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Killarney

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Tue Dec-07-04 03:28 PM
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17. here it is

this says Foxnews considered suing but didn't
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/31/1453248.shtml?tid=129&tid=133&tid=186&tid=188

Matt Groening said in an NPR interview this week that the Fox News Channel considered legal action against the show for its parody of the station's news ticker. Broadcast, of course, by Fox Entertainment, the episode that raised the ire of the "Fair and Balanced" Fox News crew was Krusty For Congress, which mocked the perceived rightward-leanings of the channel with pseudo-news items such as "Do Democrats cause cancer?" and "Oil slicks found to keep seals young, supple" scrolling across the bottom of the screen.

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