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Investors sue filmmaker Butler over `Long War of John Kerry'
newsday.com ^
| 2/15/05
| AP
Posted on 02/15/2005 4:52:45 PM PST by bitt
'NEW YORK (AP) _ Two investors have sued filmmaker George Butler, saying they were misled about the plans for a documentary on the life of his friend and presidential candidate John Kerry.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, says brothers Marc Abrams and Russell Abrams were misled to think Butler and producers were trying to make a commercially successful film.
Instead, the Abrams brothers allege in their lawsuit, "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" was intended primarily to influence the 2004 presidential election in favor of the Democratic Massachusetts senator.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: documentary; goingupriver; kerry; lawsuit; movie
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snip ...Butler said the lawsuit's allegations were "baseless and insulting to the artistic integrity of the film."
"My goal in making the film was to make a balanced film about a specific time in John Kerry's life and an important time in American history, regardless of Kerry's political agenda," Butler said in a statement issued by Ken Sunshine Consultants Inc. ...
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...'Butler, a friend of Kerry for 40 years, paints a loving portrait of a dedicated, natural leader during the Vietnam War and a dedicated, natural leader of veterans who protested the war after coming home.
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posted on
02/15/2005 4:52:45 PM PST
by
bitt
To: bitt
LOL. Bad investment. Probably a good case. Next thing you know, Michael Moore will be sued by the photographer for Osama Bin Laden....
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posted on
02/15/2005 4:54:24 PM PST
by
eureka!
(It will not be safe to vote Democrat for a long, long, time...)
To: bitt
To: bitt
"documentary on the life of John Kerry" and "a commercially successful film"
hrmn...
nope, it can never happen.
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posted on
02/15/2005 4:56:02 PM PST
by
King Prout
(Remember John Adam!)
To: bitt
a loving portrait of a dedicated, natural leader during the Vietnam War and a dedicated, natural leader of veterans who protested the war after coming homeAnd a dedicated natural leader of effete, preppy White Guys who marry wealthy women.
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posted on
02/15/2005 4:56:14 PM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: eureka!
Butler said the lawsuit's allegations were "baseless and insulting to the artistic integrity of the film."Snicker..
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posted on
02/15/2005 4:56:43 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(George W Bush-Bringing a new democracy every term..)
To: bitt
What a couple of dumba$$es.
To: eureka!
...and then, I, the hero, jumped out and saved everybody, no one else did a good thing, they all did bad things, my mother will tell you I have integrity integrity integrity, blah blah blah..."
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posted on
02/15/2005 4:57:26 PM PST
by
bitt
(Kerry "Hanoi"s me)
To: bitt
Looks like a couple more folks that lost money because of Kerry being a fake.
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posted on
02/15/2005 4:58:35 PM PST
by
mammer
To: jennyjenny
maybe they were set up by Karl Rove!!!!!! Maybe he snuck them some slush funds and told them to lay low til 2005....
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posted on
02/15/2005 4:58:36 PM PST
by
bitt
(Kerry "Hanoi"s me)
To: bitt
LOL. Man, did we dodge a big bullet in November...
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posted on
02/15/2005 5:00:20 PM PST
by
eureka!
(It will not be safe to vote Democrat for a long, long, time...)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
"And a dedicated natural leader of effete, preppy White Guys who marry wealthy women."...or, other men.
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posted on
02/15/2005 5:01:45 PM PST
by
blam
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To: bitt
I hate to say this , but If I was stupid enough to invest in a movie about a liar like John Kerry I would not be stupid enough to sue and let everyone know how stupid I was.
To: bitt
"Springtime, for Kerry, and Hollywood"
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posted on
02/15/2005 5:12:55 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
To: bitt
"John Kerry!"
"Who?"
"John Kerry!"
"No, really --- who?"
"I'm tellin' ya, it's lightning in a bottle!"
"You must be out of your everlovin' mind..."
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posted on
02/15/2005 5:16:14 PM PST
by
ZOOKER
(proudly killing threads since 1998)
To: Blurblogger
"Don't be schtupid...be a smarty!
Come and join the Kerry Party!"
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posted on
02/15/2005 5:21:04 PM PST
by
albee
(A paranoid schizophrenic is somebody who just found out what is going on.)
To: bitt
I thought a movie depicting (real life) sKerry's military conduct had already been made. "Stolen Honor"!
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posted on
02/15/2005 5:23:43 PM PST
by
Road Warrior ‘04
(Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
To: albee; Liz; martin_fierro; Boazo; Lazamataz; Squantos
"Don't be schtupid...be a smarty!
Come and join the Kerry Party!"
Groucho Marx said he wouldn't want to be a part of any club that would have him as a member.
I wouldn't want to be part of any investor's club that actually HAS George Soros as a member....
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posted on
02/15/2005 5:25:29 PM PST
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
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