I noticed this in the Frontpage Article:
-- His likening of the Bill the Butcher character in “Gangs of New York” – a cleaver-waving, mass-murdering thug – to Katherine Harris. Ebert’s point, made on “Ebert & Roeper”: Both Bill the Butcher and Harris used whatever means possible to take and keep power. Even the Democratic National Committee comes up with more sophisticated insults disguised as insights.
I hadn't read Mr. Ebert's Gangs Of New York review (and I just saw the movie last week). Bill the Butcher is a tool of the NYC DEMOCRATS if that detail escaped Mr. Ebert. Pot calling the kettle black. Tammany Hall ring a bell to anyone? Democrat political corruption? I saw part of a documentary on New York (I think by Ken Burns) and he tried to make the case that Boss Tweed (and the corruption) was good for New York.
Ebert's print Gangs Of New York review does not contain the Katherine Harris comment. It also neglects to mention the corrupt party in the story.