[Peace-discuss] On the lighter side -- Paul Newman vs. Fox "News" in NYT

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Hi All,

Paul Newman weighs in on Fox "News's" allegations that Al Franken's new book -- Lying Liars and the Lying Liars That Tell Them, A Fair and Balanced Look --  violates Fox News' copyright of "Fair and Balanced" which thay claim for their "news".....Read and enjoy!
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Aug. 19, 2003   
Amy Reiter writes --|  Al Franken, is that you? Paul Newman -- yes, that Paul Newman -- has written an editorial for today's New York Times Op-Ed page satirizing the lawsuit Fox News Network has brought against Franken over the use of the phrase "fair and balanced." "In claiming trademark violation, Fox sets a noble example for standing firm against whatever," Newman writes in  the tongue-in-cheek piece, adding that the Fox suit has prompted him to file claims against the Department of Housing and Urban Development, also known  as
HUD.

"In the 1963 film HUD, for which Mr. Newman was nominated for an Acad emy Award, the ad campaign was based on the slogan, Paul Newman is HUD,"  he continues. "Mr. Newman claims that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, called HUD, is a fair and balanced institution and that some ofits decency and respectability has unfairly rubbed off on his movie character, diluting the rotten, self-important, free-trade, corrupt conservative image that Mr. Newman worked so hard to project in the film. His suit claims that this "innocence by association" has hurt his feelings plus residuals."