Fox has cut his segment from the show, but I thought that it was an interesting story.
LL Cool J Challenges Fox News on Promotion of Palin Show By DAVE ITZKOFF<http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/author/dave-itzkoff/> [image: LL Cool J] [image: Sarah Palin] *Update:* Fox News said<http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/>it would cut an interview with LL Cool J from the debut episode of “Real American Stories.” If the lineup and promotion for the inaugural episode of “Real American Stories,” a new Fox News Channel series to be hosted by Sarah Palin<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/sarah_palin/index.html>, caught you by surprise, you’re not the only one. On his Twitter account<http://twitter.com/llcoolj>on Tuesday night, LL Cool J<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/ll_cool_j/index.html>, who was announced as one of the guests for the show, wrote that Fox was misrepresenting him. “Real American Stories” is scheduled to have its premiere on Fox News Channel on Thursday night. On its Web site <http://www.foxnews.com/>, Fox News said the show would profile people who have “given back, given all and never given up.” Among the guests that Fox News is announcing in an advertisement for the first episode<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBY2__J9t0>are the country musician Toby Keith; John F. Welch Jr., the former chairman of General Electric; and LL Cool J, the rapper and star of “NCIS: Los Angeles.” But LL Cool J wrote on Twitter<http://twitter.com/llcoolj/status/11339785126>: “Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins Show. WOW.” He then re-sent the message nearly two dozen times to various followers in a two-hour span. Fox News has responded here<http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/fox-news-will-cut-ll-cool-j-interview-from-palin-show/>. Representatives for LL Cool J were not immediately available. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
