Cenk Uygur
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Lupe Fiasco Kicked out of Inauguration Event (VIDEO)
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January 22, 2013
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4:26Now Playing"The rapper Lupe Fiasco was escorted off the stage at an unofficial inaugural ball in Washington, last night.
As Politico reports, the Grammy-nominated rapper stayed on the anti-war song "Words I Never Said" for 30 minutes. Video posted by Now This News shows Fiasco dropping lines critical of President Obama, before the lights go off and men in black suits escort him off the stage."*
Lupe Fiasco was kicked out of an inauguration event while he was performing onstage. Apparently, no one had done research beforehand on Fiasco's stance on Obama and drone strikes and whether or not he had any protest songs. Cenk Uygur breaks down the scramble and the aftermath.
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