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Even Kirk Cameron Has No Idea Why CNN Brought Him On To Talk About Dead Birds

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Yesterday we joked that all the dead birds and fish out in Arkansas were clearly signs of the “End of Days.” Someone at CNN wasn’t joking though, so, needing an expert on the Apocalypse (something that’s hard to find considering how rare Apocalypses or “Apocali” are), they naturally invited Kirk Cameron, born again Christian and star of the Left Behind series, onto Anderson Cooper 360 discuss the phenomenon. Some people thought this was kind of weird…including Kirk Cameron.

Cameron quickly tried to put distance between snarky online jokes and hearsay and his faith, starting the conversation out by pointing out that he doesn’t really belong there:

“Well, I first think that they ought to call a veterinarian, not me. You know, I’m not the religious conspiracy theorist go-to guy particularly. But I think it’s really kind of silly to try to equate birds falling out of the sky with some kind of an end-times theory.”

But, hey, if a national news network is going to give you air time, use it, right? So, Cameron stuck around to plug his new movie while viewers at home learned…something…about the dead birds and fish.

Some people are offended that CNN would bring on Cameron to talk about religion when an actual natural phenomenon is happening. I’m not. I’m offended that Will Smith has appeared in two Men in Black movies and has not once has CNN invited him on to share his alien expertise. Yet. What gives?!

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  • Atticus Draco

    “I’m offended that Will Smith has appeared in two Men in Black movies and is rumored to be a Scientologist yet not once has CNN invited him on to share his alien expertise. What gives?!”

    lol

  • Liberty Back For More

    What CNN wanted to do was catch Kirk in some religious rant. They just love to go after born again Christians. As far as the Will Smith issue, it doesn jive with their agenda since Will Smith is black.

  • Atticus Draco

    Liberty Back For More said:
    What CNN wanted to do was catch Kirk in some religious rant.

    yep,,, this

  • skyfet

    Looks like they are literally losing it.

  • Atticus Draco

    Liberty Back For More said:
    What CNN wanted to do was catch Kirk in some religious rant. They just love to go after born again Christians

    Honestly,, i was flippin’ through the channels last night,, saw that Cameron was on Cooper,, i chuckled and thought it was odd,, i didnt watch any of it,, just continued flipping channels,, on the premise that IF Cameron DID say something stupid,, i was rest assured I’d see it here on MEDIAite!
    lol

    I knew MEDIAite would be all over that!

  • valkyrie101

    Perhaps Cooper was on drugs.

  • TangledThorns

    LOL, Kirk pwn3d CNN.

  • The Real Royal King

    My first question upon learning of a new apparition of the BVM on a tortilla or a rusted screen door is: Where is Kirk Cameron?

  • The Real Royal King

    valkyrie101 said:
    Perhaps Cooper was on drugs.

    Why? Was he sobbing uncontrollably?

  • Fox News: Serving the Freeper community since 1996

    Dear,
    you must know it is nothing to me –
    Faith is outmoded
    All those illusions I once held so fine
    Have long been exploded.
    –Winnifred A. Hillier

  • Scott_in_MI

    Liberty Back For More said:
    What CNN wanted to do was catch Kirk in some religious rant. They just love to go after born again Christians. As far as the Will Smith issue, it doesn jive with their agenda since Will Smith is black.

    I wonder if CNN would bring a Muslim on in an attempt to make fun of his crazy religious beliefs?

  • The Real Royal King

    Scott_in_MI said:
    I wonder if CNN would bring a Muslim on in an attempt to make fun of his crazy religious beliefs?

    What would the setting be? Being forced to watch someone eat a bacon butty and down a Spitfire?

  • valkyrie101

    The Real Royal King said:
    Why? Was he sobbing uncontrollably?

    No but look at how serious he looks. I mean I can see the interview as sort of a lark, but no sigh that Cooper was larking it. I’m thinking that Cameron’s publicist arranged an interview to promote Cameron’s new movie and this was the only angle that CNN could come up with.

  • Atticus Draco

    Scott_in_MI said:
    I wonder if CNN would bring a Muslim on in an attempt to make fun of his crazy religious beliefs?

    lol,, yeah right

  • Davo

    CNN’s just trying to divert attention away from the likelyhood that the birds believed the global warming hoax, and didn’t fly south for the winter.

  • Hugo Daun

    valkyrie101 said:
    I’m thinking that Cameron’s publicist arranged an interview to promote Cameron’s new movie and this was the only angle that CNN could come up with.

    That’s a FAR too reasonable scenario…there MUST be some malicious intent!

  • Thelonious Funk

    Why would Cameron know anything about a massive die-off of fish or birds? Now if there was a devistating banana blight, he might be the guy to call.

  • The Real Royal King

    Atticus Draco said:
    lol,, yeah right

    Now, Atticus, Islamic Fundamentalists are not as zany as Christian Fundamentalists.

    Davo said:
    CNN’s just trying to divert attention away from the likelyhood that the birds believed the global warming hoax, and didn’t fly south for the winter.

    While that is a most interesting and entertaining spelling of “likelihood”, I have to note that I believe this species is not migratory. If you syllabicate in the British English method, mig-ra-tor-y, that is a fun word.

  • Hugo Daun

    Thelonious Funk said:
    if there was a devistating banana blight, he might be the guy to call.

    QFT

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    “Even Kirk Cameron Has No Idea Why CNN Brought Him On To Talk About Dead Birds”

    …and yet, the lamestream “Corrupt B-tards” of the cnn socialist propaganda network wonder why NOBODY with a brain watches them !!!!!

  • The Real Royal King

    Hugo Daun said:
    valkyrie101 said:
    I’m thinking that Cameron’s publicist arranged an interview to promote Cameron’s new movie and this was the only angle that CNN could come up with.

    That’s a FAR too reasonable scenario…there MUST be some malicious intent!

    Probably to deflect attention from the forthcoming stunning accomplishments of the Republican House. Or, perhaps a means to draw viewers from Oprah’s new network. We’ll never know until the TSA starts screening birds prior to flight, however.

  • Atticus Draco

    Davo said:
    CNN’s just trying to divert attention away from the likelyhood that the birds believed the global warming hoax, and didn’t fly south for the winter.

    LMAO,,, GOOD ONE
    In fact,, that’s plausible as hell!
    I can imagine the CNN staff legitimately considering that notion

    Yeah,, you all know it is very plausible of the CNN mindset to contemplate that!!

  • Atticus Draco

    The Real Royal King said:
    Now, Atticus, Islamic Fundamentalists are not as zany as Christian Fundamentalists.

    uh-ho,,, lol,, RRK is in a playful mood today huh?

  • libra blue

    Anderson calls in someone connected to that crazy “Left Behind” cult to discuss a serious issue like this. I guess it is part of Anderson’s transition from serious journalist (which he hasn’t been for a long time) to dumbed down celebrity talk show host.

    Tune in tonight when he continues to destroy what little respectability he may have left when he interviews the cackling queens of plastic surgery griffin and rivers. oh yeah and behar who cackles, but claims she hasn’t had ps.

  • Scott_in_MI

    Davo said:
    CNN’s just trying to divert attention away from the likelyhood that the birds believed the global warming hoax, and didn’t fly south for the winter.

    Perhaps it was the fact that birds understood the “devestation” humans are causing earth, so they killed themselves in despair

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  • The Real Royal King

    Atticus Draco said:
    uh-ho,,, lol,, RRK is in a playful mood today huh?

    Years ago, in less “comfortable” times, I had a neighbor with one of those dreadful above ground pools. Several times a year he would have the Men’s Sunday School Class, from whatever cult he belonged to, come over, and they would conduct proxy baptisms and re-baptisms. Most odd theologically, but an odder site still seeing 20 grown men in an above ground pool splashing around and dunking one another. I suppose I should say “immersing”. When they were finished, they would have Hostess cupcakes and Hawaiian Punch. I thought Hawaiian Punch odd, and sometimes wondered if it were suppose to be Eucharistic in quality. Now, that’s zany. We’ve since moved onward and upward, and his circumstances have also improved. Always a really nice guy, he’s since become a Presbyterian, one of God’s respectable frozen chosen and has gotten an in-ground pool.

  • Atticus Draco

    The Real Royal King said:
    Years ago, in less “comfortable” times, I had a neighbor with one of those dreadful above ground pools. Several times a year he would have the Men’s Sunday School Class, from whatever cult he belonged to, come over, and they would conduct proxy baptisms and re-baptisms. Most odd theologically, but an odder site still seeing 20 grown men in an above ground pool splashing around and dunking one another. I suppose I should say “immersing”. When they were finished, they would have Hostess cupcakes and Hawaiian Punch. I thought Hawaiian Punch odd, and sometimes wondered if it were suppose to be Eucharistic in quality. Now, that’s zany. We’ve since moved onward and upward, and his circumstances have also improved. Always a really nice guy, he’s since become a Presbyterian, one of God’s respectable frozen chosen and has gotten an in-ground pool.

    LMAO!
    You do make me laugh at times RRK
    HAPPY NEW YEAR!

  • notsofast

    Maybe Kirk thought the topic of “dead birds” was a reference to his career.

  • Atticus Draco

    Atticus Draco said:
    The Real Royal King said:
    Years ago, in less “comfortable” times, I had a neighbor with one of those dreadful above ground pools. Several times a year he would have the Men’s Sunday School Class, from whatever cult he belonged to, come over, and they would conduct proxy baptisms and re-baptisms. Most odd theologically, but an odder site still seeing 20 grown men in an above ground pool splashing around and dunking one another. I suppose I should say “immersing”. When they were finished, they would have Hostess cupcakes and Hawaiian Punch. I thought Hawaiian Punch odd, and sometimes wondered if it were suppose to be Eucharistic in quality. Now, that’s zany. We’ve since moved onward and upward, and his circumstances have also improved. Always a really nice guy, he’s since become a Presbyterian, one of God’s respectable frozen chosen and has gotten an in-ground pool.

    Atticus Draco said:
    LMAO!
    You do make me laugh at times RRK
    HAPPY NEW YEAR!

    Seriously,, i was thinking “Monty Python” while reading this
    This would have been a good skit for “Monty Python”!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Greg-Palmer/100000481076398 Greg Palmer

    CNN is racist that’s why no Will Smith.

  • Knowledge_Is_Power

    I think Anderson was trying to go with more of the religious side of the story about the end times and not much about why the birds died. I still don’t see why Kirk was on since there are many more qualified people or preachers whom he could have had on to talk about this.

    CNN does like to make fun of Christians so maybe they were wanting Kirk to trip up and give them a nice sound bite that they could run all day today. O and so that sites like this would pounce all over it. But it didn’t happen. Instead they look foolish themselves for this nonsense.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Liberty Back For More said:
    What CNN wanted to do was catch Kirk in some religious rant. They just love to go after born again Christians. As far as the Will Smith issue, it doesn jive with their agenda since Will Smith is black.

    because clearly if you want to get a story about blacks and fake threats you go to fox.

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/dave-weigel-accuses-megyn-kelly-of-fear-mongering-with-black-panther-story/

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    notsofast said:
    Maybe Kirk thought the topic of “dead birds” was a reference to his career.

    very funny

  • valkyrie101

    Greg Palmer said:
    CNN is racist that’s why no Will Smith.

    No, they first tried to get Mitt Romney on for this segment to explain how the bird and fish kill relates to the Mormon view that America must imminently melt down (with roving bands of undead, the collapse of the government, and a run on gold and last days seeds, as a preamble to the return of Christ, with only the Mormon faithful surviving in their bunkers, but he had other committments.

  • milynily

    Makes you wonder what Cooper’s new talk show will be like? Maybe they should rethink that one.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Scott_in_MI said:
    Perhaps it was the fact that birds understood the “devestation” humans are causing earth, so they killed themselves in despair

    darwin pointed out the ability of adaptation in ‘survival of the fittest’ in this case the birds acclimation to evermore increase of pollutants. and glen beck uses the example of a frog in boiling water vs. one in slowly heated water (although he does it for a different subject….
    oh, wait…were you being serious?

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    valkyrie101 said:
    No, they first tried to get Mitt Romney on for this segment to explain how the bird and fish kill relates to the Mormon view that America must imminently melt down (with roving bands of undead, the collapse of the government, and a run on gold and last days seeds, as a preamble to the return of Christ, with only the Mormon faithful surviving in their bunkers, but he had other committments.

    is that the whole thing when the constitution is ‘hanging by a thread’ and the mormons are the ones to come to power and save everything?

  • Davo

    Scott_in_MI said:
    Perhaps it was the fact that birds understood the “devestation” humans are causing earth, so they killed themselves in despair

    Careful there, Scott. Liberals might be tempted to follow suit, and………..and………………………….oh……… nevermind.

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Fox News: Serving the Freeper community since 1996 said:
    Dear,
    you must know it is nothing to me –
    Faith is outmoded
    All those illusions I once held so fine
    Have long been exploded.
    –Winnifred A. Hillier

    To hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you’ve been bad or good – and cares about any of it – is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.
    –Frank Zappa

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Davo said:
    Careful there, Scott. Liberals might be tempted to follow suit, and………..and………………………….oh……… nevermind.

    hope i was able to fulfill your expectation.

  • CosmosDan

    Good Lord Anderson. Who’s idea was that? How embarrassing. Can’t you at least wait until the moon turns blood red before you resort to End of Days guy?

  • Pokerdude777

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    To hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you’ve been bad or good – and cares about any of it – is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.–Frank Zappa

    Ignorance is bliss. :-) Yeah, Frank Zappa is who I always turn to for my religious counseling. Ha. Oh by the way, beaking news…..Another large bird kill reported, this time in Louisiana
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/another-large-bird-kill-reported-this-time-in-louisiana

  • cjd ohio 1

    dead birds, blunt force trauma, shit they were hit by a ufo ,of course

  • OxyCon

    Oh noes you din’t just talk about flying saucers while mentioning a Scientologist!
    Keep an eye out for well dressed men!

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    Pokerdude777 said:
    Ignorance is bliss. :-) Yeah, Frank Zappa is who I always turn to for my religious counseling. Ha. Oh by the way, beaking news…..Another large bird kill reported, this time in Louisiana
    http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/another-large-bird-kill-reported-this-time-in-louisiana

    very interesting…following that link…http://www.prisonplanet.com/is-mass-bird-and-fish-die-off-connected-to-government-testing.html
    it looks like this might be a subject for glen beck.

  • libra blue

    @Knowledge_Is_Power , “I still don’t see why Kirk was on since there are many more qualified people or preachers whom he could have had on to talk about this.”

    Because Anderson only chooses weak targets to represent the side he disagrees with like Michelle Bachman, Christine O’Donnell, and Leo Berman, to make him appear competent. He would never bring on a guest that could challenge his attacks.

    I am surprised Mediaite didn’t post a blog about Anderson’s interview with Obama lap dog Michael Moore.

  • ChiliPeppersFan
  • Scott_in_MI

    The Real Royal King said:
    Hostess cupcakes and Hawaiian Punch

    What an awesome combination. Takes me back to those summer nights as a teenager when I would get hit by the munchies.

  • Scott_in_MI

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    because clearly if you want to get a story about blacks and fake threats you go to fox.

    Fake threats? The Black Panther thug was holding a baton. Do you think Holder would prosecute if some KKK guy was intimidating voters at a polling station?

  • Helix

    CosmosDan said:
    Good Lord Anderson. Who’s idea was that? How embarrassing. Can’t you at least wait until the moon turns blood red before you resort to End of Days guy?

    It already did, actually. Guess you missed that total lunar eclispe on Dec. 20-21, 2010. Actually I saw it and was kind of disappointed, it really looked more orangish than blood red to me. Some of the online animations have a better shade of red. (http://shadowandsubstance.com/) if you scroll down past the sun eclispe you will find it.

  • Helix

    Oops. Eclipse is the correct spelling.

  • valkyrie101

    ChiliPeppersFan said:
    is that the whole thing when the constitution is ‘hanging by a thread’ and the mormons are the ones to come to power and save everything?

    Yep. Beck/Romney 2012

  • valkyrie101

    Scott_in_MI said:
    Fake threats? The Black Panther thug was holding a baton. Do you think Holder would prosecute if some KKK guy was intimidating voters at a polling station?

    Well for over a hundred years they didn’t. Nor did they do much about the burning crosses.

  • Helix

    Davo said:
    Careful there, Scott. Liberals might be tempted to follow suit, and………..and………………………….oh……… nevermind.

    The zombies are liberals who tried to kill themselves, but they just keep failing.

  • Talisman

    Too bad they didn’t get Pat Robertson. This would have went perfect with his dooms-day predictions.

    The facts all line up.

    1. Birds dropping out of the sky.

    2. Fish dying in the sea.

    3. Earthquake in the Holy Land. (yes, I mean Utah)

    3. The Republicans take back control of the nation.

    That’s more than enough evidence, you don’t have to be a prophet here to predict Armageddon.

  • valkyrie101

    Talisman said:
    Too bad they didn’t get Pat Robertson. This would have went perfect with his dooms-day predictions. The facts all line up. 1. Birds dropping out of the sky. 2. Fish dying in the sea. 3. Earthquake in the Holy Land. (yes, I mean Utah) 3. The Republicans take back control of the nation. That’s more than enough evidence, you don’t have to be a prophet here to predict Armageddon.

    Daniel 12:7
    The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time. When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.”

    Perhaps things will not bode so well for the religious right after all.

  • Scott_in_MI

    valkyrie101 said:
    Well for over a hundred years they didn’t. Nor did they do much about the burning crosses.

    Thats true…Since the late 1860′s the KKK has been the terror wing of the Democratic party.

  • valkyrie101

    Scott_in_MI said:
    Thats true…Since the late 1860’s the KKK has been the terror wing of the Democratic party.

    It has nothing to do with political party. Conservatives oppose change, liberals seek it. The conservatives were the Tories that sided with the British. The radical liberals, like Jefferson, Madison, Washington and company, sought change. Likewise, conservatives opposed civil rights, especially in the south, while the liberals sought to change the status quo by giving rights to blacks, voting rights to woman, etc. Of course now we take many of our civil rights for granted, but in the day, the conservatives fought against the changes that brought those rights. Conservatives also fought against anti-trust laws, child labor laws, you name it, tooth and nail, just like they oppose regulation of pollution today.

  • valkyrie101

    Conservativatism is ballast for progressive thought.

  • mcf1757

    Foxnews cuts away from Giffords Vigil once Sarah Palin’s name is mentioned!!

    http://newsallaroundus.blogspot.com/2011/01/fox-news-cuts-away-from-giffords-vigil.html

  • YoCuzwaasup

    Jesus does say:
    … great earthquakes shall be in different places, famines, disease’s, (sickness, epidemic’s); fearful sights and “GREAT SIGNS” will come from heaven. (These unexplained bird deaths… birds fly in the heavens … coincidences or warnings … ?) Jesus goes on to say … But before all these happen, people will take you, and harass you, and bring up bogus charges and throw you in prison, you will be brought before leaders and rulers for my name’s sake. They will turn to you for answers. Why was a Born-again person asked?

    I believe we are at that time Jesus called the “END DAYS”! We’ve been in them since May 1′st 1776.
    THE BOOK OF Luke chapter 21 verse 20 Jesus says this …
    “When you clearly see Jerusalem surrounded with armies, then know that the desolation is near and ready.

    —- I belong to a news group and this report just came out on 01-06-11…
    “The Pentagon is getting more money at the very time the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are set to switch to Yemen, the Sudan, and the African continent!
    Wars in the “Non-Integrating Gap” are set to explode!
    NEWS BRIEF: “Pentagon’s Christmas Present: Largest Military Budget Since World War II”, By Rick Rozoff, OpEd News, December 23, 2010

    —- Google the site at the bottom of the page and you tell me if: Jerusalem is being surrounded with armies?

    —- The most important thing any human can to is: GET RIGHT WITH GOD. Accept JESUS and ask Him to come into your heart and forgive you of your sin.
    God Bless, aI hope this answered your question.
    Anthony

    Jerusalem surrounded with armies
    http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lib.utexas.edu%2Fmaps%2Fmiddle_east_and_asia%2Fisrael_nbr90.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.1uptravel.com%2Fworldmaps%2Fwest-bank-gaza-strip10.html&h=972&w=1004&sz=167&tbnid=SjCsIg-BhwxvnM%3A&tbnh=144&tbnw=149&prev=%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dmaps%2Bof%2Bisrael&zoom=1&q=maps+of+israel&usg=__IG1WGWpxJ9k2BsYp-CebUzLhQuM%3D&sa=X&ei=AyopTdWeJIet8AaNqOnGAQ&ved=0CE8Q9QEwCQ

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