Hollywood Hubris: Director James Cameron Offers to Solve Gulf Oil Spill, Is Ticked Off at “Morons” Who Turned Down His Offer
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on June 4, 2010
Film director James Cameron is mighty miffed that he was turned down to solve the Gulf oil spill crisis... he knows 'really, really, really smart people'
Crikey, another Hollywood-ite has stepped forward to solve the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis. Kevin Costner offered a couple of weeks ago, and now it’s film director James Cameron, of Titanic and Avatar fame, who wants in on the action. Must have slowed down on whining about Glenn Beck and wanting to “shoot it out” with anyone who has the effrontery to not worship at the feet of climate-change huckster Al Gore.
Yeah, THAT James Cameron.
From Reuters via Las Vegas KXNT Newsradio, Director James Cameron says BP turned down help offer:
PALOS VERDES, Calif (Reuters) – Film director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron said on Wednesday that BP Plc turned down his offer to help combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
“Over the last few weeks I’ve watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what’s happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don’t know what they’re doing,” Cameron said at the All Things Digital technology conference.
Cameron, the director of “Avatar” and “Titanic,” has worked extensively with robot submarines and is considered an expert in undersea filming. He did not say explicitly who he meant when he referred to “those morons.”
“Those morons.”
Think back to last Thursday. Who publicly proclaimed that British Petroleum was at the government’s beck and call, that BP could not do a single thing without his blessing?
“I’ll take US Presidents for $600, Alex.”
More from Reuters…
His comments came a day after he participated in a meeting at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington to “brainstorm” solutions to the oil spill.
Cameron said he has offered to help the government and BP in dealing with the spill. He said he was “graciously” turned away by the British energy giant.
He said he has not spoken with the White House about his offer, and said that the outside experts who took part in the EPA meeting were now “writing it all up and putting in reports to the various agencies.”
The film director has helped develop deep-sea submersible equipment and other underwater ocean technology for the making of documentaries exploring the wrecks of the ocean liner Titanic and the German battleship Bismarck some two miles below the surface.
‘REALLY SMART PEOPLE’
Cameron suggested the U.S. government needed to take a more active role in monitoring the undersea gusher, which has become the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
“I know really, really, really smart people that work typically at depths much greater than what that well is at,” Cameron said
Three “really’s.” Three? Must be some serious stuff going on here, James. Really, really, really serious.
On a lark — because I simply can’t resist — permit me to josh a bit regarding your poor grammar, Jimmy boy. We’ll let slide that hubris-smacking, juvenile hyperbole because it was, well, just plain idiocy. First, there’s the awkward ending of your puffed-up sentence with the preposition “at.” Most educated people still try to avoid placing prepositions at the end of sentences (old school, I know). Additionally, you do know that the relative pronoun “who” and not “that” should be used when referring to people? As in “who work,” not “that work.”
If you’re the sole advocate for unnamed, likely expensive, “really, really, really smart people,” it would behoove you to sound like you yourself were one of those “really, really, really smart people” when trying to clinch a deal for a high profile, potential million-dollar government contract. You’re not a stupid man. You just SOUND like you are. Just a thought…
The Reuters post continues…
The BP oil spill off the U.S. Gulf Coast is located a mile below the surface.
While acknowledging that his contacts in the deep-sea industry do not drill for oil, Cameron said that they are accustomed to operating various underwater vehicles and electronic optical fiber systems.
So, Cameron is ticked off because some unnamed “moron” wouldn’t give him the Gulf oil spill gig, wouldn’t let him play super-hero? Even though his contacts have NO deep-sea oil drilling experience? Imagine that.
But perhaps Cameron has a legitimate right to be miffed. We do, after all, have a lacking-in-management-background “moron” sitting pretty in the Oval Office.
I’m still waiting for Lionel Richie and Sir Paul McCartney to announce they’ve penned a formula pop tune, which will be performed gratis by every millionaire liberal entertainer on Obama’s White House A-list who doesn’t sound like Yoko Ono, with all proceeds going to charity — working title, uh, maybe “We Are the Oil Spill.”
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Frugal Café Blog Zone: But Didn’t Obama Say HE Was in Charge of the Gulf Oil Spill Since “Day 1″? Now Is Backing Away, Distancing Himself from BP… Figures and Obama’s Oil Spill — Liz Cheney: “Gift for Reading the TelePrompter Is Not the Same As Leadership’ — Gov Jindal: “There Could Have Been a Greater Sense of Urgency” (video) and Political Writer Peggy Noonan: “Obama Was Suppose to Be Competent,” Gulf Oil Spill Debacle May Be His Undoing and Gulf Oil Leak Plug Failure — “Top Kill” Didn’t Work, Obama Likely Won’t Accept Blame Even Though BP Is Operating Under His Authority, Rep. Scalise Hits the Roof (video) and Louisiana Coast Oil Spill Photo Op… What in the Heck Is Obama Doing in This Photo? and Gulf Oil Spill Roundup: Obama’s Press Conference, Diving into the Gulf Oil Spill to See the Disaster, & Obama’s Head of Mineral Management Service Resigns in Wake of BP Spill (video)
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What an egotistical windbag. Hollywood idiot who believes his own hype – all of Tinsletown is nuts and full of themselfs.