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Wednesday, a group of protesters, including rapper Nas,
gathered in front of Fox News Channel, in order to denounce Fox News for making
racist campaign coverage.
According to the Associated Press, the rapper joined about 150
people from activist groups MoveOn.org and ColorofChange.org, helping them to deliver
more than 600,000 petitions in which they objected to news coverage by Fox.
Some of the protesters had signs in which the network’s slogan “Fair and
Balanced” was crossed out and replaced with “Fairly Racist!”
Rapper Nas said that Fox “poisons the country with racist
propaganda and tries to call it news.” Andre Banks of ColorOfChange said that “putting
racism on national television and calling it news is never funny,” reported
Reuters.
Nas also said that he wrote a song inspired by what happened
on Fox, calling it “Sly Fox.”
Last month, Fox said that Barack Obama’s wife was the
Democratic candidate’s “baby mama.” Also, a pundit confused Obama with Osama
bin Laden, thinking he was making a joke when he said that they both should be assassinated.
The network responded by saying that: “Fox News believes in
all protesters exercising their right to free speech including Nas who has an
album to promote.”
Nas’s song “Sly Fox” says; “Watch what you watchin', Fox
keeps feeding us toxins ... I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth,
not the biased truth, not the liar's truth.” The album called “Untitled” was
released last week.
Nas married R&B singer Kelis in 2005, after a two-year
engagement. Kelis is famous for her single “Caught out There,” addressed to a
cheating boyfriend, with its notorious “I hate you so much right now” chorus.
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