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LAURA INGRAHAM, GUEST HOST: In the "Personal Story" segment tonight: In my brand-new book, "Of Thee I Zing," I satirize and expose the cultural rot that's eating away at American society. Think about this: Charlie Sheen, Eminem, Kesha, the dubious new musical sensation whose "Get Sleazy" tour is raking in millions. And today I was proven right once again. Now, you may remember that singer Chris Brown when he pleaded guilty to beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna back in 2009. Sane Americans were disgusted by his violent behavior but that did not stop him from getting top billing this morning on the "Today" show.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ladies and gentlemen, here he is, Chris Brown.
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INGRAHAM: Is that actually singing? We decided to send "Factor" producer Dan Bank over to NBC to talk with some of the Chris Brown fans.
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DAN BANK, "FACTOR" PRODUCER: Are you concerned at all with what he did to Rihanna?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you see my face? I'm not even worried about that.
BANK: You don't believe the police reports?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.
BANK: Why did Chris…
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't believe it was like that bad and I believe that she probably sparked the situation.
BANK: I just want to show you this one picture because here is a picture of Rihanna after the incident and I have never seen a picture of Chris Brown where it showed that he had any sort of injuries that are anywhere close to this.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I feel bad that this situation happened. My advice: She should have walked out the car.
BANK: Do you think at all that you are rewarding bad behavior by staying out here?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Maybe. Maybe so.
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INGRAHAM: At least an honest answer. And with us now to analyze all this, Jehmu Greene, she's a Fox News contributor, and Cooper Lawrence, author of the book "The Cult of Celebrity." How appropriate today.
Ladies, a couple of nights ago my collaborator, Raymond Roy and I were going down 48th street here in Manhattan. And we both thought this is weird, there are all these people sleeping in the street. And I thought, my gosh, the economy really is bad; there's a line of people sleeping in the streets. There are tents. There were like little cooking stoves. I couldn't believe it. And then we realized they were camping out two nights early to see Chris Brown. Now, whatever you think of his music, Chris Brown beat his girlfriend to a pulp. He uses the n-word, the c-word, the s-word, the f-word, some of the most degrading misogynistic lyrics in some of his top songs like "Look at Me Now." And he trashed the ABC studio, yet he is treated like royalty, the pope, whatever the best analogy is on the "Today" show. Ladies, jump in here.
JEHMU GREENE, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: He also uses the h-word, which is like, oh the haters, stop hating on me. And has no understanding he needed to be held accountable for his actions. Watching that video it's just really, really sad to see those young women not being able to recognize that he is giving, I think, all millennial celebrities a bad rap. He is really focused, I think, on the church of me and there are others, whether it is Paris Hilton or Kesha.
INGRAHAM: That is a great word, narcissism.
GREENE: They use all of these great technologies and towering technologies to focus on the church of me but also I think in Chris Brown's example, a prime example of the black entertainment complex not holding him accountable. The response to…
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