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Class act.

Smack that.

Warner Music Group’s money grab.

Awww yeah. Plus: An 8-year-old plays the blues.

Leader of the Band.

“Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number.”

Zzzzzzzz.

Konvict.

Bush lied! Country died!

Yo!

“I’ve had it up to here.”

Universal Music Group is at it again: Another heavy-handed crackdown on a YouTube user.

Update: A photo from the funeral via Yahoo! News…

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The NAACP is holding a funeral today for the n-word in Detroit:
The NAACP is putting to rest a long-standing expression of racism in a ceremony similar to one six decades ago.
The civil rights organization was to hold a public burial for the N-word Monday during its annual […]

…sorry that he got caught! And now he’s got a brand-new song passing the buck and deflecting blame for his crude stage sex act with an underage girl in Trinidad. He blames the girl’s father, the Trinidad nightclub where he sandwiched the girl, and Verizon Wireless for pulling sponsorship of his concert tour with Gwen […]

A left-wing spoof.
Tom Elia gives it thumbs-up, calling it “an apt illustration of a lot of the hype surrounding Sen. Barack Obama.”
Yesterday: Barack locks up the llama vote

R&B “artist” Akon doesn’t seem to have learned from his past on-stage debacle. The Poughkeepsie Journal reports that he had one of his security guards hunt down a boy in the audience who supposedly threw something at the performer. Brought onto the stage at a Fishkill concert, the boy was plopped down in front of […]

The Hot Air video report on Akon that Universal Music Group didn’t want you to see is now back up on YouTube. That’s right. The music giant and the video-sharing site (who happen to be “strategic partners“) have backed down:

We originally posted the Hot Air report to YouTube on May 2. On May 3, after […]

Hot Air and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are challenging copyright law abuse by music giant Universal Music Group–the record company for R&B misogynist Akon. Last week, I noted that UMG forced YouTube to yank our video report criticizing Akon’s onstage antics and vulgar lyrics claiming copyright infringement. The non-profit EFF has agreed to represent Hot […]

After I taped The O’Reilly Factor in Washington on Friday night, the real fun began. John Ondrasik and Five For Fighting played at the 9:30 Club. He was kind enough to offer a few guest passes, which Bryan Preston and I gladly used to share a rare, kids-free night out with our spouses. What a […]

Thank you, readers. Thank you, Laura Ingraham listeners. Thank you, Verizon Wireless:
Verizon decided this week to end its support and sponsorship of Akon.
Jim Gerace
Vice President, Corporate Communications
Verizon Wireless
One Verizon Way
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920

Akon’s ringtones have been removed by the Verizon Wireless website.
I just spoke with Gerace by phone, and he told me Verizon Wireless had […]

Gone.
This morning, I linked to the YouTube version of our Hot Air show exposing hip-hop misogynist Akon.
The YouTube version is no longer available.
This is the message you will now see: “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Universal Music Group.”

We believe our commentary and criticism of UMG “artist” Akon […]

***1245pm Eastern update: Laura Ingraham has phoned the Verizon exec I mentioned below, John Harrobin, to come on her show to discuss Akon…apparently, he took a half-day off today and won’t be back until next Wednesday…stay tuned and keep up the pressure for accountability…***

Calling Verizon Wireless exec John Harrobin…anyone home?
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Check this out. Rapper/singer/whatever Akon is […]

Did you catch this? (Hat tip: Reader Wade) In addition to her one toilet square paper-per-sitting quota, eco-zealot Sheryl Crow also advocates “dining sleeves” to replace napkins. Seriously:
I also like the idea of not using paper napkins, which happen to be made from virgin wood and represent the height of wastefulness. I have designed a […]

Musician/celebutante Sheryl Crow proposes a one square of toilet paper-per-sitting quota to offset deforestation.
That’s going to be a tough rule to enforce–what with eco-Hollyweirdos so, you know, full of crap.
Meanwhile, in Manhattan, wealthy socialites help rescue the planet by plunking down a few pennies for Shaklee cleaning products and energy-saving bulbs for their closets. But […]

This is making the rounds. Blame George Washington.

The site Media Take Out writes:
A video of Akon dancing provocatively with a young lady has begun making its way around the internet. But not [all is] fun and games in the video.
MediaTakeOut.com has learned that the girl getting “freaked” in the video may only be 14 years […]

Hoo-boy. That was a fun, wild ride.
Here are the video highlights and lowlights of my first of two guest host stints on The O’Reilly Factor.
Tonight’s show replays at 11pm Eastern. I’ll be back tomorrow night.
In a nutshell:
One Opio Sokoni informs us it’s all the Founding Fathers’ fault that hip-hop “artists” treat women like meat […]

Who’s rocking America’s troops? WSJ reports that “the USO is having some trouble recruiting A-list stars. Increasingly, the military’s old, Bob Hope-style approach to entertainment is being partly supplanted by a different model. The new approach relies on sending little-known bands to the Middle East in an effort to provide more concerts at more […]

The Dixie Chicks gloat. Ludacris raps O’Reilly. Al Gore sparkles. Only in La-La Land.

Michael J. Fox has gotten all of the attention, but the entertainment industry is trying to sway the elections in many other ways on the ground and on the airwaves.
Eco-activist Robert Redford is pushing Prop. 87 in California–a $4 billion oil tax increase in the name of environmental do-goodism. The initiative is funded by Hollywood […]

John Mellencamp? Sammy Hagar? Kid Rock? The Who? Yup, they’re all on National Review’s list.
Take a look–and bring your iPod.