Exclusive: James Cameron’s Chickened Out of Global Warming Debates Before
by Dan GiffordA mere week after director James Cameron won a Chicken Award for running away from a climate change debate challenge he had made to Andrew Breitbart, filmmaker Ann McElhinney and Marc Morano, it has been confirmed that the Oscar-winner now deserves a second Chicken Award for similarly refusing to take “yes” for an answer regarding an earlier climate change debate he had demanded with syndicated radio talk host Rusty Humphries.
You’ll recall that Cameron hectored to the world, “I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads,” and then just last week through a proxy, invited Breitbart & Co. to battle him before an audience of committed global warming believers in Aspen.
I have just learned that an earlier challenge to Humphries made by this same proxy, environmental activist Richard Greene, followed the same nonsensical pattern that involves Cameron inviting you, encouraging you to incur costs, and then finding an absurd reason to cancel at the last minute. Humphries tells his story:
“What they wanted me to do was pay to fly across the country, pay for a hotel, pay my own way to the event, and then, after an opening showing of the Avatar DVD, I would get the privilege of debating James Cameron on climate change in front of 5,000 of his rabid fans. Oh, by the way, I was also asked: ‘can you bring along Glenn Beck (whom Cameron calls a “fucking asshole”) and Sean Hannity?’ I don’t know them and could’t get them, but I was going to do it because, eh, what the hell, I’ll get to meet James Cameron. But just before the event, I was told the thing was off because there was a bio or eco emergency or something like that in Brazil.”
Once in the Amazon, Cameron painted his face and tried to figure how to work Nanny McPhee’s magic walking stick to solve the crisis.
“I’m less interested in making money for the movie and more interested in saving the world,” King of the Jungle says.
But was a sudden trip to a far away place the real reason Cameron’s contrived political theater event was canceled? Absolutely not. What we have here is a wanker joke twice pulled-off by one of the wealthiest directors of all time for the benefit his own cowardly ego. I’ll save the discussion about whether debates prove anything beyond who is the better debater for another time, but if there is any evidence that Cameron would actually engage a knowledgeable opponent in verbal combat on level ground before an impartial audience where he is at risk of losing face or repelling people with his profane arrogance, I’ve yet to see it.
On the other hand, his chicken tracks are plain:
- Cameron invites prominent conservatives to a high-profile debate on a very important issue.
- They agree to pay their own way for the opportunity of being on stage with him.
- Then he starts demanding ridiculous changes to prior agreements.
- He then either uses the exotic coolness schtik of being too needed in other parts of the globe to cancel the debate or….
- Tells those he’s invited to debate with him that they’re suddenly not good enough to share the stage with, and…
- Sticks would-be participants with any expenses they’ve incurred for stupidly assuming he was negotiating in good faith. I know for a fact McElhinney ate more than $1,000 in camera crew expenditures.
Cameron clearly sees no need to honor his commitment with those he regards as lesser mortals. Get the joke?
“Morano is not at Cameron’s level to debate, and that’s why it didn’t happen,” sneered Cameron’s proxy procurer Greene. “Cameron should be debating someone who is similar to his stature in our society.” Hmmm, then maybe Greene credibly can explain why he was even allowed to negotiate with Morano for more than a week.
Greene’s calls to God have gone unanswered.
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EARLIER THIS WEEK HE CLAIMED THAT , George W. Bush was the inspiration for his Smurf movie and all the evils of the capitalists was portrayed….
Truth is when this movie came out and he was doing all the pressers he said then that he had been working on the Script since 1997, Bush wasn't even president then !
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…. In the picture above Which one is Cameron and which one is Gore ?
It's not like leftists treat anyone batter when they get real power. The real mystery to me is why anyone buys the propaganda that the left cares for the little people, because the little people are never helped by them. I think some people just like to be lied to.
I read that a lie to an infidel is not considered a lie in the Muslim religion. Maybe to a uber liberal, a lie to a conservative is not considered to be a lie either. (Or maybe lying to a conservative is considered "sport.")
Big mouth/no balls. That's my conclusion.
Cameron certainly has some poultry excuses.
if he needs somebody with equal stature to debate, i am so sorry, most chickens don't live that long before they are on my dinner plate. perhaps he needs to lower his standards a bit, i hear msnbc would love a scumbag to come over and agree with them, they are more to his standing in society. as i said yesterday, he is king of the chickens!
He realized he can't yell "line" or "cut" during the debate.
If a squishy white guy in a fanny pack can't save the world, we're doomed. Doomed!
Someone of equal stature? So he's hoping to debate Basil Marceaux and Alvin Greene?
That's it man, game over man, game over!
I say we take off, nuke Pandora from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Stupidity, arrogance and or laziness.
Ugh. So disappointing Mr Cameron. So disappointing. You would think that if you *believed* something as ardently as you do that you would be ready to debate anyone at anytime. Unfortunately for you, however, is that once you actually start to truly examine the facts of Global Warming it becomes apparent that there are more holes in the data than Swiss cheese and the argument falls apart.
I know. It's just easier to believe in Pandora and forget all that data nonsense. Data is for losers! (ha!)
Oh well played ye master of the pun.
And he cannot do a re-write or re-shoot after he has been made to look the fool.
“Morano is not at Cameron’s level to debate, and that’s why it didn’t happen,” sneered Cameron’s proxy procurer Greene.
Ah so he means that if Marc Morano wants to debate Cameron then he has to shove his head further up his own behind so that he is on a level with Cameron (and Greene). Now it makes sense.
Unless the "debate" takes place in the Hollywood elitist echo-chamber these eco-wimps have nothing. All Cameron would have done, and I'm sure this was brought to his attention by his handlers, is parrot the BS that other parrots had heard. The problem is, "Polly wants a cracker" isn't a real argument. And when this twit had to go against people who actually know what they're talking about Cameron would have gotten his ass handed to him on a plate. Since it would have been bad PR, the headline reading, "James Cameron made to look the fool on global warming" could possibly hurt funding of Avatar 2, it was prudent for him to puss out.
What an incredible asshole! He and Owlgore follow the same rules of debate, don’t have one, it would only confirm that they’re assholes, and wrong.
Typical bully behavior. Threaten, threaten, threaten, but when the time comes to face someone their own size they slink away into the shadows like the cowards they really are. Glad to see his record of cowardice is getting some coverage. The more light that is shined on fakes like him the better.
LOL!
Seems like this fowl play is typical for Cameron.
The only thing bigger than Cameron's mouth is the yellow stripe going down his spine….
And talk about arrogant! "Stature…." What a doucherocket…..
I think Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park fame need to re-assess the crown they gave to John Edward. I believe J.C. puff n' tuff is the new holder of the title 'Biggest Douche in the Universe'.
The hoaxers are now realizing that pushing a lie when everybody knows it's a lie, is really tough.
Andrew was one of the panelist to refute the lies — Kudos for scaring him away, he was going to get clobbered.
My advice to Hollywood, keep making what you are good at, fantasy movies. Leave science to those that know.
The only thing bigger than Cameron's mouth is his carbon footprint.
He definitely earns the Chicken Award multiple times over. I said it before, and I'll say it again. He was trying to get his opponents to quit so he'd look good since he could claim his opponents were too scared to face him, but when they called his bluff, he had to be the one to bail. It sucks that the people going to debate him had to waste so much money.
Maybe we should set up a "Victims of James Cameron's Hypocrisy Fund"?
Are you saying Cameron is a yellow belly coward? No I don't believe it. Look at that photo. That's a real man's man!
Yup, the ol' biddy has some old yellowed slip peeking out under her skirt. As I said elsewhere, too much estrogen.
JC's antics remind me of Mark Garragos' courtroom play. The usual gambit starts off with a promise to prove his client's innocence beyond a shadow of a doubt. Then when it comes time to put up he just rests his case. I think he hopes the jury will remember something about his client's certain innocence and think maybe he did prove something. (Remember Scott Peterson?) It never worked for Garragos, and likewise this won't work for Cameron. His acolytes will probably remember he challenged someone to debate, and they may give him credit for it, but in the court of public opinion he will be known for the coward he is.
Laziness.
I'll trust that you did the research into the no balls part. No need to provide photographic evidence.
Are you saying his chickens are coming home to roost?
Disturbing image, but funny thought.
Don't underestimate stupidity and arrogance. They are powerful motivators.
A man among men, a leader among leaders…..wait, I'm thinking about Ernest Borgnine.
i'd take "when harry met sally" over avatar any day!
The real talent on the left knows how to pull this kind of a stunt off while making it look like its the other side's fault.
And the best this guy can come up with is "stature"?
That's pretty funny if you ask me. The best he can come up with is "it's my ball and I'm going home." Trust me, you may not see it, be even people on the left have got to be laughing over this one.
I've been on the left. And the vast majority of it is simply laziness. There are definitely segments of stupidity and arrogance. Bu the majority is laziness.
Which, by the way I find very encouraging because you can't fix stupidity. But you can fix laziness.
*rimshot*
I'm surprised the planet hasn't reached critical mass with his combined mouth, carbon footprint, and ego. Stars have collapsed under less weight.
Maybe in the US, but in Australia where you have to vote (which takes out laziness as an excuse) I put it down to stupidity.
Cameron: eunuch of the world!!!
Loons to the left of me, jokers to the right. Poor Cameron, he is stuck in a time warp, convinced there are no other news outlets to expose his childish antics. As we have witnessed so often, Hollywood types are all Talk, Pictures and Special effects, but when it comes down to one on one debate about real life issues, they panic.
I think Gore also chickened out on a debate with Lord Christopher Moncton. I do not understand why they are afraid to debate climate change skeptics especially when all of the "facts" and "science" are on their side; perhaps climate change is nothin but an anti free enterprise scheme for redistributing wealth from those who earned it to those who merely want it.
Present him with the bill for your wasted time or penalties for canceled airline flights or hotels and sue him if he refuses to pay.
Anyone who wallows in such way-out arrogance and self-puffery just HAS to be carrying a huge load of self-loating plus fears of inadequacy. The bluster cries out for such an interpretation, seems to me. Of course, that doesn't change anything: he's still an obnoxious jerk.
is this guy serious? I mean, he spends tons of fossil fuel to fly to Matto Grosso, to spend a few (ecologically damaging) days amogst some cannibals with his entourage, then returns to talk about damaging the evironment and about Bush's whatever policies?
This is so unreal – he's like Sean Pen, lives in a completly independent reality -
That is my mind in a nutshell!
Though maybe I shouldn't be acknowledging that fact in public.
Gore is not in that photo. He is in a hut assaulting a Brazilian masseuse.
"Which, by the way I find very encouraging because you can't fix stupidity. But you can fix laziness."
I find it encouraging because you can kick the sh*t out of laziness!
Didn't Cameron say he would debate Glenn Beck? If this is true, why hasn't Beck taken him up on it? I would think that Beck would destroy Cameron in a debate. And if Cameron backs out of a debate with Beck many people would hear about it thus exposing Cameron and his movement. It's a win/win for us.
Yes, and his goose is cooked too.
From listening to Cameron's demands for the debate before he backed out, it sounds like he was planning on doing some editing.
I thought I might be the only one who noticed the fanny pack! Seriously, what a nerd this guy is!
My god, that's brilliant! You should be in network programming, Rip. I would pay money to watch that. Far more entertaining than an actual debate!
but this is where you are wrong. if you see his pattern, he sets up a debate, then after agreed to rules, changes those. if he would setup a debate for glenn beck, he would make glenn wear a dress, and allow cameras only to show glenn beck in a dress. cameron knows he shot off his mouth, and money can't debate the truth. he may be powerful to people depending on him for money, but to the rest of us he is plain old nuts! if beck setup a debate, he wouldn't make it, and just play with beck, to show his power. why doesn't he debate algore? then he couldn't loose, he couldn't win either.
You should celebrate it! It distinguishes you from the herd.
"…it was prudent for him to puss out."
Of course it was. That's what pussies do.
I'll bet that he has a hunting knife and a pack of Marlboro reds in that fanny pack.
James.. james.. james of the Jungle,
Brave as he can be…
WATCH OUT FOR THE …..BOOM
tree…
We both know whit is in that and the other fanny packs. At there core all liberals are hypocrites.
Noble cause corruption. When you're fighting for your cause, anything goes.
The chicken is a noble bird. Please don't use their name in vain by comparing them to that idiot.
HEY CAMERON! DEBATE LORD MONCKTON YOU COWARD!!!
While I suppose we must grant him skills in the filmmaking universe – the world has no shortage of idiot savants – the guy is a community college dropout. I guess having all the money in the world makes some people think they can get away with writing checks with their mouths that their brains can't cash.
Well the left are expert at editing all the data when it comes to global warming so we should expect nothing elss.
As to that I already stand out enough as it is, so I don't need anything else to further distinguish me from the herd. But it is kind of hard to hide for any length of time.
Come on, Cameron is "king of the world" (self proclaimed at the Oscars and in Cameron's delusions).
Who could possibly be similar to his stature?
Answer: just about any mewling, puking six-month old baby.
http://instantrimshot.com/ I think this will help.
After Miller threw him a verbal beating he needed to actually throw him a beating….
Which came first–the enivro-whacko or the egg?
Not sure, so I'll just duck that question.
Something tells me "Super Chicken" would fit better.
I was wondering which barrel Richard Greene was going to scrape the bottom of, to find someone of equal stature.
Gore also wouldn´t debate Bjorn Lomborg. If Gore or Cameron actually believed that mankind is about to destroy the earth, they wouldn´t ask for $200,000 per speech or make one movie every couple of years. They would use every opportunity to talk to the public and convince sceptics. They don´t, because they don´t really believe what they are saying. They just want to feel good about themselves. They are the left-wing equivalent of, for example, Catholics who vote for pro-abortion candidates.
So, you're admitting you don't know squab?
Not at all, I just don't like being pigeon-holed.
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Uncle! Uncle! You win! LOL!
You knew the job was dangerous when you took it!
Sorry, didn't mean to ruffle your feathers.
Cameron's aura is bad.
*face palm*
Your moniker is very, very appropriate!
Cameron would prefer to talk "global warming" with other elites that will nod and agree with him. Being confronted with a different opinion is just uncomfortable and unnecessary.
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