Opinion: If you denounce Miley Cyrus, can you still embrace Hannah Montana?
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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.
*Photo courtesy the Associated Press.