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UPDATE: My friend the Anchoress tweets on Ted Danson: ” …and he’s wearing his “smart” glasses, so we’d better listen.”

With his tired “wonderful entertainer” swipe, Ted Danson tries mightily to laugh off all-things Rush Limbaugh, but the bitterness is just too deep to keep the charade going for long; and let’s face it, Danson’s just not that good of an actor.

Longtime Limbaugh listeners know where Danson’s anger comes from. Who could ever forget this:

RUSH: That’s how the media reacts to me, “You can’t say that, prove it!” Ted Danson makes these claims, “Oh, oh, he cares so much.” Well, last Friday on CNBC’s High Net Worth, the reporterette Jane Wells interviewed Ted Danson, and she said, “There was a time when you said the oceans are going to be dead in ten years. They’re not dead?”

DANSON: No. They’re not. But, I’m sure there was some hyperbole in what I said to draw attention to the issue, but you go to science journals now, 70% of the world’s fisheries are at a point of collapse.

RUSH: Really? Oh, you lied, it was just hyperbole. So now after being proven to have lied, but, but, but 70% of the ocean’s fisheries or the world’s fisheries or whatever are at a point of collapse, 70%. So he’s been proven wrong, throws another figure out there, wow, we’re in trouble, oh, no, 70% of the world’s fisheries are closed. So Jane Wells then said — well, the answer she reported after — “Danson says some people have wondered, why listen to an actor? They make fun of celebrities taking up causes. He gets that.”

Rush made high-sport of Danson’s absurd claim for years, even before the ten-year deadline was up, and then in 2007 the “hyperbole” finally caught up to the “Cheers” star. What could be more humiliating for a lefty celeb than having to admit on national television that Rush Limbaugh was right and you were full of it.

Blessed with an epic lack of self awareness, Danson obviously hasn’t changed a bit. Here he is, the guy who screamed from the rooftops that the oceans had ten-years to live accusing others of exploiting peoples’ fears.