Well, well, well now. It seems that the Waffle House’s favorite all-you-can-eat buffet customer and professional dumpster-diver, Michael Moore is facing a potential lawsuit. (Hat Tip: HotAir.com)

Michael Yon, an independent photographer and Special Forces vet who has taken some of the most memorable images over the years from the Iraq War, has decided to file a lawsuit over Moore’s use of one of his most memorable images. That of an American soldier carrying an injured and bloody Iraqi child.

From The NY Post:

MICHAEL Moore may wind up in court with a prize-winning journalist who claims the mountain-size moviemaker ripped off his most famous photo to use in a George W. Bush-bashing rant.

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.”

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.

Yon also has written at his site about this situation:

We have not yet filed in court, but will very soon if Mr. Moore does not settle the matter immediately. The court paperwork takes time, though my attorney informed me that Mr. Moore’s attorney, after seven months of delay, called us late yesterday. Michael Moore’s attorney and mine, Mr. John Mason, are playing phone tag today.

You can bet dollars to doughnuts that a phalanx of lawyers are lining to up represent Yon in this case. Heck, just putting a 10% dent into Moore’s midnight snack budget could feed billions for millenia.

As for Moore, I cannot help but wonder if he was invited to Obama’s Witch Doctor ceremony on the 20th. If he was, I am sure will be kept behind a barbed wire fence so as to keep him as far away from the food trays as possible. While I will not be watching the spectacle on the 20th, if they could somehow put together a steel cage match that featured a 20lb steak, 10 feet off of the center of the ring and had Moore, Rosie O’Donnell, Roseanne and Oprah on the card, THAT would get my PPV money.

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