Fox sues Al Franken and loses: Result: Book sales thru the roof, Hahahaha

[opihimoimoi]

Unintended promo gives sales a terrif boost. Publisher ordering 90K more books as sales rip thru stores across the Nation.

Bill OReally going apeshit. Taking Prozac by the buckets.

Al smiling all the way to the bank.

Fair and Balanced, my ass.

[oasis]

1. Keith Obermann got a laugh today on MSNBC. He said Fox will

now try to copyright "no" and "spin".

[opihimoimoi]

2. The joke is on fox. They were so lame its pathetic.

Come, we smoke Montechristo and drink good wine

[oasis]

3. I'm ready to send O'reilly a taunting e-mail. He came off loser in

more ways than one. A constant replay on other networks of O'Rielly telling Franken "shut up, just shut up" didn't help his image as being a cool, thoughtful debater.

[knight_of_the_star]

4. He's toast

I'm looking forward to the day that I meet him on the street holding out a beggin bowl.

[oasis]

6. He will never be broke. He constantly writes and promotes his books

on his show. If his show shuts down he will be welcomed to universities to speak to the Young Republicans for a fee. He's also a cheap bastard.

[rasputin1952]

30. But his books don't sell...

they contain the same old vitriole; he is not a wordsmith, but rather a word murderer.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Toast, yup, but some old GOP widow would prolly marry him

and make Bill clean her toes("in between dahling".

He would make a good gigalo

[rasputin1952]

29. More like a 'begging urinal'

n/t

[opihimoimoi]

5. O Reallys brain got frozen from shock. He met his match.

Hahahahaha

You just gatta luv this whole scene. Damn, Bill even had the spittle flying. Al had to wear one of those face masks with wipers(swish swish)

Come, we go drink. Hahahahaha

[Ladyhawk]

16. About the video of O'Reilly telling Franken to "shut up"...

...how old is it?

(I haven't been watching the news lately.)

[opihimoimoi]

17. about 3 to 4 days old.

Bill completely lost his cool.

No class.

None.

Just a Pub blowhard.

[Hasaler]

23. It was the Bookexpo on C-SPAN

I think the date was May 31, 2003.

[izzie]

19. Funny and have you picked your words to copyright?

I can not pick what I want there are such nice words around. Since Bush has evil duers I am at my wits end.

[paper chase guy]

8. I LOVE the fact that the publisher capitalized on this...

by moving the publishing date up (by a month or so?) due to the lawsuit.

I mean, very smart move, but that was probably the biggest no-brainer move they've ever had to do :)

[opihimoimoi]

10. The MsNBC guys playing reruns of Bill SHUT UP SHUT UP OReally

He blew a gasket

[rasputin1952]

31. Fair and Balanced....

SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP!

If that is fair and balanced, give me Goebells.

[opihimoimoi]

33. Hi Raspy, the guy has that weird habit of yelling shut up

to those who cross him.

This will bite his ass big time.

[Generic Other]

34. SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP!

I regret to inform you that you are infringing on Bill O'Reilly's copyrighted phrasing! You are therefore warned not to make use of the phrase "Shut up. Just shut up."

[opihimoimoi]

38. Do I have to apologize and beg for mercy??

Oh well,

Come, we pick avacados, make Cali rolls.

[Generic Other]

41. Any combo of seaweed, rice and squishy fishy eggs is trademarked

by the Japanese. You can't call them California rolls even if you do put avocado in them. The Japanese will sue. You are stealing their ethnic property. And you Hawaiians, don't even think of putting spam and pineapple in seaweed and calling it a Kamehameha Roll.

But I will be happy to sell you a license to use the term. :)

[opihimoimoi]

42. down on my knees, groveling even, begging for forgiveness

didn;t realize I was infringing on those items.

Come, we go jfhyyaggsferd, eat ituysbsgdt88wetw53.09

[Generic Other]

44. Now you've gone and made the Welsh mad

And what you said...let's just put it this way. If you were in a crowded biker bar in Wales and you said that about someone's sister? Wooo...You got guts, man.

[opihimoimoi]

45. You misread, it was about the JWs coming to the door waking up

the entire family from siesta, a bad punishable by stoning from 7 paces.

[Generic Other]

47. Luckily you only used their initials

If you had said their whole name, you would have to pay a fee.

I think Franken was GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY. And I would have made him pay O'Reilly back by letting him hear the sound of coins dropping from one hand to another. Adequate damages for a man who steals another's "words."

[opihimoimoi]

52. Al was gloating a little, I guess we would also if in his socks, er, shoes

Come, we try to find the whole names,
My bad.

you think if I give some fish and poi they would allow me into the circle?

[Rex]

9. I hope this is what breaks FauxNews

nt

[opihimoimoi]

11. well, they still got Rita baby Cosby who will go the way of Susan Rook

Pat Sajak will replace Bill soon

[oasis]

12. Rita Cosby will be getting a call from Subway Sandwich Inc. for

an add campaign.

[opihimoimoi]

13. Rita the Ham San Cosby, I luv it, lol

she will soon mature to the kitchen and nursery

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

37. Funny line froma DU'er, months ago:

"Sources close to Rita Cosby say..."

LMAO.

[Rex]

14. Don't the also have Greta Van Pelt?

The one that used to work for CNN?

[opihimoimoi]

15. Ever since she had fer face stretched her eyes have the slithern look

and she became a limited value thing.

she looks weird.

[stunted evolution]

18. Yeah....Greta is definitely an oddity

It's weird to watch her. It's the same kind of morbid fascination you might enjoy at a freakshow. If I had a guess - Botx injection gone bad.

I keep waiting for drool to come out of the stationary corner of her mouth, anything to prove she's not on remote control.

[JNelson6563]

27. agreed and when she had that

surgery done I was shocked. I mean all she really needed to do was brush her hair--which always looked atrocious.

Julie

[izzie]

20. By the way what did the court say?

n/t

[Tennessee Gal]

25. Court said - "Wholly without merit!" LOL!

Fox News loses attempt to block satirist's book

Saying "This is an easy case," a federal judge ruled Friday against Fox News in its lawsuit asserting that a book by liberal satirist Al Franken violates its trademarked slogan, "fair and balanced."

Fox was seeking an injunction to halt distribution of "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."

U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, after listening to about half an hour of oral arguments, said the lawsuit was "wholly without merit, both factually and legally."

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/08/22/fox.franken/index.html

:bounce:

:bounce:

:kick:

[Hubert Flottz]

21. The only thing Billie want's to ballance is Bush's Balls on his

Chinny Chin Chin!

Come, we get copies of Al's book for Christmas Gifts!

[Hasaler]

22. The rebound effect

Faux took the lawsuit at the request of Bill O'Reilly. Since Faux looks like a laughing stock, I wonder (hope) if this will put friction between Faux and O'Reilly.:toast:

Great decision by the court. It's nice to see that justice still does prevail.

[opihimoimoi]

35. If true, that Oreally encouraged the litigation, then we can look for

Billys termination sometime soon.

Among applicants to replace him are Daffy Duck, Goofey, and Pluto.

[Justice]

24. Judge Said Fox's Motion Was Wholly Without Merit

Fox didn't just lose, the Judge ripped them. The judge said that Fox News had to learn how to take a joke.

SNIP

""Calling the motion "wholly without merit, both factually and legally," the judge, Denny Chin of United States District Court, said that a person would have to be "completely dense" not to realize the cover was a joke, and that trademark protection for the phrase "Fair and Balanced" was unrealistic because the words are so commonly used."

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/23/nyregion/23FRAN.html?

[varun]

26. funny that the conservative Fox

that is always complaining against "frivolous" lawsuits was involved in one itself!

:wtf:

[JNelson6563]

28. been thinking that all along

we need to make this our mantra.......Faux loves frivolous lawsuits!

Julie

[opihimoimoi]

32. Faux luvs frivilous commentators

OReally is toast

Come, we look fair and balance our jokes.

[Kurovski]

57. Amen corner here.

Amen, amen!

[grytpype]

36. Fox News: Wholly Without Merit

[alcuno]

39. Current promo on FOX - "It's Miller Time on Hannity and Colmes"

Are they hypocrites or what? While FOX was in court yesterday, this was a promo I kept hearing on their "news" channel.

[Skittles]

40. I'm betting the egotistical demands of O'Reilly

overrode the FOX lawyers who MUST have advised against it - surely FOX management is not pleased but they won't displease their star media whore.

[opihimoimoi]

43. but now that the fallout has fallen, Oreally is not looking too good.

In fact, he and Fox look like shit.

I happen to think Oreally is going downhill. Perhaps wishful thinking but its a hunch.

Come, we eat chowmein and roast quack

[gristy]

46. Is the shut up video available on-line???

I haven't seen it!

[kittykitty]

48. Here is the Video. . .

http://www.booktv.org/misc/BookExpo_053103.asp
Go about 40 minutes into it.

[Generic Other]

49. The ones who would have taken Franken away ha ha hee hee...

Maybe these guys will take up a collection for O'Reilly?

CYBERCRIME
US Department of Justice 10th & Constitution Ave., NW Criminal Division, (Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section)

www.cybercrime.gov

[Generic Other]

50. What Bill O'Reilly wanted Al Franken to sign:

You hereby grant the entire, complete rights to everything you've ever thought, made or done to Fox News, in perpetuity and throughout the Universe; and even if one day they find a door in the Universe that leads to a whole new non-Uiniverse place, or somebody invents a time-stopping machine so that "perpetuity" no longer exists, or everything falls into a black hole and nobody knows which end is up and we're all dead anyway, so who cares--we'll STILL own all these rights, so stop whining, sign or don't sign, but face reality for once in your life, because this is the way the world works, pal.

*Note: This contract borrowed from another source whose intellectual property it remains. R. Chaz. The New Yorker. Aug. 11, 2003.

Only the "Fox News" part is clearly my own intellectual property. :)

[eleny]

51. I love watching...

Franken gloat over the ruling. CNN just covered the news again. They showed Bill O yelling his famous "Shut Up!". And then Franken asserting that parody is still protected under the First Amendment -even if you don't think it's funny. And then he has his chuckle.

I saw them on C-Span that day they spoke at the book fair. It's a delight to see things turn out this way.
:spank:

[opihimoimoi]

53. Al got those lunaresque balls. He would never ever sign anything close to

that.

Those Pubs at Fox must have deformed brains cause anyone from our neighboring Universe could see it was frivilous and w/o merit.

It smelled of kim chee for gods sake.

[opihimoimoi]

54. Hi Eleny, it is a wonderful world after all. At least for now it is.

Come, help fight the Pubs, man your spear and take a position on the WALL. them Pubs got ladders for gods sake.

[Sophree]

55. How sweet it is..

Don't you just love Karma?

Go Al!

:bounce:

[opihimoimoi]

56. As Ralph Kramden would say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How sweet it is, Yup, it is indeed.

FOX got their dicks caught in a door jamb.

[Sophree]

58. I'll say.

"FOX got their dicks caught in a door jamb."

And that's the only action those dicks at Faux will be seeing any time soon. Ha-ha.