APOLOGIZE NOW

Al Gore is getting a lot of attention whining about global warming. I think the bigger story is that Hell has frozen over.

The impossible has become reality. Michael Moore isn't talking.

He's being sued by a veteran that he exploited in his so-called documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.

Yes, the bloated one is speechless.
Natalie Finn writes:

A Massachusetts national guardsman filed an $85 million lawsuit against Michael Moore in Suffolk Superior Court last week, accusing the filmmaker of distorting a TV interview to portray the soldier as anti-war in his scathing 2004 documentary about the Bush administration post-Sept. 11, 2001.

Sgt. Peter Damon, 33, has stated that Moore didn't have his permission to use pieces of the on-camera interview he gave in 2003 to an NBC Nightly News correspondent at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. Damon's appearance in Fahrenheit 9/11 resulted in a "loss of reputation, emotional distress, embarrassment, and personal humiliation" for him, court documents state.

Damon is suing for $75 million and his wife is seeking another $10 million for the "mental distress and anguish suffered by her spouse."

The amounts seem excessive to me, but how does one quantify the damage Moore did by manipulating film clips to misrepresent Sgt. Peter Damon as being against the war?

The sacrifices Damon made in Iraq will last for the rest of his life. He lost both arms, but he left Iraq with his pride and his good name.

Moore stripped him of that when he chose to be deceptive.

In addition to all of his tremendous physical suffering, Damon has had to endure Moore's lies. I can understand why Damon is seeking damages.

Moore had the audacity to exploit this vet who gave up so much for his country.

He is truly a sick man.
He claims that his films are documentaries. In this case, the "documentarian" strayed from reality and fictionalized his work.

He lied about Damon. It's that simple. Moore lied.

Apparently, he didn't count on being called out for his dishonesty.

Moore is a liar.

Even worse, he made millions off of his lies.

I don't know if Moore owes Damon $85 million in damages, but he definitely owes him an apology.

The lawsuit states that "[Fahrenheit 9/11] creates a substantially fictionalized and falsified implication of a wounded serviceman who was left behind when Plaintiff was not left behind but supported, financially and emotionally, by the active assistance of the president, the United States and his family, friends, acquaintances and community."

Damon, a double amputee, lost both of his arms while stationed in Iraq when a tire on a Black Hawk Helicopter he was servicing exploded. Another reservist was killed.

In Moore's film Damon is shown lying on a gurney, covered in bandages. He says he feels as if he's "being crushed in a vise," adding, "but [the painkillers] do a lot to help it. And they take a lot of the edge off of it."

The scene prior to Damon's features U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, a Democrat from Washington state, saying, "You know, [those in the Bush administration] say they're not leaving any veterans behind, but they're leaving all kinds of veterans behind."

In his lawsuit, Damon has argued that the juxtaposition of those two scenes made it sound as if the military and the Bush administration had left him to grapple alone with pain or possibly even a drug addiction when, in reality, he "agrees with and supports the president and the United States' war effort and was not left behind."

NBC had been questioning Damon about the painkiller he was using, a new drug the military was distributing to wounded veterans.

"They took the clip because it was a gut-wrenching scene," Damon told Fox News Tuesday. "They sandwiched it in. [Moore] was using me as ammunition."

Moore is a disgrace as a documentarian, and as a human being.

...The film, which focused pretty one-sidedly on the Bush administration's response to 9/11 (sorely lacking, according to Moore) and its instigation of the war in Iraq (inexcusable, Moore said) was passed over come Oscar time, however, partly because the director entered his production in the Best Picture category, rather than take a run at Best Documentary.

Finn writes that Moore’s film "focused pretty one-sidely on the Bush administration's response to 9/11...and its instigation of the war in Iraq."

That's an understatement.

Moore's film is COMPLETELY one-sided.


Fahrenheit 9/11 is a rabid attack on Bush.

It is also slanderously misleading, as Damon's suit indicates.

...Damon's lawyer, Dennis Lynch, also weighed in with the Associated Press.

"It's upsetting to him because he's lived his life supportive of his government, he's been a patriot, he's been a soldier, and he's now being portrayed in a movie that is the antithesis of all that," Lynch said.

I couldn't find anything at all about this on Moore's website, only the usual Cindy Sheehan drivel and "Impeach Bush" stuff.

Moore is a fool for refusing to settle this out of court.
Damon's lawyer Dennis Lynch said that he took the case last year. A suit wasn't filed at the time because they "'attempted to resolve the situation amicably with Mr. Moore [for a year] but he refused,' [Lynch] said."

Actually, I'm glad that Moore refused to settle. I'm glad that Damon's complaint is getting a very public airing.

Moore is being exposed for the liar that he is, and his film will be discredited in a court of law. He will be disgraced.

Nevertheless, I doubt that this will cause Moore's supporters to abandon him. Libs don't act that way. They'll excuse anything, even such a brazen attack on an American soldier.

The libs don't care about Damon or about Moore deceiving his audience. They hate Bush. That's what they care about. That's what motivates them.

Moore claims to support the troops. If he really did, he wouldn't exploit them for his own profit.

So what's next?

Most likely, Moore and his lawyers will come out swinging and try to destroy the credibility of this war hero. Right now, they are probably thinking of ways to make him unsympathetic to a jury. They are planning to attack Damon.

Moore doesn't support the troops. He abuses them. He lies about them. He dishonors them. He dishonors America.