{"id":554,"date":"2003-08-26T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2003-08-26T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/554.html"},"modified":"2003-08-26T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2003-08-26T15:03:53","slug":"fox-news-drops-franken-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fox-news-drops-franken-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox News drops Franken suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So much for the determined fight to &#8220;protect their trademark.&#8221; Fox News announced yesterday that it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/wire\/2003\/08\/25\/fox_news_suit\/index.html\">dropping its lawsuit<\/a> against Al Franken.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Fox News didn&#8217;t care for being on the receiving end of a vicious smackdown from a federal district court judge &#8212; who called FNC&#8217;s lawsuit &#8220;wholly without merit&#8221; on Friday &#8212; and decided to call it a day.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having to crawl away with its tail humiliatingly between its legs, Fox News exited the legal stage with the tact and class one has come to expect from such a fine journalistic institution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time to return Al Franken to the obscurity that he&#8217;s normally accustomed to,&#8221; Fox News spokeswoman Irena Steffen said.<\/p>\n<p>Sure. <i>Now<\/i> you decide you don&#8217;t want to give Franken publicity. Fox News propels Franken back into the limelight, pushes his book to the top of the bestseller list, becomes a laughingstock, and <i>then<\/i> they decide they want to send Franken into obscurity.<\/p>\n<p>Two words for Fox News: Too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much for the determined fight to &#8220;protect their trademark.&#8221; Fox News announced yesterday that it is dropping its lawsuit against Al Franken. Apparently, Fox News didn&#8217;t care for being on the receiving end of a vicious smackdown from a federal district court judge &#8212; who called FNC&#8217;s lawsuit &#8220;wholly without merit&#8221; on Friday &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}