The Day Roger Ebert Made an Ass of Himself - The "Yob" File

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 7/25/02 | Roger Ebert

[opticoax]

Wonder if the Pavarotti Doppelganger will write a similar article about Chelsea at Wimbeldon?

For the benefit of all, I added some of the commentary from SmirkingChimp.com. To think so-called "intellectuals" can engage in embarrassing logic-leaps and hyperbole is really shocking.

They know they hate conservatives, but they don't know why.

I do believe they would round us up and put us into concentration camps if they could.

Drop Tubby a line at Roger Ebert

[opticoax]

Some of the "User Info" stuff is hilarious.

The most venemous is from an "educator" in New York.

[mvpel]

Next thing you know he'll be demanding that the leader of the free world bow and scrape before the queen, too.

Wearing jeans sends a clear message, whether Barb intended it or not - "I am not your subject, and I don't get dressed up just to go visit a rich old biddy."

[PsyOp]

Ebert makes an ass of himself on a daily basis. Whenever he trashes a movie I go see it and it usually turns out to be pretty good and a box office hit. He's no more quaified to critique the President and his family than he is to critique movies.

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This is really funny stuff.

It is amazing to me, that with so much stuff going on the world, they still concern themselves primarily with fashion and feelings.

[RobRoy]

This whole article, for me, is the equivalent of a drunk in a cheap bar complaining about some minutiae. Like I'm gonna even care what he has to say, much less waste my time listening or reading. The responses were certainly revealing, however...

[Physicist]

Why are we rehashing this? In the end, Ebert actually apologized for this piece (of crap). That apology was the only remarkable thing about it; mean-spirited liberals are an awfully cheap coin.

[Physicist]

Ebert apologizes to Barbara Bush for column

[mvpel]

Why are so many Americans so smitten with royalty that they give two figs what another American wears when they visit a member of any royal family?

News flash - over 200 years ago we used deadly force to throw off this kind of despotic nepotism, and with it the notion that a person is due even an ounce of additional respect just because they happened to be born into a particular family. She committed no more of a faux pas than showing up to a Wall Street business meeting in jeans, and anyone who thinks differently should move to Canada where idiotic fawning over royalty is still socially acceptable.

[KC_Conspirator]

I do believe they would round us up and put us into concentration camps if they could.

I believe that as well. We would all be loaded up into boxcars if they had their way.

[sauropod]

ok, but did Laura lie or not? That question is actually important.

I would have expected such out of Hillary! but not LB. 'Pod

[NYCVirago]

Wonder if the Pavarotti Doppelganger will write a similar article about Chelsea at Wimbeldon?

Actually, the infamous "Chelsea aroused" photo was taken at the U.S. Open in New York City. And frankly, I don't see what the big deal is about it.

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ok, but did Laura lie or not?

I have no idea.

That question is actually important.

I don’t see how. She’s a un-elected woman, with no role in setting public policy, commenting on her daughter’s fashion sense, or lack thereof.

I’m having trouble thinking of a singular less important issue.

[b-cubed]

Is ebert the fat one or the skinny one?

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Ebert ate the skinny one.

[lainie]

You can also say it because our Constitution says we're all created equal whether that queen claims divine rights or not. :-)

This whole thing is quite stupid. Ebert is awful.