You may have seen the rumour about Fox News presenter Glenn Beck. According to “some” people he “might” have committed a whole bunch of unspeakable crimes nineteen years ago.
As rumours go these are even more preposterous than the ones that the “birthers” promote so so I have great difficulty imagining anybody getting worked up about them. It’s so obviously a joke, even the official web-site that tries to promote this fake controversy admits quite explicitly that it is satire intended to poke fun at Glenn Beck’s tendency to make wild accusations and then demand that his victims present evidence to prove their innocence.
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The nameless web-master of the “official rumour site” site just announced that he’s under some pressure to shut down. He told me that he received a legal nasty-gram from Beck’s agents Mercury Radio Arts Inc who have demanded that the web-site shut be down or else fight it out in some kind of trademark court. This such an obvious abuse of trademark law I do not know where to start!
But I know precisely where this will end, specifically I can easily predict the consequences of using rather underhanded legal techniques to such down what is most definitely a protected form of speech. Hundreds of people who might never have paid any interest at all in this story will suddenly find it fascinating. The more imaginative amongst us will ask what Glenn Beck has to hide, and the rumour will grow and grow.
PS. All the legal documents can be found in this collection.
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