The anti-American agitpropagandist Michael Moore is being sued by a small Illinois newspaper for falsely portraying a headline they ran in the aftermath of the Election of 2000.
The (Bloomington) Pantagraph newspaper in central Illinois has sent a letter to Moore and his production company, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., asking Moore to apologize for using what the newspaper says was a doctored front page in the film, the paper reported Friday. It also is seeking compensatory damages of $1.
A scene early in the movie that shows newspaper headlines related to the legally contested presidential election of 2000 included a shot of The Pantagraph's Dec. 19, 2001, front page, with the prominent headline: "Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election."
The paper says that headline never appeared on that day. It appeared in a Dec. 5, 2001, edition, but the headline was not used on the front page. Instead, it was found in much smaller type above a letter to the editor, which the paper says reflects "only the opinions of the letter writer."
True, it's not a crime on the scale of stealing Top Secret documents from the National Archives, but it's entirely typical of Moore's modus operandi. And since there's dozens of such examples of his outright lies and distortions, one hopes that the news of them will continue to discredit him in the eyes of his gullible worshippers.
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Updated: Friday, 30 July 2004 10:26 PM CDT