This would be Clint Eastwood's magnum opus

[Delmar]

Fri Jan 30, 2015, 12:15 AM
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.”

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.”

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.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/michael-moore-confirms-clint-eastwood-threatened-to-kill-me-at-an-awards-dinner/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026154887

Response to ErikJ (Original post)Fri Jan 30, 2015, 01:50 AM
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?

I'd call it common sense advice but let's get an opinion from one of the top legal minds at democrat underground.

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.

It looks like Eastwood gets to slide...this time.

Response to ErikJ (Original post)Fri Jan 30, 2015, 02:23 AM
Lint Head (11,925 posts)
14. Father Time will soon make Eastwood's day.

And the DUmmies will dance on his grave.

In the spirit of fairness, I'll include the comments of a couple of DUmmies that were something other than insane babbling.

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 AM
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.

Now back to DUmmies babbling in the way you'd expect them to.

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

That's better than being a disgusting tub of guts with empty pizza boxes in every room of the house.

[Carl]

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.

Yet posting law enforcement officer hatred daily is just fine.

You half wit loons just can`t stop being idiots even for a second.

[miskie]

EOM.

[Chris_]

Michael Moore confirms: Clint Eastwood threatened to kill me at an awards dinner

I don't blame him.

[HawkHogan]

It sounds like Clint Eastwood made a joke, and Michael Moore and the Dummies are making a big deal about it like ten years later. 

[Bad Dog]

Well....Do ya feel lucky Mike?

[delilahmused]

Didn't the dems have their own target campaign poster?

Cindie

[diesel driver]

Michael Moore confirms: Clint Eastwood threatened to kill me at an awards dinner

He makes that sound like it's a BAD thing. 

Grow a pair, Mikey, quit being a whiny *****man!   

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Didn't the dems have their own target campaign poster?

Cindie

Yes. It was posted on DKos. The person who created it also wrote an article saying "Giffords is dead to me."

Lefties want Eastwood arrested for threats, Boehner arrested for treason, some Alaskan legislator arrested "threats" in a nursery rhyme, Palin arrested for her poster, blah, blah blah

In short, the little fascists want any excuse to arrest everyone they don't like.

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

He was JOKING, you repulsive, hypocritical sack of lard.

btw, AGAIN we have DUmmies accusing people they disagree with of "Stochastic terrorism."

How's about these examples of stochastic terrorism, in the interests of fairness:
1. Al Sharpton using his hateful, racist, anti- Semitic rhetoric to deliberately incite the Crown Heights Riots and the Freddy's Fashion Mart incident.
2. Al Gore, on the grounds that James Jay Lee, the liberal environmentalist nutcase who held three people hostage in the Discovery Channel building before being shot by the police, was directly inspired by Gore's works, especially 'An Inconvenient Truth.'
3. Michael Moore himself. In 2002, a Muslim terrorist cell in Indonesia bombed a nightclub in Bali, killing a lot of people, mostly Australian tourists. When interrogated by police, the cell's leader said he arranged the attack on the nightclub because he saw "A lot of whiteys dancing there" and "A lot of whiteys drinking there." When the cell leader went on trial, his defense attorney relied on the standard liberal defense tactic of portraying his client as a brave and noble hero taking a stand against evil Western racism and oppression. In his statement, the defense attorney quoted numerous anti- American books and articles, including Michael Moore's book "Stupid White Men," which just so happens to have a chapter entitled 'Kill Whitey.'
Try charging those d-bags with "Stochastic terrorism," and then maybe we'll take you a tiny bit more seriously when you level such accusations against people who say things you disagree with, DUmmies.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Lint Head (11,925 posts)
14. Father Time will soon make Eastwood's day.

Fat blob Mikey has a pretty good chance of beating him into the grave, considering how hard that lard-ball's heart has to work to pump blood through his bloated carcass.

[Donpeyote]

Choke on a big bite of calamari Michael ...

[Movie buff- The Sequel]

btw, I forgot to add this to my previous comment on this thread:
Michael appears to be even more desperate for attention now than he usually is. I suppose after he responded to 'American Sniper' by sending out a tweet referring to all US military snipers as "Cowards," then having that blow back in his face, he's determined to get a little more attention in the vain hope of regaining the popularity he had among liberals around 2003 or so.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Translated for actual content:  Michael Moore screams "LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

[obumazombie]

Stochastic ? WTF is it with the libs and their word stochastic ?
I doubt they even know what the word means.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Sociological babbletalk for the same concept the militia movement knew as "Leaderless resistance" twenty years ago.  Giving it a more jargonistic name provides the completely-illusory appearance of so-called professionals actually having some idea what to do against it.

[Gina]

Wouldn't you know they would hate something that is the very essense of America. 

[JohnnyReb]

Fat boy would make a good source for lead abatement material.