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Warning to Michael Moore from Clint Eastwood

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Warning to Michael Moore from Clint Eastwood

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/270757p-231851c.html
from JoeUser Forums

Wish I could have been a fly on the wall at this awards dinner. Way to go, Mr. Eastwood. Make our day!

 

Eastwood stunned a New York filmmaking audience with his comments, the New York Daily News' Lloyd Grove reported today in his must-read column.

"Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common - we both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression," Eastwood was quoted as telling the National Board of Review awards dinner in New York Tuesday night.

With a cold glare Eastwood took notice of Moore sitting in the audience and said bluntly and without a smile: "But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera - I'll kill you."

The Daily News reports the audience erupted in laughter, and Eastwood grinned. "I mean it," Eastwood said again.

One of the few Republicans in Hollywood, Eastwood had once served as Mayor of Carmel, Calif.

Eastwood made his comments while accepting the Special Filmmaking Achievement prize for "Million Dollar Baby."

Moore was said to be in the rear of the audience when Eastwood made his biting remarks.

Moore also won the group's "Freedom of Expression" award for his Bush-bashing "Fahrenheit 9/11."

Apparently, Moore has not taken kindly to death threats in the past.

The News notes that last year "Moore was outraged when CNN anchor Bill Hemmer suggested during an interview that some folks might want to see him dead."

"Can you think of any other interview in the history of television where a politician or a movie director was asked about people wanting to see him dead?" Moore was quoted as saying.

Moore may have lightened up a bit. His agent told the News: "Michael laughed along with everyone else, and took Mr. Eastwood's comments in the lighthearted spirit in which they were given."

~NewsMax

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top

Riiiiiight. Because homocide is a civilized, proportional reaction to someone showing up at your door with a camera You right wingers applaud this cowboy talk, but get all bitchy when we call you on it. Can't have it both ways. Either you think homocide is OK (ie "Way To Go, Mr. Eastwood!" ), or you don't. I know which side I'm on. I'm not surprised this article got greenlighted for the front page by Brad "I'll shoot anyone who looks like they might hurt me" Hospital Ward-ell

Oh Look!  A LLL lefter!  Typical cliches, with the mandatory VRWC!  And of course the "it is not my fault!".

As they say on Ghost Busters.  "We got one!"

Please tell us more of your trite and tried cliches! And how you are going to save the world!

Oh wait, you dont offer any solutions, just condemnations.

Sorry, just be yourself!  We will look for solutions from the more intelligent people!

Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
I am not ashamed to admit that I liked Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm an atheist. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a liberal, progressive, secularist, socialist, whatever. It's all just labels. So you can call me a looney lefty liberal, a pinko commie, a card-carrying member of the ACLU, whatever. I don't care. I have my beliefs and you have yours. And I'm not ashamed to admit that most of my beliefs fall on the far left. So call me a far-left liberal, and I will take it as a compliment.
Elemental: Reforged
Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
I am not ashamed to admit that I liked Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm an atheist. I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a liberal, progressive, secularist, socialist, whatever. It's all just labels. So you can call me a looney lefty liberal, a pinko commie, a card-carrying member of the ACLU, whatever. I don't care. I have my beliefs and you have yours. And I'm not ashamed to admit that most of my beliefs fall on the far left. So call me a far-left liberal, and I will take it as a compliment.


I loved both those movies as well as Roger and Me. So much so that I purchased all three for my dvd collection. When the brownshirts finally do come to my door they'll have plenty of 'evidence' to convict me of the soon to be crime of 'liberalism', punishable, of course, by death.
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
At last, some intelligent analysis of this incident. To Cleveland steamer, latour999 and UBob - hear, hear! It's interesting, isn't it, that the pages of JoeUser are liberally (sic) littered with attacks by the right on Hollywood stars for being supposedly out of touch with 'real' America, yet here they are falling over each other in the race not only to fawn over one of them, but to deliberately confuse him with the characters he plays in his films!

However, sorry guys, but you're on a hiding to nothing. This thread was obviously not established to encourage debate; it was established so that the right could slap each other on the back and feel righteous about it. Consequently you (and I) are resented for even being here - hence Dr Guy's frothing-at-the-mouth rant above. (By the way, anyone who has to rely on 'Ghostbusters' for his quotes must be in SERIOUS trouble ... )

But my final 'accolade' goes to 'Newsmax':
'Apparently, Moore has not taken kindly to death threats in the past.'
Well der.
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
Other than run and hide what else is there to do but lighten up when under threat of "make my day."
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'm also proud to be Canadian


And with some of the sentiments expressed in this thread not only am I proud to be Canadian, I'm also grateful (as in, whew!) At least here we can be politically on the left without fear of being shot at when knocking on the door of certain members from the right. Yikes! (Imagine Jack Layton showing up at Mr. Harper's door and being greeted with gunfire. )

Y'know, nine months of winter isn't so bad after all, considering the alternative.
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think Japan would object to a Chinese invasion of Canada if the US wasn't willing to, so it's not like that makes American trigger-happiness a more comforting thought.
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
We'll come in handy should China decide to invade Canada.


First of all, I can't imagine what China would want with Canada in the first place. :/

However, if for some strange reason they did decide to invade I'm confident Canada would rise to it's own defense. You'd be surprised how quickly Canadians can mobilize when they detect a real threat. One need only review our record during both World Wars to see how ready and willing our population was to enlist and how quickly it did when liberty was trully on the line.

And secondly, I'm positive our southern neighbors would intervene regardless of whether we embraced them or not, knowing full well they could not tolerate the idea of a country like China occupying a country that shared a nearly 5500 mile border with it.
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top
Anyway, were getting way off topic here.

Wouldn't a simple "No comment" and "Please leave the premises" be a better solution than homocide. I mean, this seems like a better solution to me.
Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top

First of all, I can't imagine what China would want with Canada in the first place. :/


Space!

Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top
As for an evasion of Canada, if help isn't wanted I'm more than happy to sit back and wait, then do something once it is all over. Let Canada become the New China Kitchen, then after it is official, attack and then take the land for the United States. A win win, really. So, why should we help, again?


Very good attempt at satire. However, this stream is beginning to pass from the satirical to the ridiculous. I've got to go now, I'm due back on planet earth.



I hear the Paparazzi aren't very notorious (was this double negative intentional?) for accepting a poliet no comment or please leave the premises.


If you've seen any of Moore's films, (a rhetorical statement ), you would know that when asked to leave, eventually, he does. Without bloodshed even. (Imagine!)
Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top

If you've seen any of Moore's films, (a rhetorical question ), you would know that when asked to leave, eventually, he does. Without bloodshed even. (Imagine!)

Love that line "Eventually".

Eventually we all die too!  Eventually, the world will end!  Eventually, the sun will Explode!  Eventually!

Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply #26 By: Dr. Guy - 1/14/2005 8:50:47 PM
Riiiiiight. Because homocide is a civilized, proportional reaction to someone showing up at your door with a camera You right wingers applaud this cowboy talk, but get all bitchy when we call you on it. Can't have it both ways. Either you think homocide is OK (ie "Way To Go, Mr. Eastwood!" ), or you don't. I know which side I'm on. I'm not surprised this article got greenlighted for the front page by Brad "I'll shoot anyone who looks like they might hurt me" Hospital Ward-ell

Oh Look! A LLL lefter! Typical cliches, with the mandatory VRWC! And of course the "it is not my fault!".
As they say on Ghost Busters. "We got one


"in the box ready to go. We be fast, they be slow."
Reply #39 from JoeUser Forums Top

Sorry for the double post! Dont know how it happened. But I will Answer DR. "My Heros have always been Cowboys"! LOL! Better a Cowboy than an Arab!

Reply #40 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply #25 By: Cleveland Steamer (Anonymous) - 1/14/2005 8:26:53 PM
Riiiiiight. Because homocide is a civilized, proportional reaction to someone showing up at your door with a camera You right wingers applaud this cowboy talk, but get all bitchy when we call you on it. Can't have it both ways. Either you think homocide is OK (ie "Way To Go, Mr. Eastwood!" ), or you don't. I know which side I'm on. I'm not surprised this article got greenlighted for the front page by Brad "I'll shoot anyone who looks like they might hurt me" Hospital Ward-ell


Get a grip. Talk is not *action* now is it?
Reply #41 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply #33 By: Helix the II - 1/15/2005 10:21:51 AM
Hear hear? Oh wait, it is Furry.. NEVERMIND. I'm not going there.


Okay, well if one side wants to brand and label the other side with cliches that you feel are appropiate, than that just means you're every bit as the cliche that characterizes your party affiliations. So, that being said, what are you going to do about it? If the right really are
cowboys
,
then the left really are
loony loopy luddites


I don't have a problem being labeled a cowboy. When push comes to shove, who are you going to want watching your back? A cowboy? Or a "loony lopopy luddite"? While I may not have a problem with my label they *sure* have one with theirs.
Reply #42 from JoeUser Forums Top

Well, maybe cowboy isn't such a strong negative stereotype. Let's go with Moore's opinion, Scared White People..Or right-wing Jesusland zealots.


Mikey moore code words for when he cant debate the subject, so he must denigrate the debater.

Reply #43 from JoeUser Forums Top

Reply #38 By: UBoB - 1/15/2005 10:57:44 AM
Anyway, were getting way off topic here.

Wouldn't a simple "No comment" and "Please leave the premises" be a better solution than homocide. I mean, this seems like a better solution to me.


That's a Canadian way of thinking not an american way. You can't compare the 2.
Reply #44 from JoeUser Forums Top

That's a Canadian way of thinking not an american way. You can't compare the 2.

Oh! A disagree with DR! 

No, Ubob, for these kind of pests, that dont work.  Dont you have Jehovah Witnesses up there?  It takes more than that to get them to leave. You think a slammed door in their face (which does take care of the JWs) works with Mikey Moore?  A 44 probably does, but he is a stalker!  Sick really too.

Reply #45 from PolMach Forums Top
(Imagine Jack Layton showing up at Mr. Harper's door and being greeted with gunfire. )


Harper sucks. June 28, 2004 was a major relief for me. Layton rocks. If only he could have gotten a couple more seats, we would have had the balance of power, and the only time anything good gets done up here is with a Liberal minority and NDP balance of power (ie: the flag, healthcare).
Reply #46 from JoeUser Forums Top
'As for an evasion of Canada'? Oh wait, it is Helix the II. NEVERMIND. I'm not going there.
Reply #47 from JoeUser Forums Top
loony lopopy luddite


I think I like that one best of all. lopopy!
Reply #48 from PolMach Forums Top
Yikes! (Imagine Jack Layton showing up at Mr. Harper's door and being greeted with gunfire. )


Even better: Ralph Klein getting shot by Stephen Harper. That makes one of them dead and the other in jail. 2 for 1!
Reply #49 from JoeUser Forums Top
With Michael Moore's character, he may just show up to Eastwood's house as part of his next movie about all the right wing nuts jobs in Hollywood. (Anybody right of him is a Right-winger , in his mind).

I really do not think Clint will shoot him. (Well maybe just wing him). But I personally think Clint will come out and beat the living tar out of him. Even at the age of 90 something, I think Clint could take him. Now I would pay the movie ticket to see that.

That's My Two Cents
Reply #50 from JoeUser Forums Top
Even better: Ralph Klein getting shot by Stephen Harper. That makes one of them dead and the other in jail. 2 for 1!


Now, now latour999. Remember, Canadians aren't like that.