MATT DAMON, A LIAR? OH NO, SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!

 

Fracking fans have a new target, that mental midget, and well-known moron, none other that 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, this dweeb, Damon, and costar John Krasinski. This idiotic work of pure unadulterated fiction opens nationally today. Enter, Phelim McAleer. Mr. McAleer is launching what is essentially 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.

 

"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." Movieline.com attended on a panel discussion about "Promised Land" featuring Damon and reported that Damon said the movie wasn’t political. "I don’t want to call Matt Damon a liar but he’s a liar, really," McAleer said. "It’s a deeply political movie and it’s deeply disingenuous for Matt Damon to say otherwise. … Matt Damon isn’t telling the truth." McAleer’s criticism of the film and Damon’s politics seems to center primarily around the suggestion that fracking can contaminate local water supplies to the point of making them flammable, a point made most prominently in the 2010 documentary, "Gasland."

 

But while it may not be exactly reassuring, perhaps, McAleer says "the water has always been on fire" going as far back as the 17th century. "This stuff can get into the water supply naturally," McAleer said. "In America hundreds of years ago, native Americans named three different locations ‘Burning Springs.’ Quite simply, this is because of the naturally occurring gases, like methane, that are found beneath the earth’s surface and that can rise to the surface with water. This pre-dates fracking and, in fact, there is no evidence that suggests that fracking has led to an increase in this phenomenon." Beginning this week, McAleer will go up with a billboard in New York that shoots down "Promised Land." The ad states, "Matt Damon: the water has been on fire since 1669." Look, I think we can all agree that Hollywood types like Damon care very little about facts.

 

McAleer has been hoping for sometime to have an opportunity where he could engage Damon, mano a mono, so to speak, on the topic but has thus far been unsuccessful in contacting the film’s production company. That should come as no surprise to anyone, after all, Damon's nothing more than one of those idiotic, 'do as I say not as I do' Hollywood liberals who feel that can get away with saying just about anything they want, without ever having to back any of it up. Somehow, because they're 'movie stars' they're supposed to be on a higher plain than those of us who are part of the lowly, unwashed masses who simply expected to shell out more and more of our hard earned money for a night at the movies. Movies that are no longer made to be a source of entertainment, but more as a method to deliver, what is essentially, nothing more than propaganda.