Glenn Beck to James Cameron: It was a joke, you knucklehead!
As we suspected, Fox New's Glenn Beck didn't let the opportunity pass to respond to James Cameron, who was all steamed up yesterday about Beck. If you recall from our last post, when Beck was a talk-show host at CNN in 2007, he said that Cameron was "officially running for anti-Christ." On his show today, Beck said he was, ahem, joking. He was only worked up at the time because he didn't like Celine Dion.
At any rate, Beck was deliriously happy that Cameron had gotten so lathered up about his remarks, saying "the best part is that this guy has carried this joke around with him for three long years. The guy's making a billion dollars on a Smurf-murdering movie and he's stewing about a joke nobody heard on a network nobody watched!"
It wasn't enough for Beck to nail Cameron and CNN in one fell swoop. He also gleefully responded to Cameron's overheated rhetoric about global warming deniers, noting that the filmmaker had said that he wanted to "shoot it out with those boneheads." Claiming that 79% of all Americans don't believe that greenhouse gases are the most important factor in the planet's warming, Beck -- pretending to weep -- cried out, "Why must you kill all of them?"
It was marvelous television, and not just because when the segment concluded, we got to watch an ad for a company that promotes investment in gold bullion, featuring its spokesman, G. Gordon Liddy. But it made me think that with Cameron having so much down time between Hollywood epics, maybe MSNBC could give him his own show, perhaps right smack in Beck's time slot. Judging from the way Cameron shoots his mouth off, he's locked and loaded and ready to make a splash in cable news.
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Yeah, Beck destroying Cameron in the ratings would be great for Cameron's self-esteem. Or lack thereof.
Posted by: Brian | March 24, 2010 at 04:51 PM
Beck is really a posterchild for hatred and paranoia.
Posted by: Jay | March 24, 2010 at 06:02 PM
Beck rocks!!!! What else can I say. GO GLEN GO!!!
Posted by: rj | March 24, 2010 at 06:06 PM
Cameron is another Hollywood idiot that has a left wing opinion of an unreal world.
These idiots don't deserve any more print than the homeless they covet.
What makes them an expert on anything??????
Posted by: clayschaefer | March 24, 2010 at 06:12 PM
I don't think Cameron could handle the commute because, as a devoted global warming evangelist, it would be hard for him to pedal his bicycle to the studio every day.
Right?
Posted by: savvydude | March 24, 2010 at 06:34 PM
Beck is such a dirt bag loser, not a logical bone in his body,... nor his head !
Posted by: Bud | March 24, 2010 at 09:31 PM
Patrick Goldstein ahem is an idiot.....
Posted by: Ronnie | March 24, 2010 at 09:52 PM
If Patrick Goldstein thinks Beck makes for "marvelous television" the LA Times might want to reconsider their "scraping the bottom of the barrel" TV critic strategy. Good grief, quit celebrating its vast wasteland aspects. Beck will rot any critic's mind, guaranteed. Do we really need to see that by-product?
Posted by: Ken | March 24, 2010 at 10:14 PM
Cameron directs movies, Beck incites hatred. I'm hardly surprised by the name-calling or Beck's sheer pride in doing so.
Posted by: rev | March 24, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Boy, Glen Beck is a smart guy! He put James Cameron down! Hahahahaha!
Posted by: Manhattan Sammy | March 24, 2010 at 11:46 PM