Bad Rap

Some good fallout from the Imus Mess is vulgar lyrics produced by Rap and Hip Hop artists are getting renewed scrutiny, with Barack Obama weighing in:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday questioned
the way some rappers talk about women in songs, saying the lyrics are similar to
the derogatory language used by embattled radio host Don Imus.They are
“degrading their sisters. That doesn’t inspire me,” Obama said of some hip-hop
artists when a man in a crowd of about 1,000 questioned him. The Illinois
senator was responding to a question of what inspired him, and said God and
civil rights activists.

This is certainly a start but fails to go far enough. Some on the Left are using the opportunity to criticize people like Rush Limbaugh, perhaps even pushing for a return to the so-called Fairness Doctrine. I would like to see the end to attacks on our youths' morals in TV and films. What we see today on the Virginia Tech campus is more fallout from our sex and violence obsessed culture.

Thanks for the tip from James Taranto.