“A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right”

I flip and flop on my opinion of Al Franken. I think I like him much more in print than on screen. If the title of his newest book is of any indication, I’ll enjoy him much more in the future.

“Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right” is the new book by Al Franken and it has just come out of a legal firestorm without so much as a dog-eared page. Although originally slated to hit stores in late September, the release was moved up to this past Thursday the 21st in an effort to capitalize on what was apparently a fairly hopeless lawsuit by the Fox News Network. The argument, according to Fox, was that Franken’s use of the term “Fair and Balanced” was a malicious infringement on their own network Trademark of the phrase. We can all decide on our own whether or not we think that claim is ridiculous, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin decided for us whether or not it was legal:

Nice to see an idiotic lawsuit lose steam so quickly isn’t it? Nowadays it almost seems like the exception.