‘Teabaggers’: Roger Ebert Trashes His Own Fans (and Palin) on Twitter
by Pam MeisterIf you follow a movie critic on Twitter, chances are you follow him because you admire his ability to critique the many offerings of Hollywood. Unfortunately, if you follow Roger Ebert, you also get endless tirades on greedy corporate fatcats, ”nutjob Teabaggers,” and how dumb Sarah Palin is.
Ebert is, like many liberals, showing his true colors – and they ain’t pretty. His obsession with Sarah Palin and Tea Partiers provides the perfect example. He spent ample time Tweeting about the recent Tea Party Convention, where Sarah Palin was a featured speaker and – gasp – was paid $100,000 for her appearance (which he must now know that she pledged to donate to other candidates and causes).
When Roger Ebert Didn’t Trash His Fans With Pornographic Slurs
Ebert makes a number of references to how much Palin was being paid by both the Tea Party Convention and Fox News - a curious fixation considering he built his long and storied career by discussing the work of screenwriters, directors, actors and actresses – many of whom get paid millions of dollars a pop, as do the ”corporate fatcats” at the studios who back these films.
But here, Ebert goes above and beyond the pale, managing to crassly insult both Palin and the Tea Party attendees by saying:
TeaBagger crowd: polite. The nutjobs who were bussed to Town Halls didn’t get their way paid to Sarah’s $100,000 speech
TeaBagger crowd? Is this what passes for informed commentary? Bashing a group of people with whom you disagree politically by labeling their movement with a degrading pornographic term? Just because the crew at MSNBC thinks it’s a hoot doesn’t mean it’s a great idea. I mean, have you seen MSNBC’s ratings lately?
Did Ebert stop to consider how many of those ”teabaggers” might be Ebert fans who follow him on Twitter? I wonder how many of them read his movie reviews for guidance on their entertainment choices. But like so many of the entertainment world elite, if you disagree with him, you’re a dumbkopf who deserves to be insulted, regardless of whether or not you are a consumer of his product.
The irony of his Tweets on politics also seems to be lost upon him. Isn’t he indulging in the same freedom of speech privileges as the Tea Partiers he so casually denigrates? God bless him for utilizing the same citizen democracy ideals espoused by the Tea Party movement. Welcome to the party, Mr. Ebert! Too bad that he’s so busy slamming Tea Partiers that he doesn’t seem to realize that yes, he and the Tea Partiers do have something in common.
Unfortunately, rude name calling is not expounding upon the issues of the day, but using one’s celebrity to throw tasteless, classless insults — something that, until recently, has gone unanswered for lack of a platform.
But no more.
Thanks to the rise of the new media, the liberal elite — which includes entertainment “luminaries” like Ebert – no longer have a political soapbox from which they can lob political bombshells unchallenged. People like Andrew Breitbart are harnessing this new force and using it to change the way the news of the day is disseminated.
“They want to control the narrative,” Breitbart says. “I’m saying, ‘No more!’ The new media has freed it up. I’m sorry, mainstream media. It’s over. Your ability to control the narrative is over.”
So Ebert and his ilk can go ahead and continue trashing their ideological opposites rather than engaging in thoughtful debate. But they can no longer expect to do so unchallenged.
Bring it on.
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Isn't it obvious by now that he (and Letterman) have the Horn for Palin?
"TeaBagger crowd: polite. The nutjobs who were bussed to Town Halls didn’t get their way paid to Sarah’s $100,000 speech"
Quite frankly, I have a different perspective. The reason there is such a furor, a brouhaha in the MSM over the fee paid to Sarah Palin, whether that be brom Mr. Ebert, Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow or any of the rest of the left wing loons in the MSM, boils down simply to one thing: JEALOUSY.
They are all jealous of Palin, and her abilities. How dare she, a nobody, who came out of nowhere, with nothing be able to command such a fee? That is what gets them where it hurts. Right in the ego, and the pocketbook.
Go get 'em Sarah! I hope she drives them all into cardiac arrest..
Roger Ebert – just plain sad!
The "Tea Party" is a complete sham – the same tired, arcane, belief-driven, ignorance-fed, pandering "values" pablum that's infected and degraded American conservativism for decades dressed up to look like a "libertarian" groundswell. Look no further than the THREE (so far) TP-connected guys trying to take down Ron Paul for proof of this.
From where I survey, if the only choice is still between a "liberal" elite and a "conservative" lowest-common-denominator (also known as "the people")… between intellect and ignorance, between reason and "values"… then a thinking man no longer really HAS a choice.
And for this, I am sad.
I blame Bush Derangement Syndrome. Though he always had a leftist bent, Ebert went totally crazy after the 2000 election. Ever since then, I've been bracing myself for every review he did of a movie with even the smallest political undertones, knowing he was going to find some way to cheap shot Republicans, Bush and Conservatism in general.
He's still got his shining moments, like his review of The Passion of the Christ, but overall he's gone downhill.
All it will take to completely destroy the narrative is to find a way to replace the associated press. If Breitbart can do this, then the MSM will become meaningless to the public. The news networks have already been compromised. The NY Times and other major papers are slowly becoming relevant and are financially dying. The AP is the last brick in the wall. We have plenty of pundits and "experts" on both sides of the spectrum. But the liberal side still reports the actual news (only small exception is Fox News). And ultimately the only way to control (and hopefully abolish) the narrative is to report (not comment) on the actual news.
and don't overlook the 'hot' factor…
The Left feels it has an exclusive on all things sexy (yet another REAL error on their part) and it is important to have 300lb trailer queens in this narrative. Remember- with guaranteed outcomes come predetemined narratives- and she just plain and simple does not fit.
Thir obsession with all things physical hits the wall here. No feminist can match her combination of looks, talent, and accomplishments, not to mention five kids.
It drives them nuts…
Ergo, the hapless Ebert, who afyer his close brush with death you'd think would find some peace in his soul.
That didn't happen. So a pretty good movie critic becomes a bitter left wing attack dog in his waning days,
Sad…
Hold on a minute. If I remember right isn't Al Gore paid speak? I think the last number I heard for him was 150,00.. so wheres the outrage over JabberJaw being paid for the same thing?
Oh right.. right. Nevermind. Its that "liberal thing" and I wouldnt understand.
Well how seriously can you take Ebert; he once opined that the 'American Tail/Fievel' movies were anti-semitic because the villains were cats–IE: "Katz" so the villains had to be Jewish…how he overlooked the whole Spielberg connection and the immigrant mice were also Jewish is somewhat beyond me.
"Did Ebert stop to consider how many of those ”teabaggers” might be Ebert fans who follow him on Twitter?"
Ex-Ebert follower here. Watched him and Siskel for years. Quit listening to him when he went politico.
“They want to control the narrative,” Breitbart says. “I’m saying, ‘No more!’ The new media has freed it up. I’m sorry, mainstream media. It’s over. Your ability to control the narrative is over.”
Nuff said. Really.
Thank you.
I've now seen the light. I now realize I'm just an ignorance rube bitterly clinging to my guns and religion.
I'm now going to defer to my intellectual superior like you.
I await further instruction.
All Hail MovieBob, may he and those like him lead us to paradise.
I used to post to a local blog in Louisville. Which was nothing more than the latest (and lamest) liberal talking points. He liked to use the term "Teabagger". I asked him not to several times. He ignored me. So I just told him what it was in great and disgusting detail. He has now hit me with the ban hammer. He's enough of a coward to use such a term, but when he finds out what it means, I'm the villain. He's still using it, and I'm still banned. To hell with him.
If you follow a movie critic on Twitter, chances are you follow him because you admire his ability to critique the many offerings of Hollywood.
*boggle*
Movie reviews can be useful. However, if you follow *anyone* that religiously on Twitter, chances are you follow him because you don't have a life. Why anyone cares about movie critic tweets is disturbing.
I am a highly educated, middle-class man, and I went to a "tea party" rally in Manhattan last year. Don't try to put a whole movement into your convenient box. This notion that the "tea party movement" is comprised of ignorant, southern, white men has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've heard in a while. As far as I know, the common goals of people who are members of, associated with, or interested in, the "tea party", are, in no particular order:
1) smaller government
2) constitutional government
3) lower taxes (which would come from smaller government)
4) election of politicians who believe in 1-3
There's probably other issues, but I think those are the main ones.
Hey Ebert, how's my teabag taste?
Hey, Pot! Meet Kettle!
As a movie critic for the format pioneering public TV show, "SNEAK PREVIEWS," (1975-82) wasn't it Ebert (and the late Gene Siskel) who was also the beneficiary of a studio conveniently in his hometown…paid a salary from the pockets of hard-working people's pledges who supported Chicago's PBS station, WTTW…but which he arguably left for MORE dough vis-a-vis the Tribune-produced syndicated show…which furthered his fame so he could make scads and scads of cash? What is he…some kind of opportunistic capitalist born in the USA?
and a "conservative" lowest-common-denominator (also known as "the people")… between intellect and ignorance, between reason and "values"…
You couldn't make the point any more clear, Hail Bob.
You and the rest of your ilk know better than us common folk. Thanks for everything you do.
Hail Bob. (LOL, Thanks for the wit, fellow peasent Panzer.)
I said before: "Better a teabagger for libertry than a butt-boy for Obama and Darth Soros." But now Ebert gives new dimension to the term "butt boy."
Ebert is still around? I thought he died. I guess that was the other guy, the smarter one. Oh well. Never watched him again after that.
I think that covers it. At least I hope so. I mean, that is a pretty 'big tent'. I hope social conservatives don't try to expand the list and shrink the tent.
His critical faculties have degraded to the point of (without hyperbole) worthlessness. I check his twitter and marvel over how mad (in the crazy sense) he now seems. I think his writing will fall to the wayside as film history progresses. To not be entirely negative his need to be continually seen as cutting edge prompts him to tweet some interesting links that I might not have seen otherwise.
On Bob and Tom's radio show this morning, Tom Griswald used the term Tea Bagger and made some disparaging remarks about the movement and Sarah Palin in general. Needless to say I sent him a nice informative e-mail advising himto be careful of who he slanders as he is also part of the media.
It just makes me so sad when someone I used to think well of opens their mouth, or their twitter account, and proves how truly shallow their world is and how little experience they have with people outside their little liberal group. It makes his reviews all suspect that his world view is so limited.
If he would actually attend a tea party or talk to people who have different views than his own, he might learn something and broaden his whole world, but instead he sits at his liberal dinner parties surrounded by people with a view of the world as limited as his own.
I think if he went to a tea party it would blow his mind how wide a range of people he would meet, instead he depends on MSNBC to inform him. I met people of every color and every political party all who just want a more responsive and responsible government. Instead of informing himself and others he is trying to tear down personally everyone who he is told by the MSM and his liberal friends are bad people.
Does he really believe he is so superior in his knowledge and thinking to such a large portion of the population of the United States? Apparently he does. Does he really believe trashing them all as "tea baggers", that disgustingly gutter term, is not doing damage to his reputation as well as his country? Maybe he just doesn't really care about that part of the population, and the country as a whole.
"I've now seen the light. I now realize I'm just an ignorance rube bitterly clinging to my guns and religion."
Who said anything about guns?
Ditto!
I think Ebert just gets turned on every opportunity he has to use the expression "teabag".
I love how the survey Ebert is sending tea-baggers to is both misspelled and contains grammar errors.
You can't buy that kind of irony.
Ok, ok, I'll be the one to say it:
Roger Ebert. I give him a thumb's down.
Vainamoinen and Bob Smith: Many intelligent people USE Twitter. I was reluctant to try it, but once I found the Conservative community, I have adopted Twitter as my primary social media site. It has value, but you have to take the plunge to understand it.
It really annoys me for people to think that Twitter is only for inane tweets. But, I once felt that way. Now, I am enlightened.
Ebert is of no consequence. Other than the fact that he is a movie critic, he is a relic of a bygone era, one who has grown fat physically and intellectually by years of not being challenged in his "progressive" way of thinking. Those days are past and we can expect lots more of the whining, childish temper tantrums from those who see that their days are numbered.
Sarah Palin's Nashville speech was the most significant oration of the 21st century.
See:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/te...
If it wasn't for his profanity, my favorite movie reviewer happens to hang out on YouTube with some of the finest, sharpest, and most intellectual reviews of movies….not that he's actually reviewed many.
(Whoever you are, RedLetterMedia – you rock!)
Does he really believe he is so superior in his knowledge and thinking to such a large portion of the population of the United States?
It's like children rebelling against their parents. The fact of the matter is by and large most liberals are intellectually, morally and physically inferior to Conservatives. They lash out at their betters as demonstrated by their 8 year temper tantrum during the Bush years, they have a minimal intellect which requires them to be taken care of by govt, they're too irresponsible to make their own decisions so they have a union do it for them, most major in homosexual studies or multi-cultural nonsense, few are able to reconcile their bank accounts, etc.
The dumbest people in America are entirely on the left. What other group of people is stupid enough to believe the breath they exhale is a pollutant? Liberals are bitter because they know they are dumb, they know they are useless and they know they are losers, which is why they're embarrassed to call themselves liberals. They're followers as witnessed by their bootlicking of some jugeared political neophyte that has Zero accomplishments.
"This notion that the "tea party movement" is comprised of ignorant, southern, white men has got to be one of the most ridiculous things I've heard in a while."
Who said anything about region, race or gender?
This is not difficult to suss out, folks: No legitimate "grassroots" movement becomes this powerful, this well organized, this quickly. Do you think the GOP would be so "open" to being supplanted if they weren't "in on it" to a certain degree? Really? Do you ALSO "buy" that Obama's rise was all just earnest schoolkids and 'the people,' too?
The Tea Party is little more than the co-opting of a nascent "libertarian" pushback by the old-guard Republican power-brokers and the "social conservative" money machine. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Show me a conservative/libertarian movement that makes the conscious and open commitment to cutting the cancers of "values," "belief" and all the other superstitions from itself, and I'll show you a GENUINE revolution.
What can you expect from a man who makes his living criticizing the productive lives of others.
But… but… but I thought "the people" and "the folks" were all smart and clear-thinking enough to see through such things? Why "replace" something that, according to the entire "new media" movement, doesn't matter?
Big Bill Clinton gets a pretty good amount to spout his nonesense, maybe even a little hottie on the side, but you will not hear anyone complain about that either.
He doesn't look so good. Might be soon.
If the Sarah Palin Story were brought to the screen with Julia Roberts in the role, Ebert would effuse about the Feminist Saga of the gutsy woman who took on the Power Establishment yet retained her folksy manner of speech and her family despite all obstacles thrown in her path by the Power Structure. He'd be all atwitter.
Why is it that these pathetics morons, who barely have a liberal undergraduate degree think they are Gods gift to us intellectually ? This guy is a movie critic, of all things, just like some writers at NYT who got moved to the editorial page as the house intellectuals
Do these people even know who they're talking to? They are so out of touch the don't even realize just the career military has 80% college degrees — Hollywood has virtually 0%.
Republicans earn 65% more college degrees than democrats- -every year since 1955.
If democrats stayed in school and out of jail we would have NO national debt nor social problems.
I for one think the replies here don't understand what Movie Bob means. And I am intrigued by his meaning.
Can Ron Paul get a fair shake in the Tea Party establishment? Paul is the epitome of Tea Party, but if the guys in charge are still banishing him to a counter-convention then Movie Bob is right: its a sham.
I'm getting this image of a wigged Movie Bob, circa 1773, declaring that, "this 'Tea Party' in the Colonies is a complete sham, the same tired complaints, belief driven and ignorance fed 'values' that's infected the Colonial legislatures."
Minor details not to be dwelled upon, he is still a whizbang compared to Bush. I mean look at how right he is about global warming, I think all this white stuff covering the USA is a product of global warming.
What a maroon! (Bugs Bunny reference.) Here, take my test–if you disagree with the validity of my answers–tough. You shouldn't be able to vote.
If Roger isn't a symbol of every ultra "I know best what's best for you" liberal, I don't know who is.
It amuses me to no end that Sarah Palin will still be tormenting Ebert all the way to his grave. His last Tweet (as he is no longer able to speak)won't be his beloved "Rosebud", but 'teabag'. The guy is just a nasty elitist snob, a condescending pseudo-intellectual jerk.
Hi again! Say, aren't you the one who marks down movies on TheEscapistMagazine for holding views that you disagree with, but raves about movies with the same qualities but beliefs that coincide with his own?
Why yes, it probably is!
Apparently you just do this on every site.
Who cares what that old queen thinks.
His taste in movies blows (always has).
I enjoyed Roger's commentary for years about the movies he has critiqued. However, now that he has decided to attack those citizens he disagrees with politically, I don't give a damn what he has to say about the movies. Not a smart move Roger, I'll get my movie reviews elsewhere from now on.
I think you are partly right. He probably is upset that he has the hots for someone out of his league. However, I'm pretty sure that Ebert would be more interested in Todd than Sarah.
To my fellow teabaggERs not to worry mates, better to be the teabaggER than to be the teabaggEE, yes???
Hey Mr Ohlberman (sp?) and Ms DeGraffilo (sp? but who cares). XOXOXO
Bring it on!!!
I once turned down the aisle in a downtown Chicago bookstore and was stopped by Roger who (was a larger man then) blocked the narrow aisle. He was reading his own book. For quite some time. Enough said.
Roger Ebert? He's still on the air? I'll take his lame test immediately after listening to one of his lame movie reviews. Oh wait, that will be never.
Right. As if a liberal is in a position to test anyone on civics or literacy–get real. Then, get lost. Better yet, just get lost.
Your proof is Ron Paul?
Sarah Palin started out as a little snowball in the wilds of Alaska. In time this snowball increased in size and has now become a present day avalance, and a threat to dislodging and displacing the fixed position of Obama's Marxist governmental actions, and overwhelming the progressives degeneracy idiology.
Sarah Palin stirs the emotions, feelings and passions of the debased progressives and it is a pleasure to behold them unravel.
Their depraved and moral deterioration, the pornography of their belief's, the twisting and distorting everything that is natural and normal is on full display every time their is a Sarah Palin sighting.
I'll never forget reading one of his entries in his syndicated column. A reader had a question about the purpose of the scene in FARGO where Marge Gunderson meets up with a high school classmate (who's heritage is Asian) at a supper club — who then proceeds to put The Moves on Marge. Ebert had some sort of overly-long, intellectualized answer about story plot. But he completely missed the point:
The Coen Brothers took a gorgeous opportunity of a talented Asian-American actor (Steve Park), who could do a spot-on Minnesota Norwegian accent! And it was — what the Coen's do well — FUNNY!
And Roger's columns never, ever looked the same to me after that. He completely missed it…
I don't generally give "marks," one way or the other.
But thanks for watching the show, though. Always nice to meet a fan
I remember when she wore white and that was some kind of KKK signal lol Apparently the right uses all kinds of hidden meanings for racism that only the left seems to know about or understand, I guess Sarah has taken it to a new level and doesn't even need words to incite her crowds to violent racism. Now that's funny stuff, why aren't Stewart et al goofing on that stuff?
Considering the fact the he wrote Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, he is not allowed to criticize anyone, ever. About anything. "It's my party Man and it's freaking me out"? Who writes this crap?
Right on Cowboy! That's how I see it! People are jealous of Sarah Palin but do you see them standing up there and taking beatings like her to help keep America free? I don't see anybody else up there.
Yeah, you don't have to be Freud to figure out what's on tubby's mind.
It makes me sad too, very much so. I grew up in Chicago watching Siskel & Ebert on WTTW and reading their reviews. I was always thrilled when they appeared on Carson or Letterman. I entered "Beat Siskel" and "Outguess Ebert" each time the Oscars rolled around. They were part of what made the movies very special to me.
So yes, to see someone whom I cherished as a such a positive force in my life transform into a completely negative one makes me very sad. And it isn't that I disagree with him (indeed, I have plenty of times in the past without having to turn in my fan card). It's that he completely trashes, mischaracterizes, and otherwise belittles and demeans my viewpoints in such vicious, superficial ways. And I think maliciousness is precisely his intent. I'm not offended that he's liberal. I'm hurt that he doesn't know well enough in his old age to appreciate that so many who have cherished him do not share his political views. He's chosen instead to completely polarize a following he built over a generation, and he's done so with contempt towards the Right, not respect.
So after 30 years of fan support, I'm pigeonholed as a racist, homophobic, violent, angry, etc. merely because I hold conservative values. Gee, have I earned the right to say, "you're welcome, Roger?"
My proof is that Paul – for all his various eccentricities – has been beating this drum for YEARS, yet when it actually seems to be "catching" the rush is on to keep him out of it. Why? You know why: He's not the "right kind" of "conservative." The Tea Party is no more "new" or "anti-establishment" for the right than Obama was for the left.
The letters in "Roger Ebert" can be rearranged to read: "Bore Regret"
The first word describes what he is.
The second word is the emotion I feel when I inadvertently channel surf into one of his criticisms.
Oh yeah, I remember that! You know what, I think that was in the same Ebert's Journal entry I was talking about. I wanted to track it down just so I could quote it, but all I find are dead links referring to it. It's completely MIA.
Some people get wiser, have more understanding of the world and take a broader view as they age. Ebert got just the opposite, bitter, narrow minded, uninformed and angry. I'm sad for him and his family…does he even have a family? He comes across as a guy who sits at his computer alone and reads KOS.
I quit watching him AGES ago… When he first became mildly annoying, a little after the death of Gene Siskel.
Roger Ebert must write for Captain America.
And then there is also: "Beget Error" which describes what he does when he issues his take on flicks.
wasn't siskel eberts gay lover?
Roger Ebert = Salad Tosser!
Hello Pam and Thank You Breitbart —I have always enjoyed Ebert's reviews but you are so right — his language and his message of slamming a party he does not respect will forever and in the future be touted by me as OVER! Such language and such messaging is more than crass or required. Thank you for pointing this out — these poor liberal schlubs are dropping off my favored-radar like flies!!! And so it goes! Enlightenment — great; Liberal's bashing with their trite drivel inserted in their messaging — loser-esque; and Breitbart Media outlets — priceless!!!!
Marks
We are not tired. We are not one "liberal " or "libertarian" group. We are many groups who stand together to fight for a free America! What do you fight for?
he does excuse that as a 'youthful indiscretion'…
But it is seriously bad stuff. And he is lucky Gene Siskel teamed up with him or eles he'd be just another lefty critic…
People of Ebert's ilk like to make fun of Sarah Palin and her speaking style and accent , comparing her to Marge Gunderson, forgetting the fact that Marge was the smartest character in that movie.
Roger obviously likes the term "tea-bagger", so lets accept his premise. I say we keep "sticking our ideas in his face and ram them down his throat".
The thing that amazes me is how worked up the left wing schmucks are about someone who they perceive to be of no substance, yet they promote one of even less substance!
"Better a teabagger for libertry than a butt-boy for Obama and Darth Soros."
That has got to be put on a T-shirt! I love it!
Actually bob, you're just pathetic. There, fixed it for ya.
re: teabagger
In 1776, the Tories referred to the Revoltionaries as "Yankee Doodles." This was not supposed to be complimentary. It was supposed to be insulting. Instead of festering over it, our Founders took the term and made it their own. They embraced it, owned it and took the sting away. To this day, Americans lovingly refer to themselves as Yankees.
When I hear the word teabagger, I wonder when some clever Conservative song writer will have the audacity turn it into a catchy little tune.
You want to talk about a complete SHAM, he's presently occupying space at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Think I'm kidding, take a look here: http://www.theobamafile.com/index.htm
Tell a lie loud enough and often enough and pretty soon people will believe it. This can be done by selectively leaving out key bits of info, or by blatantly ignoring the truth- like when the LSM reported that only 100,000 people attended a Tea Party in Wash DC when Purdue Univ reported that 1.7 million attended and the DC police estimated that hundreds of thousands could not get to the Mall due to infrastructure overload.
Okay, I'm going to sort of, kind of agree with MovieBob here (after all, Hell [D.C.] has frozen over right?):
Ron Paul, on fiscal and economic issues, seems to be no different than what the Tea Party is about.
I tried to listen to him during the last campaign, but what I did not like about him was his attitude about 9/11 which sounded the same as the Left. I think that's the one thing for sure, why I can't consider myself a real libertarian. I just don't agree with them on foreign policy. I can understand taking an isolationist point of view. But he was almost as hateful as the Left and Tea Partiers are definitely not in agreement on that. If he wants in, I'm sure they would consider it, but maybe not because of that attitude.
Cont'd
I'm sure some social conservativism comes into play there and on that I would disagree with the Tea Partiers. Look at Scott Brown and Sarah Palin. Both espouse the same economic/fiscal beliefs, but he is moderate socially and she is not. Yet both are respected by the Tea Party community. So while sometimes libertarians can get a little kooky in the "social" department (even for me, and I don't identify as a social conservative), you are right that he has something to say about the MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEM OF TODAY: THE ECONOMY!
So I also await an answer to MovieBob's question: Why isn't Ron Paul a part of it, if only to show how the Tea Party movement really is not about PARTY, but about agreement on the economic and fiscal issues. I went to the 9/12 march with a Conservative and a Liberatarian, so it's not that far out there.
I'm with you Billy. Personally I have no problem with someone being a thoughtful liberal. I have family members who have more "liberal" views on issues than I do, and yet I love and respect them. We have political discussions and disagree without being angry or hurtful to each other. It's too bad that Ebert isn't able even in his old age to be respectful of those with different beliefs.
I do understand some people's anger at others who don't take the time to educate themselves and think through issues and just vote on how they "feel" about the issue or candidate or what they are told by the media, but there is no need to lump everyone who disagrees with you into that category and call them names like a 5 year old.
What davidj said.
Ebert= 3 dollars, 1 bill.
To which, I give you, SomeDame, a thumbs UP.
The MSM is already meaningless. Just a couple of day's ago, Dan Rather was tearfully saying
"A truly free and independent press is the RED beating heart of democracy and freedom,"
Begging the Enlightened One to save Journalism
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/rich-noyes/2009/08/0...
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Spoken like someone who has completely bought into the narrative and definitions spouted by the liberal left.
Got that Obama False Choice thing down pretty good, doncha?
I see intellect AND ignorance, but they ain't where you think they are.
indeed.. we're getting a whole lot of that warm snow up here too.
Hee hee, "a thinking man". Keep deluding yourself jerkoff.
MovieBob – who gives a rat's ass? I don't' care if the damn thing is funded by George W. Bush, Pat Robertson, and the Ghost of Ronald Reagan. The movement is about fiscal responsibility, lower taxes, and smaller government. As long as it stays about those things, who cares if the GOP is "in on it"? More power to them for finally getting behind these concepts. God knows they didn't when they actually had power!
My question to the Tea Partiers is this. Why did you wait for it to get so bad? Where were you when the Republicans were stabbing us in the back with their spending? Its like the idiotic war protesters who were out in force until Obama took over. Now, no protests, despite the fact that he is conducting the same war in Iraq and increasing troops in Afghanistan. It's not about the actual policy, its about getting "their guy" in office. Its wrong when they do it, and its wrong when we conservatives let our Republican reps get away with it.
Indeed.. better a teabagger than a salad tosser.
Perhaps you'd like to list for us all the "grassroots" movements you consider to be "legitimate". You know, so that we can tell if we're being faked-out or not.
Hey Rog…
Are ya SERIOUSLY that pissed off that ya got cancer, that you need to try to make EVERYONE as miserable as you???
Jesus, man. I was the kid that made you your Chinese Chicken Salad back in the mid-80's when you were still in the Sun-Times building there on Wabash. I'm kinda disappointed to hear that not only is your voice shot to hell, but your career, as well.
Meanwhile, you'll be happy to hear that yours truly is living the dream you could only fantasize about as you munched on your salad, and signed autographs from people who had no clue that you were about as relevant as the newsprint that published your drivel…
Have a nice life, pantywaist…
I hope your ridiculous hatred for the tea party gives you a heart attack. You're definitely going to have one with the way you carry on.
Very well said Satan.
I always believed that half the people who consider themselves liberal are really just ill-informed and once they become informed they realize they're not liberal.
Of course the other half are just stark raving mad.
So I was right. You ARE a crappy reviewer.
ROFL… you crack me up, panzerkardinal, you snarky imp, you.
Movie Bob, I really get a real kick out of you… I'm going to read as many of your angry, liberal rhetoric in comments as possible, because, sport, you're just so darn cute. *pats Movie Bob's brainwashed pinhead and hands him a cookie, which Bob wolfs down hastily so that he doesn't have to "redistribute the cookie wealth"*
Movie Bob might have the moral compass of a garden slug. His statement about "belief-driven" values, per his clueless Obamabot bleatings, are old and tired, unlike sheeplike worship of our Liberal Elite Commander in Chief, who loves to tell the media he is "a blank slate' and who can't even pronounce "corps man" correctly.
Twice.
With a high-tech teleprompter system. As Forrest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
Bob, I must have missed the day in English class that liberals decided that the word "ignorance" was synonymous for "values." Ha ha ha ha… This explains the fracas going on with "lack of values" from the likes of Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, John Edwards, Dr. Michael Mann, Dr. Phil Jones, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, et al.
Can't wait to read more of your adorable, naive statist comments.
The irony here is Ebert really is a "teabagger".
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