Or this one:
"What gets obscured in the global warming debate is the fact that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is necessary for life. Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind. Most plants, especially wheat and rice, grow considerably better when there is more CO2 in the atmosphere. CO2 works like a fertilizer and higher temperatures usually further enhance the CO2 fertilizer effect."
from Senator James Inhofe. Oh wait, that's real !

Fox forgot to pass an internal policy banning fake taglines on Fox shows for other Fox entities. That way, they could have prohibited my favorite quote from that Simpsons episode...

"Fox News. Your source...for evil."

Of course the reason Fox's legal department is so ass backwards is their choice for cheif counsel: Lionel Hutz! Sorry, but someone had to say it.

More on fox:

"Ex Fox News Producer Says He Was Directed To Slant the News


A former Fox News producer who says he spent six years at the cable news network claims he and other personnel were bombarded daily with memos and direct recommendations about how politically sensitive news stories should be treated. Charlie Reina, a onetime producer of Fox News Watch, has posted a message on the Poynter Institute's website claiming that he was under "subtle to direct" pressure to slant the news so that it would please Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes. "Everyone there understands that FNC is, to a large extent, 'Roger's Revenge' -- against what he considers a liberal, pro-Democrat media establishment that has shunned him for decades," Reina wrote. Regarding the channel's reporting on the Iraq war, he says that in an effort to please Ailes, a newsroom chief once ordered the removal of a graphic quoting U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix as saying that no weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. On another occasion, "I was not surprised when an eager young producer killed a correspondent's report on the day's fighting -- simply because it included a brief shot of children in an Iraqi hospital."

http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief/#1

And to prove that Fox isn't the only one thinking about suing these days:

CNN and AP Threaten To Sue Over Internet Prank


CNN and the Associated Press are the latest to raise a rumpus over alleged Internet copyright infringement after what appeared to be a copy of a CNN Web page was emailed to thousands of students and was posted on numerous websites. As reported by the New York Observer, the page featured an item bearing an AP "slug" about an article that purportedly appeared in the "Journal of Medicine" claiming that a North Carolina State University study had concluded that "fellatio may significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer." It quoted a Dr. Inserta Shafteer as saying, "Since the emergence of the research, I try to fellate at least once every other night to reduce my chances." According to the Observer, AP and CNN lawyers, charging intellectual-copyright infringement, have threatened to sue N.C. State, where the story first appeared on a student website. The university is also upset about the article. A spokesman told the Observer: "What [the writer] did is, he attributed the research to N.C. State, when, in fact, obviously nothing like that has ever happened here." However, the writer of the spoof, Brandon Williamson, a junior at the university, remarked: "I just thought it was a joke I was sending to my friends."

Don't forget this one:
Donald Luskin threating to sue Atrios for not deleting purpotedly libelous comments on his blog.

Is it just my perception that these sorts of unwinnable (frivolous?) suits been increasing recently, or has it always been thus?

Luskin is actually Bernard Shifman in disguise.

My dear Jim, are you neglecting to add that you (and I) once WORKED in the illustrious Fox legal department in the very distant pre-cable news past? The people over on the TV half of the department did seem a little more goofy and litigious than we on the movie side, even back then. (Do you keep in touch with anyone there - Lorrayne Jurist?)

CARRIE!!!

What the . . .? How the . . . ? (insert spit take as my morning coffee comes out my nose)

I do indeed remember those bygone days. And I'd like to think that anywhere I work is at least a little insane and litigious, so in some ways, I'm proud of what Fox hath wrought.

More via e-mail . . . .

Awwww. It's so sweet when people reconnect via Ishbadiddle. And when they spurt coffee out their noses, too.

Carrie - not sure if you're still curious - Came across your posting --from last year!
lorrayne jurist was my mother. Unfortunately She passed away about 6 years ago.

Amy: I just ran across your posting about your mother Lorrayne. How very sad. I was a bridge partner of hers -- I think you and I met briefly one weekend in Oceano. I moved to San Francisco and got married the year before she passed away, and lost touch completely with the bridge community in West LA. I hope you are well, if you get this. Denny Arar, reachable at PC World in San Francisco.