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gezzam
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Australia
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 Posted - 08/14/2003 : 12:28:14
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Fox is taking Al Franken to court for the title of his new book...
"Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."
As they say, any publicity is good publicity, from It's Fair to Say Fox's Lawsuit Lacks Balance
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Before news of the lawsuit broke Monday, Franken's book reportedly languished at No. 489 in sales on Amazon.com. By Wednesday afternoon it had reached No. 1. And the thing won't even be available until Sept. 22.
You only have to say one word.....Dickheads
More reading:
Funnyman Franken fires back at Fox's lawsuit
Don't Use Those Words: Fox News Owns Them
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 08/14/2003 : 14:07:51 [Permalink]
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Ain't it beautiful? I'll bet Franken is kicking himself for not thinking of it first.
Then again, maybe he did think of it and is seeing his scheme coming to fruitation. 
What's gonna happen, I think, is that the suit will be tossed for the frivilous bullshit that it is, and our boy Al and his publisher will will pocket many, large, well-deserved bucks.
On a side note. I've read that the idiot O'Riley lobbied the station to press the suit, thereby earning himself a place near the top of the laughingstock order, only slightly below the CA Recall (no offense to y'all CA guys, but you should see that nonsense from our perspective. Hoo boy!).
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 08/14/2003 : 22:42:38 [Permalink]
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quote:
filthy:
I've read that the idiot O'Riley lobbied the station to press the suit, thereby earning himself a place near the top of the laughingstock order, only slightly below the CA Recall (no offense to y'all CA guys, but you should see that nonsense from our perspective.
We are the state that sent Nixon and Reagan to the white house and B1 Bob Dornan to congress. Tough acts to follow? Not when you are the entertainment capital of the nation. Enjoy the show... |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2003 : 00:34:56 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by gezzam
Fox is taking Al Franken to court for the title of his new book...
"Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."
HA! Fox - (what a joke for a "news" organization!) Aren't they basically the same bunch of Bozos who tried to convince the World that NASA never went to the moon, despite overwhelming evidence?  |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/15/2003 : 04:15:42 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Chippewa
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Originally posted by gezzam
Fox is taking Al Franken to court for the title of his new book...
"Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right."
HA! Fox - (what a joke for a "news" organization!) Aren't they basically the same bunch of Bozos who tried to convince the World that NASA never went to the moon, despite overwhelming evidence?
I wasn't, and am still not, paying a lot of attention to the Moon Hoax blather. But I seem to recall that Fox did a couple of shows 'supporting' it, while putting forth no official opinion themselves.
Pretty clever, if you ask me. Capture the nitwit audience without actually committing yourself to nonsense (it is said that all of Fox's audience are nitwits, but, being Fair and Balanced myself, I refuse to repeat it).
I got married the day a man walked on the Moon. What a black day in our history that was.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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gezzam
SFN Regular
Australia
751 Posts |
Posted - 08/15/2003 : 07:50:22 [Permalink]
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See Franken go head to head with Bill O'Reilly.
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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 08/28/2003 : 08:33:44 [Permalink]
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A judge threw out one of the Fox News claims, and they've withdrawn the lawsuit. Franken, no doubt, is laughing all the way to the e-bank.
BTW, Time magazine this week has a one-page interview with Franken about the controversy. Pretty funny. One of the questions is, "Would you ever run for political office?" He replies (I'm paraphrasing), "No way. I'd be terrified to have that kind of responsibility. I'm terrified at having the responsibility of writing a comedy book."
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