Colbert is a busy man. With everything going on in the world today he hardly has time to focus almost an entire show on one thing. Yet yesterday he felt the need to dedicate over half of his show to the Color of Change/Moveon petition delivered by Nas that was rejected by Fox. The show, as always didn’t seem to have any trouble making fun of FoxNews nor finding example of racism in main stream media. The curious part is why did Colbert choose to put so much attention into this? Is it because of propaganda? The upcoming election? Personally I think it’s all a part of supporting change and moving forward. And there is no better way to get a message across than the way Colbert does it, but “supporting” a side he so obviously detests.
For those of you who are not aware of the current Nas vs. Fox situation Rolling Stone has a great summary of the situation.
About four hours after the announcement that his controversial, politically charged ninth album was number one in the country, Nas was on a small podium in front of Fox News headquarters in New York City protesting what he sees as racist attacks against Black Americans and presidential candidate Barack Obama. In a brief prepared statement, the multi-platinum rapper pointed out examples of what he and ColorOfChange see as a long racist smear campaign against the Obama family: The onscreen graphic that referred to Michelle Obama as the Senator’s “baby mama”; Bill O’Reilly casually using the phrase “lynching party” to refer to attacks on the Senator’s wife; referencing to the couple’s infamous fist thump as a “terrorist fist jab.” Said Nas, “Fox poisons this country every time they air racist propaganda and try to call it news. This should outrage every American that Fox uses hateful language to talk about the person that may be the first black president.”
For those of you who were not able to catch the show, here it is…
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1 Jon // Jul 24, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Reggin PLEASE!
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