Fair and Balanced

[truepenny]

Bookslut has been following the FOX News Network's lawsuit against Al Franken and his book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, a lawsuit in which FOX claims to have trademarked the phrase "fair and balanced."

Today, they (Bookslut) link to Neal Pollack, who has declared today tomorrow [and why did no one point out to me that I was posting on Thursday the fourteenth? --Ed.] Fair and Balanced Day on the internet:

This Friday, August 15, is Fair And Balanced day on the Internet. You are all hereby instructed to use the words Fair And Balanced in very creative ways on your various websites. My cosponsor in this effort, Atrios, informs me that many of you are already using "Fair And Balanced" in your taglines. Very good. Sometimes, I swear you don't even need instructions from me. But we can go further. Tell Fox News to take its Fair And Balanced slogan and shove it up its Fair And Balanced hole. Feel free to be more subtle than that, if you wish.

You heard the man.

Talk hard.

[Addendum: Making Light and Electrolite are on the ball, on the job, and on the money, as per usual.]

[Second addendum: I've added fair and balanced to my Interests list, as has (thus far) one other user.]

[Addendum to the second addendum, 3:30 p.m.: And now there are ten of us.]

[Third addendum: Bookslut also links to the list being compiled by the Authors Guild of books that could face legal action if the courts uphold FOX's idiocy.]

Comments

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

One might even say the idiocy of trying to copyright "fair and balanced" is very unfair and unbalanced.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Go Penny!

::bounces off to add it as interest::

(Baaa-baaa!)

I'll put it up on my website

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

is there somewhere that you can ad your name to a registry of websites doing this?

Re: I'll put it up on my website

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Not so far as I know. But probably someone will start one sooner or later. :)

Re: I'll put it up on my website

[puppytown.livejournal.com]

There's a list at blah3: right here (http://www.blah3.com/graymatter/archives/00000420.html).

Re: I'll put it up on my website

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

'kay. Am linked up now.

[vass]

I temporarily made my 'x comments/post a comment' links 'x Fair/& balanced'.

[vass]

I forgot to add:

Your Quixotic!Shakespeare mood icon is delightful!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Isn't it, though?

jess79 is a genius.

[mishamcm.livejournal.com]

I don't see the problem. Comparing Fox's uber-right coverage to the meaning of the English words "fair" and "balanced" it's clear that their tagline is in some obscure alien language. It's probably some demon phrase meaning, "Dubya is too liberal for us."