If you denounce Miley Cyrus, can you still embrace Hannah Montana?
Top of the Ticket blogger Don Frederick notes that Hillary Clinton has spoken out on one of the most pressing issues of the day — the racy Miley Cyrus photos. She told Yahoo:
"From everything I've heard she's a great kid and obviously very talented, but I think we need to do more to preserve our kids' childhood," Clinton said.
The presidential hopeful said she feels it is the parents' responsibility to protect a child.
"They grow up so fast and [there are] so many influences coming from all directions these days," Clinton said. "I think it's important that all of us as parents draw some lines here."
Let's leave aside whether the pics are appropriately allusive to classicism and the realities of contemporary young adulthood or plain creepy (and really, isn't the one of her with daddy Billy Ray way creepier?). And let's also ignore that people over the age of 18 probably can't even understand the Miley Cyrus-was-Destiny-Hope-is-Miley-Stewart-is-Hannah-Montana identity uroboros despite Slate's helpful explanation.
Instead, I'd just like to point out that John McCain and Barack Obama have both appeared with Miley Cyrus and seem to be supporters of her confounding identity politics and her corruption of American youth. I'm waiting for McCain and Obama to prove they're also for The Children with full Miley denunciations/renunciations/throws-under-the-bus.
I have only seen one of the pictures that has stirred up the recent controversy, the one with Ms. Cyrus wrapped in fabric and her back exposed, but after watching a video excerpt of her Hannah Montana show, I really understand how much peoples morals are screwed up. How is it that a girl's back is considered provocative than the same girl, while wearing thigh high stockings and a mini skirt so short as to barely cover anything, is jumping around stage doing hip "grinds"?
Posted by: M. FitzGerald | May 06, 2008 at 07:22 PM
Corruption of American youth? You have got to be kidding me!
Here's the opinion of someone who is over 18, but sitll gets it.
Posted by: Britney Bernstein | May 06, 2008 at 08:20 PM
MILEY CYRUS WAS NOT "NUDE" NOR WAS SHE "TOPLESS" IN THE TRASHY ATTACKS TO WHICH YOU REFER! LIEBOWITZ PHOTO'D MILEY IN SUCH A WAY THAT ONE SEES HER BACK > MORE "BODY" WOULD SHOW IN A SWIMSUIT OR HALTERTOP AND SHORTS! (IRONICALLY FOR YOU, SHE APPEARS MORE LIKE A JUST-AWOKEN-ANGEL.) BACK OFF MAKING THIS A BIG "SCANDAL"! YOU UNDERESTIMATE THE INTELLIGENCE OF MILEY'S FANS, WHO KNOW HER TO BE TRUE TO HER GOOD VALUES AND FAITH.
- GRACE DRUMMOND, and my two sons (ages 13 and 15), Portland, Maine, USA
Posted by: GRACE DRUMMOND | May 07, 2008 at 02:33 PM
YOU ARE ALL BASTARDS IF YOU MAKE THOSE PICS OUT TO BE A SCANDAL I IDOLISE MILEY CYRUS SO BACK OF BASTARDS LEAVE HER ALONE SHES A GREAT SINGER AND ACTRESS AND IN JULY NO ONE WILL EVEN REMEMBER THESE PICS LEAVE HER ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: LINDSEY GENTHER AGE 15 | May 08, 2008 at 01:13 AM
"THIS" is a scandal?? A few photos?? Come on now, are we all really this bored with our own lives that we live off the lives of others? Come on, think about it. something so small becoming so big. If any of her fans end up "trashy," it wont be because of Miley. It will be becaus eof the parents, yes this did happen and can change kids in different ways, its the parents job to place the path of which they go from here. No one in this world is perfect, hell Miley has a song about it, she is not acception, so why do we (as the people) do this? I just dont understand.
Posted by: M N | May 08, 2008 at 09:56 PM
its a stupped photo im mean like its dump that somthing that little was turned into somthing so big and if u think thats trashy GET A LIFE!!!
Posted by: Jean-Luc Deschenes | May 09, 2008 at 03:52 PM