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Originally posted by illesturban
You can actually see from a link to the transcript of Heston's full speech that they DID edit it...they edited it to look better; regardless of how Michael Moore may have edited BFC, the fact remains that Heston DID say those words.
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It was never a question of if he actually said those words or not. It was the editing of the speech that is manipulative. It was nice of Moore to edit Hestons speech for him to make him seem "less evil". Obviously Moore knows better what Heston was trying to convay more than Heston himself.
The fact is that the NRA did not come running to Littleton upon hearing about the tragedy to tout guns are good. The meeting was planned years in advance. The timing of the event was indeed unfortunate, but little could be done about it given the time constraints aside from cancelling all events that they could. Which they did out of respect for the tragedy.
Saying that he said those words and that's the end of it holds little water when you take into consideration how they were edited to appear. Look at Heston's speech (Which I believe is not 'evil' as Moore puts it) beside that of how it was represented in the 'documentary'
http://www.hardylaw.net/Bowlingtranscript.html
In my opinion they are like night and day. Moores version of the speech takes Hestons words way out of context. Not a fair representation at all.