Fox News host Bill O’Reilly told White House adviser Valerie Jarrett that the Obama administration has to enlist the help of “gangsta rappers” if it really wants to help young men of color.
“You are going to have to get people like Jay-Z, all right, Kanye West, all of these gangsta rappers to knock it off. That’s number one,” said O’Reilly, who attended the launch of President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative Thursday.
Young men “idolize these guys with the hats on backwards, and the terrible rock — rap lyrics and the drugs and all that,” O’Reilly added, urging Jarrett to persuade “gansta rappers,” athletes and “tattoo guys,” to go on television and tell those who look up to them to “knock it off” and end their destructive behaviors.
O’Reilly also told Jarrett he wants Michelle Obama to come on his show and say, “You teenage girls. You stop having sex. You stop getting pregnant.”
(Also on POLITICO: Obama boosts minority youth)
Jarrett said she thinks it’s a better idea if the first lady spends time with young girls one-on-one, noting her mentorship program.
“I think it’s a great pitch to have her come on Fox,” she said.
O’Reilly said he thinks My Brother’s Keeper will work, but it will work faster if the White House reaches young people in a way that’s “so personal.” “You’re not getting gritty enough,” he said.
Jarrett also defended the proposed cuts to the military in the Pentagon’s fiscal 2015 budget. “Not that long ago you were telling us how we needed to get our fiscal house in order and tighten our belts and that requires a lot of sacrifices. But we’re not sacrificing the safety or the security of our country,” she said. “There’s nothing that the president takes more seriously than his responsibility as commander in chief.”
O"Reilly to Jarrett: Get Jay-Z"s help
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