Bill O'Reilly likes calling people pinheads. He called 50 Cent one a while ago, and, now, after joining Color of Change and MoveOn.org in a Fox News protest, Nas has joined the pinhead ranks. O'Reilly wasted a lot of breath last week deriding Nas, saying, among other things, that "new album is a bomb, a disaster, a catastrophe … Two years ago, his last album sold 355,000 copies in its first week, and this one has sold 187,000 copies. Not good. I hope I'm not a 'racist' for pointing that out." Not racist, but completely wrong, considering that Nas was No. 1 on the Billboard charts and remains in the top 10. Of course, O'Reilly said all of this in the "no spin zone" so it must have been correct. [Salon]

As promised, Nas accompanied members of Color of Change and MoveOn.org to the Fox headquarters in Times Square to deliver a petition against Fox and its treatment of Barack and Michelle Obama. Nas, who sold 187,000 copies of his untitled album last week, bumping Lil Wayne out of the top spot on the Billboard 200, said a few words to press during the protest yesterday. But if you really want to know how he feels about the network, listen to "Sly Fox."

Wherein you, the readers, talk amongst yourselves.

Members of ColorofChange and Moveon.org are showing up at Fox headquarters in NYC tomorrow to hand over a petition filled with 600,000 signatures. They'll be joined by Nas, whose recent album-naming activities might muddle their message, but that's beside the point. The petition is to protest what ColorofChange says is Fox's "attempt to prey on racism and intolerance and cast the Obamas as "outsiders": an on-screen graphic referred to Mrs. Obama as "Obama's baby mama," a pundit "confused" Obama with Osama and then joked they should both be assassinated, and an anchor called a loving fist bump between Barack and Michelle a "terrorist fist jab." In February, Bill O'Reilly talked about calling a "lynching party" to deal with Michelle."

What do you make of the protest and the petition? Will things like this cause Fox News to change its very popular formula? Should it?

Nas spoke to MTV about the Jesse Jackson gonads controversy, and, in typical Nas fashion, made a few good points and then completely lost me. He claims that the reason we don't need Jesse Jackson anymore is because we have Nas, Barack Obama, David Banner, and Young Jeezy. Someone please explain.

"I think Jesse Jackson, he's the biggest player hater," Nas fumed during a conference call. "His time is up. All you old n—as, time is up. We heard your voice, we saw your marching, we heard your sermons. We don't wanna hear that sh– no more. It's a new day. It's a new voice. I'm here now. We don't need Jesse; I'm here. I got this. We got Barack, we got David Banners and Young Jeezys. We're the voice now. It's no more Jesse. Sorry. Goodbye. You ain't helping nobody in the 'hood. That's the bottom line. Goodbye, Jesse. Bye!"

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• Jay-Z gets the Vogue Italia treatment. No comment. [Bossip]

• Nas releases his first video off of Untitled. No offensive t-shirts. [CL]

• Nick Cannon rushed into marrying Mariah Carey to avoid lots of awkward questions from his friends. For the record, this isn't a good reason to rush into marriage. [SP]

• Here's your chance to let the Democratic Party know what's on your mind. [WAOD]

• This dude's idiotic and so is his op-ed. [JJP]

The money, which often isn't as much as one might think, that recording artists make off of their music these days is enough to make the average person very happy, but not quite enough to fund the crazy, extravagant lifestyles that they like to publicly flaunt. Hence, the ubiquitous clothing lines, colognes, footwear lines, and other branding deals. In recent days there have been a flurry of such deals, from high brow to low brow

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Nas upcoming album, the one formerly known as Nigger, is nothing if not political. The latest leaked track is called "Sly Fox," and it's an indictment of "Faux News" and the rest of the media. Nas might smoke a lot of weed, John Gibson, but he doesn't forget. [Jossip]

• The marketing exec at Universal in charge of Ashanti's album might want to rethink his or her career path. [WAOD]

• The Wire gets some love, finally. But I'm still really dreading the Emmy nominations. [BV]

• Nas's "Be A Nigger, Too" video is out. That's all. [CL]

• A new study shows that blacks are the most frequent hate crime victims in Canada. [AFP]

• His Royal Purpleness is now 50. And still rocking the stilettos. [E!]

• Oh, if only this new song from Nas called "Black President" didn't make its appearance on something called The Nigger Tape. [NR]

• Looks like the Evander Holyfield Real Deal Grill wasn't the cash cow the boxer was hoping for. Maybe next time find a niche that hasn't been filled by another boxer? Oh, and handle your millions a whole lot better. [Bossip]

• Get with the times, Russian billionaires. [PS]

• A New Jersey congressman and former HRC supporter says that a top member of Clinton's staff called him to discuss "a strategy of winning over Jewish voters by exploiting tensions between Jews and African-Americans." [JJP]

• Bobby Brown's son says Whitney Houston was an evil stepmother who wouldn't even let him sleep in the main house. [HHC]

• Since he can't make a statement with the title, Nas decided to make a statement with his album's cover art. [NB]

• Clearly, black celebrities and "celebrities" are quite attracted to two Viacom channels. BET is not one of them. [EUR]

• Yesterday, a forensic video analyst testified during R. Kelly's pornography trial that "it would take someone 44 years — working nonstop, 24/7, 365 days a year — to be able to fake the sex tape" at the center of the trial. He also found the mole on the back of the man in the video that matches Kelly's, even though Kelly's main defense is that the mole isn't present in the video. [Bossip]

• Thirteen-year-old Nyjah Huston is killin' the skateboarding game. [BV]

• Many colleges are dropping the SAT and ACT as requirements for admission. [CNN]

NAS IS NOTHING IF NOT PERSISTENT Intent on naming something, anything Nigger, Nas, with the assistance of DJ Green Lantern, is releasing a mixtape with the name that his album would have had if he was not actually in a money-making business. [AHH]