Billy Ray is a has-been, one-hit-wonder from 2 decades ago who’s riding his daughter’s coattails to keep his scurvy hide in the limelight. But while that’s despicable, that doesn’t make him a bad dad.

But to gamble Miley’s future for the sake of some quick fame & fortune is irresponsible to the nth degree. That makes him an opportunistic, scum-sucking, bad dad.

(Ya gotta wonder where the Mom is in all of this…)

And she may only be 15, but Miley has the advantage of seeing how similar scandals have thrashed the lives & careers of other young girls in Hollywood. Given that she can pick up the rags and see Lindsey Lohan splattered across them as easily as any of us can, she should have known better than to put herself in this situation. Sure, her parents had a responsibility to look out for her, but she’s due her fair share of the direct blame here.

If Disney doesn’t set an example by dumping Miley hard & fast – and it appears that they too, are so commercially-vested that they aren’t willing to do the right thing – they’re sending out a message loud & clear that this whole fiasco is completely acceptible. Disney just went down several notches in my book.

And yeah, the photo of Miley draped across Billy Ray is entirely inappropriate and just plain disgusting.

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However, did he use bad judgment by allowing his daughter to go on a photo shoot alone? I think so. I don’t think it was a big deal, but our society is going to make a lot more out of this than what they should. You have to adjust your actions with the way society is at that moment. Not a very manly thing to say, but still, you have to protect your family. This is #1 and if society can’t handle something like this, then you have to step up and control the situation for your kids.

I just saw his photo with his daughter. Again, I think he used bad judgment here and it creeped me out a little. Because if it was a little creepy and I am not the only one that thinks this, it is clear he made a bad choice.

Again, no idea if he is a good or bad father, but I will give anyone the benefit of the doubt…

I think the responsibility for that falls to Vanity Fair, though, because he probably had no idea how the photo was going to look when it was done.

So, assuming those photos were actually part of that same photo shoot, he was obviously there and declined to exercise his duties as a father and make sure his underage daughter wasn’t posing for questionable photos.

In which case, yes, I think he’s a bad father. I told my wife, before the Hannah Montana craze picked up, that I thought Billy Rae was just exploiting his daughter to get his career back. It’s a little too convenient that his first CD release in 15 years happened during his daughter’s insane popularity, while he’s a character on her TV show.

I am a father of 2 boys, 12 and 5, so I cannot address how a parent of a teen daughter thinks. However, I can envision a dozen different photo angles that would have no creepiness that would also deliver the same bond between father and daughter.

The father’s job is to ensure his daughter isn’t held up as sex goddess. If he could not be there during the sheet-shot, he should have deputized someone else to be the guardian (I recall her grandmother was actually on site). Or he could have executed parental guidance (since his daughter is not of legal age to enter a contract) and squash the over-the-top photo.

Or he could at least complained that they were taken/published. He doesn’t seem to bothered, perhaps because he sees the potential financial windfall from the aforementioned FHM potential.

Sorry, from where I stand, he is not a good dad.

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