O'Reilly blasts Pony, pundits and pornstars respond
Last Monday on his TV show, Bill O'Reilly vented moral outrage over the Pony ad campaign featuring pornstars, which he called "using quasi-prostitutes to sell sneakers."
I'm not going to buy anything Pony makes. Because I want to send them a message, that I resent their attempt to mainstream destructive behavior. . . . I am sick and tired of seeing companies pushing bad behavior and justifying it as some kind of cultural freedom.
Oliver Willis wrote a brilliant, hilarious rebuttal (fisking?) to O'Reilly's rant.
Somehow, I don't think that Pony was going after the much-coveted "Indignant Television Personality" demographic. I know it has the same cachet as going after the Puff Daddys of the world, but I just don't see the ratings in a Bill O'Reilly edition of "Cribs".
And Jenna Jameson, one of the pornstars appearing in the Pony ads, also tweaked O'Reilly over the segment.
He claims Pony is 'using quasi-prostitutes' to sell sneakers. I hope Bill understands the difference between a porn star and a hooker. I assume he has done some research on the subject matter, because he requested some of my videos after we finished taping my appearance on his program last summer. I imagine he wanted them for professional reasons, of course.
What a great country.
quasi-prostitutes?? Oh! He means "athletes"! I get it now.
