The Median Sib

Just read a news blurb about a National Guardsman, Peter Damon, who lost both arms in a Blackhawk helicopter accident in Iraq, who is suing Michael Moore.  He 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.”

In his interview with NBC, Damon was asked about a new painkiller the military was using on wounded veterans. He claims in his lawsuit that the way Moore used the film clip in “Fahrenheit 9/11″ - Moore’s scathing 2004 documentary criticizing the Bush administration and the war in Iraq - makes him appear to “voice a complaint about the war effort” when he was actually complaining about “the excruciating type of pain” that comes with the injury he suffered.

“The work creates a substantially fictionalized and falsified implication as 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 says in his lawsuit.

I was wondering when Michael Moore would finally be exposed as a fraud.

Others writing on this topic:  Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Blue Star Chronicles

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