Sarah Palin's FOX Show: Like LL Cool J, Toby Keith Caught Unaware

Toby Keith Says He Was Not Interviewed By Palin

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is off to a rough start in her new gig as the host of a new Fox News show Real American Stories. The show will air at 10/9c for the first time today, but the show producers have been dealing with a lot of negative publicity days before Real American Stories was scheduled to premiere. The trouble started when FOX promoted the opening episode of the show, saying celebrities like country music star Toby Keither, rapper LL Cool J and former General Electric Chief Executive Jack Welch will be featured.

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But yesterday,  LL Cool J said in a Twitter message that he did not appear on Sarah Palin's show contrary to the ads that promoted the show with him featured in it. The rapper said the footage used by FOX is from his interview to a different host that the network shot in 2008. LL Cool J said the network is "misrepresenting [him] to the public in order to promote Sarah Palin's show."

Now, country music star Toby Keith is voicing his concerns. The singer's representative says Keith was not told about the usage of a past interview on Palin's program. He says Keith never sat down with Palin to record an interview. The representative said FOX never called to ask for permission to air the old interview.

While the video segment featuring GE CEO Jack Welch is still available on the show's website, there is no video segments of LL Cool J or Toby Keith featured any more. The site still hosts a slew of comments from the viewers regarding the use of interviews.

One contributor writes,