Well based on Pat's tweet from a couple of days ago, I think you're on to something. Although, I suspect Cinemassacre distancing themselves from Pat has more to do with Screenwave Media (they've been essentially running the channel for awhile) then from James himself. James doesn't seem to be the sort to tell anyone, even Pat, to take a long walk off a short pier.
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That makes sense. James really doesn't seem to be the type to ever burn a bridge, and all accounts I've heard about him off-camera is that he's a very nice, quiet guy.
But I'll point these out:
-Just scroll through Pat's Twitter and you'll see that he's a very left-wing guy who flirts with the social justice side. He never went downright Trump Derangement Syndrome on his show, though he's always been aggressive and opinionated whenever some kind of controversy crosses his path. Like, he really went after Billy Mitchell pretty hard, taking his scores on Pac-Man dead seriously and getting all worked up, when it's clear Billy's more of a showman than anything. Ian's even harder left, he gets himself really worked up over dumb shit if he doesn't get stoned for the podcast.
-The new guys on Cinemassacre never bring up politics, at least from what I've seen. But, James got crucified by the social justice mob over Ghostbusters 2016, where he got misrepresented and called a mysogynist. His actual point? The movie looked like it disrespected its source material, and felt like more of a cash-in than anything. Of course, he was right, but the mob just ate him up and moved onto the next target-of-the-day.
-One of the guys on there wears a shirt from The Dick Show on-camera, and that show has a right-leaning audience who likes to make fun of Maddox, who went hard-left and has only suffered for it, even becoming legally defined as a cuck at one point.
So, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Pat and someone at Cinemassacre or Screenwave got into a feud at some point. Pat certainly has an "if you're not with me, you're against me" mentality.
There's also this guy:
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