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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (174523)	8/26/2003 9:57:54 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579973

This is BS. But I'm waiting on someone to tell me what is the legal basis for this nitwit judge's conclusion? Would he have seen it the same way had the plaintiff been Nike, Coke, or any other company with an ad slogan they want to protect? Of course not; they're not news organizations attempting to balance liberal extremism. The first amendment protects freedom of speech, unless Franken slanders, which apparently he did not do or you can bet that Faux News would attack him on that basis. As I understand it, the main claim of the suit contended that readers could construe from the cover that Franken worked or represented Faux News. <gg> Al