Fox News -- Now I Understand Why It's "Fair and Balanced"

Anyone who's seen more than 5 minutes of a Fox News broadcast knows they call themselves "fair and balanced." You can decide for yourself whether the description is accurate, but before you decide to describe anything you produce as fair and balanced, you had better check with your lawyer. Fox registered the phrase "Fair & balanced" as a trademark in 1995. So Fox News isn't just fair and balanced it's Fair & Balanced™.

Why do I mention this? Well, Al Franken has written a book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right that will be published in late September. It seems that the folks at Fox were not amused by the title. They filed a trademark infringement lawsuit on Monday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan to stop his publisher from including the offending phrase in the title of his book.

According to the Associated Press:

The lawsuit also says that Franken has been described as "increasingly unfunny.''

I have news for the good folks at Fox. There's someone decidedly "unfunny" here, and it isn't Al Franken.