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Fox Sues Humor Writer for Using 'Signature' Slogan (Al "Irrelevant" Franken)
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| August 12, 2003
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Posted on 08/12/2003 8:31:50 AM PDT by El Conservador
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To: TomGuy
The phrase "fair and balanced" was around long before FoxNews. Sorry FoxNews, you don't have any more right to those words than any other else does. You're right, of course. In fact, Al Gore traces his invention of that phrase all the way back to his college "Love Story" days!
To: GigaDittos
It's hard to believe that anyone could listen to any pinhead like Franken or Garofalo. Then again, being a liberal does require jettisoning the brain in favor of unadulterated emotionalism.
To: gridlock
I think that FNC's use of "fair and balanced" has always irked the left.
To: CheezyD
Ann could whip his ass with one hand tied behind her back.
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:09:16 AM PDT
by
GigaDittos
(I can hear the distant whine about wine in France.)
To: El Conservador
Why is Fox giving Al Franken publicity he could never buy? Franken is irrelevant. His movies, TV shows, and books have all been abject failures. Let him steal Fox's slogan, and his new commie treatise will still go down in flames.
To: dead
"The words "fair and balanced" belong to nobody."
Fox seems to think they belong to them. They'll lose, of course. I seem to remember that Volvo trademarked the phrase "Drive safely." I don't think they won any of their cases.
This is all nonsense, but I suppose it will provide publicity for Franken's book.
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:11:39 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: El Conservador
I don't think Fox has much of a case.
It would be interesting to see how it works with the other side. For example if I published a new book about Jayson Blair and gang titled: "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. All the News That's Fit to Print About the Left", would the New York Times have a case against me?
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:14:44 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(A flash mob of one.)
To: Paul Atreides
Look at the cover, on face value. Forget what you know about Franken and FoxNews.
If you forget that Franken is a leftist schmuck, who hates anybody to the right of Lenin, and you forget that FoxNews is considered by many to be on the right, then the cover is deceptive.
The cover is not deceptive if you can tell just by looking at it that it is a parody of FoxNews. However, FoxNews maintains publicly that they are not a member of the VRWC. In fact, they publicly maintain that they are not on the right at all, but are, rather, "Fair and Balanced".
So, based on the cover alone, you have FoxNews personalities on the cover with a statement that the book is "Fair and Balanced". A reasonable person who does not necessarily subscribe to Franken's political views could well conclude that FoxNews was a party to the production of this work, rather than the target.
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:17:12 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(Remember: PC Kills.)
To: Paul Atreides
This cover has everthing needed to make this book a best seller. Just look in the upper left corner of the picture. Now blow that up and get rid of the goof on the right side.
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:17:15 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(A flash mob of one.)
To: gridlock
But given the fact that the cover shows Franken standing in a TV control room with two of four TV screens showing FoxNews personalities, their case is strengthened. Yeah, but Fox isn't suing because he wrote a book bashing them specifically. They're suing based on trademark infringement. And the book in no way pretends to not be bashing Fox (to win trademark he'd have to be diluting their brand. Bashing doesn't dilute.)
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:17:51 AM PDT
by
libravoter
(Live from the People's Republic of Cambridge)
To: KarlInOhio
Since when is Al Franken a "humor writer"? I would assume that a "humor writer" would have to be funny. Al "Crybaby" Franken is just a whining malcontent.
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:18:35 AM PDT
by
exile
To: dead
FYI
Typed Drawing
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Word Mark FAIR & BALANCED
Goods and Services IC 041. US 100 101 107. G & S: entertainment services in the nature of production and distribution of television news programs. FIRST USE: 19961007. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19961007
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Serial Number 75280027
Filing Date April 23, 1997
Filed ITU FILED AS ITU
Published for Opposition March 3, 1998
Registration Number 2213427
Registration Date December 22, 1998
Owner (REGISTRANT) Fox News Network, LLC CORPORATION DELAWARE 1211 Avenue of the Americas New York NEW YORK 10036
To: All
As I said on the other thread about this...The author, somebody named R. Jaggero, of "Double Take - Politically Incorrect Limericks" had it exactly right about this "big fat idiot." He also had it right about Bill Maher, Michael Moore and an assortment of other figures like Whoopi and Martin Sheen...Now if only the liberal media would give him the credit he deserves!
Check out the book's website here, it looks like their next book is going to be about photos taken in NYC but with a twist....
http://www.doubletakebook.com Enjoy!
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:19:45 AM PDT
by
rpage3
To: exile
Since when is Al Franken a "humor writer"? I would assume that a "humor writer" would have to be funny. Al "Crybaby" Franken is just a whining malcontent. hu·mor n.
4.One of the four fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, choler, and black bile, whose relative proportions were thought in ancient and medieval physiology to determine a person's disposition and general health.
I'll put Franken's humor in the bile category, maybe with a little bit of phlegm.
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:22:59 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(A flash mob of one.)
To: gridlock
based on the cover alone, you have FoxNews personalities on the cover with a statement that the book is "Fair and Balanced".The burden of proof is on Fox to show someone could be confused. And, while I know what you're trying to say, I bet that in a year you couldn't find five people who honestly would be confused as to this book's agenda.
There was a recent case in the south where a sex novelty shop (toys and such, I think) called itself "Victor's Little Secret". Victoria's Secret sued. The court ruled no reasonable person could have thought the two were related.
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:24:22 AM PDT
by
libravoter
(Live from the People's Republic of Cambridge)
To: libravoter
I would agree that bashing is protected speech, as well it should be. Political parody is worthy of protection.
My point is that it is unclear based on the cover that FoxNews is not a party to the production of the book. Keep in mind that it is a far from settled issue that FoxNews (or Bush and Cheney for that matter) are on the political right. So the statments on the cover are not specific enough to counter the appearance, given by the use of FoxNews personalities and FoxNews logos, that FoxNews was a party to the production of this work.
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:25:47 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(Remember: PC Kills.)
To: El Conservador
Al Franken is dumb enough, liberal enough, and doggone it, people hate him...
To: El Conservador
Al Franken is dumb enough, liberal enough, and doggone it, people hate him...
To: TomGuy
"Sorry FoxNews, you don't have any more right to those words than any other else does."
They have the right to exclude others from using them in conjunction with the provision of television news and entertainment services.
And that has not much to do with Franken's book.
To: El Conservador
bump
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posted on
08/12/2003 9:32:58 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
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