James Garner files suit against John McCain, claims infringement on "Maverick"

[Knutey]

        
Written by Steve Young      
Tuesday, 09 September 2008
Maverick… er, rebel columnist Steve Young has all the juicy details…

September 9, 2008 – Hollywood (YoungOnPolitics / apj.us) – James Garner, who played the original Maverick (Bret - on TV), has filed a restraining order on behalf of Jack Kelly (Bart), Roger Moore (Beau) and Robert Colbert (Brent), demanding that John McCain and Sarah Palin cease and desist referring to themselves as "Maverick" or "Mavericks."

“It’s not like me or my fake brothers go around saying we’re POW’s,” claimed the still ruggedly handsome Garner.  “And if you can be damn sure, other then those rumors about Moore, we never wore lipstick.”

McCain and Palin have been running commercials saying they’re the “Original Mavericks” because of their stance against their own party.

“If they were ever on the set of Maverick, they would know that we were never gainst having any kind of party,” added Garner.

Developing

 

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[hnumpah]

Tom Cruise might want a piece of that action.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I don't see Cruise as a Maverick.
I think Johnny Depp could do a better job.

[Amianthus]

I don't see Cruise as a Maverick.

Whoosh. F-14 right over the head...

[sirs]

lol

[hnumpah]

Well, that was almost twenty years ago, back when Tom Cruise was tomcattin' around ... XO mighta fergot.

[Plane]

Can one really copyright a family name?

Of someone eleses family?

Maverick arrived at the convention on Saturday, March 5, with his friend Smith, who carried Travis's final missive. The convention was in recess for the weekend, but a special session was called for the following day. By the time the special session concluded, the Battle of the Alamo had concluded, and the Alamo defenders were all dead.[34] Maverick signed the Texas Declaration of Independence the following day,[34] and remained at the convention to help draft the new Texas constitution.

Maverick steadfastly refused to brand his cattle. As a result, the word maverick entered the English lexicon, meaning both an unbranded range animal as well as a slang term for someone who exhibits a streak of stubborn independence.[74]

Maverick's stated reason for not branding his cattle was that he didn't want to inflict pain on them. Other ranchers however, suspected that his true motivation was that it allowed him to collect any unbranded cattle and claim them as his own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Augustus_Maverick

[Knutey]

>.Maverick's stated reason for not branding his cattle was that he didn't want to inflict pain on them. Other ranchers however, suspected that his true motivation was that it allowed him to collect any unbranded cattle and claim them as his own.<<

 Now this does sound like McCain.

[Xavier_Onassis]

This article is spurious. James Garner does not own the name "Maverick", nor does anyone else. The TV character, characters, actually, named Maverick were related only to the real Maverick in that they were Texas and remotely linked to the ranching business.

McCain is not much of a Maverick. It is a pose he is taking to convince people to vote for yet another borrow and squander, warmongering, oilman-loving, fatcat-ass-kissing Republican who agrees with the GOP and its venial and manipulative oligarchy 95% of the time. Palin is basically added fluff to get the womens vote.

McCain is a Maverick in the same way that the Marlboro Man was a real rootin' tootin' cowpoke.

Reality is, he's just a man of the people with a bazillionaire trophy wife, a fake Arizonian born in the Canal Zone and raised as a Navy brat in Norfolk, a guy who we are supposed to feel sorry for becaue he was shot down dropping bombs on the stupidist  and most useless foreign war in American history.

In reality, Marlboro is a small, pleasant racetrack town in the rolling hills of Maryland. Marlboro cigarettes were first devised as a women's brand.

Phoniness pervades this whole Republican campaign.