Michael Yon

Haven't eaten in 17 minutes . . . must eat . . . must eat . . . must eat

Famed overeater Michael Moore is being sued by the owner of an all you-can-eat buffet a prize-winning journalist angry at the filmmaker's use of one of his photos in an anti-war rant on his website. From the New York Post:

Last year, to illustrate one of his anti-administration bombasts, the portly polemicist posted on his michaelmoore.com Web site a heartbreaking photo from Iraq of an American soldier carrying the blood-spattered body of a child. The picture was snapped by acclaimed independent war correspondent Michael Yon, who has been very careful about how his images are distributed and goes out of his way to make sure they aren't used for demagogic diatribes. Yon - a Special Forces vet who posts regular dispatches from the front at michaelyon-online.com - is considered by many as the "Ernie Pyle of our time." The misappropriated photo shows US Army Maj. Mark Bieger cradling an Iraqi girl wounded by car-bomb shrapnel. She died a short time later.

Yon has tried to contact Moore for seven months to discuss his unauthorized use of the poignant snap, but hasn't heard a word back from the director of "Fahrenheit 9/11." Now, the fed-up photojournalist has told his lawyer to ready a lawsuit against Moore for copyright infringement.

"The implication on Moore's Web site was that our soldiers were somehow responsible for that kid being wounded," Yon's lawyer, John Mason, told Page Six. "That is absolutely not true. She was the victim of an insurgent's car bomb." Yon said: "I've never sued anyone in my life. It looks like Mr. Moore might be the first." Page Six e-mailed Moore for his response, but he didn't get back to us, either. (Source)

I hope this guy takes Michael Moore to the cleaners - literally. That fat bastard looks like he stinks something awful. Michael probably hasn't been able to respond to Yon's requests because he's been too busy exercising dieting single-handily creating global grain shortages.  If Yon really wants to get Michael's attention, he won't send a lawyer to deliver the lawsuit, he'll send a guy from Domino's. Get it? Because he's fat.