by Brooke Bosca | Top Right News
Back in 2005, both Clint Eastwood and Michael Moore were being honored for their films at a National Board of Review dinner.
Moore was being honored for the anti-gun documentary Bowling for Columbine, which later spawned entire websites of fact-checking for its inaccuracies. Clint Eastwood was being honored for Million Dollar Baby.
Moores movie included a scene with the late actor Charlton Heston, a former president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Moore was lambasted for taking cruel advantage of Heston, who was showing rapidly advancing symptoms of Alzheimers.
When Clint Eastwood got up to make a speech after accepting his award, he sent some pointed comments Michael Moores way. According to the Washington Examiner, Eastwood said:
Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common we both appreciate living in a country where theres free expression, he said.
Eastwood then added: But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera Ill kill you.
The audience laughed and Eastwood grinned.
I mean it, he added in an Im-joking-but-maybe-not-really tone of voice, provoking more albeit rather nervous -laughter.
Classic.
Its a good bet that, despite his cowardly attack on American Sniper subject Chris Kyle who is safely deceased Moore wont be getting in Eastwoods face again anytime soon.
