Regarding Roger: Ebert Doubles Down Twitter-Trashing His ‘Teabagging’ Fans
by John Nolte[UPDATE: More here.]
I’m reminded the term Teabaggers is pornographic. Didn’t know that until MSM told me. Let’s face it: The Baggers own it now. — The latest from Roger Ebert’s Twiiter, presumably in response to this.
Ebert’s seen a lot of films but obviously hasn’t learned very much from them. When he disappeared into the hospital for all those months, those of us who disagreed with his politics put those meaningless differences aside as we worried and prayed for the robust return of the thumb that had become such a part of our lives. But who would’ve guessed he wouldn’t come out of his near-death experience like the movies taught him to: as a kinder, more understanding, more tolerant and patient man with a new appreciation for the simple and human things in life? No, he went the opposite way and the story of Roger Ebert’s life will now look as though the projectionist got the reels for “Regarding Henry” confused.
Roger Ebert Yesterday
It’s been extraordinary to watch this once beloved critic squander all the universal affection and goodwill he had built up over a lifetime in just a few short months. And over nothing. No one bad-mouthed his mother or rang his doorbell and ran. We disagree on the size and scope of the federal government. We disagree over the idea that increased government control will improve our health care. We’re not as enamored as he is with the man currently occupying the Oval Office. Disagree, argue, that’s all fine. But he’s calling us “teabaggers,” and he knows full well what that means. And he’s calling us “teabaggers” because he doesn’t have the guts to come right out and call us “c***suckers.”
Yeah, the multi-millionaire from the cowardly Olympus of his Twitter account is having a high old time impressing his fellow elites as he publicly and joyously taunts mechanics, school teachers, gardeners, truck drivers, beauticians, small business owners, military veterans, college kids and senior citizens as “c***suckers.” And there’s no doubt he’s getting the reaction he so craves. From every corner of wealthy Manhattan and Hollywood emails from Those Whose Opinions Matter must be flying in: “Go, Roger!”
Roger Ebert Today
Hopefully for Go Roger there are enough of those emails to keep him from realizing what he really is: The rich snotty punk – that coward in the white suit from the movie “Dead End” who hurls insults at the street kids from the safety of his terrace.
Come on down, we won’t hurtcha’.
Yeah, we won’t hurtcha’.
Well, how about it Roger? There’s sure to be a Tea Party near you before the year is out. Why don’t you come on down from Twitter-Olympus? And of course no one will hutcha’ (if you’re worried, bring along your Ward Bond-sized doorman). Not only will no one hurt you, we’ll be glad to see you. Glad you took the time to look behind the Anderson Coopers and Keith Olbermanns to see for yourself who the “teabaggers” really are.
As a matter of fact, I guarantee that if you don’t mind shaking calloused hands, hearing “I prayed for you” in a Southern accent, signing autographs on hard hats and diaper bags, or discovering you were wrong about about many thousands of good and decent everyday people, we won’t hurtcha’ at all. And yes, there are some kooks in the movement who we wish weren’t. Intolerant types whose name calling and divisiveness hurt the cause. You know, people just like you…
But if Olympus is too cozy and comfortable, maybe these photos will help:
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If anyone is wondering, the first photo features Siskel & Ebert with the great Chicago radio personality, Steve Dahl, in the middle. The caption reads "2003" which is inaccurate; Siskel died in 1999.
But he’s calling us “teabaggers,” and he knows full well what that means. And he’s calling us “teabaggers” because he doesn’t have the guts to come right out and call us “c***suckers.”
I suspect Mr. Ebert is projecting his own latent and suppressed issues. Wouldn't it be ironic if Mr. Ebert was actually living out the idiotic premises of crap movies like Far From Heaven and American Beauty.
To be honest, it isn't the epithet that bothers me, because only crude and base people say it – kind of like 'Rethuglicans' and all that other nonsense.
What bothers me is his obvious hatred for anybody who disagrees with him. He is constantly 'tweeting' and posting journal entries about how stupid everyone who disagrees with him is – and that's currently the majority of the country.
It amazes me how left-wingers are so hateful. They whine and moan about the 'level of discourse' and then carry on with this behavior, like Gibbs talking about 'bipartisanship' and then making fun of Sarah Palin. For these people it's not really about the politics. It's about feeling smug and superior.
I encourage everyone to follow my example and write a letter of protest to the papers that carry Ebert's syndicated column.
Well, Roger, I give you a thumbs down.
Ebert was a tea bagger before "tea baggers" were cool. That's why he's mad.
They scream like "stuck pigs" when we call them socialists, yet we are supposed to stand idley by while they call us "Teabaggers" and "C**ksuckers"……………Welcome too The New Liberal Amerika………Be quite till your called upon by the teacher.
Roger Ebert – just another guy who thought that his voluminous knowledge in one area – movies – would carry him over into other areas: politics and social issues. He's another one whom the Liberal/"Progressive" establishment like to designate as "Living Treasures" – like Garrison Keillor and Jimmy Carter – only they turn out to be extremely nasty and intolerant people. The late Gene Siskel, on the other hand, was, while politically liberal, a genuinely nice guy.
I've always set aside Roger's politics and just enjoyed his reviews. Even though I haven't lined up with him politically, I've always regarded him as THE movie critic of record.
His Twitter comments come as quite a surprise but are even more of a disappointment. I guess we can expect him to begin ass-kissing directors, producers and actors since he's now alienated so many of his readers.
I feel bad for Roger. I enjoyed watching Siskel & Ebert all those years…and I think there was little bit of hostility from Ebert towards Siskel because his name was always first. It appears he really wants to matter…and finally getting his name first didn't make any difference…so now he is desperately tweeting the garbage to be in the "IN" crowd. That's sad to me. It still wont get him where he wants to be.
Well, I prayed for him when his illness was in the crisis stage and I'll continue to pray for him. I'm sorry for him. He was a better person than that, but crisis situations, life-altering illnesses don't always bring out the best in people.
Just in case you accidentally posted a reference to Robert E. Lee?
Couldn't resist, sorry.
Using Twitter for such comments is a cowardly way of refusing dialog — bullying. Calling names (vulgar or otherwise) is a method for defining them as "the other" — a strategy the Liberals advise us is the core of racism. A writer eschewing any duty to know what terms one is using is professionally irresponsible.
So Ebert reveals himself as a cowardly, bullying, irresponsible racist. Consider his probable reaction if anyone were to employ his latest Tweet with the "n-word" in place of the T-word, even though that would equally (in)valid.
His words mean nothing to me as does his movie reviews. Why be condescending of those not in agreement with you. He always acted like he knew better than anyone else and has only gotten worse.
I quit watching him years ago when I realized that I like his thumbs down movies since there wasn't usually a left-wing message attached to it.
Nice job John. You're a better man than I. Reading Ebert's continued attacks on decent Americans by using this 'term' only lowers his stock and raises my blood pressure.
I was going to write something nasty but decided against it. He's a sick old guy acting the role of a cowardly fool.
Sad. Pathetic. Not worth it.
I'm an Ebert fan and sorry to see him going this route.
As mentioned in the article, I'm sure he's being showered with love from the people he respects and cares about – maybe not the people he should respect or care about – but oh well.
It's just sad that he's ruined his legacy this way.
Oh and didn't he run with Russ Meyer and the "supervixens" back in the day? I suspect Ebert knows the meaning of every pornographic term there is, including "teabagging". Just sayin'
Oh thank you thats just what I needed to make my stomach turn.. a mental image of Ebert doing downward facing dog in spandex.
What has Roger Ebert ever done that even merits this attention? He's a movie critic, for crying out loud, not a brain surgeon! I can do exactly what he does in my living room with some old VHS tapes and a DVD player.
You know the old saying…"everybody has one?" Well, Roger Ebert IS one.
Hell, that prick didn't like "Forest Gump" either !
I used to go to movies at least twice a week. My family no longer does this. It's kind of our boycott against the Hollywood bunch who I know hates our guts. I find it hard to give people money who hates my guts and refers to me, a college educated professional as a teabagger. It's the same reason I've stopped buying items made in china. Putting money in the pockets of tyrants goes against my grain. Whether they be from Hollywood or another country.
Shorter Ebert: WE hate THE PEOPLE
"F"-ebert…tweet that dude!
…but you don't know where his thumb has been.
He didn't like Forest Gump either.
He was the model for Media Matters, can't wait for the Robot Theater version of Roger Ebert and his two thumbs…and lotion.
When a man comes out of near death without the honor of his own life, no one else is going to honor his life. I just had a major surgery from which I am trying to recoup and that alone has created a kinder, gentler Yeti. What is to be said of a man who does not learn from life? My grandfather lived in a converted chicken coup with books piled to the ceiling in every room. He taught me the only poverty is the poverty of the mind.
Forest Gump would have been been a tea Partier, too!
Liberals are like a box of Chocolates, you never know what kind of crap you'll have to put up with.
A lot of Progressives are into DIY, 'cause they don't play well with others.
I'm always surprised that anyone is surprised at the invective that spews from the Left and Leftists. Ebert and his ilk, in and out of Washington, are the same kind of Bolsheviks that took over Russia in 1917 and shot the Tsar, his wife, his children including his hemophiliac son and for good measure plugged the house servants, too. This is what Socialism/Communism/Marxism/Leftism is — it isn't liberal, it isn't open-minded, it's the totalitarianism of the Left.
Here in the new century, however, the American Bolshies don't need bullets — they have the megaphones, the media, entertainment and they kill their enemies with words, aspersions and insults. So I'm as surprised that Ebert would Tweet about "tea baggers" as I'd be learning that Stalin and his cronies shot the counter-revolutionaries. That's what the Tea Parties are — a counter revolution. The Left incrementally took over this country starting in the thirties when they got Hollywood (read "Red Star Over Hollywood") and had the film community spread their gospel. Then they infiltrated the Bureaucracy (Roosevelt's VP, Wallace, was a fellow traveler, the Verona papers proved McCarthy was mostly correct). In the Sixties, the CPUSA sicced the brain-fogged students on the Vietnam war, then these fuzzies went off to grad school and became the professors.
So we're surprised at Ebert because….
To be fair, it was a really boring movie.
The exception being Captain Dan, naturally.
Got that right.
I have other people to pray for, ones who don't spend their lives being hateful towards others who aren't there to defend themselves.
Leaving aside the issue of his undisguised contempt for those who disagree with him (a trait shared by President Obama), what type of professional standards allow obscene discourse like this and on CNN and MSNBC?
Again, for those who haven't heard, including Mr. Ebert:
In the Suffolk county, New York 3rd-assembly race yesterday, the "TEA Party" candidate, Dean Murray, WON (!!!) against the ACORN/AFL-CIO/Teachers' Union-backed candidate Lauren Thoden. Thoden was well-financed and had an army of ACORNholios at her disposal; she had TV ads and the unions. Dean Murray had support of the local 9/12ers, the Conservative Society for Action folks and other unaffiliated volunteers.
Yes, the "TEA Party" candidate WON.
Suck those acorns, Ebert. We will dish more out to you this fall and in 2012 since you like the taste so much. Mmmm, so yummy with the salt of bitter, bitter tears…..
So sad, a celebrity who's postured himself to be considered a cherubic poppin' fresh turns out to be a Perez Hilton wanna-be without the flash, glitz and self control. Where is Wil I. Am when you need him?
Q: What do Roger Ebert and Jim Crow laws have in common?
A: They both require literacy tests to vote.
Love your new avatar.
Ebert is living proof that being a Liberal means you are a hateful, elitist snob (and the less you know, the more hateful you are). If you read his "test" to prove how politically educated you are, you realize that his knowledge about the facts is not only limited, but his understanding of issues is paper-thin.
Just a pathetic human being.
He wrote the cinematic masterpiece BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
I miss Gene Siskel …
Lieutenant Dan…but thanks for the promotion!
Me, too. My mom once said that she thought Roger Ebert looked like a lesbian long-haul trucker.
I quit watching Ebert when I tuned the show in to see his review of "The Life of David Gale". I was very interested in the movie and planned to go see it – IF Ebert gave it a thumbs-up. It had been five years since I had gone to the movies (Titanic) but grew tired of all the Hollywood libs up on their soapboxes. (although, at the time, I would have given Kate Winslet a pass)
Ebert absolutely hated Gale and railed on about how the film was set in bloodthirsty Texas and that "Dead Man Walking" was a much better anti-capital punishment film. I couldn't believe my ears; if anything, Sean Penn's character was the poster child for the best use of execution.
After that, I couldn't take him seriously and I still haven't been to the movie theater. I waited until Gale was out on DVD, the same way I wait on every movie I now want to see. Hollywood still gets money from me, just not nearly as much.
Ebert's like a box of chocolates
and a box of cheetos
and a box of porkrinds
and a box of…
Remember the words of the great (and fictitious) restaurant critic played by the great Peter O'Toole:
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In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. But there are times when a critic truly risks something, and that is in the discovery and defense of the new.
You're right. I take it all back. What a lasting contribution to society and culture Mr. Ebert has so generously given us all. My grandchildren will thank us for breeding such a speciman.
Glad to be of service! Love your stuff, btw.
Nailed it, John.
Good Lord – Is Roger Ebert still relevant in any way, shape or form? He always struck me as a mean little man who was always the near-perfect comic parody of the pompous, self-important "critic. (Ellsworth Toohey Division) Well he did learn about the movie biz as the screenwriter for Russ Meyer's "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." I suppose it's true – Those who can do and those who can't become film critics.
When Ebert calls people teabaggers I get this image of Obama flipping off McCain and others by pretending to scratch his face with his middle finger extended. They both want to have deniablity and aren't man enough to just come out and say what they really mean. It's completely juvenile.
I say we embrace the whole "tea-bagger" meme. After all, the tea-partiers are killing the libs right now. It would follow that if we are the tea-baggers, then the left are the ones getting sweaty balls dragged across their chin.
and wish to keep them in their place!
They do in good people.
We probably aren't served well by getting all hot & bothered about this stuff, but it is annoying when one considers how much the Left's message permeates so much. It does have a huge collective influence, and makes it hard to make our points when we first have to go through the great semantic dance. Call them out on it, and they deny, deny, deny that they're even on the Left. They're just being "honest", don't you know. It's major intellectual dishonesty, as well as a double standard.
Notice how Ebert plays the innocent here, "I didn't even know."
And yes, when a Leftist says we need to "end the divisiveness of politics", make calls for "unity," or "end partisan bickering," what they clearly mean is, "conservatives need to shut up and join the Left."
I don't want to end "partisan bickering." It's called Freedom of Speech.
Why do liberals like Ebert insist on acting like jerks?
Mr. Ebert's attitude and idiotic behavior is because, generally, we think they are wrong but they think we are evil.
Before, such folks had the delayed reaction filter of producers, reporters, et al before their utterances got onto the air or into print.
Now, with the immediacy of instantaneous communication, they're plagued by their candor, which, in fact is good for us so we can now find out who the real @55H0135 are; and Roger, without the typical filtering governors to which he is used, through his Twittering lizard brain, has self-identified himself as one.
Thanks Rog. You've given me yet another "personality" I can add to my "do-not-patronize" list.
In the immortal words of the Divine Miss Sarah, "See ya."
You realize that just the phrase "downward facing dog" caused a back spasm. I can't believe I have post traumatic stress disorder from friggin yoga. (yosemite sam voice) Ah HATE that yoga…
Maybe Siskel's good influence was really the reason we didn't notice what a nasty little man Ebert really is. I too prayed for him and am truly diappointed in him.
That photo overlooking the capital was NOT taken at a tea party protest. It was taken on October 4th 1997 and was a Promise Keepers million man march. Google image "Promise Keepers march" if you don't believe me. Way to deceive, Nolte.
Excellent comment. You get it!
Just FYI…the photo of the pretty girl holding the "Revolt Against Socialism" sign was taken at the very first Tea Party in downtown Dallas. This was well before the tax day Tea Party, when the movement was new. I was there, along with about maybe 100 other people. It was cold and rainy and in the middle of the afternoon on a street corner outside the American Airlines Arena. The crowd was made up of people who were as old as 70 and as young as 6. A group of college-age guys showed up with t-shirts saying "Stop Global Whining" and carrying American flags. The crowd contained people who were white, black, Hispanic, Asian. There were professionals in dress shirts and working class people in denim jackets and baseball hats, and people who had lost their jobs. I shook the hand of a WWII vet and thanked him for his service, and he told me this was the first time in his life he'd ever protested. He said he defended his country once, and now he felt like he had to step up and defend it again for his grandchildren. These are the kinds of people Mr. Ebert wants to call "teabaggers" and dismisses as racist know-nothings unworthy of any respect. I'd love to see him say that to that veteran I met. I guarantee that old man would knock Ebert on his a**.
Right on John!
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not me. I hoped he died.
Lary the Cable Guy is an expert in the entertainment industry too.
That's not an act.
Hope he gets the Pee Wee Herman treatment…..
If Ebert had been on the conservative side, there would be legions of lefties all hoping that he'd die from his cancer.
Your grandfather sounds like a man worth knowing…
He knows where he can shove that fat thumb of his…..
ebert is continuing his LIBERAL VITRIOL AND HATE toward the real Americans, as he pushes his radical homosexual agenda
nothing new for the obozo defending America haters like ebert, streisand, etal
I remember that famous critic Rex Reed, who decided to jump in and star in that famous movie, Myra Breckenridge…
ebert……….who?
Frankly, I've never forgiven him or Siskel for My Dinner with Andre.
ebert is mad that teapartyers has been awarded with his favored title in private life
Well as Don Rickles says. You Get A Cookie LOL.
Here's one for you then:
http://james4america.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/gre...
Here's one for you then:
http://james4america.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/gre...
Ebert is so in love with other men's scrotums that he can't get "Tebagging" off his mind. What is it with the left and their love of scrotums? Really, it's so wierd.
Why does a monkey scratch his butt?
why does Ebert even have a twitter account? does anyone actually listen to, or read, his movie reviews? until your posts about him i thought he was dead.
He got a piece of my mind via email on that. I explained that his pathetic little quiz wasn't a civics quiz and went through the questions step by step explaining what kind of questions they were and re-tooling them into actual civics questions in ways that left no doubt that I knew the answers.
I buy most of my DVDs used. That way it's the store getting the money.
Roger Ebert is a liar. Here is his review of John Waters' film "Pecker," in which teabagging is a key plot point, with Ebert knowing full well what it means.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti...
It doesn't surprise me per se that the left can spew out such hatred. What does surprise me is that any decent human being could so publically spew that kind of rhetoric or bile. Let the left hate me all they want in private the same way I've been known to cuss a blue streak … in private. It's just not decent or polite to be that open about it.
It mirrors my mood these days.
you owe me another keyboard dude…..
Wow…you're good!!
My image of Ebert is fixed by one thing he said when Palin was nominated for Vice-President. Ebert hit the roof, saying she was 'unfit'! Why? Because, he said, Sarah Palin had……..
..never visited the Louvre.
I swear, before God, I'm not making this up. Ebert actually said that – and he was serious. At that point I felt there was only one explanation for how he could 'reason' like this. Ebert's thumb had gotten stuck in his own butt, thereby causing the sh*t to back up to his brain and come out his mouth. (Come on, if YOU can come up for a better explanation for his idiocy, let's hear it.)
Hey, what happened to that so-called civics test he had up? Wasn't it on the Sun-Times page? I can't find it.
He was so good I promoted him.
Well, the way Mr. Ebert and his ilk see it they are the real Americans and the Tea Party, Fox News crowd are the knuckle dragging, Bible thumping, hypocritical, rednecks.
Ebert and his followers are offended because they think they are saving America from those that would turn it into a fascist police state.
Roger Ebert…yawn…who cares?
Depends on what the definition of "is" is…tea bags too.
He just strikes me as a man who would have intimate knowledge of what it is to be teabagged.
Roger, you really love that 'teabagging' commentary. You craving an English Breakfast?
First off, I had never even heard of this weirdo Ebert until relatively recently. Clearly the guy is an absolute pig. That's point one.
Point two: Given the content of various terms in this article….
"….and prayed for the robust return of the thumb that had become such a part of our lives."
Umm…. OK, maybe rephrase that? Please?
Elton John, Rosie O'Donnell and Roger Ebert – what is it about old age that turns enjoyable people in to b*tchy old queens?
No problem. IT over here has a whole roomfull of them.
Sad and pathetic would be him posting his rants on YouTube to be seen. Maybe this is all he has left to vent his feelings where they are uncensored and falls prey to the lure of being outrageous to increase followers and retweets. He should be told that selling his soul for a last gasp of celebrity and relevancy is no way to end your life and ruin whatever legacy he might have had.
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