James Cameron: Glenn Beck Is “Dangerous,” Stephen Hawking “Right On The Money”

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by Steve Krakauer | 7:40 am, April 27th, 2010

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Avatar Director James Cameron played Hardball on MSNBC yesterday, and Chris Matthews delighted in exploring the environmental issues portrayed in the blockbuster movie.

But he also hit on another Cameron favorite – Glenn Beck. Oh, and Stephen Hawking and his ‘aliens will wipe us out’ theories.

Cameron and Beck have had a war of words fairly recently, and it took Matthews bringing up the Fox News host twice to get Cameron to weigh in on him. Matthews set it up…

I’m worried about the media though. Because now we have a right-wing media available. That if you feel like, if you’re a business guy for example or a business woman, and you want to have a good excuse, a good dodge not to do anything, well you listen to someone on the right like Beck who’s willing to come in and say, ‘Oh you don’t have to do anything. These guys are a bunch of tree huggers, forget about it.’

…And Cameron knocked it down.

Guys like Beck and the others, I think they’re very dangerous to this country. And I think that some day they’re gonna have to answer to my children and to your children and their children for the world that they’re helping to create right now.

Then there was the issue of Stephen Hawking’s recent theories about malevolent aliens who will wipe us out. “I think he’s right on the money,” said Cameron, who pointed to the way other aliens, like, um, Christopher Columbus, have behaved in history: “They were, you know, converted to Christianity or whatever it was. And this has been our history. So why would we expect aliens be any different?”

Well, for one, they’re aliens, so who the hell knows. Except for James Cameron, who created Pandora and a PG-13 movie that somehow showed Kate Winslet topless.

One more quote for all the Cameron fans on the right:

We take the resources we need. We take everything. We don’t give enough back. And we’re crossing over a threshold where the Earth is not going to be able to sustain us.

…The Earth Fights Back – coming to theaters everywhere in 2012 (in 4-D).

Here’s the interview:

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James Cameron is one of the greatest movie makers of our generation. He’s made an incredible amount of awesome movies. Great interview!
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I don’t agree with Cameron on FOX News. In its own way, Fox is excellent. It does a good job. Among other things, it gathers and gives a voice to people who otherwise would not have a voice who are angry, frustrated and have issues with our culture or government. I say let them have a voice, let them speak. There are plenty of other voices out there with a competing view if people do not agree with FOX. But FOX will do, as it has done, the right thing by encouraging its viewers to be democratic and non-violent. That kind of expression is totally cool, and valuable in a free country. For people with issues, expression preceeds resolution. FOX is not the problem, but in the dynamic of change, FOX helps people evolve. Long live FOX.
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The EARTH is not in danger. Drive cars and use gas there is nothing wrong with it. Drill everywhere NOW. Cameron and other enviromental whackos need slapped down.
timzank

James Cameron: Glenn Beck Is “Dangerous,” Now that’s rich. I find it humorous that either Beck OR Cameron could be considered dangerous, but if the “dangerous” tag is to be measured on either it would have to be reasonably considered as such:

Beck spends an hour a day preaching libertarian’ish and conservative principles to his own choir of 2 to 3 million people. Cameron makes a movie laced with overwhelming “liberal” ideology and influences well over 100 million people?

Might want to put that “dangerous” description in perspective Jimbo.
valkyrie101

Neither Cameron nor Beck is “dangerous”, since neither of them advocate violence. Free speech is cool.
errxn

“I’m worried about the media though. Because now we have a right-wing media available.”

Yes, James, God forbid that the “right-wing media” have a voice. I guess it was okay, though, back when it was just the “left-wing media,” right?

Statements like this are just one of many reasons that no one takes Hollywood activism seriously.
errxn

OK, I misread the article. Chris Matthews actually said what I quoted above. Which is even worse.
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Dr. Hawking is a brilliant man, hence I must give credence to his claim that we have a lot to fear from aliens. Thus far, however, it seems only the State of Arizona has agreed with him.

Glenn Beck is another brilliant man.