“This is an easy case”

Thank goodness for a little common sense! According to Reuters, Fox News (along with “Bill O’LIE-lly” as Al Franken refers to him) has lost the first round in its suit to silence Al Franken and his new book, “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them“. Ruling from the bench, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin said

“There are hard cases and there are easy cases. This is an easy case… This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally… Parody is a form of artistic expression protected by the First Amendment. The keystone to parody is imitation. Mr. Franken is clearly mocking Fox,” said Chin.

Obviously not a Bush appointee, Judge Chin made one honest mistake when he said:

…that there was no likelihood that book buyers would think that the sponsor is Fox or O’Reilly… “We are talking about relatively sophisticated consumers here,” he said of those who would be buying Franken’s book.

The problem is that the people who are buying the book might be sophisitcated, but the morons who watch Fox and listen to the drivel spewing from their semi-literate “newscasters”, are obviously very easily confused and might purchase the book by mistake.

Oh wait: My bad… those ditto-heads would never buy the book if Rush or Bill or Anne didn’t order them to buy it. What was I thinking?

[Via TalkLeft]