NEWS: War Vet Sues Michael Moore

CELEB: War Vet Sues Michael Moore

An Iraq war veteran filed suit against director Michael Moore over an interview shown in the film Fahrenheit 9/11. Sgt. Peter Damon, a double-amputee, claimed he supported the war in Iraq, and is upset Moore used an old clip of the soldier discussing pain medication.

The clip showed Damon lying on a hospital bed, saying the pain is like "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." Damon asserts Moore never asked permission interview the wounded vet, and in addition, Moore never received permission to use the clip.

Damon seeks $75 million due to "loss of reputation, emotional distress, embarrassment, and personal humiliation." Damon’s wife also filed suit against Moore, demanding $10 million to cover the "mental distress and anguish suffered by her spouse."

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You mean Michael Moore is a manipulating, biased film maker who is only interested in getting his own point across regardless of facts so he can become famous at the expense of others? This could have been news 2 years ago before I already knew that...

It's amazing to see what people will sue over nowadays. Especially when they're asking for $75 million because of damage to their reputation, humiliation and other nonsense like that. I'd like to see what a $75 million reputation is really like.

Moore never asked permission and yet this suit is coming about after how many years between now and when the film was being shown in theatres, etc. (i.e. height of its popularity)?

I have the utmost respect for any soldier and the sacrifices they've made for their country. But in a situation like this, I'm inclined to feel that it's just a desperate money-grab.

Both this incident, and Moore's crooked, manipulative methods, are old news.

can you really use "grab" when talking about a double amputee?

an a serious note though, I don't think very many people have a $75 million reputation, let alone someone whose name wasn't known until he was on this film.

I was hoping it was his legs that were amputated, but touchez.

This film wouldn't have existed if Bush hadn't put us in a bullshit war. And (fill in the blank/obituaries) if he hadn't put us in a bullshit war.

If you don't want something you say to end up in a Michael Moore movie, you shouldn't say it in front of a camera.

$75 million?

Wait, we can sue now for the media taking things out of context and aquiring them in a questionable fashion?

But he didn't say it. He said something else and MM (alegedly) used creative editing to make him say what he wanted.

if you sign a release, well, the filmmakers can do with nyour footage, whatever they please.

How long until we find out that this guy is being funded / encouraged by some version of the Swift Boat Liars?

but does it make it right?

Think about being in the military, in a war, then find out what your commander doesn't believe in what you're doing.
How's your morale now?

A reputation is more than just how famouse you are in the media.

Though I agree $75 mil is pretty regoddamned diculous
Then again. Lets cut off y'all's legs and see what ya do for money.

Warning! Warning! Michael Moore thread alert! Get out while it's still page 1!

*ducks and covers*

notice this is under "celeb" rather than "politics." seems about right.

Shit, I'm too late! Somebody save me!

And even then, he STILL has more integrity than Moore.

So Moore took a clip from a news programme and put it in his film. As far as I know, that's completely legal, and this guy doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Boo hiss.


Daniel

75 million?!? If he's not getting that out of the U.S. for losing his legs fighting a retarded war then he's not getting it out of Michael Moore.

Loss of reputation? I think that happened the moment this lawsuit was released to the press.

Man, I wish my reputation was worth 75 mill. I'd sell it in a sec.

for eating all his MREs?

Michael Moore is a hack. Even anti-war/anti-Bush folks should hate him for making them look like idiots. It’s like Bozo the Clown with a camera.

Part of the costs of the lawsuit will include the attorney’s cut and “punitive” damages to deter Moore and people like him from continuing the behavior. If you sued exclusively for “actual damages”, filmmakers would just add the $50,000 into the expense budget and continue to say “fuck off” to the whole “morality” thing.

Besides, having to spend months to years in and out of a VA hospital amongst comrades (and even doctors, as they are Military as well) who may see you as a backstabber or traitor, or as degrading their sacrifice by appearing in a movie saying the war that cost you your (life / limb / spouse / family / ETC.) was a farce and for nothing…that couldn’t be painful.

True…I mean, how long might it take to recover physically and mentally from losing both arms in a war? I mean, if this were real, it should have been his first priority. Salvaging the whole life and marriage thing, figuring out what you'll do to make money with no hands (we all know how rich you get on disability) and learning how to piss without tearing your own dick off with those prosthetic bullshit things they give you...pphhft...second, tops.

EDIT: P.S. From article:

There's one year of the delay.

The article would seem to infer that he didn’t sign anything. The whole “I never agreed to be in his movie…” thing.

[Edited on May 31, 2006 11:16PM]