A fair and balanced assessment (oops! Should I now wait for the lawsuit?)
In the latest sign that the right-wing nut job media (that's not bias, that is merely stating a fact, right?) is intent on self-destruction, Fox has sued Al Franken's publisher over the title of his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The gist of it is that using "fair and balanced" in the title is a rip-off of Fox News' logo, or at least an attempt to blur the lines between Franken's book and the Fox News media outlet, who apparently subscribes to the theory that Fair and Balanced means Democrats are evil and Republicans are not. The complaint even goes so far as to engage in a comedic level of projection in proclaiming that Franken "appears shrill and unstable," apparently they confused Franken for Anne Coulter, or even Bill O'Reilly.
One theory holds that Fox was pressured by Bill O'Reilly to initiate this lawsuit after he was publicly embarrassed by Franken. Other theories hold that Fox (or Rupert Murdoch) has no sense of humor. Verbal Jazz maintains that Fox News (and, Rupe, by extension) has to enjoy some whacked out sense of humor in order to file this lawsuit: does Fox have satirists filing legal briefs now?
Fox appears to be the "shrill and unstable" entity here.
Props: I first heard about this suit here.
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In the latest sign that the right-wing nut job media (that's not bias, that is merely stating a fact, right?) is intent on self-destruction, Fox has sued Al Franken's publisher over the title of his new book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The gist of it is that using "fair and balanced" in the title is a rip-off of Fox News' logo, or at least an attempt to blur the lines between Franken's book and the Fox News media outlet, who apparently subscribes to the theory that Fair and Balanced means Democrats are evil and Republicans are not. The complaint even goes so far as to engage in a comedic level of projection in proclaiming that Franken "appears shrill and unstable," apparently they confused Franken for Anne Coulter, or even Bill O'Reilly.
One theory holds that Fox was pressured by Bill O'Reilly to initiate this lawsuit after he was publicly embarrassed by Franken. Other theories hold that Fox (or Rupert Murdoch) has no sense of humor. Verbal Jazz maintains that Fox News (and, Rupe, by extension) has to enjoy some whacked out sense of humor in order to file this lawsuit: does Fox have satirists filing legal briefs now?
Fox appears to be the "shrill and unstable" entity here.
Props: I first heard about this suit here.
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