Replies

"The willingness of today's National Guardsmen to continue in combat is courageous and admirable, but cannot be expected to last indefinitely, and the political cost of returning to the draft system would be incalculable."

The MSM and Roger Ebert, lefty and notorious gay-friendly movie reviewer continue to hype anything anti-war or anti-military.

I will be skipping this pile of horse dung, so-called film.

It isn't exactly like he has a lot left to lose:

"Roger Ebert to Have More Cancer Surgery
Thursday June 1 11:48 AM ET

Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert, who has battled cancer in recent years, will undergo cancer surgery again, according to a published report.

In Thursday's Chicago Sun-Times, where Ebert has been the movie critic for nearly 40 years, columnist Robert Feder reported that Ebert will have surgery June 16 to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland.

"It's not life threatening, and I expect to make a full recovery," the 63-year-old critic and host of the nationally syndicated movie review show, "Ebert & Roeper," told Feder. "I'll continue to function as a film critic during this time."

ADVERTISEMENT

Yes No
Yes No

Yes No

Ebert has undergone cancer surgery three times before once in 2002 to remove a malignant tumor on his thyroid gland and twice on his salivary gland the next year.

But Feder reported that Ebert is not expected to require radiation treatment as he did when he underwent the previous procedures.

"This is known as a slow-growing and persistent cancer," Ebert said. "You live with it."

Ebert recently returned from the Cannes Film Festival in France. He said he plans to tape enough shows with Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper that the program will continue to air during his recovery.

Ebert has been a film critic at the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1975, the same year he teamed up with Gene Siskel of the rival Chicago Tribune to launch their movie-review show. Siskel died in 1999."

I am reading Case Closed, Gerald Posner's brilliant skewering of JFK conspiracy mongers again. What Posner makes clear is that the conspiracy mongers are not just in error but are consciously deceptive and dishonest, and more importantly, so are the mainstream media and liberal establishment that have let them peddle their hogwash for decades without any real critical analysis because the message being peddled, that America is run by a secret fascist cabal, is a culturally destructive message that is useful to them, and truth has no relevance. Here is Ebert's review of Oliver Stone's hallucinogenic film JFK. He gives it four stars and also puts it on his "Great Movies list." Here is the opening of his "Great Movies" remarks on JFK:

"I don't have the slightest idea whether Oliver Stone knows who killed President John F. Kennedy. I have no opinion on the factual accuracy of his 1991 film ``JFK.'' I don't think that's the point."

Indeed it's not. I am struck while reading this by the hypocrisy of the left that whines about "McCarthyism" because it allegedly unfairly accused people of disloyalty but blithely support decades of knowingly false accusations of treason and murder conspiracy in the JFK case.

I've seen the anti-war movement up close and personal in downtown Chicago
when I was discharged from the Navy in '69.
I was cursed at, yelled at, ridiculed, and denied entrance
to Nortwestern University simply because I was a Viet Nam Vet.
Then, as now, my support for the 1st amendment and free speech remains the same.
One thing HAS changed, if I see an anti-war protestor
HARMING anyone in the military OR anyone who supports our country,
OR damaging government or personal property
I will personally exercise my right to defend my country from those who seek to destroy it.

49 posted on 09/25/2001 9:05:36 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub