Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Shagrinned & Bewildered (tm)
Writer Neal Pollack has declared this Friday..(tomorrow)..as a day of protest, a massive cyber bitchslap if you will, towards FOX New's lawsuit against Al Franken for using the phrase Fair & Balanced in his new book. Apparently, FOX News feels they own this phrase, when in all actuality it's Fox News throwing a nasty little hissy fit because Al Franken pissed them off by using Fox's tag line of Fair & Balanced, which we all know that it isn't or never will be, in the title of his yet to be released book. All Fox is doing at this point is generating sales for Mr. Franken, or maybe we're just being PuNk'd who can say or for that matter who gives a flying fuck? Excellent strategy if I say so myself. 'Liberal Bashing' is all the rage in publishing right now, it's a trend that will pass or at least lay low for a chunk of time and the right will be bashed for a time....(yippee!)...but in the end what is left is what is right, right?