LL Cool J Removed From Sarah Palin-Hosted Show

By Marc Schneider Posted Mar 31st 2010 01:50PM

Sarah Palin loves Cool James, but the feeling isn't mutual. Rap legend and actor LL Cool J was included in the Palin-hosted 'Real American Stories,' airing on FOX News on Thursday, but the network never asked him to participate.

"Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else and are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palin's show," the real-life James Todd Smith told his Twitter followers Tuesday night. "WOW," he added.

In response, FOX has decided to strip the rapper from the program at the last minute. In a snark-dripped statement issued to TV Newser, the cable news giant says, "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."

Aside from LL, country star Toby Keith and former GE exec Jack Welch were also billed as appearing on the show, which is supposed to feature "real-life tales of overcoming adversity."

Keith is slated to talk about his patriotic anthem 'Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American).' He, too, was caught off guard by his involvement. "Toby was not asked to participate nor has he ever done an interview with Sarah Palin," his publicist told PopEater when reached for comment. Like LL, Keith's interview for the special was also taped in 2008.

"FOX has never contacted me about this special," Elaine Schock told us. "We found out about it yesterday."

LL Cool J was to talk about his personal life and career in a segment called 'In Their Own Words.' The site AllHipHop.com discovered this snippet from the special: "My family is very pro-American," he said. "My grandfather used to sit me in his lap, and we would watch all of the old World War II shows that used to come on, back in the day. I'm totally on it, totally into it, and I love it. My grandfather, even after we said grace, he would say, 'Chow!'"

After fans began airing their displeasure after seeing the FOX News promo for the show, the 'Momma Said Knock You Out' star re-sent the same Twitter message more than a dozen times. He has made no other comment.

It's unclear what Palin's exact involvement with the special will be; however, she did conduct some of the interviews. The former Alaska governor is also prepping a show for TLC called 'Sarah Palin's Alaska.'

Tags: ll cool j, Sarah Palin

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Wednesday 31 March

By Patricia Lund

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Ms. Palin's true colors are showing more and more.

By Don Pandanell

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I love the liberal "our way or no way" attitude.

Your right about those colors, there are three of them, Red White and Blue.

By scootrbum

I like your way of thinking, although she's more the type that straps the bomb on and blows up, than the brains of the outfit.
What am I talking about, she is the brains of the organization, that's why they are self destructing.

By kayechrissy

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I'm so glad he stopped this. I love his new show and would have stopped watching it if he was anyway affiliated with this horrible woman.

By Bonbon

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Liberals can be so petty.

By Hang In There

Likewise!

By whatever3333

Conservatives can be so reckless......

srsnakes....you are definitely a weird one, aren't you!LOL

By WILL

HAHAHAHAH YOU LOONEY LEFTWING LIBERALS ARE TERRIFIED OF SARAH HAHAHAHAHA AND , LL SHE DOESNT NEED YOU TO GET RATINGS , GET OVER YOURSELF

By Jacqueline

Who is afraid of a dummy like that? She is smart but she's not intelligent. She is as dumb as the people she represents.

Monday 05 April

By mslaydi2you

It's funny isn't it. She doesn't need him yet she decides to use him with out his knowledge of her doing it. If she needed him I wonder what she would have done. lol

By MSLAYDI

Yeah I sure am. I'm afraid she's going to make the world think we are all as dumb as she is.

By srsnakes

Weird? How so? I'm weird because I don't want my legally elected government overthrown by a bunch of gun totin' hillbillies?

By john

I don't want that either? I didn't know there was a threat, do you know something I don't.

Thursday 01 April

By Tiff in the OK

@john- have you not been watching the news and seeing the people out there protesting against the Health Care bill who SPIT at members of Congress while calling them all sorts of racial slurs and homophobic names. Have you not seen the news about the recent arrest of members of the Hutaree militia in Michigan who went from preparing to fight the anti-christ to preparing to shoot police officers.

There are plenty of, as srsnakes put it, "gun totin' hillbillies" out there right now who are fully preparing to try and overthrow the government because they are realizing that they hold the minority of opinion and can't stand it.

By libby

Terrorism and treason? TLC is a family channel. So are you against families?

I am not necessarily a Sara Palin fan. However, I think that Sean Penn is more a domestic terroist than Sara Palin will ever be in her lifetime.

What is it exactly that scares all the liberals about this woman?

By tony cobb

scared isn't the word. ashamed, maybe.

ROFL

By Rush

Nothing...Read my lips....Nothing

By Deb

Scared of Facebook Palin??? In the words of Bill Maher--"Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps on giving"--to the Democrats, the late night shows and news media. She is a joke--wink wink! You betcha.

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