I don't watch Fox News for the obvious fact that I know what their political agenda is.  If a conservative wants a cable news channel just to reflect his political views without showing the other side of the coin and conduct professional, objective reporting, its that person's business.  Gosh knows there are cable news networks for liberals too. 

But, don't tell me that this "protest" and "petition drive" by Nas against Fox News for being racist doesn't double as a publicity stunt to garner attention to his recent album release (which is number 1 on the Billboard 200 but only sold 1/3 the amount of albums compared to 2006's Hip Hop Is Dead.)

From The Huffington Post:

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."

The rapper stood next to 19 neatly stacked cardboard boxes, with the number 620,127 taped to the side of each one -- over 600,000 signatures gathered by ColorOfChange demanding that network president Roger Ailes "find a solution to address racial stereotyping and hate-mongering before it hits the airwaves." Fox rejected the petitions, but Brave New Films says that Comedy Central's The Colbert Report will accept them instead.

Well good to see that Nas' petitions will be taken very seriously. . . at Comedy Central, your source for serious news.

Here is Nas sounding awfully convincing reading from a prepared statement: