LL Cool J: Fox News ‘Misrepresenting’ to Promote Sarah Palin

And ABC is reporting on this, WHY? What? It slams Sarah Palin? OH! Never mind.

Can you blame LL? To be associated with Palin would totally ruin his reputation. We all know Sarah doesn’t “PAL AROUND” with rap guys…

wonder if fox is going to include a story on how Barbie went across the border to Canada for healthcare??

“needs to be watched” malka, How do you propose we watch her CIA, KGB, or SS Agents

LL Cool J needs to have an agent pick him up and give him a new boost in his acting career. He deserves better representation. Best wishes LL Cool J.

The first “Real American Story” should be about how a bimbo from Alaska cashes in after a regrettable decision by McCain to elevate an airhead to prominence.

Name that rapper? Can’t identify with the real you so you change your name? Who’s not living in reality?

I will not watch Sarah Palin, she’s just trying to make a name and money. Palin doesn’t care about nothing but making some money and flirting with the media.

I wouln’t even give him “fledgling” as an honest evaluation of him compared to Hanks, Willis, Gibson, or Sponge Bob. Are you kidding me? Affirmative Action at best is why he’s around.

Sarah Palin with a TV show? Wonderful. An hour of her bitter attitude and listening to her say hopie changie and you betcha!

Fox News and Gov. Palin supporters don’t mind Fox creating a completely false show that steals other people’s work from two years ago.
Palin is a quitter and a lazy person. But Fox News watchers are mindless zombies who deserve the brainwashing they get.
What a brain dead group of conformist Palinista-Fox dittoheads are….

It figures Foxnews would do some of their misconstruing to things be in their favor. Good for LLCoolJ for not wanting to be associated with a show like foxnews or Sarah P’s show or allow profiting off of him for Sarah P’s benifit. Go get your money elsewhere.

Just when I was starting to think maybe LL Cool J (what kind of stupid name is that anyway), had some class (he’s pretty good in NCIS:Los Angeles, he goes and complains about Fox News and Gov. Palin’s show.
No one said she interviewed the people, they just said she was the host of a show that told stories of people coming out of adversity. She’s hosting the show, not doing the interviews.
Similar to what Katie Couric does on her news show when she tells the story of someone doing something, she doesn’t interview them either. But I don’t hear a complaint about that. And there shouldn’t be one.

So they want to do an interview show by Palin by running clips of someone else doing the interviews at earlier dates. That is honest journalism for you

Good for LL Cool J for objecting to this. Isn’t it a bit weird that FOX isn’t having Palin doing her own interviews, but is just having her introduce and then show old interviews done by someone else?

What was wrong with fox news? I am from Fox news? This is a war in a media. I understand your disappointments. What are some good news that can you provide to the public. Peace!

fledgling actor – fledgling reporter Seems like six of one half a dozen of the other but at least LL can remember his lines without looking at the palms of his hands.

Well Fox has no other choice than use old interviews that someone else did, you don’t really think Palin could handle one herself, now do you? She would look to much like the idiot she is.

I say get rid of all the Tokens and just use Real Coins

To paraphrase John McEnroe, You folks who are protesting this “can NOT be serious!”. An entity wants to air a story about you on National T.V. Cool, right? But wait! First, they neglect to inform you directly of their intentions. Then, instead of asking for a fresh interview, they plan on using an old interview from another entity done a couple of years back – all without your consent. Sounds like an invasion of privacy to me, and “Caribou Barbie” and “Fix News” are the offended ones? Give me a break! LLCoolJ is totally in the right!!

Intelligent people know what a sham Fox News really is! I agree with LL. Fox is trying to show Palin as an “open minded, positive” person. LOL. He didn’t grant an interview with her, and Fox should NOT fake that he did. Palin is nothing more than a narrow minded, two-faced bigot who spews hate and lies about anyone trying to bring this country to a higher level.

ALL THE FOLKS DISSING LL ARE STUPID. HE DID NOT ASK FOR THIS ATTENTION. FOXS AGAIN LIED, HANNITY AND PALIN TWO PEAS IN POT. SEE HE THINKS SHE[S QUALIFIED.

You have got to be kidding. Every news agency does it and Fox gets caught and it becomes news for ABC. Hay, what about the eggs thrown at tea party bus or some of the other stuff going on. Oh wait, only makes the people who you back look bad not your competition.
Poor form on Fox for not saying these are reairings of previous interviews and not clearing it with the various people – so shame on them.

Whew! I saw that clip and almost fell off my chair. Yes, I sneak over to see what the loons are doing. When I saw LL’s face in the clip, I though HE77 NO! What is he thinking. (Sigh) Just Fox being fair and balanced! Ha!

The Fox spokesperson said “…and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career.” I hate to be the first to inform the Fox people and Ms. Palin, but the Cool one could buy Ms. Palin out with his pocket change and seeing as how Ms. Palin seems to be the fledgling looking for some purpose in life enough low comments. Typical Fox and Republican nasty comments – yes mine are nasty, but enough of this Ms. Palin can do no wrong crap.

Oh, I like Sarah, I understand that many don’t like her, and there are many as well like her. Maybe if she is a democrats, I guess you like her. ha ha ha peace.

What about Condi Rice?

Sarah Palin Present: interviews about otyher people on other shows that she had nothing to do with. That’s like hosting reruns of America’s Funniest Videos.
This is not a new and exciting idea. Probably took all of 5 minutes to think up in the break room.

Of course, even though this story has little to do with Sarah Palin (it’s really about the Fox’s producers of this show), it sure does bring the Palin haters out.

My flabber is gasted after reading these comments…I just don’t get why people would so vehemently reject a show about how people have overcome adversity, turned their lives around and become successful…after all isn’t that the story of our president’s life?

Fox News nor Sarah Palin had any right to use LL Cool J’s interview which was done by someone other than Fox or Ms. Palin without his permission.
Posted by: quiet |
But the interview was conducted by Fox news in 2008 — even Mr. Cool J acknowledges that. Fox owns the right to the interview, they can use it however they want, just like any other news agency. They never claimed that Sarah Palin was conducting a new interview.

I especially like FoxNews’ classy response back to LL. Regardless what LL said, you’d think a professional media outlet(or so they call themselves) would show a little more class than to demean him in their response. Just another example of FoxNews being the ugly mangy guy in the basement of media news. They appeal to a certain demographic, I’ll give them that. Thank GOD I’m not part of the demo and never will be.

I agree that Fox’s comment about LL’s fledgling acting career was classless, but come on, he was pretty classless himself going to the media with this story.

Bea, Mr. J DID do an interview with Fox, they planned to use clips from an old interview they conducted with him — happens all the time. Fox did not create this controversy. Mr. J did.

I dont blame LL Cool J. Fox News did not use him for the reasons of inspiring others. He was used falsely hoping to give Sarah Palin high ratings. Fox News and Sarah Palin are both scheming liars. Why should LL Cool J support them especially after Sarah Palin called black people Spooks! that was found in an article

“And ABC is reporting on this, WHY? What? It slams Sarah Palin? OH! Never mind.”
So, if Rachel Maddow had pulled out a 2008 interview that Sean Hannity had done with someone else, and promoted it on her show as being a new interview with her, you’d be fine with that? Please, you’d be foaming at the mouth. Stop trying to play that everyone, including the “liberal” media is demonizing right-wing personalities. Try being honest and forthright, and criticisms would stop.

Hey Mr. D (and I already know what the “D” stands for)…..LL’s acting career has been in play for quite some time now. Now, you may not like action flicks, or rapping, etc., and that’s all good. But to call his acting career young or inexperienced (the definition of fledgling for those of you that don’t know, including the blonde bimbo on Fox and Friends who can’t seem to function without Google) is pretty much an attempt at a slam by Fox after having egg on their face for promoting something that doesn’t even have a true direction yet. And if you can’t handle one news organization busting the chops of another when they make a mistake (or in this case, clearly choosing to misrepresent facts by displaying a 2 year old interview) then you need to get off the blogs and message boards buddy. Here’s an idea, go back to Foxnews.com. I’m sure you’ll agree with everything you read. Oh, and have fun at your Tea Party/Sarah Palin Money Train tour event. I’m sure you already have reserved seats for when it comes to your town. God Bless the ignorant and their desire to throw money at people who see Russian from Alaska.

LL has been a rapper longer than Palin has been a governor so I guess we know who has the fledgling career, LOL!

I have looked at the clips which are well done. The series is about inspirational stories of Americans which could be uplifting in these times. First airs tomorrow night.
Cut Keith’s piece also. Simple.
Maybe some of us can stand and applaud those who went the distance to fullfill their dreams. Even those who had only stumps for legs.

Posted by: WeaponX | Mar 31, 2010 6:04:27 PM I couldn’t name a single flick or thing that the guy does, in fact, don’t know him from Adam, but at least I would be willing to learn about him from his own story instead of relying on bias to form an opinion.

Sarah-PLAYLESS..is pandering like she often does..how dare she use someone public interview without asking or inform the person..its call respect Sarah-payless. I can only imagine what this circus of show will entail, after all it’s Sarah-Payless.. she loves to exploit and promote stereotypes.. what program on FOX news cable do they not exploit or stereotyped.. if she wants an american success story.. just look to the tea parties who live in trailors..I’m sure she could find some success stories there.. let’s face it.. who wants to be associated with sarah-playless?.. no one BUT covert racist individuals..

I continue to be baffled by this discussion. If just one under privileged youth living in a world of crime, drugs, and poverty is inspired by LL’s story and makes up his/her mind to forsake all of that and commit to a vision of a good, clean, and successful life wouldn’t he (LL) feel good and be proud that his story made a positive difference for some one…I sure would…why don’t you all see it that way?

LL Cool J is TRULY cool. The old interview was another Fox News scam of faux news. Palin NEEDS to be trashed! She is such an annoying and petulant poseur. A perfect poster girl for a petulant political party.

Would he have the same objections if the story were being shown somewhere else? Does he object everytime TMZ or some other media outlet releases old footage and plays it in a promo, which if he is as famous as some say I would bet it has been done on many occasions? If so then he has a leg to stand on, if not his actions speak for themselves.

What is going on with the media these days.When I was younger I loved to watch ABC and CBS news.But because of all this hatefest against Sarah Palin I can’t take it anymore.Liberal media is on a mission to destroy this nation as well as Sarah Palin.And this LL Cool character,by being a cry baby about appearing on Palin’s show,is nothing more than a liberal lacky that does not want to tick off his liberal audiance.
Liberal cry babies is all you people are.May God protect Sarah Palin and her mission to help bring some commonsense back to the american society.

“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.”………. Geeez, what’s with the snarky put down Fox?

I think Sarah should have Rush Limbaugh on her show. They are both created equal. Neither one of them is right in the head.

This is very upsetting to not only Toby Keith and LL Cool J, but to several other celebrities as well. Who the hell does Fox News think they are using OLD interview footage to promote Palin’s show? Then when confronted about it they totally DISRESPECT the celebs!
I have never been a fan of Palin OR Fox News, nor will I EVER BE! I hope this show flops, and flops HUGE. In fact if I were LL Cool J or Toby Keith, I would sue for everything Fox is worth!

Sarah Palin and Fox News; a perfect pair. They both lie and present them as “facts.” Way to go LL Cool J and others who seem to have been caught off guard by the stilted Fox News!!!!

I expected someone who went to college and studied journalism would be able to do a live interview. I understand how you might need a ghost writer to publish a book about your life if you have trouble with grammar. But talking to someone in a cozy setting seems like it would be pretty easy. Sarah should decry the educational system that let her down.

How very sad ABC…
This non-story is in BIG headlines
Wile the “Obama Lifts Bans on Offshore Drilling” is in very tiny little print –
IS ABC bias or what.
ABC’s BIG WET KISS to BO…..
How sickening!!!

Unbelievable that Fox News would pull that trick. Fox News cater to the far right ultra conservatives which LL Cool J is not. Shame on them for using an old LL Cool J interview from 2008 to enhance Palins’ popularity.

Why would you people trash LL? He has never been in any trouble with drugs or anything else.. He is a rapper and not an actor, is not trying to compete with hANKS OR GIBSON, ETC. He just stood up for the truth, he neve did an interview with sarah palin.
what is the problem with you people? and for the record, he is a VERY well known and respected and respectable rapper and has been for a looong time. You people are stereotyping , idjits!

Apparently, the show isn’t so much about people triumphing over adversity as Fox triumphing over reality!! Face it, their ads for this show are deceiving, and intentional lies, in order to gain viewers. You can’t show someone being interviewed for your show when the truth is that they weren’t!!!!

It exposes Fox News for what it is: Faux News. And the biggest fraud of them all is not a headliner.
To repurpose a 2008 interview as if Palin was the brains behind it is absolutely hilarious.

I don’t know what the big deal is. I’m sure Palin will walk away from this job after about 3 episodes to pursue her budding music career.

Good for LL and Toby for coming forward and stopping FOX from misleading the public.
Palin is pathetic, loves to incite people and will fit right in with the other hate mongers (Hannity, Beck, etc.) at FOX.

Fake, like everything else about her, except her glaring lack of an IQ.

Fox news if you are number 1 in the news why do you feel the need to mislead the public? Then write a tastless comment because the actor didn’t want his interview to be on Sarah Palin’s show. Talking about professionalism, they have none!

You know I listen to a lot of you talking about how liberals have been trashing Sarah, but what about the tea party movement she is leading. They are trashing minorities and homosexuals, but I guess that is ok? I for one am very proud of LL and Toby, I mean if this is what it takes for you to stand up for yourself and not let others use you, then I for one will stand behind you.

Interesting reactions here.
Facts:
1. LL Cool J never said he didn’t want his story used. He just pointed out that he had never been interviewed by Sarah Palin. Fox decided to pull his interview. We don’t even know whether he asked for it to be pulled.
2. Sarah never said she interviewed LL Cool J. Fox implied she did.
Focus on the facts. If you don’t like Fox’s implications,( that Sarah Palin interviewed LL Cool J) then comment on that. This is not about Sarah, although I would not vote for her. This is not about LL Cool J; I don’t watch his show, NCIS LA.

And another thing…what’s this snarky bs about “good like with his FLEDGLING acting career”? Is Fox News really that out of touch? LL Cool J has been acting for almost TWENTY FIVE YEARS.
Idiots!

“You anti Palin nut jobs need to chill out and go back to your rooms at the mental ward.”
Ouch! There’s no coming back from rapier wit like that! How will my self-esteem every recover? Let me see what’s written on my hand: TAX CUTS.
There…now I feel better.

I don’t understand what the fuss is about. LL doesn’t want them to use an old interview and have it taken out of context. Why is he the bad person? If it’s a new show and FOX is saying that Palin will be doing fresh interviews… why are they using old interviews? FOX is a major company. They could easily ask a country music or movie star to speak to Palin.

“Wonder when Americans will become civil again?”
Hmmm…so ‘How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for you?’ was CIVIL? ‘Paling around with terrorists’ was CIVIL?
You ask a good question, but it should be: when are CONSERVATIVES going to be civil? (I’ll drop the ‘again’ because that supposes they was a time they were…and I sure don’t remember one.)

So we have two more incidents in which Fox purposely creates misleading information. The first two times were when Fox was ‘covering’ a current Tea Party event but used video footage from a different and larger Tea Party event to create the impression that the current event they were covering was larger than it was. I can buy their “oops” excuse once but not twice in a row.
And now we have Fox promoting two old interviews with two celebrities that are being “repurposed” on Sarah Palin’s new show; the inference is that Palin did the interviews or was somehow associated with the original interviews when in fact, she had nothing to do with either one.
So four episodes of Fox deliberately manipulating information and creating false impressions. And these are only the ones we know about. How many more times has Fox done this? Considering that Fox is Rupert Murdoch’s baby, and he is the king of scandal rags and tabloid news, I’d say there’ve been a lot of these distortions and misrepresentations on the part of Fox

It was quite childish for Fox to call LL’s acting career “fledgling”. Seriously? No one should be surprised though. Fledgling or not, it’s not professional in the slightest.

Amazing how everyone starts taking jabs at LL and Sarah Palin when the real fault lies with Fox. If they are going to do a show where Sarah interviews people for inspirational stories then shouldn’t they have people lined up for her to actually interview? If not then at least contact the people who have given interviews in the past for permission to re-air their interview while making it look like Sarah Palin is the interviewer. A little common sense and courtesy goes a long way.

Hmmmm…Fox News using footage from one thing and passing it off as part of another to sensationalize the second??? Sounds like all the times they took old news footage of crowds from one event to make another event seem larger than it really was. One of the many ways Fox uses deceit in its broadcast.

If I only had a brain! Sarah should book the scarecrow on her show. Hes the only one who would willingly go on. You Sarah lovers are so easily entertained! How about some Klansman, better yet some hillbilly without teeth, that would make the ratings skyrocket!

Tamag,
It never ceases to amaze me how people like you can take a kernel of truth and turn it into a full-blown lie.
Scott Brown never said Rachel Maddow is running for his seat (you’d know that if you read his solicitation piece). What he said was true: “and before I’ve even settled into my new job, the political machine in Massachusetts is looking for someone to run against me. And you’re not going to believe who they are supposedly trying to recruit — liberal MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow.”
That is completely true. There is a group of residents trying to recruit Rachel Maddow, and although she has not agreed to run, there is nothing untrue in Brown saying that a group hopes to recruit her to run.
He doesn’t say he needs money to fight against Rachel maddow. He says he needs “continued support” because “the political season never ends.”
IF you read what he sent out, you’d see he did not lie — not once in that mailing. Did he overreact to this group trying to recruit Rachel maddow? I don’t know, maybe, but he didn’t lie. But then again, Rachel Maddow overreacted as well, didn’t she?
The problem with politics today is that people are just unable to think beyond what they are told by their favorite on air personalities. They become blinded by partisanship, unable to use critical thinking skills or to take it upon themselves to investigate and discover exactly what the truth might be.
Every story you hear – whether it comes from the left or the right – has another side to it. Only when we listen to both sides can we come to a rational conclusion.

@Peace Warrior ,
Actually, LL Cool J did give his permission back in 2008 when the interview was done. The interview is owned by FOX. They can use it when ever and on what ever show they want to use it on.
I don’t believe LL Cool J is disputing that. I think he was just surprised it was going to be used on this Ms. Palin’s show and wanted the public to know Ms. Palin did not interview him and that the interview was old.
The FOX organization decided to remove his segment from the show.
To be fair, we don’t at this point have any evidence that Ms. Palin picked the segments to be on the show she is hosting. In other words, it is not her show: it is FOX’s show; she’s only the host, not the producer, etc.
While I do not support Ms. Palin, I don’t believe in piling on and ascribing actions to her which she may not have committed. She can do enough on her own.

Once again you blind sheep are missing the point. Fox lied, they lie. Don’t ya care that they lie? Do you like your, well I use the term lightly in respect to what I have read from you, but do you like your intelligence insulted daily, heck, hourly? Sarah Palin disgusts me. She is a phoney air head used in the Republican propaganda machine to help them insult your itelligence. Do you e even care about the truth? What the hell kind of personality defect do you have that makes you dig your heels in no matter what to try to believe Fox News is reputable in even a small way? There is no way and you know it that any of the other news shows, any does what Fox does. You freakin know it.

In my opinion, some of the posters on here are incapable of giving a legitimate responses to the subject at hand, which is LL Cool J’s (and any other American)right to permissibly be represented in a manner that is consistent with his belief’s, whether professional, personal, or political.
The “weed” comment, the comment about his stage name, the comment about aff action and all the other little extra jabs like “fledgling career”-thank goodness for the REAL news reporters who do their jobs in an manner unbiased on CNN-have absolutely no validity here.
On a more personal note, SP lost my attention and respect and never gained a chance to bend my ear once I knew her under-aged teen daughter was pregnant and that her new baby had Down Syndrome. Yes, these situations happen, but as a parent, it’s a crucial time to be upfront and present for your family for support, guidance and nurturing, not globe trotting to hammer out a “viral” political career.