Roger Ebert is nothing if he isn't a knee-jerk leftist, absolutely without a single original political or cultural thought in his head and his latest meandering post on the Sun-Times hosted Roger Ebert's Journal is a perfect example. Posted on 08/23/2010 8:53:56 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Roger Ebert is nothing if he isn't a knee-jerk leftist, absolutely without a single original political or cultural thought in his head and his latest meandering post on the Sun-Times hosted Roger Ebert's Journal is a perfect example.
His piece is titled "Ten things I know about the mosque" but it doesn't seem like there really are ten things nor are they all about the mosque. After reading his wandering post one is tempted to believe that the only reason he posted the thing was to find an excuse to attack Sarah Palin, someone that has nothing to do with the Ground Zero Mosque.
Let's deal with Ebert's off topic attack on Palin first. For a piece that is supposed to be about the Ground Zero Mosque (and by the way he never once calls it the Ground Zero Mosque, even as the Imam that was planning the thing has called it that) Palin's appearance at point 6 on his list makes no sense. Not only that but Ebert goes off on a tangent of a tangent by discussing Palin's interaction with Dr. Laura and her "N" word controversy. Hello, Rog… mosque? What does Palin and Dr. Laura have to do with the mosque?
Even more absurdly, Ebert's first few points are filled with his ruminations on the First Amendment. Then he attacks Palin for employing her own freedom of speech? It's a whiplash-inducing tangent, for sure.
Plus, in essence he calls Palin a liar by assuming that some right-wing "anonymous genius" is writing all her Tweets and Facebook posts. Ebert has to reach into the dim corners of his conspiracy-laden mind for that one because there is no hint anywhere in the rest of the world that Palin isn't writing her own stuff. It's just Ebert's hatred of Palin informing his belief that she's too stupid to put two words together.
Worse he seems to be saying that it was Sarah Palin that invented the name "Ground Zero Mosque." This is an untruth. Then he calls Palin Hitler by saying she is using tactics from Mein Kampf.
That's alright Rog, we know that you are using tactics invented by Marx, so you have that going for you, which is nice....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Ebert spews invictives while hiding behind his illness, with the help of others. Return the attack on Ebert, and you’re labeled as “unsympathetic” and “mean-spirited”.
I still won’t wish him ill health, but he gets no quarter on the issues.
I am sure that he would have been a good Nazi and that his amily in the old country was
Ebert isn’t sufficiently qualified to be a knee-jerk liberal. He’s just a knee-jerk.
Two thumbs down
He had his lower jaw removed due to cancer....he’s on his last leg....enogh said!!!!
Ebert has occasionally accused some films of having an unwholesome political agenda, and the word “fascist” accompanied more than one of Ebert’s reviews of the law-and-order films of the 1970s such as Dirty Harry.
Ebert is married to trial attorney Charlie “Chaz” Hammel-Smith
Ebert is a recovering alcoholic
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.
During a 2004 visit to The Howard Stern Show, Ebert predicted that the then-junior Illinois senator Barack Obama would be very important to the future of the country.
“I have never said, although readers have freely informed me I am an atheist, an agnostic, or at the very least a secular humanist — which I am”.
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Ebert:
4. One buried motive for the attacks on Park51 is exploitation of the insane belief of 20% of Americans that President Obama is a Muslim. Zealots like Glenn Beck, with his almost daily insinuations about the Muslim grandfather Obama never knew and the father he met only once, are encouraging this mistaken belief.
6. Somewhere on the Right is an anonymous genius at creating memes. Sarah Palin floats a suspicious number of them: Death Panels, Ground Zero Mosque, 9/11 Mosque, Terror Babies. Her tweets are mine fields of coded words; for her, “patriot” is defined as, “those who agree with me.” When she says “Americans,” it is not inclusive. These two must have been carefully composed in advance to be tweeted within 60 seconds of each other:
7. Many Americans and a great many politicians have either never taken a civics class or disagree with what they should have learned there. The major opinion sources in America that seem to devote the most attention to the Bill of Rights are Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, all distorting it as an everyday practice. Bill O’Reilly, to his credit, doesn’t indulge in this.
8. A meme is infecting our society that Muslims are terrorists and hate America; they are the enemy. It is a cliche to say, “the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful,” but is true. When Muslim nations are bombed by America, can those nations be expected to applaud? In Iran after 9/11 there were candlelight marches in sympathy with the United States.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/08/ten_things_i_know_about_the_mo.html
I love it!!!LOL
Ebert has long been an apologist for the left, who can do no wrong in his little world. He regurgitates DNC talking points.
Ebert is a movie reviewer...and not a very good one. One thing I always knew, if Ebert didn’t like a movie, I knew I would.
His understanding of the culture and political issues is thin, at best.
Stick to watching movies, Roger. It is what you do, albeit not real well.
Left wing politics is Ebert’s religion.
He suffers from left wing mania.
Roger really needs to stick with the movies.
Just because you can comment or have opion on a movie doesn’t mean you are an authority on mosques, on government, any thing pretaining to it, or anything for that matter. And, you know what they say about opinions. Just stick to the movies, Roger.
And I should take the advice of a deranged old pansy why?
He co-wrote “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls”.
I tried to watch it once. Anybody who had anything to do with that turd knows less than nothing about good movie making and good story telling.
Ebert hates Heinlein’s novel “Starship Troopers” but loves Verhoeven’s POS movie version of it. How twisted is that?
“Starship troopers” the book was a classic!
“Starship Troopers” the movie was an absolute travesty!
About the opinion I would expect from the co-writer of “Beyond the Vally of the Dolls”.
Actually, when you see that the Nazis worked overtime to make the Jews seem crazy, Roger is using Nazi tactics in this very article. Ironic!
Actually, when you see that the Nazis worked overtime to make the Jews seem crazy, Roger is using Nazi tactics in this very article. Ironic!
Sarah Palin is Hitler? Then who was Adolf? A misunderstood little boy with a Moe haircut and a moustache? FYI Mr. Ebert by calling Sarah Palin Hitler you diminish the horror that the real Hitler perpetrated on Germany, Jews and the world.
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