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Michael Moore posted on Facebook Thursday to set the record straight about a few things. One of the items on his agenda was responding to recent rumors about the time Clint Eastwood threatened to kill him. The decade-old incident got renewed interest this week after it was referenced in a piece about American Sniper on Salon.

Could this possibly be true? Apparently so, and there were witnesses. Per Moore’s posting:

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“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.

“‘I’ll kill you,’ he declared.

“The crowd laughed nervously. As for me, 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. But I instantly decided he was just trying to be funny, so I laughed the same nervous laugh everyone else did. Clint, though, didn’t seem to like all that laughter.