Once upon a time, Bill O'Reilly did not get along real well with Al Franken. Now Al, my hero had written a couple books. One of them was entitled: Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot. I loved that book although I lost it somewhere along the way. It was the only book I had read that took on Limbaugh and of course it was funny.

It was written in 1996 and really was his first political book. If you read the forwards to his political series you will find that Al is a Harvard Alumnus and that he goes back to his old Alma Mater to pick up a research staff for his books. They checked facts for him, documented every damn sentence, provided a book appendix as well as a separate appendix for the publisher and it ends up being a good deal all the way around.  First, the staff is talented, educated and happy to be mentioned in a best seller.

Second, it allowed Al the freedom to publish without too much hassle from the publisher in that the script did not have to go back and forth to the publisher in an endless loop because everything written was properly documented.  Now in the age of Palin, and Carrie and other idiots, who the hell cares about documentation, but that is the subject of another essay.

In 2003, Franken wrote Lies and the Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. There are pictures of the people he attacks on the cover of the book. They include Coulter and O'Reilly. But somehow O'Reilly's picture is all blotchy. Well the way he tells it, O'Reilly calls him and bitches about the picture. So Al initially was going to get a new picture for the cover. But O'Reilly attacks him so hard that Al just says 'fuck you' and the picture remains on the cover.

Just as an aside here, there were few cannons being fired at the right in 2003. There were few publications questioning the wars and the stated basis for either war, or it blew me away. I had come to the conclusion that the end of the left as I knew it had come at last.  And it was hilarious as a read.

Now FOX not only sues for damages, but sues for an order of the court enjoining the publisher from publishing the book at all.

The count in the complaint that is always cited involves the fair and balanced phrase in the title. 

In 2003, Penguin Books published Franken's book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, which included a cover photo of Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly and a chapter accusing O'Reilly of lying. In August of that year, Fox News sued, claiming infringement of its registered trademark phrase "Fair and Balanced". A federal judge found the lawsuit to be "wholly without merit". The episode with Fox focused a great deal of media attention about Franken's book and, according to Franken, greatly increased its sales. Reflecting on the lawsuit during a September 2003 interview on the National Public Radio program Fresh Air, Franken said that Fox's case against him was "literally laughed out of court" and added that the judge's comment that the case was "wholly without merit" was a good characterization of Fox News itself.[17][18]

In another interview I saw on CSPAN, I think, Franken said that the presiding judge listened to arguments by counsel and told them to wait for a short while. Al swears the judge went into chambers and came back in ten minutes and RULED FROM THE BENCH. Of course he ruled against Fox and O'Reilly.

This is a fun story. It really is. No suit survived and the entire matter was eventually dropped. In this country you would just about have to have the plans for an atomic bomb included in a manuscript before a court would even consider imposing 'Prior Restraint'.  It just aint gonna happen and every lawyer worth his salt knows this. And the Case NY Times v. Sullivan,  376 U.S. 254 (1964)   http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1963/1963_39/ makes it real clear that you are not going to lose a libel/slander suit brought by a well known plaintiff. This just aint gonna happen either.

In Great Britain it is different. The Brits do not have a Sullivan rule and if you lie about someone's actions or statements, and those lies seem to have damaged someone's reputation, you could be in some trouble.  Those gossip rags get sued all the time in Britain.

But this is all an intro for one of the funniest slams against the right that I have read in a long time.

Rush and Beck and Hannity and Savage all make up stuff every day. You see they take advantage of the Sullivan Rule. Obama was not born in this country, Obama is a Muslim, Obama was Senator for one year, Obama is a Socialist, Obama has a deep seated hatred of white people, Obama is a liar.....

Health care legislation is the first step to NAZI rule. Death panels will be formulated any day now by the government and kill your grandma. The Health care legislation will pay for abortions....blah, blah, blah, blah. There is never proper documentation for any of these claims. Never.

And Beck is always at the forefront of all of this. Taking a hint from Bishop Sheen he goes to his blackboard and writes his lies as he speaks them. Then he feigns tears about some scenario that he made up on the first place. Like putting Vick's Vaporub under his eyes to help him shed his crocodile tears. So what is a mother to do?

Well this kid set up a web site entitled: GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com. Beck naturally sued him. Hahahahah:

This week, Beck lost a legal battle to take down a parody site devoted to mocking the talk-show host's use of innuendo and rumor in going after his political enemies. The domain name that provoked his ire was GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com, whose main page pledged to "examine the vicious rumor" alluded to in the site's title.

The site's owner, Isaac Eiland-Hall, a 34-year-old computer-science student in Panama City, Florida, told The Daily Beast that the name was derived from a running joke on news site Fark.com's messageboards, which compared Beck's style to a routine by comedian Gilbert Gottfried at a Friar's Club Roast in which he repeatedly denounced the nonexistent rumors that Bob Saget "raped and killed a girl in 1990." In repeating the rumor, of course, Gottfried succeeded in spreading it--thus roasting his fellow comic.

"I've long felt that Beck uses tactics like I satirized on the site," Eiland-Hall told The Daily Beast in an email interview. He says he found "particularly egregious" an incident during Beck's CNN career in which he told Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), a Muslim, that he longed to challenge the congressman by saying: "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies

May 10, 1990, 11 year old Robin Cornell and her 32 year old babysitter, Lisa Storey were found beaten,raped, and smothered to death in Cape Coral, Florida. Police are now interviewing local detectives to re-open the case, but if they don't find any new leads by the end of the year it will be closed. They are also looking into airing an episode on Americas Most Wanted. This town desperately needs your help in solving this case.

Beck was also linked to the rape and murder of seven-year old Margaret Shrader in Harris County, Texas in 1990.

Source: http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-323336

I fucking knew it!

I'm not saying he definitely did it, but it is curious how he's not out there denying it. I mean where is his statement on this issue? Where is his criminal record? He should release these things to the public if these so-called allegations are false, but it's pretty disturbing nonetheless.

Especially with the fact that where there's smoke there is fire. I wonder how many other rapes and murders done by Glenn Beck are out there that we don't know about yet

http://gatsome.com/2009/09/01/glenn-beck-raped-and-murdered-a-girl-in-1990/

You can see how this guy uses satire to do EXACTLY WHAT BECK DOES ON HIS OWN SHOW. It is just that Beck is not seen by his viewers as being tongue in cheek. Beck is serious about his outrageous lies.

But there is a hidden story hear.  Beck did not sue Eiland-Hall in a State or Federal Court. Instead he had his attorneys take the creator of this web site to a forum known as the: World Intellectual Property Organization charging that the satirical site's domain name should be canceled because it is "plainly libelous, patently false, not authorized by Mercury or Beck, and is likely to cause confusion for consumers."  http://minnesotaindependent.com/46546/glenn-beck-keith-ellison-rape-murder-site

Now watch Lord Christopher Monckton and John Bolton appear on Glenn Beck's show in this video: http://vodpod.com/watch/2506029-lord-monckton-on-glenn-beck-one-world-government-treaty

One of Beck's continuing conspiracy theories is that the Democrats and the Socialists around the world are conspiring to create a world government.

So the idiot ends up going to a 'World Court' to get rid of a sarcastic blog.

Just irony. That is the only point here.