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Investors sue filmmaker Butler over `Long War of John Kerry'
newsday.com ^ | 2/15/05 | AP

Posted on 02/15/2005 4:52:45 PM PST by bitt

'NEW YORK (AP) _ Two investors have sued filmmaker George Butler, saying they were misled about the plans for a documentary on the life of his friend and presidential candidate John Kerry.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, says brothers Marc Abrams and Russell Abrams were misled to think Butler and producers were trying to make a commercially successful film.

Instead, the Abrams brothers allege in their lawsuit, "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" was intended primarily to influence the 2004 presidential election in favor of the Democratic Massachusetts senator.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: documentary; goingupriver; kerry; lawsuit; movie
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To: bitt

"the Abrams brothers allege in their lawsuit, "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" was intended primarily to influence the 2004 presidential election in favor of the Democratic Massachusetts senator."


.....McCain/Feingold "527" Campaign Finance Law, anyone?


21 posted on 02/15/2005 5:28:06 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (ATTN. MARXIST RED MSM: I RESENT your "RED STATE" switcheroo using our ELECTORAL MAP as PROPAGANDA!)
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To: bitt

I love it. Kerry was a loser, and the movie was a loser, too. And now the maker of this piece of political propaganda is being sued. Will the good news ever stop?


22 posted on 02/15/2005 5:33:32 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: bitt

Loser club. I am still going around in my "Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry" t-shirt.


23 posted on 02/15/2005 6:15:05 PM PST by Viet Vet in Augusta GA
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To: bitt

Loser club. I am still going around in my "Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry" t-shirt.


24 posted on 02/15/2005 6:15:15 PM PST by Viet Vet in Augusta GA
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To: Blurblogger
Two investors have sued filmmaker George Butler, saying they were misled about the plans for a documentary on the life of his friend and presidential candidate John Kerry. ........ They claimed the best parts ended up on the cutting room floor....like this scene which was one of the Abrams fave scenes....


"Wanna see me do a trick with a gun up my nose?"

25 posted on 02/15/2005 6:26:47 PM PST by Liz (Wise men are instructed by reason; lesser men, by experience; the ignorant, by necessity. Cicero)
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To: bitt

" were misled to think Butler and producers were trying to make a commercially successful film."

These two have to examples of the adage about fools and their money being soon parted.
Who in their right mind could ever envision a film about Kerry being anything other than an insomnia treatment ??


26 posted on 02/15/2005 6:34:06 PM PST by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: Blurblogger; Bassfire; Boazo


27 posted on 02/15/2005 6:51:25 PM PST by bitt (Kerry "Hanoi"s me)
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To: Liz

"kill da wabbit..kill da wabbitt!"


28 posted on 02/15/2005 6:52:45 PM PST by bitt (Kerry "Hanoi"s me)
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To: Bassfire; Boazo

see 17


29 posted on 02/15/2005 6:53:37 PM PST by bitt (Kerry "Hanoi"s me)
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To: bitt

30 posted on 02/15/2005 6:56:09 PM PST by bitt (Kerry "Hanoi"s me)
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To: bitt
LOL!LOL!LOL!

This is priceless.

Dems rip movie investors........"Hey, Its just a campaign donation!"

"I thought you knew that?"

Bwahahaha!

31 posted on 02/15/2005 6:56:30 PM PST by Cold Heat (What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
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To: Cold Heat

agree-with-you grin.


32 posted on 02/15/2005 7:12:37 PM PST by bitt (Kerry "Hanoi"s me)
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To: bitt

Butler's really got his head up his ass if he can paint that lily livered coward and traitor as anything but what he is.


33 posted on 02/15/2005 7:16:46 PM PST by snowman1
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To: bitt; Boazo; Echo Talon
I think they had the wrong venue for Kerry, no wonder they are suing them!


34 posted on 02/15/2005 9:09:11 PM PST by Bassfire (freepin with a smile)
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To: Bassfire

:D good one


35 posted on 02/15/2005 9:22:51 PM PST by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com/)
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To: bitt
They probably tried to take a tax deduction for the money and the IRS said no....lol
36 posted on 02/15/2005 9:24:08 PM PST by Getsmart64 (..)
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To: bitt

"Two investors have sued filmmaker George Butler, saying they were misled about the plans for a documentary on the life of his friend and presidential candidate John Kerry."

Maybe we could all sue, since Kerry himself misled us all about his Vietnam exploits!


37 posted on 02/16/2005 9:39:30 AM PST by SpinyNorman (Islamofascists are the true infidels.)
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To: bitt

"..baseless and insulting to the artistic integrity of the film."

He means "excessive artistic LICENSE" he took with the film, doesn't he?


38 posted on 02/16/2005 10:15:55 AM PST by SpinyNorman (Islamofascists are the true infidels.)
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To: bitt

The Loser Party will be squabbling in court for years.


39 posted on 02/16/2005 10:17:38 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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