Lies and Lying Liars

This caught my fancy this morning...

Fox News is suing Al Franken for using their Fair and Balanced slogan. Could this be payback for the spanking that Al gave Fox's Bill O'Reilly a couple of months ago? My question to my legal friend is how did Fox ever get a registered trademark on a generic term like "Fair and Balanced", and does that mean that nobody can say that they are fair and balanced except Fox, who is hardly either?

Here at Futurballa we claim to be neither fair nor balanced. We just report whatever we feel like and don't much care what you decide.

Mahalo