Well isn't this interesting:
A veteran who lost both arms in the war in Iraq is suing filmmaker Michael Moore for $85 million, alleging that Moore used snippets of a television interview without his permission to falsely portray him as anti-war in “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
Sgt. Peter Damon, a National Guardsman from Middleborough, is asking for damages because of “loss of reputation, emotional distress, embarrassment, and personal humiliation,” according to the lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court last week.
Damon, 33, claims that Moore never asked for his consent to use a clip from an interview Damon did with NBC’s “Nightly News.”
Michael Moore is pathetic, no two ways about it. It's appalling, at best, that so many on the left are eager to embrace him as their own credibility suffers by association.
Hat tip to John Cole who says it particularly well:
I have no idea if the case has any merit, but I do like the idea of Michael Moore being sued. I understand that many people on the political left are angry about the political events of the last decade. I can understand that. What I can not understand is the desire to use that anger to lie and manipulate facts, something Moore does gleefully and frequently. Fahrenheit 9/11 was, from an aesthetic standpoint, a great film. But there was so much bullshit packed into the polemic that any point he was trying to make was completely overshadowed by the distortions and the dishonesty, and those on the political left who continue to cheer Moore are just missing the point.
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