[Sinapus]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
He only started attacking Heston because he objected to the policy of holding huge pro-gun rallies immediately after school-massacres in the towns where the killings had taken place.

That's actually a deliberate lie on the part of Moore. The NRA didn't "decide" to hold a rally after the shootings. They merely held a business meeting that they have to hold every year and had been scheduled for months in advance.

Some kid would shoot a bunch of students and teachers, and within a week Heston would be in that same town waving his gun around and making contraversial speeches. Of course he has every right to make those speeches, but the insensitivity of his timing is just mind-boggling.

If you mean the "from my cold, dead hands" remark, that was another lie by Moore. Heston said that many months after Columbine, in another state. Moore spliced the quotes together to make it look like he said it at the meeting.

It wasn't the guns that Moore objected to wrt heston, it was the fact that he showed such a blatant lack of compassion.

Since the "lack of compassion" Moore objected to is a product of his own dishonesty, I don't find that acceptable.
Truth about Bowling for Columbine

Moore is a liar. You fell for it. End of Story.

[ June 17, 2004, 15:45: Message edited by: Sinapus ]