Fox News Anchor Tries To Figure Out What The Kids Are Listening To And Smoking These Days

Last night, Fox News anchor John Gibson had Chuck Creekmur of AllHipHop on during a segment that tried to look at whether or not hip-hop lyrics were resulting in teenagers smoking pot. The transcript, like many talking-head show recaps, is a frustrating read full of circular logic on the part of the anchor, although we had to chuckle at one section:

GIBSON: I don’t let the mother off the hook, Chuck. But I also think that the hip-hop industry has a lot also to do with the way young, especially African-Americans, but also white kids, behave. And this is one of those instances where I do not have to go very far in my hip-hop collection to find guys talking about these blunts, and that is specifically what these teenagers were doing with these kids.

CREEKMUR: I mean, was there rap in the video or was there something in the video that suggested that they were listening to rap and then started doing what they did?

GIBSON: These are 15-year-old African-American boys, right?

CREEKMUR: Right.

GIBSON: There is little chance they are listening to Karen Carpenter or music from my era.

What’s that they say about making assumptions? Something about making an ass … anyway. One note: If Close To You isn’t in these kids’ CD collections, at least they won’t develop eating disorders. Right, John?

Hip-Hop to Blame For Pot-Smoking Tots? [FOXNews.com, via Nah Right]