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What the Internet owes to Roger Ebert
CNN ^ | 4/4/2013 | Gene Seymour

Posted on 04/04/2013 2:20:27 PM PDT by Borges

Roger Ebert's death, coming so soon after he announced he was curtailing his movie-reviewing schedule because of recurring cancer, is being greeted—especially across the Internet--with widespread shock, and the kind of grief one feels when one loses a longtime neighbor, a trusted friend, a beloved teacher whose lessons may not have had an immediate impact but became more meaningful with time.

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In fact, it's only natural the blogosphere should feel the pain of Ebert's leaving. One could say that blogs of all shapes, sizes and subjects owe their existence in part to the examples set by Siskel and Ebert.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: ebert; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; rogerebert
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1 posted on 04/04/2013 2:20:27 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Umm, about that. Towards the end Ebert was a flaming liberal moonbat ....


2 posted on 04/04/2013 2:21:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: SkyDancer
Umm, about that. Towards the end Ebert was a flaming liberal moonbat ....

True. No love lost here. He was the sworn enemy to America by association. And I stand by these words.

3 posted on 04/04/2013 2:24:11 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: SkyDancer

Ebert was always a liberal. He just was more discreet about it when he and Siskel were at the top of their ratings.


4 posted on 04/04/2013 2:24:16 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: SkyDancer

But he was an entertaining flaming liberal moonbat.


5 posted on 04/04/2013 2:25:25 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: fwdude

His association with Siskel? :)


6 posted on 04/04/2013 2:25:58 PM PDT by Borges
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To: SkyDancer
He was a nasty piece of work. A man full of hate.

Ryan Dunn says hello Karma.

7 posted on 04/04/2013 2:27:39 PM PDT by LdSentinal
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To: Borges

ugh


8 posted on 04/04/2013 2:30:44 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: LdSentinal

That Ryan Dunn incident was embarrassing.


9 posted on 04/04/2013 2:30:49 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Cancer is an ugly and painful death. For that I sympathize. That being said, mostly when Ebert gave a thumbs up, experience taught me, I probably would not like the movie.


10 posted on 04/04/2013 2:30:53 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: swamprebel

So you hated Citizen Kane, Schindler’s List, Casablanca and a bunch of other classic films then?


11 posted on 04/04/2013 2:31:39 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

‘Mostly’.


12 posted on 04/04/2013 2:34:44 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: Borges

I liked Siskel. I could never stand Eggbert.


13 posted on 04/04/2013 2:36:09 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: Borges

I don’t miss him at all, I never paid much attention to him when I did see him.


14 posted on 04/04/2013 2:36:27 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Borges

I always went with Siskel’s thumb. He was a Lib too, but he could really call movies correctly.


15 posted on 04/04/2013 2:38:09 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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To: SoldierDad

Siskel wasn’t really a film buff. He never went to film festivals and never wrote about film outside of his newspaper reviews. If he ever read book on movies it would be news to me. Ebert was a real cinephile and passionate about the artform.


16 posted on 04/04/2013 2:38:22 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges; swamprebel

When someone says “mostly” you are going to make us go through all the movies this lefty jerk ever mentioned?


17 posted on 04/04/2013 2:39:30 PM PDT by ansel12 (The lefts most effective quote-I'm libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics.)
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To: SkyDancer

Phew! You would think Mother Theresa had died again. As someone who watched Siskel & Ebert, I remember Ebert as rude, crude and mean to the softer Siskel. This was a man who accused the Bush daughters of wearing blue jeans to meet the Queen of England when that was obviously untrue. God knows, how many other false accusations he made against conservatives. I’m sorry he died in the way he did, but he was a nasty man.


18 posted on 04/04/2013 2:40:45 PM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: ansel12

How did he vote on Star Wars, or LOTR?


19 posted on 04/04/2013 2:41:35 PM PDT by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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To: fwdude

Rest : )


20 posted on 04/04/2013 2:42:51 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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