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Ebert has been a lousy critic and an outspoken political ever since Gene Siskel died.

Those two might not have been good friends but Rog wouldn't have tried half of his crap with Gene still around. He'd be too ashamed to try.

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examples of Ebert's outright partisan idiocy can be found here in a number of followup posts:

Jim Emerson: On celebrities, Politics, and movie critics (shilling for Roger Ebert)