Roger Ebert can't stand Sarah Palin

LA Times ^ | 9/23/08 | Roger Goldstein

[pissant]

It's no secret that everyone is weighing in on politics these days, from David Letterman to Barbara Walters and the esteemed ladies of "The View," who, as the New York Times pointed out today, have had Barack Obama, John McCain and even Bill Clinton on their couch, with McCain clearly getting the toughest grilling. But should film critics be weighing in on the presidential race as well? It's no secret that America's leading film critic, the Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert, has been on quite a roll lately, writing a series of barbed commentaries about GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Palin Ebert leaped into the fray with an essay about Palin where he dubbed her the ''American Idol" candidate. Ebert said, in part: "There's a reason 'American Idol' gets such high ratings. People identify with the candidates. They think, 'Hey, that could be me up there on the show!' " Roger added that he didn't want a candidate who simply appointed people to study global warming long after the scientific consensus was in. Nor did he want someone, as he put it, who "sneers when referring to people who go to the Ivy League," noting that as a teenager, he dreamed of going to Harvard, but his dad, an electrician, didn't have the money to send him.

Ebert has also weighed in on Palin's interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, which he said reminded him of being asked questions by a teacher when he didn't have the foggiest idea what to answer. He's now posted a clever questionnaire about creationism, which Palin believes should be taught alongside evolution in schools.

[pissant]

Another hideous old lesbian against Palin...

[LegalEagle61]

LOL! I hope I don’t have nightmares after seeing that picture.

[mathprof]

Thanks for posting the picture: LIPSTICK ON A PIG!!!!

[ErnBatavia]

Fags don’t like breeders....

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Hey, Roger. Gene is calling you home. Go on.

[Doogle]

hey Roger, stay out of movie house...?????..oh wait

[ErnBatavia]

Another hideous old lesbian

It's a tossup between him and Paul McCartney as to which looks more like a tired, aging lesbian. I go with Sir Paul, just for the record...

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Roger Ebert can't stand Sarah Palin

Funny, everyone else can't stand the LA Times.

[DAC21]

Used to Love his old “At the Movies Show” with Siskel. Now he is delusional in his time of need. Good luck finding those Pearly Gates

[laweeks]

No surprise with that jackass!

Hey Freepers, how do I get off Hussein Obama’s email list? I’ve been getting no end of emails from him, and I find them (and him) disgusting. I don’t want anything to do with the punk.

[rintense]

Rintense can't stand Roger Ebert

[50cal Smokepole]

[ari-freedom]

Shut up and review movies.

[LiberConservative]

Who is Roger Ebert?

[GOPJ]

He's a liberal member of the MSM and he doesn't like Palin? I'm shocked. Shocked.

sarcasm / off

[generally]

So Ebert is an expert on global warming too?

Just because there is “consensus” doesn’t mean there is good science. Science is not a popularity contest.

I find it odd that Mr. Ebert approves of “science by consensus” but not politics by consensus.

[ari-freedom]

No, Sir Paul McCartney is a hero for defying the islamofascists.

[Billthedrill]

That boy - his life is on his face.

[KarlInOhio]

At least Siskel has the decency to keep his mouth shut when he votes "Chicago Style" for Obama.

[vetvetdoug]

Round mouth Democrat. Period.

The MSM and the Eberts of the country are making themselves irrelevant.

[kcvl]

Roger Ebert & wife Judge Chaz Hammelsmith

And I can't stand Roger Ebert.

A supporter of the Democratic Party, Ebert publicly urged liberal filmmaker Michael Moore to give a politically-charged acceptance speech at the Academy Awards: "I'd like to see Michael Moore get up there and let 'em have it with both barrels and really let loose and give them a real rabble-rousing speech."

[roses of sharon]

I missed it, what did Paul do?

Thanks!

[pissant]

Ebert married Flip Wilson?

[Veto!]

Rogerette is married to a very strong looking black woman. Clearly, he needs her.

[Cicero]

. . . and the horse you rode in on!

[library user]

One of them pee's sitting down. Can you guess which one?

Pssssst.... me neither.

[frogjerk]

No, Sir Paul McCartney is a hero for defying the islamofascists.

Yes, and we need more people to give the finger to the islamo-nazis.

[Lancey Howard]

Ewww... That’s Ebert??
I think the last time I saw him he was just Gene Siskel’s baby-fat-faced sidekick.
Now he’s a flat out grotesque. The rats should put him on TV to smear Palin.

[library user]

More cushion-for-the-pushin'. Dang, she's already got ONE pearl necklace! Don't be gettin' greedy, girlfriend!

[Right Wing Assault]

he dreamed of going to Harvard, but his dad, an electrician, didn't have the money to send him

That's good, or he'd now be 5 times as obnoxious. (What a hideous face. Does he have some disease, other than liberalism?)

[sofaman]

he looks like my late Bubbi ...

[sofaman]

ROFL! I love that pic. Cracks me up every time.

[billhilly]

And thirteen people like Roger Ebert.

[ari-freedom]

despite death threats by islamists, he decided to go ahead with his plans to sing in israel

and Ted Nugent wants to be his bodyguard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/23/paul.mccartney.popandrock

[DTogo]

"I can't stand Sarah Palin..."

[Pharmboy]

Geraldine's prettier

[ari-freedom]

but only he can “understand” movies, like Babel. You just don’t get it.

[heights]

In the mid-80s Paul McCartney was asked where he would stand political in the United States, he answered as a moderate Republican.Being a vegetarian does not a leftest make.

[Repeal 16-17]

Thumbs down Roger. He’s never been the same since Gene Siskel died.

[Tenniel2]

Ebert is (for the moment) a survivor of thyroid and salivary-gland cancer.

Gene isn't doing any voting at all, at least not on this plane: he had surgery for a a malignant brain tumor back in 1999, and the ensuing complications killed him. And his politics were slightly to the right of Ebert's, though that's not saying much.

[jakerobins]

Gotta love critics....YOu just gotta understand them.

They only like overblown hollywood crap....So of course he wouldn’t like Sarah Palin. He likes Obama (Preachy, Condesending, full of himself) Everything an Movie he likes from Hollywood!!! LOL

Critics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdDMrncAy4U

[don-o]

snort!

[NCPAC]

“No, Sir Paul McCartney is a hero for defying the islamofascists.”

“Yes, and we need more people to give the finger to the islamo-nazis.”

After 9/11, Sir Paul was with us - remember his “Freedom” song? And now, this...

The man is more liberal on most issues than most of us would like, but when push comes to shove in the overall fight for freedom - he is on the right side.

[MartinStyles]

That picture is when he looked a lot better..

[don-o]

good grief!

[TrishaSC]

Actually he does. He has been fighting thyroid cancer for years. That’s actually a decent and old picture. He has had thyroid cancer and has had part of his jawbone removed. Not sure if he’s had reconstructive surgery but the last time I saw him it was not pretty.

[rlmorel]

Wanna see something REALLY funny?

Siskel and Ebert: Two old hags fight and argue like an old married couple while trying to shoot their weekly show...

Liberals are completely deranged.