READER POLL: James Cameron and the Gulf Oil Spill

Time for a POLL:

1. Is director James Cameron helping and truly trying to be helpful with the Gulf Oil Spill?

2. Is Cameron’s raging “those guys are morons” ego completely out of control but because he’s King of the Town That Funnels Millions in Campaign Cash to Obama, the Feds are now forced to appease the director and waste time doing so that could be spent mobilizing real solutions?

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Yes, it’s a loaded question. But I don’t see Kevin Costner, who donated an oil spill invention he’s invested years and millions on, spending an inordinate amount of time preening before television cameras and microphones, calling people “morons,” and then wondering why those same “morons” aren’t interested in wasting time validating a needy director’s existence his help.

Also, don’t write Cameron off as just another fuzzy-headed, liberal filmmaker. He’s a powerful, multi-millionaire with heavy political connections. And when it comes to the powerful trying to edge their way into this kind of a crisis you have to ask yourself what their real agenda might be. It is purely altruistic or is there a mercenary heart at work here? If Joe Scarborough’s shameless gushing is any kind of an indicator, we’ll never get the answer to that question.

So weigh in below. We here at Big Hollywood don’t know the answer but at least we, unlike Jeff Wells, aren’t so hopelessly and shamelessly enamored and butt-boyed by the wealthy and powerful that we’re afraid to ask.