Jim Carrey came out in support of gun control and mocking the NRA in a recent video he posted on Funny or Die. The kinda-sorta-almost-journalists at Fox News, like Carrey calls them, did not like it a bit.
Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld blasted Carrey for "attacking rural America”.
Greg Gutfeld, a Fox News personality, attacked Carrey after the clip went viral, saying,
"He is probably the most pathetic tool on the face of the earth and I hope his career is dead and I hope he ends up sleeping in a car. [...] This video made me want to go out and buy a gun. He thinks this is biting satire going after rural America and a dead man… He's a dirty, stinking coward… He's such a pathetic, sad, little freak. He's a gibbering mess. He's a modern bigot."
Carrey responded to some of the attacks on Twitter — "I'd like to respond to all the conservative bundits out there personally but I'm far too busy NOT stumping for the gun companies," he wrote — but took things one step further on Friday. Carrey's full statement against Fox News is below:
Since I released my "Cold Dead Hand" video on Funny or Die this week, I have watched Fux News rant, rave, bare its fangs and viciously slander me because of my stand against large magazines and assault rifles. I would take them to task legally if I felt they were worth my time or that anyone with a brain in their head could actually fall for such irresponsible buffoonery. That would gain them far too much attention which is all they really care about.
I'll just say this: in my opinion Fux News is a last resort for kinda-sorta-almost-journalists whose options have been severely limited by their extreme and intolerant views; a media colostomy bag that has begun to burst at the seams and should be emptied before it becomes a public health issue.
I sincerely believe that in time, good people will lose patience with the petty and poisonous behavior of these bullies and Fux News will be remembered as nothing more than a giant culture fart that no amount of Garlique could cure.
I wish them all the luck that accompanies such malevolence.
