Eminem's Palin Spoof Condemned By Bill O'Reilly
Eminen's new video "We Made You" mocks women who have dominated the news in the last year. Set up as a spoof of the Bret Michaels reality show Rock Of Love, Em pokes fun of Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Kim Kardashian, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston, Amy Winehouse, Ellen DeGeneres and Sarah Palin.
Though critics can find fault with all of the portrayals, The O'Reilly Factor host Bill O'Reilly
defends just one of the women-Sarah Palin, the Alaska Governor who was the 2008
Republican vice presidential candidate.
O'Reilly, a longtime hip-hop antagonist, calls Eminem's depiction of Palin crude. A Palin lookalike dressed in a low cut bustier and business suit sits atop of an office desk, flirting with a shirtless Eminem posing as Palin's husband.
O'Reilly is upset the media has not condemned Em for the
video. "Eminem is obviously on an obscene rant about Sarah Palin," O'Reilly
says in Wednesday's broadcast. "Totally obscene. Totally inappropriate. Nothing
good about it."
O'Reilly feels that political analysts for Media Matters, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and NBC should have called Eminem to task for his treatment of Palin.
"The video means nothing," O'Reilly says. "It plays before kids who are confused. But the hypocrisy and the dishonesty of the media does mean something in this country. It is out of control and is demonstrable by this."
I know that O'Reilly dishes politics, is a Palin supporter, and wants to blast other media outlets for letting Eminem's political dig slip through the cracks. It is an interesting perspective. However, if he finds offensive and "crude" Eminem's implication that former beauty queen Palin is a sex symbol, I wonder if O'Reilly only feels that way because she is a politician?
What about the video's insensitive and mocking depictions of Amy Winehouse, Jessica Simpson, Ellen DeGeneres, Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan? Are
those okay?
Like it or not, "We Made You" is Eminem's typical satire. In my opinion, Tina Fey's pre-election Palin impressions on Saturday Night Live were much more
damaging to Palin's image than this Eminem video.
“…objectification of Palin in that video really sends a message about all women, that all women are supposed to be used…”
This isn’t what Eminem’s video is about. Couldn’t another interpretation be that Eminem is satirizing how we as a nation still DO see women as "objects" in the media despite how we say we always don’t?
Eminem isn’t making fun of women; he’s making fun of those who make fun of women, and apparently, the implication of this video was too much for some.
eminem please go away again.......this time forever!
Your entire generation is going straight to hell and you're too stupid to see it.
I guarantee if it had been done to your darling Obama, you would having tantrums and calling for Enema Boy to step down.
Its a musicians job to piss off stuck up, old, out of touch blow hards like Bill...