Posted on 05/31/2006 10:07:07 AM PDT by neverdem
EXCLUSIVE
A double-amputee Iraq-war vet is suing Michael Moore for $85 million, claiming the portly peacenik 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 yesterday. "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 a 8-year-old girl and 4-year-old boy - doesn't come...
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For a second I thought this was about someone revealing Michael Moore wears a fat suit.
GOOD. I cant find the word to express how strongly I hope he wins. Of course expect ZERO media attention about this.
I remember seeing him in fahrenhype 9/11, i'm glad that he's sueing him.
It is going to be very hard for a Judge or a jury to side with Michael Moore. I know we have Moore's supporters in the legal profession galore but this is going to be rich.
Michael Moore taking an interview out of context?Who would of thought that?Sarc intended.
If he has a sharp lawyer, he will win. The whole movie has quotes taken out of context.
Kudos to this brave vet! I hope he gets millions from that scum-sucking fat loser Moore.
M i c h a e l M o o r e rage building....... Must control myself. Calm down. Don't get banned..... again....
portly peacenik (see fat f*ck elitist).
Did NBC release their film to Moore?
Good question. Maybe he should include NBC in his lawsuit. Lots of money there, too, and they certainly deserve to lose some of it.
Quote from James Lileks:
"I don’t hate Michael Moore, I pity him - he’s going to die in 15 years of a massive coronary on a cold tiled bathroom floor, awash in the blasts of his emptied bowels, his autopsy photos posted to The Smoking Gun's new 3D holographic photo section. People in Hollywood may be idiots; they may be full of sophomoric moralizing, they may trot off to Baghdad and play the puppet for a megalomaniac toddler-torturer, but I can’t hate them. You have to husband that emotion and spend it carefully. Once, twice, maybe three times in your life you’ll come across someone who just plain needs hatin’. Hitler. Bin Laden. Stalin."
I'm all for his getting as much as possible from them. I have never been interviewed by the media. Is there a form someone signs giving them the right to redistribute your image to anyone for any purpose? If they gave it to Moore, sounds like they are awfully chummy with him.
I'm beginning to think excess and obesity are requirements for liberal males. Kennedy, Gore, Moore, Murtha; there's enough blubber on these gluttons to melt into a second national oil reserve.
"he’s going to die in 15 years of a massive coronary"
TWO years....You heard it here first.
Michael Moore = Big Fat Liar?
That's from sucking on that big government teat these socialists have created.
NBC is named in the suit.
I'm sure Michael Moore has lots of big fat suits...
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