In 2004, Roger Ebert wrote about a political film festival and said that there weren’t many conservative documentaries being made (he denied there as an ideological litmus test). In 2008 he ducked out on seeing the doc on Barack saying it wasn’t in his neighborhood.
Jim Emerson: On celebrities, Politics, and movie critics (shilling for Roger Ebert)
Chicago Sun Times ^ | October 14, 2004 | Jim Emerson, Editor of RogerEbert.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1273094/posts
Roger Ebert claimed that 2016: Obamas America, the #1 movie, isn’t in any Chicago theaters
wordpress ^ | August 24, 2012 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2922600/posts