Smudge Reporting: Fox News drops lawsuit against Al Franken

[hiphopnation]

NEW YORK - Fox News dropped its lawsuit against Al Franken on Monday, three days after a federal judge refused to block the liberal humorist from using the Fox slogan "Fair and Balanced" on the cover of his latest book.

Fox said it filed papers in federal court to withdraw the suit, which sought unspecified damages from Franken and Penguin Group, publisher of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A43532-2003Aug25?language=printer

[realFedUp]

1. finally a fair and balanced decision

.

[el_gato]

2. ha ha

the fox team of lawyers:
:+
:freak:
:dunce:

[ThorsteinVeblen]

3. Bwhahahahahahaha

[damnraddem]

4. What a shame!

At least I hope that the limited publicity Faux News did bring the book will assure its success. But it sure seems like Faux News could have helped Franken out a little bit longer.

[mark0rama]

5. Faux should consider themselves lucky...

...they didn't have to pay Franken and his publisher's legal fees.

[Skittles]

6. I BET THE FOX LAWYERS

had to read that infantile O'Reilly the RIOT ACT.

[depakid]

7. Judge Chin's comments at the injunction hearing

not only made Fox look spitefully stupid, but they put Fox's attorneys on notice that he was prepared to slap them with Rule 11 sanctions.

As to Fox's graceless comments re: "It's time to return Al Franken to the obscurity that he's normally accustomed to," I think it's a little to late for that. As the old saying goes, you can't unring the bell.

[hiphopnation]

8. TORT REFORM!!

Keep these frivolous law suits from clogging up the American Court system!!

[FlashHarry]

9. Jesus, how bitchy can they get? Check out this quote:

"It's time to return Al Franken to the obscurity that he's normally accustomed to," Fox News spokeswoman Irena Steffen said.

On edit: It's nice to see that the Fox 'spokeswoman' lacks a grasp of English grammar--she ended a sentence with a preposition!!! (I wonder if she's good-looking, though.)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

10. i guess by obscurity

they mean emmy award winner and best selling author of 3 other books

as a former SNL star, more americans know who franken is than watch FOX

[TacticalPeek]

11. And I wonder how short her skirt is?

The ones on the morning show, jeeez, hike 'em any higher...must be a Murdoch rule.


edit: cleaned up.

[VolcanoJen]

12. Dupe...

Although technically this post was the earliest on this subject, LBN rules require that the poster use the exact title of the linked-to article in the subject line. In this case, the subject line should read simply: "Fox News Drops Lawsuit Against Al Franken."

Also, the post below (same story) has several more responses, and as such, it would be best to keep our discussion about this story consolidated there:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=82789&mesg_id=82789

Hiphopnation, your Washington Post link would be helpful in the other thread, and I hope you'll post it there. Locking this thread was a really tough call, and I apologize in advance if you feel we're being a little nitpicky on this one. :-)

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
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