Fox News must be joking with its lawsuit against Missouri Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, right? They can't possibly be serious, can they?

Last week, we noted that a Fox spokesperson explained: “We filed this lawsuit because we cannot allow it to appear as though Chris Wallace is endorsing any candidate.” Indeed, Fox's complaint begins by claiming that the Carnahan campaign used “footage from the Fox News Network to made it appear – falsely – that FNC and Christopher Wallace, one of the nation's most respected political journalists, are endorsing Robin Carnahan's campaign for United States Senate.”

That purported concern at being seen as taking sides in an election is amusing in light of the fact that News Corp's PAC has given Blunt's campaign $10,000, including $2,500 this cycle. And, of course, the fact that News Corp just gave the Republican Governor's Assocation one million dollars.

But Fox's feigned electoral neutrality is just part of what makes their lawsuit so hilarious. The other is the idea that Fox gives a damn about video being taken out of context. That, after all, is what Fox's complaint suggests the Carnahan campaign has done. And taking video (and audio, and text, and anything else they can get their hands on) out of context is what Fox does.

Like when Fox's Sean Hannity used video from a September 2009 rally to make it appear as though tens of thousands of people attended a much smaller November 2009 rally.

And when Fox host Martha MacCallum aired a six-month-old clip of Joe Biden and claimed it was from “this weekend.”

And when Fox White House correspondent Wendell Goler cropped a statement by President Obama and took it out of context, reversing its meaning.

And when Fox host Steve Doocy attacked Rep. Barney Frank for being “rude” simply because “somebody asked him a question” -- but omitting the fact that Frank was responding to someone who compared President Obama to Hitler.

And when another Fox host, Andrew Napolitano, did the same thing.

And when Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade took just about everybody out of context in order to pretend they were contradicting each other.

And this and this and this and this and so on.

Point being: If Fox News' legal division thinks that taking video out of context is an actionable offense, Fox's on-air employees might want to lawyer-up.

(And then there's Fox's habit of doctoring photos, but that's getting off on a tangent …)