A big fat liar that may be forced to relinquish $85 million, if Sgt. Peter Damon wins the lawsuit he brought against Moore.
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 close to feeling that way.
“He couldn’t have picked the worst guy to say that about,” he told The Post.
“I’m the most fortunate disabled guy. I’ve even had a house built for me [by a nonprofit group, Home for Our Troops].”
Particularly outrageous to Damon is the fact that Moore never interviewed him or asked his permission to use the old clip.
“I was complaining about the pain I would’ve been having [if it weren't for the painkiller],” he said.
NBC is named in the suit – which was filed in Suffolk County, Mass., on Friday – along with Harvey and Robert Weinstein, Miramax Corp., Lions Gate Films and other production companies involved with the picture.
Newsman Brian Williams ends the NBC clip by adding, “These men, with catastrophic wounds are . . . completely behind the war effort,” according to the lawsuit.
That part, which wasn’t shown in the Moore movie, is a far more accurate depiction of Damon’s feelings, he said.
Lawyer Dennis Lynch said he took the case last year and they held off filing the lawsuit in a bid to settle the matter.
“We attempted to resolve the situation amicably with Mr. Moore [for a year] but he refused,” he said.
Damon is asking for up to $75 million because of “loss of reputation, emotional distress, embarrassment, and personal humiliation.”
In addition, his wife is suing for another $10 million because of the “mental distress and anguish suffered by her spouse.”
Spokeswomen for NBC and Harvey and Robert Weinstein would not comment because they haven’t seen the suit. Lions Gate doesn’t comment on pending litigation, a rep said.
Michael Moore and Miramax reps didn’t return calls for comment.
Moore is a despicable!
46, Uh, BonBon, you mean anti-semitic, not semantic.
Yeah, uh sorry. I don’t always check my spelling. Worse, I am a bit dsylexic at times. Sorry.
:oops:
“Saddam with his weapons and his murderous regime are better off GONE.”
But..there..were..no..weapons.
“I don’t need to watch “Bowling’, it would be a waste of time.”
Well then you really can’t offer a valid opinion on the film!! Reading what someone else wrote just doesn’t quite cut it…personally, I like to see for myself.
“…and oh my did she sing a different tune as soon as it came out he was anti semantic.”
Oh my god, the baseless smears never stop, do they?
I knew what she meant…SF not a spelling Nazi.
49. Yup, the whole time she was blabbing about how wonderful this Michael Moore film would be to “show the truth about Bush” I just kept quiet. Being outnumbered I often stay silent. It helps keep the peace. A couple months later she was crying about how foolish she had been to believe his lies.
Yup, the baseless smears never seem to stop. I agree.
Moore is not anti-semitic:
EW: A film executive once told me that you had a reputation for being anti-Semitic — it had to do with ”Roger & Me” and your supposed refusal to allow the film to be shown in Israel. Do you know what I’m talking about?
MOORE: [Long pause] Right. Okay, I’m glad you asked that. Here’s what happened. In ”Roger & Me,” [''Newlywed Game'' host] Bob Eubanks tells a joke. He says, Why don’t Jewish women get AIDS? And I don’t want this reprinted, so I won’t say it, but it’s an anti-Semitic, antigay, antiwoman joke. So I’m out in L.A. and Rob Friedman, who was then the head of [Warner Bros. advertising and publicity], says, ”You’re not going to believe what’s going on. The Anti-Defamation League and Bob Eubanks are blasting Michael Moore for putting anti-Semitism in the film.” [Long pause] A week later, Jewish weeklies across the country all run the story that the ADL sent out saying that Michael Moore put anti-Semitism in the film.
Now, I have a Jewish friend who says that his grandpa has two columns: good for Jews and bad for Jews. [Laughs] And once that appeared, it stuck in a lot of people’s minds: ”Roger & Me” — bad for Jews. Plus at the end of the film one of the tourism ladies in Flint says, I’m going to move to Israel and maybe I’ll become the ministress of tourism. And then as a joke it cuts to the first intifada and I put up [the subtitle] ”One month after Maxine arrived” — which I thought was funny, to go from war zone to war zone. So those two things got this weird vibe going, and then the film was invited to the Jerusalem Film Festival. [Sighs] I had two requests — that the film not be shown [if] people would be prohibited from seeing it because of curfews and that the film have Arabic subtitles. [The festival agreed to neither] so I said, ”I am so sorry, I want to come, but I can’t. How can I if people were not allowed in because of who they were?”
EW: But why does this still have currency 13 years later?
MOORE: It’s as simple as my not toeing the standard line on Israel. I would stand up for anybody who is going to be persecuted. And that position has no credibility if I won’t do it for Palestinians [as well as Jews].
This lawsuit is just a newsmaking joke, and I’m 99.99% sure that it won’t go anywhere.
mark my words.
Look for more of these distractions in the coming weeks and months; things that whip up the conservative base and force them to defend an unpopular Bush.
Also, look for the GOP Fear Mongering to start about Gays before the coming election…
If it goes forward, good. If the guy wins and Moore is left broke, so much the better.
How about: neither one.
This guy is taking on movie studios in addition to M.Moore in this particular suit.
It’s just WAY to much to take on…
watch.
“Is the spell check malfunctioning for everyone or just Macintosh?”
The spell check here hasn’t worked for me in over a month.
Okay Chuck Here you go
“FOXNEWS.COM HOME
Sarin, Mustard Gas Discovered Separately in Iraq
Monday, May 17, 2004
A roadside bomb containing sarin nerve agent recently exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday.
Bush administration officials told Fox News that mustard gas (search) was also recently discovered.
Two people were treated for “minor exposure” after the sarin incident but no serious injuries were reported. Soldiers transporting the shell for inspection suffered symptoms consistent with low-level chemical exposure, which is what led to the discovery, a U.S. official told Fox News.
“The Iraqi Survey Group confirmed today that a 155-millimeter artillery round containing sarin nerve agent had been found,” Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt (search), the chief military spokesman in Iraq, told reporters in Baghdad. “The round had been rigged as an IED (improvised explosive device) which was discovered by a U.S. force convoy.”
The round detonated before it would be rendered inoperable, Kimmitt said, which caused a “very small dispersal of agent”
Does that help? Or how about this?
UNITED NATIONS (AP) ” The United States didn’t have authorization from the U.N. nuclear watchdog when it secretly shipped from Iraq uranium and highly radioactive material that could be used in so-called “dirty bombs,” U.N. officials said Wednesday.
The nearly 2 tons of low-enriched uranium and approximately 1,000 highly radioactive items transferred from Iraq to the United States last month had been placed under seal by the International Atomic Energy Agency at the sprawling Tuwaitha nuclear complex, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the officials said.
Do I need to prove my point any further that those idiots who claim that Iraq had no WMDs or the means to produce them are full of excrement?
For those without the artillery background let me explain that the shell from a 155 mm howitzer weighs approximately 100 lbs and a chemical round would be at least 50% chemicals. Even 30 lbs of Sarin would reek havoc if released in the close confines of a subway ventilation system. With illegal aliens hiking across the US/ Mexico border carrying 50 – 80 lbs of drugs, I doubt that a sealed plastic container of Sarin would slow them down much. With the number of OTMs being picked up and let loose under the Catch and release program, exactly how hard would it have been for the contents of a few of those shells to end up in this country in the hands of terrorists?
BTW I don’t know which WalMart you shop at SanFran, but the ones I go to have rifle, shotgun and pistol ammo for sale. The don’t sell handguns anymore, but they do sell rifles and shotguns. As for my personally being shot, I’d much rather be shot with a handgun versus a rifle or shotgun. The mortality rate from a handgun round is somewhere in the vicinity of 15% of that from a rifle or shotgun round, especially a shotgun at close range.
BTW one the Columbine subject, I really doubt that MM pointed out that it has been illegal in this country for anyone under 18 to purchase a rifle or shotgun or ammo for them, or under 21 to purchase a handgun or handgun ammo since 1968. Look it up. It’s the Gun Control Act of 1968. Therefore since it was illegal for Klebold and Harris to have purchased those firearms, they either must not have committed the crimes, or gun laws are a total failure. BTW the guy who purchased the Tec-9 for them committed a felony known as a straw man purchase and served time in prison for doing so. Why do I doubt that MM included that in the film as well? The fact that many teachers and school staff are armed in Israel has pretty much ended any threats of similar terroristic actions in their schools. One good thing about the Columbine incident is that Klebold and Harris were pathetic as terrorists. Had they simply constructed their butane bombs slightly differently, they could’ve demolished almost half of the school.
Thanks FAO….The very definition of Weapons of Mass Destruction are weapons that kill a great many people at once. A whole village, a subway full of people, or a crowd of 100 is more than enough for me to equate Saddams KNOWN supply with the definition of WMD.
And as far as MM anti-semitism is concerned SF. Please go to the Al-Jeereza website. It may be archived now but MM wrote a letter to the Muslim world admonishing the U.S. support of Israel and jews in particular. It was a vulgar and offensive read but you might like it
Micheal Moore would make BAD BAD LEROY BROWN look like a real nice guy i mean all MOORE can do is fabricate lie and fake it all he should lose his oscar:mad:
“BTW I don’t know which WalMart you shop at SanFran, but the ones I go to have rifle, shotgun and pistol ammo for sale.”
You’re right, my bad…it was K-Mart, not Wal-Mart.
“Do I need to prove my point any further that those idiots who claim that Iraq had no WMDs or the means to produce them are full of excrement?”
Do I need to point out that this is BY NO MEANS the vast stockpiles of WsMD that were SWORN TO GOD would be found in Iraq???
Are you telling me that the Iraq War is now justifiable because a handful of rusty, 20 year old artillery shells with Sarin were found?
Give me a break. This “discovery” >snicker is THE BEST THING YOU APOLOGISTS HAVE to defend the WsMD scare that led us into this disaster of a war.
That is so sad that you pull an article from TWO YEARS AGO in an attempt to justify what 60+ % of Americans already know, and the vast majority of the world already knows: The Iraq War was a mistake of epic proportions, and the biggest blunder in US Military history since Vietnam.
Please. Three years into this thing, it gets more unpopular by the day, nearing 3,000 american dead and over 15,000 wounded…
You will come around sooner or later on this. Nearly everyone else has…
It’s like you people are in a drug induced haze or something. It prevents you from seeing TRUTH and REALITY on Iraq.
you guys are on the fringe on this one. big time.
by fringe, I mean…support for the war and the belief that WsMD were found in Iraq.
I’d like to point out that you don’t need vast stock piles of WMDs to kill milliions. I wonder how many people would die if 1 ounce of the stuff Saddam used on his people was opened in SF’s neighborhood. I’d dare say more than 3000 people would die quite horribly.
Peejz, before your knickers get in a twist here, LOOK at what I’m saying. I am saying Liberals like SF don’t really know what they are talking about. They have in correct pictures in their head that don’t square with reality.
The reality is that it doesn’t take much WMD to make a mass killing, and it certainly doesn’t take stock piles of artillery shells to deliver it as in the anthrax letters of a couple of years ago. Remember?
Oh, I knew SF couldn’t refute the Truth about Bowling For Columbine.
“Oh, I knew SF couldn’t refute the Truth about Bowling For Columbine.”
Please. That’s not it at all. There are tonz of those kinds of things from both sides…
It’s just a waste of time to try and change peoples minds concerning their opinions on a movie.
You either were moved by it or not. Or, like Robert, you refuse to see it and yet comment on it anyway.
Lies are lies. SF, you just can’t admit you push Moore’s lies here.
“Liberals like SF don’t really know what they are talking about. They have in correct pictures in their head that don’t square with reality.”
Funny. We say the same exact thing about your team.
Truth is that you, SF, promulgate lies and we don’t.
“Truth is that you, SF, promulgate lies and we don’t.”
I’m not calling you stupid personally, but this is one of the stupidest things I’ve heard on this board.
Please.
It is the truth. Live with the consequences.
ad hom.
pretty weak, guy.
Gee San Fran, what about 2 tons of enriched uranium that was so radioactive that it had to be removed from the country to prevent it from falling into the hands of the terrorists being the material to make a WMD did you fail to understand?
You claim that I don’t know what I’m talking about when it comes to artillery or WMDs, but you do? Have you been third in your class in a classified training program on WMD detection, decontamination, and downwind contamination prediction? Do you know how easy it is to utilize chemical weapons in urban areas without detection? Do you have any idea how much damage a 100 lb container of powdered enriched Uranium would cause if it were on top of a bomb like the one used in Oklahoma City? The radiation contamination would cost millions if not billions to clean up, and that doesn’t even count the number of people who would end up either sick or dead. Have you had any courses on the history of unconventional warfare? I HAVE.
Leftists don’t need to concern themselves with such things, FAO. We have people that deal with such things (our military) so that Liberals don’t have to concern themselves with all of that information, details, facts. That way the Liberals can sit around pontificating, prognosticating, and opinionating on many topics without concerning themselves with reality.
#62: “Are you telling me that the Iraq War is now justifiable because a handful of rusty, 20 year old artillery shells with Sarin were found?”
How do you know they were 20 years old/ And how could there possibly be Sarin inside if saddam never had any WMD?
But there is! And he did! And you have never responded to what FAO brought up, and that was the huge stockpile of enriched uranium we took out of there.
I guess the MSM and the Libs were just hoping that nobody noticed that.
That is so sad that you pull an article from TWO YEARS AGO
What is sad is that even though it’s TWO YEARS OLD, the liberals and the MSM still refuse to admit it is the truth.
Which is sadder to refuse to accept facts that don’t agree with your preconceived beliefs, or to continue espousing the TRUTH to people who refuse to accept it? I admit that at times I think talking to you is utterly futile San Fran because of not your lack of knowledge of the facts but rather your unwillingness to accept them.
You had better hope that this country doesn’t elect the liberal crowd you are so braying for. (I’d say praying for but that’s an anathema to all the liberal left holds dear, so I’ll go with a term more suitable to the emblem of the party they are so proud to support.. The Democratic Ass.) With actions planned in the UN in the next few weeks, if the libs come to power in this country, and jump on board with the UN Convention on Small Arms, there could be a civil war in this country unlike any other and the Liberals will lose it.
I am glad we have someone like (Michael Moore) telling us the truth.
Here is one fact, that is real sad, my next door neighbor an Family Doctor, whom gave up his good job, for being offered $50,000 bonus at X-mas time, to hide the FACT from telling the Mother that her only Son had “Cancer, because she was on Molina, an Insurance gave to her from the Sate.
It would had cost the Government $500,000 to keep the poor boy living, with the MRIs and the Chemo treatment’s.
Go Michael Moore! You know, I don’t think Mr. Bush, like’s the poor people very much, kind of like Hitler, but doing away with the Disable, but with better Class, so if you’re on Medicaid, you may be in a lot of trouble, if you’re rich, no need to worry.:???
If Moore is telling the truth in Sicko, it will be for the first time.
SFL, you are pretty weak and stupid. How many times does it take for you to see the light, you leftwing extremist?