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Soooo who's watching Sarah Palin's "Real American Stories", or at least following the news about it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/31/AR2010033103720.html
Another example of what's becoming a classic slogan (especially regarding Sarah Palin); "Fox News: We Can't Be Bothered To Show Current Footage"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/31/AR2010033103720.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001550-503544.htmlFox News Channel has dumped an interview with James Todd Smith -- better known as LL Cool J -- out of Thursday's debut of the Sarah Palin-hosted occasional series called "Real American Stories," after the rapper-turned-actor whined about it on his Twitter account. That's real American!
In its promotional material for the new series, scheduled to unveil at 10 p.m., FNC said the show would "feature real-life tales of overcoming adversity throughout the American landscape." Among those to be featured were country singer Toby Keith, who, FNC said, will explain the inspiration behind his song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," and Cool J, who was going to speak about his success in this country in a segment called "In Their Own Words."
Except Cool J actually spoke to FNC about his success in this country back in 2008, not recently.
As part of a Web project.
A Web project also called "Real American Stories."
Tuesday, when Cool J got wind of his being a star of the Sarah Palin show, he tweeted his outrage:
"Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palin's Show. WOW," he tweeted.
Wednesday morning, when The Reporters Who Cover Television got wind of Cool J's tweet, an eczema of news reports broke out on the Web, whacking FNC for perpetrating this outrage on the co-star of CBS's "NCIS: Los Angeles."
FNC explained in a statement Wednesday that it "did not commit to restrictions on its interview with Mr. Smith so therefore the network did not need his permission to use the interview in this program."
But at some point during the day, the network decided to cut bait and pulled the Cool J interview from the show -- and from its Web site, explaining:
"Real American Stories features uplifting tales about overcoming adversity and we believe Mr. Smith's [also known as LL Col J, to everyone] interview fit that criteria. However, as it appears that Mr. Smith does not want to be associated with a program that could serve as an inspiration to others, we are cutting his interview from the special and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career."
So that's two of the three celebrity guests; I'm willing to bet Jack Welch never sat down with Sarah Palin, either. Isn't this just blatant misrepresentation, which Fox can be sued for?Country music star Toby Keith said Wednesday that, like rap star LL Cool J, he was not aware he would be featured on a new Fox News show hosted by Sarah Palin that is slated to debut today.
The first episode of "Real American Stories" was scheduled to feature interviews with LL Cool J, Keith and former General Electric Chief Executive Jack Welch about how they overcame adversity to achieve success. The interviews were reportedly taken from a Web site that Fox launched in the summer of 2008.
"We were never contacted by Fox" about the new show, a representative for Keith told the Web site HitFix. "They're promoting this like it's a brand new interview. He never sat down with Sarah Palin."
Keith's spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times that she had no problem with the segment running.
Fox pulled the segment featuring LL Cool J after the rapper complained about the use of the footage.
The debut of "Real American Stories" is one more example of Palin's departure from traditional politics and foray into media.
Another example of what's becoming a classic slogan (especially regarding Sarah Palin); "Fox News: We Can't Be Bothered To Show Current Footage"
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