Obama Fried Chicken Cut From Video

Remember that whole Obama Fried Chicken debacle? It's back, in a sort of blurred-out-on-MTV kind of way. Brokelyn reports that the Clipse video for “Popular Demand (Popeye’s)” consists mostly of Clipse and Cam'ron and company "in front of a place with a blank yellow marquee." That is, if you see it on MTV, it will appear blank—everywhere else it's running with a fully in-focus sign, reading "Obama Fried Chicken." So whose call was it to lift the OFC sign from the final cut? Surely the artists picked that spot for a reason besides censoring it out.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on November 19, 2009 4:54 PM

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seven

Wait, you mean MTV shows music videos?

MrManhattan

MTV...

There was a music television station called that back in the '80's.

What ever happened to them?

S.D.

Actually, MTV has been doing that for years as they don't do free advertising.

HOTCUP

So whose call was it to lift the OFC sign from the final cut? Surely the artists picked that spot for a reason besides censoring it out.

erm, the network? for obvious PR reasons?

NO WAIT IT'S A CONSPIRACY.