Fox News and the White House rapper "controversy"

The rapper Common, who has written songs about two convicted murderers who he believes were unjustly convicted, was invited to a White House poetry reading last week.

Bill O'Reilly and Fox News go nutso about it.

Jon Stewart says: "Um, dude, Bono and Dylan both wrote songs about convicted killers who they felt were railroaded, too. Where were you then?"

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Common has written stuff a lot more controversial than songs about two convicted murderers.

The whole thing is stupid, but the comparison of Common to Bono or Bob Dylan is a bad one.

 

And why is that?

 

Birth certificate released, prince and princess wed, bin Laden dead ... Fox needs something to do, dammit!

 

Whereas Dylan was pretty much bubble gum pop in his day.

 

Is that what I said?

 

I don't care for a second that Common was invited to the White House. I don't care if they invite Lou Reed to play "Heroin", Eric Clapton to play "Cocaine" or Body Count to play "Cop Killer".

 

That's fine, I'm not attacking you. I'm just curious why you feel Stewart's comparison to Bono and Dylan is a bad one. Common is about as positive as a figure as there is in hip hop, and as Stewart pointed out, the song about the cop killer where he expresses frustration actually ends with (paraphrase) "No, I won't do that. Got to keep it positive instead."

 

Heck, in the Clinton White House, Fuck Like a Beast was a leitmotif

 

Stewart's segment on this last week, which he ended in a rap about Fox News was amazing.

 

I just think comparing "Letter to the Law" is a little more controversial than "Hurricane" or "Sunday Bloody Sunday" or whatever U2 song Stewart was referencing.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't think of a Dylan or a U2 lyric that rivals "tell the law my uzi weighs a ton."

I like Common. I watched him on Sesame Street. I think the controversy is idiotic. It's not like he invited Chris Brown.

 

Stewart and O'Reilly on camera together, it doesn't matter which show, is always Must-See TV.

And I don't care what anyone says, those two men like each other... Probably a lot.