Matt Damon called ‘liar’ by pro-fracking filmmaker

Politico ^ | 1/3/13 | PATRICK GAVIN

[Nachum]

Fracking fans have a new target: Matt Damon.

“Promised Land,” the new Gus Van Sant film about the controversial technique that acquires natural gas through drilling and pressurized fluid, stars and was written by Damon and costar John Krasinski, opens nationally Friday.

Phelim McAleer is launching a one-man campaign to call Damon out about the film. McAleer directed the documentary FrackNation, along with his wife Ann McElhinney, and the film paints a more sympathetic portrayal of fracking and aims to dispel some of the misinformation that McAleer and McElhinney believe have dominated the debate over the procedure’s environmental and health impact.

(Also on POLITICO: Matt Damon: 'Game is rigged')

“This is classic propaganda,” McAleer told POLITICO. “It’s political from the beginning to the very end.” And that, according to McAleer, represents a large part of his problem with “Promised Land.”

[SierraWasp]

"I always hate it when I find out some actor or singer whose work I enjoy, turns out to be just another typical brain dead performer."

So true! I regret having ever watched "The Office" when this guy is dumber than Dwight Schroot ever though about being!!!

Whataya mean "nags?" IT SUCKS CANAL WATER!!!

[PhiloBedo]

Maatt Damon! (F.A.G.)

[dearolddad]

Oh come on...Matt Damon must be an expert!!! He’s a Hollywood actor. They know everything

I can recall Merril Streep testifying before congress about how deadly Alar was when applied to apples because she had played a farmers wife in a movie. (that was her claim to being an expert on Alar).