Fox News Suit Thrown Out

As many folks know, Fox News sued Al Franken for using their trademarked "Fair & Balanced" line on his book, Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. Judge threw it out after 30 minutes of arguments, saying "This is an easy case." Fox News was egged on to do this by their bloviating windbag of a host, Bill O'Reilly, who got publically spanked by Al Franken earlier this year at a book event. Here's Molly Ivins account of it:

I got caught in a verbal slugfest between the two of them recently in Los Angeles. The high point was when O'Reilly cleverly riposted Franken's account of his lies by screaming: "Shut up! Shut up!" A particularly sound argument, I thought.

Franken, in turn, said, "Bill, we're not on Fox News."

And now we can all feel a little bit better.