At some point Michael Moore must surely hit bottom. There must be a point where he's about as low as you can get on a human scale... Well, I just found out that, at least for me, he has sunk beneath the human scale.

G.I. pans '9/11' role

It seems that Moore, not being content to malign the Bush administration using those who agree with him, has added to his movie F**** 9/11 that.... well, read this:

WASHINGTON - Sgt. Peter Damon, who lost his right arm and left hand in Iraq, never set out to be a bit player in presidential politics and is furious at Michael Moore for making him one in "Fahrenheit 9/11."

"It ticked me off," Damon said of the 10-second clip in the Bush-bashing documentary that shows him being treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.

This is unconscionable, he is being used in a movie that denigrates his service, without his permission! The fact that they (like all liberals) want to split hairs... oh we LOVE the military, but HATE the war... what utter rubbish! I hear this from radio announcers all the time and it just makes my blood boil. (I would likely be incandescent if I watched television)

So how do you get around the pesky little detail of permission?

The brief video clip of Damon used by Moore was licensed from an NBC News segment that focused on the treatment of amputees at Walter Reed using a new regimen to block the excruciating "phantom pain" of limb loss, in which the patient still feels the pain of the missing limb.

Yeah, that's right, find a clip that someone else did, for an entirely different purpose, and subvert this to make a completely different point.

Naturally, the news people can't stop there, they have to find another opinion using that most sympathetic of all characters, a mother who has lost her son in Iraq...

Lila Lipscomb, whose own appearances in the documentary are the emotional apex of "Fahrenheit 9/11," said she sympathized with Damon's distress, but disagreed with him on Moore's motives.

Ummm - I'm sorry for this mother, but she is NOT a soldier, so she should NOT be speaking for them. I have a son who is a soldier too - I still wouldn't speak for them.

In the end - any soldier Moore was going to portray in this film, should have had the option of saying yes or no themselves. They should never have been added at Moore's whim to support his twisted view of the War on Terror. For that alone, MM is less than a stain on the sidewalk left by a low flying duck.

Hat Tip : Rachel Lucas

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