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June 5th, 2006 7 Comments

The recent lawsuit threatened against Michael Moore, promoted by the conservative press, increasingly looks to be on the shakiest of grounds.

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7 Responses to “No Surprise”

  1. Oliver Willis says:
    June 5, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    As the article clearly says there’s no “in context” requirement, and the conservative attorney is pretending that his client never appeared with Sen. Kennedy.

  2. drpedro says:
    June 5, 2006 at 3:06 pm

    Not exactly what that article says.

    In fact, I would say that it makes the case more strongly. Moore needs to prove that that veterans words were used in context.

    Hell if you think that having a conservative attorney going to trial agaisnt a leftist filmaker is somehow vertboten, what do you think about Kuntsler ?

  3. drpedro says:
    June 5, 2006 at 5:06 pm

    Moore-haters, pay careful attention to what Schnack is saying. He’s not saying that Moore has the right to distort or alter Damon’s words. What he is saying is that a journalist, a nonfiction filmmaker or an author has the right to use someone’s words in the service of his or her own agenda, even if that person is offended, as long as the person is portrayed accurately

    did I misread the authors use of the words “as long as the person is portrayed accurately”?

  4. factcheck says:
    June 5, 2006 at 6:06 pm

    Cons don’t really want to start suing liberal writers- we could pay off the national debt just from libel suits against Regnery alone. I would advise them not to open up that can of worms.

  5. drpedro says:
    June 5, 2006 at 7:06 pm

    Shorter fact:

    “this scares the piss out of me, the conservatives could eat our lunch….”

  6. duros62 says:
    June 6, 2006 at 5:06 pm

    If by “portrayed accurately” you mean actually present at the time of filming, yeah, you may have misread it.

  7. SaveFarris says:
    June 7, 2006 at 11:06 am

    Speaking of shaky cases, I’d bet on Moore before I bet on Patrick Fitzgerald or Ronnie Earle.