Re: Propagandist Michael Moore being sued for 85 million for his lies
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- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:56:06 -0700
"Martin Price" <mp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Another liberal hero bites the dust. Everybody knows Fahrenheit 9/11
was one of the most anti-American films ever released; full of lies
and based on Nazi propaganda tactics against the Jews,
"Everybody knows" nothing of the sort, because it's not true. Come
on -"Nazi propaganda tactics against the Jews"? Take a deep breath and move
on.
That said, it's WRONG to take a film of someone else's painful testimony,
and use it out of context and without permission for one's own purposes.
gullible Libs
made fat Mike Moore very rich and profitted off the war.
The lies have now come back to haunt the liberals.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,197637,00.html
Iraq Vet Sues Michael Moore for Misleading Interview in 'Fahrenheit
9/11'
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
By Jennifer Fermino
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - A double-amputee Iraq-war vet is suing Michael
Moore for $85 million, claiming he recycled an old interview and used
it out of context to make him appear anti-war in "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Sgt. Peter Damon, 33, who strongly supports America's invasion of
Iraq, said he never agreed to be in the 2004 movie, which trashes
President Bush.
In the 2003 interview, which he did at Walter Reed Army Hospital for
NBC News, he discussed only a new painkiller the military was using on
wounded vets.
"They took the clip because it was a gut-wrenching scene," Damon said
Tuesday. "They sandwiched it in. [Moore] was using me as ammunition."
Damon seems to "voice complaint about the war effort" in the movie,
according to the lawsuit.
But what the father of two from Middleborough, Mass., was really
talking about was the "excruciating" pain he felt after he lost his
arms when a Black Hawk helicopter exploded in front of him.
Damon wasn't expressing any opinion about the war, the suit charges,
but rather extolling the drug.
"I just want everybody to know what kind of a guy Michael Moore is,
and what kind of film this is," said Damon. He has appeared in two
films attacking "Fahrenheit" -- "Michael Moore Hates America" and
"Fahrenhype 9/11."
In "Fahrenheit 9/11," the bandaged National Guardsman is shown laying
on a gurney complaining that he feels like he's "being crushed in a
vise. But they [the drugs] do a lot to help it and they take a lot of
the edge off it."
His image appears seconds after Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) says,
"You know, they say they're not leaving any veterans behind, but
they're leaving all kinds of veterans behind."
Damon -- the dad of an 8-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy -- doesn't
come close to feeling that way.
"He couldn't have picked the worst guy to say that about," he told The
Post.
"I'm the most fortunate disabled guy. I've even had a house built for
me [by a nonprofit group, Home for Our Troops]."
Particularly outrageous to Damon is the fact that Moore never
interviewed him or asked his permission to use the old clip.
"I was complaining about the pain I would've been having [if it
weren't for the painkiller]," he said.
NBC is named in the suit -- which was filed in Suffolk County, Mass.,
on Friday -- along with Harvey and Robert Weinstein, Miramax Corp.,
Lions Gate Films and other production companies involved with the
picture.
Newsman Brian Williams ends the NBC clip by adding, "These men, with
catastrophic wounds are ... completely behind the war effort,"
according to the lawsuit.
That part, which wasn't shown in the Moore movie, is a far more
accurate depiction of Damon's feelings, he said.
Lawyer Dennis Lynch said he took the case last year and they held off
filing the lawsuit in a bid to settle the matter.
"We attempted to resolve the situation amicably with Mr. Moore [for a
year] but he refused," he said.
Damon is asking for up to $75 million because of "loss of reputation,
emotional distress, embarrassment, and personal humiliation."
In addition, his wife is suing for another $10 million because of the
"mental distress and anguish suffered by her spouse."
Spokeswomen for NBC and Harvey and Robert Weinstein would not comment
because they haven't seen the suit. Lions Gate doesn't comment on
pending litigation, a rep said.
Michael Moore and Miramax reps didn't return calls for comment.
.
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