Posted on 05/31/2006 8:20:48 AM PDT by raccoonradio
(CBS4) MIDDLEBORO A local veteran who lost parts of both of his arms in Iraq, is suing filmmaker Michael Moore. Sgt. Peter Damon says Moore recycled old news footage of Damon, and used it in a way that made him seem anti-war.
The snip-it appears in Moore’s film "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Sgt. Peter Damon, a father of two from Middleboro, strongly supports the war effort in Iraq and never agreed to appear in Moore’s movie. According to the New York Post, he is now suing for $85 million.
Damon was interviewed by NBC in 2003 while being treated at Walter Reed Army Hospital. The interview was about a new painkiller being used on injured soldiers. Damon says he did not express any views on the war itself in that interview.
Michael Moore used a clip from that interview in "Fahrenheit 9/11." It shows Damon lying on a gurney, saying he feels like he’s being "crushed in a vice."
The scene appears in a sequence that talks about how the government is abandoning veterans.
You may recall Peter Damon threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park after returning home to Middleboro. The non-profit group Homes For Our Troops also built a home for the Damon family, specially designed for Peter’s physical needs.
The NY Post says the lawsuit also names NBC, Miramax, and other production companies.
I pray Sgt. Damon wins his lawsuit in court (not in settlement) and Moore, that baldfaced liar, gets taken down a peg or two.
So NBC was free to hand over Damon's interview so that Fatboy Moore could butcher it to fit his anti-Bush diatribe without asking the Sarge's permission? That doensn't seem right. If the msm owns the rights to give their footage to anyone for any purpose, I certainly wouldn't assent to any msm interviews.
Damon, not Moore.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/kennedy.iraq/
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, an elder statesman among liberal Democrats, slammed President Bush and his administration for going to war in Iraq based on political considerations.
In a speech Wednesday, Kennedy said the decision to invade Iraq was grounded in the "gross abuse of intelligence," an "arrogant disrespect for the United Nations" and the GOP's desire to seize control of both houses of Congress in 2002.
The senator from Massachusetts spoke to the Center for American Progress, a liberal advocacy group, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
He was flanked by Brian and Alma Hart, whose son John was killed in Iraq, and Army Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost both arms serving in Iraq.
WoW! Good catch! This guy must be a profiteer then.
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