Little-Acorn
06-03-2010, 11:27 AM
I thought this was a joke when I first read it. Looked like The Onion was in fine fettle once again.
Except this isn't from The Onion. It actually happened. The Obama administration brought in James Cameron, director of the movie "Titanic", apparently with the notion that he would have something useful to contribute to the problem of stopping the oil leak in the Gulf.
Am I the only one who finds this so silly that it approaches the bizarre?
Movie directors, even good ones like Cameron, are entertainers, correct? Their job is faking things, is it not? Not doing things, faking things. Pretending.
Yet the Obamanites bring him in, because he is good at filming things underwater? And because he knows other people who are good at filming things underwater?
I can just see the roustabouts and hands-on guys at BP, who have spent most of their lives slamming drills around, living on rigs, fighting hurricanes (real ones), and actually producing thousands of tons of oil in difficult-to impossible circumstances, "graciously" turning away the offer of a MOVIE PRODUCER to "help". I hope they managed to get out of the room before collapsing in laughter - they might have hurt old Cam's feelings. But they might not have managed to keep straight faces long enough - now Cameron is calling them names, shouting that they don't know what they're doing, etc.... as liberals usually do when they get revealed as pompous, arrogant fools.
Yet the Obama administration brought this guy in. Is it possible that they actually thought he could contribute something that lifelong undersea oil experts couldn't? Or did they just do it to insult those (real) experts even more, while simultaneously announcing that they were going to bring criminal charges against those experts?
The Obama adminstration has long had a sheen of disconnection from reality, saying weird things with little relation to reality, and even acting like they expected people to believe them.
But this one takes the cake.
Who will they bring in next? Lloyd Bridges? Spongebob Squarepants?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100603/en_nm/us_oil_spill_cameron
Director James Cameron says BP turned down help offer
By Alexei Oreskovic Alexei Oreskovic – Thu Jun 3, 3:02 am ET
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."
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.
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.
Except this isn't from The Onion. It actually happened. The Obama administration brought in James Cameron, director of the movie "Titanic", apparently with the notion that he would have something useful to contribute to the problem of stopping the oil leak in the Gulf.
Am I the only one who finds this so silly that it approaches the bizarre?
Movie directors, even good ones like Cameron, are entertainers, correct? Their job is faking things, is it not? Not doing things, faking things. Pretending.
Yet the Obamanites bring him in, because he is good at filming things underwater? And because he knows other people who are good at filming things underwater?
I can just see the roustabouts and hands-on guys at BP, who have spent most of their lives slamming drills around, living on rigs, fighting hurricanes (real ones), and actually producing thousands of tons of oil in difficult-to impossible circumstances, "graciously" turning away the offer of a MOVIE PRODUCER to "help". I hope they managed to get out of the room before collapsing in laughter - they might have hurt old Cam's feelings. But they might not have managed to keep straight faces long enough - now Cameron is calling them names, shouting that they don't know what they're doing, etc.... as liberals usually do when they get revealed as pompous, arrogant fools.
Yet the Obama administration brought this guy in. Is it possible that they actually thought he could contribute something that lifelong undersea oil experts couldn't? Or did they just do it to insult those (real) experts even more, while simultaneously announcing that they were going to bring criminal charges against those experts?
The Obama adminstration has long had a sheen of disconnection from reality, saying weird things with little relation to reality, and even acting like they expected people to believe them.
But this one takes the cake.
Who will they bring in next? Lloyd Bridges? Spongebob Squarepants?
------------------------------------------------
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100603/en_nm/us_oil_spill_cameron
Director James Cameron says BP turned down help offer
By Alexei Oreskovic Alexei Oreskovic – Thu Jun 3, 3:02 am ET
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."
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.
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.