Aug. 15, 2003 | Fair, balanced, and all-American
In case you don't already know, Aug. 15 has been declared Fair and Balanced Day by freedom-loving bloggers everywhere, in response to the morally unfair and mentally unbalanced nuisance lawsuit brought by Fox News against Al Franken and his publisher. (Even the Wall Street Journal editorial page, print edition, is mocking Rupert Murdoch's lackeys for behaving like fools. Well argued, Mr. Gigot.) Among the scores of F-and-B Day entries on the Web, my favorite so far is Neal Pollack's tale of a passionate blackout encounter with a certain weepy, litigious blowhard. Nitpicker dissects Bill O'Reilly's hilarious defense of the lawsuit that he apparently engineered, much to Franken's profit. And it wouldn't be F-and-B Day without the other Roger Ailes ("More Fair and Balanced Than That Other Motherf-----"). Celebrate the occasion and consult the expanding collection of entries compiled by Blah3, and be patient while the page loads. America is the land of free speech, Bill: Love it or leave it.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2003/08/15/franken_day/