When Did Roger Ebert Become Such an Asshole?
My apologies for the profanity in the title but there’s just no other way to say it. Roger Ebert has become a real major asshole and I don’t think I know when it happened.
When I was a kid, Roger Ebert was a chubby likable guy who sat in a TV studio made to look like a movie theater audience and talked about movies with his now deceased business partner Gene Siskel.
The Roger Ebert of today is a venomous victim of Bush Derangement Syndrome, Palin Derangement Syndrome and Tea Party Hatred Disorder all wrapped up in one. Does he even care about movies anymore?
Today, Ebert snidely Tweeted out: Tea-Baggers: How do you score on this civics and literacy test?
When Scott Brown won the Massachusetts senate race, Ebert obnoxiously Twittered: Massachusetts to Teddy: “F–k You.”
On January 14th, Ebert published an article in which he suggested Rush Limbaugh should be “horse whipped.”
“You should be horse-whipped for the insult you have paid to the highest office of our nation.”
Who is this asshole and what has he done with Roger Ebert the film critic?
Pam Meister at Big Hollywood notes that Ebert is alienating many of his own fans.
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.
David Horowitz of NewsRealBlog notices that Ebert’s politics have even worked their way into his reviews.
But like the rest of the liberal press since the Bush Administration, Ebert has become more openly partisan, and his reviews—still published under the aegis of the Chicago Sun Times and syndicated to places which have eliminated film critics like my hometown newspaper The Flint Journal– are often nothing but political lectures.
There are many times when someone can “dial it back” when they realize they’ve gone too far. I don’t think Ebert has any plans to do that but it wouldn’t matter for me anyway.
I don’t know what happened to Roger.
Thumbs down.
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