Edited by author 08-19-2003 10:48 AM
"I'm pretty conservative and I generally enjoy Fox News, but I thought conservatives were supposed to be against frivolous lawsuits."

Yes. However, conservatives are also all about material rights, especially property rights, and have recently come to believe that intellectual works, branding, image and trademarks are property.

Case in point: There can't be a more conservative company than Disney, yet try taking the name of the Mouse in vain, and see how long it takes before a Disney SWAT team comes battering down your door.

So if you are one of the conservatives who is making a bazillion off of Fox News, which is notoriously light on content but heavy on branding, you're not going to consider frivolous any lawsuit which protects that branding.