James Cameron on Glenn Beck: 'His ideas are poisonous'

You gotta love James Cameron.

He never backs down from a fight. After firing off a bunch of rounds against 3-D conversions, basically calling them hack work, he still had enough ammo left to turn his sights toward the blackboard-wielding Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, who's had it in for Cameron ever since the filmmaker made the 2007 documentary "The Lost Tomb of Jesus." Beck, then at CNN, dismissed the documentary by saying, "Many people believe James Cameron officially has tossed his hat in the ring today and is officially running for anti-Christ."

According to this Hollywood Reporter post recounting a news conference that was held Tuesday to promote the DVD release of "Avatar," slated for Earth Day, Cameron finally returned fire, unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against Beck, calling him a "madman" along with other words I can't reprint here. Cameron said Beck was dangerous "because his ideas are poisonous," and challenged Beck to debate him on environmental issues. 

Cameron was still seething over right-wing attacks on "Avatar," which many conservatives mocked for its earnest pro-environment message and anti-military views. Cameron dismissed the attacks, saying, "They're just people ranting away, lost in their little bubbles of reality, steeped in their own hatred, their own fear and hatred. That's where it all comes from."

As for people who don't believe in global warming, Cameron added: "I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads .... Anybody that is a global warming denier at this point in time has got their head so deeply up their [expletive] I'm not sure they could hear me."

This is just a hunch, but I think that if Cameron had been running last December's climate change conference in Copenhagen, he could have knocked a few heads together and the assembled nations would've gotten a lot more accomplished. Maybe the U.N. could make Cameron an ambassador-at-large, in charge of keeping rogue nations in line. I mean, Glenn Beck is just too easy a target. I think Cameron needs a more formidable adversary.

What do you think? I'm betting that if we sent Cameron to Iran, he could knock out their nuclear arms program in three weeks flat. Any takers?

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Comments

[anybutbush]

Beck is a very crafty selfpromoter..... I mean what else would a radio personality do. But he is such a fearmongering manipulator that the average listener would buy into his fantasies of conspiracy against god and country. His pseudointellectual explanations about where socialism came from and what that speaks about sociology in colleges is truly fit for an 8y old mentality. Sadly, much of his listening audience is just that intellectually. Next, he will be attacking the Schools of Social Work as military arm of the gov't. The whole posse of Beck/Rush/Palin/Sean are so radically antiintellectual that they are unbelievable. The US just affirmed it with their vote on Sunday. They don't trust the radical conservatives and the 2-tiered socioeconomic class they represent. This country will not change the makeup of the dem/rep in congress in November precisely because the posse is so absurdly antidemocracy. Radical conservative fascism is what Beck/Rush/Plain/Sean stand for and the US sees this. Their approach is not working for them...... and that's all they have.

Remember when Beck/Rush/Palin/Sean would say that failure to support the president is unpatriotic??? Where are they on that now???? Liers.

[Maxine]

Well Mr. Cameron, won't be seeing anymore of your movies, I don't want to get shot for making the Theaters run the AC to watch your movie, can you imagine the fuel on planes/jets, to get your actors from one scene to another, how about the Trailers the butane use, Yes Mr. Cameron save the planet, start by boycotting your movies and that alone on the garbage, fuel, the polution used to make styrofoam scenes, the electricity used to shoot the scenes YOU USE, we will help you save the planet, BOYCOTT JAMES CAMERON MOVIES and Help James Cameron save the planet.

[Christian Toto]

Yeah, Cameron is a real tough guy talking to a lapdog press that won't ask him tough questions.

Let 'em appear before a tough but fair interviewer who will challenge him on his stances and see what happens.

And why is an artist calling a broadcaster's ideas "poisonous?"

Does he fly private jets (I bet he does). He lives in an energy sapping mansion. He's a green hypocrite who knows he won't be called on his behavior by the press.

Does he simply dismiss ClimateGate and all the recent findings revealing forged data/wrong data/fudged data and the inconvenient truth that the world hasn't warmed for the past 10 years?

[Warren A. McCarns Jr.]

Cameron is entitled to say any thing he wants, it's his opinion, not necessarily fact. As far as his statement "Beck is poisonous", that's a little like the pot calling the kettle black. Since opinions are in vogue these days, my opinion is this, James Cameron is just another in a very long line of pampered Hollywood Bolshevik's that think they have a corner on the world opinion market, theirs. I have yet to meet a Hollywood type that did'nt have so much self doubt, that they didn't need a weekly appointment with a shrink. Why they get so much ink is beyong me.

[Terry Chambers]

The King of the World has spoken. I guess I do "gotta love him". It is a mandate from God himself. Remember when movies were about people, fictional characters that embodied the spirit of America? Tom joad, James Allen, George Bailey, Longfellow Deeds, or Atticus Finch?

[Beez]

James Cameron....he made that movie about Pocahontas meets Dances With Eight-Foot Smurfs, right?

Yes, I'll take all my science advice from him.

[Tanya Mills]

Simply put, James Cameron is a limousine liberal. Hollow and phony and under the ludicrous impression that his idealism (or whatever he believes his opinions are based on) excuses his two-faced lifestyle and two-faced weeping-heart emotions.

[Nina Penne]

Oh, my James what a temper. Such profanity !! What happened to the "peace and love", brother ? The Conservatives really have you upset, don't they ? I was very happy that 'The Hurt Locker', won,; how bittersweet. Need to "check-in" the new one, sitting next to you at Oscar night,(obviously eating disordered).

[Fitch]

Glen Beck shut up!All you have achieved was talk talk talk!

[david LIMEBERRY]

why would anyone care what a man that makes a living in a make believe land thinks