LL Cool J, Toby Keith Balk at Palin Promos
United Press International
Apr 02, 2010
LL Cool J and Toby Keith say Fox News used old interviews with them to promote Sarah Palin's new TV program "Real American Stories."
Palin is the former governor of Alaska and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate.
Her show is to debut Thursday night.
Ads for it have said Keith will be featured on the premiere and footage from a prior interview with the country music star has been used to promote the program.
"I have no idea what interview they are using. Toby's talked to Fox a number of times, and I had no idea that this was going to be on Sarah Palin's special. Fox has never contacted me -- not now, not when they were putting this together, not at all. I have no idea what they're using," Elaine Schock -- Keith's publicist -- told the New York Times Wednesday.
A Fox News executive, who asked to remain anonymous, told the newspaper a producer e-mailed Schock to let her know an interview Keith taped in early 2009 would be included on the program, but Schock said she never received the message.
The publicist acknowledged, however, that the footage is Fox's property and she said she wouldn't ask the network to remove it from the program.
Commercials for the show also featured footage of a 2008 interview with LL Cool J, which prompted the rapper and actor to complain via Twitter Tuesday that Fox News was "misrepresenting" him by implying he sat down with Palin for an interview.
Fox News told the Times Wednesday it no longer planned to feature LL Cool J on "Real American Stories."
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