Court filing: Carnahan campaign too lazy to ask Blunt about Homeland Security, Abramoff charges

Instead of using the face and voice of Fox News anchor Chris Wallace asking Roy Blunt questions about trying to slip wording into the Homeland Security Bill to benefit his girlfriend, a tobacco lobbyist, and his connection to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the Carnahan for Senate campaign needs to get off its rear and ask Blunt those questions itself.

That's the argument attorney Bernard Rhodes, representing Fox, said in documents filed today in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri:

Nothing in this action seeks to prevent Carnahan from posing those same questions or even from reporting that those questions were asked of Blunt during the FNS Interview. All that Plaintiffs seek is to stop Defendant from infringing FNC’s intellectual property rights and from misappropriating Wallace’s likeness and persona. Thus, the only thing preventing Defendant from communicating the facts of the FNS Interview to Missouri voters is its own laziness and resulting refusal to create its own intellectual property. That Defendant refuses to create an advertisement reporting the facts of the FNS Interview, without misappropriating Wallace’s likeness or identity and FNC’s intellectual property, makes clear that the sole value of the clip is that it falsely implies that Wallace endorses Carnahan.