of.  Of course, I went to Catholic school where we were taught not to have sex before marriage and if you did you were going to burn in the fires of hell.  My own belief is that if people followed that teaching of no sex before marriage then we wouldn’t have reality shows about single teenage moms, but who am I, just another hypocrite.

 

 

     We want to see the hype, the weird, the strange, the unconscionable, the Jersey boy’s fist pump, and the young unwed mothers from the bible belt of the U.S.A. We don’t want normal…we want abnormal and that’s what sells.  MTV would have us believe this human spectacle is a public service program, a “cautionary tale” for young girls not to get pregnant akin to the “after school specials” of the past.  When “Teen Moms” jockey for space with J-Lo and Jolie on the covers of People and Us Magazine, it’s hard to say the shows aren’t glamorizing teen motherhood.  “Our problem is that children are inundated by ‘screens’ from birth.  The content of the screen becomes more and more important in their lives as they get older. This is taking away from other, real experiences and shaping their perceptions of reality,” says Susan Linn, a fierce critic of commercial culture and author of Consuming Kids: the Hostile Takeover of Childhood.  Soon they aspire to be like the people on the TV and extreme behavior becomes normal.  Melissa Henson from the conservative Parents Television Council, says, “Television is the “sexual super peer”.  I think the consensus is in, the data speaks for itself, kids are being influenced by a box with a screen on it and reality shows are one of the biggest perpetrators.  HERE IS A SIMPLE SOLUTION…..TURN OFF THE TV, UNPLUG IT, AND THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW.  We don’t need TV to live; kids should be learning about life through their parents, church, community, and school.  Take a book out and read to your children, stop sticking them in front of the TV for entertainment.