The Coup's frontman and occasional Tom Morello collaborator Boots Riley is known for being something of a political firebrand, but, as Cleveland Scene points out, a local Fox affiliate seems to have been blissfully unaware of that fact. The Oakland outfit was set to appear at LKWD Festival in the city on Saturday and festival organizer Kelly Flamos brought him along for an interview during one of the station's daytime shows. Things did not go quite as Fox planned.When asked to describe the Coup, Riley outlined his long-running musical project as "a punk-funk Communist revolution band," which drew a puzzled response from the reporter on hand. That alone might have been enough to upset the Fox honchos, but he continued saying that his goals are to "make everyone dance while we're telling them about how we need to get rid of the system" and that "exploitation is the primary contradiction in capitalism."It all seems like relatively innocent stuff, delivered in an exceedingly calm and
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