the hypocracy factor

It was amusing to see Bill O’Reilly and his duo of "culture warriors", Gretchen Carlson and Margaret Hoover, bemoan "The Coarsening of Our Culture" as they laid into NBC's awesome Parenthood, on Thursday night's O’Reilly Factor (Fox News).

The episode in question was the February 28th season finale, in which teenager Drew, had sex for the first time with girlfriend Amy.  Not that NBC actually showed the 16-year-olds having sex, just two teens standing face to face, then some feet, and then some underwear falling to the floor.  Compared to a UK series like Skins, this was pretty tame stuff.

Parenthood was originally broadcast at 10pm/9pm central,  the O’Reilly Factor goes out at 8pm/7pm central; so naturally you would imagine that Bill would not want further pollute the airwaves and corrupt the nations kids?  Not a bit of it, “What we are about to show you is very explicit” Bill explained,  as the offending clip began to roll.

I don't have a problem with them discussing any of this stuff, but surely it is more than a little hypocritical to get all hot and bothered over a scene, and then show the very same scene.

Before anyone in the UK should feel any smugness about all this fuss,  just think back to the outrage over the suggested nudity in a recent episode of the BBC's  Sherlock.  Take a look at the article below, and note the picture that they use to illustrate the story...