Fri Jan 30, 2015, 12:15 AMhttp://www.democraticunderground.com/10026154887
ErikJ (4,871 posts)
Michael Moore confirms: Clint Eastwood threatened to kill me at an awards dinner
29 JAN 2015
Filmmaker Michael Moore confirmed a long-standing story in a post on his Facebook page, saying colleague Clint Eastwood threatened his life in January 2005.
“Ten years ago this past week, Clint Eastwood stood in front of the National Board of Review awards dinner and announced to me and to the crowd that he would ‘kill’ me if I ever came to his house with my camera for an interview,†Moore wrote. “‘I’ll kill you,’ he declared.â€
The Washington Examiner reported at the time that Eastwood, who was being honored for his film Million Dollar Baby, slammed Moore for his on-camera confrontation with then-National Rifle Association president Charleton Heston in his documentary Bowling With Columbine.
“Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common,†Eastwood said from the stage. “We both appreciate living in a country where there’s free expression. But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I’ll kill you.â€
Moore corroborated the Examiner‘s story, saying that he laughed nervously along with the rest of the audience, thinking Eastwood was making a joke.
“Having just experienced a half-dozen assaults in the previous year from crazies upset at Fahrenheit 9/11 and my anti-war Oscar speech, plus the attempt by a right wing extremist to blow up my house (he was caught in time and went to prison), I was a bit stunned to hear Eastwood, out of the blue, make such a violent statement,†Moore wrote.
However, he stated, the audience’s mood changed when Eastwood repeated the threat, saying, “I mean it. I’ll shoot you.â€
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/michael-moore-confirms-clint-eastwood-threatened-to-kill-me-at-an-awards-dinner/
Response to ErikJ (Original post)Fri Jan 30, 2015, 01:50 AMI'd call it common sense advice but let's get an opinion from one of the top legal minds at democrat underground.
Star Member Go Vols (3,269 posts)
6. In my experience
people that make such a threat seldom carry thru.
If Clint said this,it is conspiracy to murder?
Response to Go Vols (Reply #6)Fri Jan 30, 2015, 03:19 AM
KingCharlemagne (3,020 posts)
17. It's sort of like Palin publishing that website with gunsights on various
Democrats' names. There are plenty of nuts out there with access to firearms who see this as greenlighting an attack "to save the nation" (or some such malarkey).
It's not difficult to see this as incitement to (stochastic) violence, i.e., bumping right up against a long-standing limit to the First Amendment right to free speech. (The right to free speech does not give anyone the right to threaten imminent violence. The fact that Eastwood couched his threat in conditional terms -- If . . . then -- keeps him within the First Amendment but just barely, imo.)
Moore is absolutely right to have armed guards protecting him at all times. In fact, I've read somewhere that Moore employs former Navy SEALS for his guards.
Response to ErikJ (Original post)Fri Jan 30, 2015, 02:23 AMAnd the DUmmies will dance on his grave.
Lint Head (11,925 posts)
14. Father Time will soon make Eastwood's day.
Response to ErikJ (Original post)Fri Jan 30, 2015, 03:46 AM
Star Member hfojvt (35,517 posts)
19. Well that's not a threat
not unless you cross the line.
I thought the Heston scene was one of the low points of Bowling.
Watching that old man shuffle away from Moore in his own house just made Moore look like an a$$hole.
Response to hfojvt (Reply #19)Fri Jan 30, 2015, 08:47 AMNow back to DUmmies babbling in the way you'd expect them to.
reddread (2,784 posts)
24. I am not pleased with his treatment of Heston
That was poorly executed and badly timed.
opportunistic exploitation that served the message poorly.
people who can see that are not automatically right wing.
although the overwhelming majority of kneejerk Moore bashers
MOST DEFINITELY are.
Response to ErikJ (Original post)Fri Jan 30, 2015, 09:03 AM
lonestarnot (73,242 posts)
28. Old dried up leather senile trigger squeezer has a shotgun in every room of the house, empty paper
bag
Response to Go Vols (Reply #6)Fri Jan 30, 2015, 03:19 AM
KingCharlemagne (3,020 posts)
17. It's sort of like Palin publishing that website with gunsights on various
Democrats' names. There are plenty of nuts out there with access to firearms who see this as greenlighting an attack "to save the nation" (or some such malarkey).
It's not difficult to see this as incitement to (stochastic) violence, i.e., bumping right up against a long-standing limit to the First Amendment right to free speech. (The right to free speech does not give anyone the right to threaten imminent violence. The fact that Eastwood couched his threat in conditional terms -- If . . . then -- keeps him within the First Amendment but just barely, imo.)
Moore is absolutely right to have armed guards protecting him at all times. In fact, I've read somewhere that Moore employs former Navy SEALS for his guards.
Michael Moore confirms: Clint Eastwood threatened to kill me at an awards dinnerI don't blame him.
Michael Moore confirms: Clint Eastwood threatened to kill me at an awards dinner
Didn't the dems have their own target campaign poster?
Cindie
Lint Head (11,925 posts)
14. Father Time will soon make Eastwood's day.