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Rapper Nas Gives Petition to "Propaganda Machine" Fox News

CitizenSugar — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:55:15 -0700

Rapper Nas joined with the Color of Change and MoveOn to deliver a petition to the offices of Fox News yesterday. Just after his controversial album hit number one, Nas took the podium protesting the racist attacks he sees coming from Fox against Black Americans and Barack Obama.

Delivering over 600,000 signatures to the network, Nas delivered a prepared speech saying, "We already knew that Fox is not a news network; they are a propaganda machine . . . 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."

Fox declined receipt of the signatures, but issued a statement: "Fox News believes in all protesters exercising their right to free speech, including Nas, who has an album to promote."

That album now called Untitled had an original, much more controversial title. Does this affect his statement against Fox?

To see clips of the Fox language Nas finds offensive — served up on last night's Colbert Report (where the petition was delivered after Fox refused to accept it) — plus Nas's interview with Stephen,

Top Five Cheapest States to Fill Up Your Gas Tank. . . .

CitizenSugar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:45:49 -0700

This I didn't know: Alaska has the highest gas prices in the US? Wow. The average up there in Klondike country is $4.63. California follows pretty closely at $4.50, and Hawaii, Connecticut, and Washington round out the top five.

So where should you be heading to fill up? Missouri is the cheapest at $3.86 (aw! Remember $3 gas! I made a scrapbook of it!) helped along by their record-low gas tax. Oklahoma, South Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Iowa round out the cheapest five states to fill up. So now that gas stations are having to use up a whole bunch more "4"s to fill their prices signs, where in the world will they get them all?

Can you guess who had this explanation for it? "I know what you're thinking. The fours have probably been replaced by illegal Mexican quatros." To find out,

The Truthiness: Behind the Scenes of the Colbert Report

CitizenSugar — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:00:14 -0700

Love Colbert? Then his special magic seen from behind the scenes won't disappoint. Recently airing its 400th episode with the main man about to accept a Peabody award, the “Colbert Bump” which many candidates seem to experience after appearing on the popular Colbert Report is becoming a mountain.

Not known necessarily for his modesty, Colbert has an inkling of his influence claiming that he expects to fulfill the position of “kingmaker” in this year’s election. In advance of Colbert's big award (he'll accept on June 16) the AP put together a great piece about the man behind the . . . man. And it's filled with Colbert goodness — did you know that he's the youngest of 11 children? For more truthiness,

Lighten Up: Chris Matthews Hints at Senate Run on Colbert

CitizenSugar — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:00:21 -0700

Big, bad, tangerine Chris Matthews (though I was just looking at some old pictures of him — he looks thinner and younger than he did five years ago! Maybe TV news is the fountain of hot?) was on The Colbert Report last night, where he dodged the big nail down about a possible run for Sen. Arlen Specter's seat in 2010.

The Senate-run talk is great, but God bless Colbert, "I swing a harder ball than you"? "You've put me to sleep at 6 o'clock before"? Let it be said here first, forget Matthews — Colbert for Senate!

To check out Chris Matthews five years ago and see if you agree with my "fountain of hot" declaration,