Roger Ebert Can’t Stop Embarrassing Himself
Posted by Dirty Harry on Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Our long national nightmare is ending.
You gotta plunge pretty deep in the hack-barrel to come up with that hoary cliche.
[Our troops] were sent to endanger their lives by zealots with occult objectives.
“Occult objectives?” Don’t you mean, blue light, tectonic plate shift occult objectives?
I agree with Oliver Stone…
My understanding is that on any number of sanity tests question #3 starts with, Do you agree with Oliver Stone…
At the end, let me tell you about a hunch I have. In the privacy of the voting booth, I think there is a possibility that Condoleezza Rice voted for Obama.
Because she’s black? Racist. I have a hunch that in the privacy of the voting booth Roger Ebert flashed back to the first time he had sex … in a booth … gripping quarters … alone.
In 1968 I was in the streets as a reporter,
That’s heartening: the guy who agrees with Oliver Stone was a reporter.
Then he posts this as though it’s not a little scary.
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Johnny Ed's Babyon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:22 am 1“My understanding is that on any number of sanity tests question #3 starts with, Do you agree with Oliver Stone…”
Snap!
abeon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:23 am 2“Roger Ebert Can’t Stop Embarrassing Himself” = “Roger Ebert and I have differing political opinions.”
Jonnyon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:25 am 3Long national nightmare? These people are such drama queens.
Hey fat ass, you’re not at war…you’re at the movies! What the hell are you complaining about? You’re not fighting for your own right to remain in the land of fat, dumb, and happy.
If anyone has a right to complain about the war it’d be the Marines, soldiers, and sailors doing our dirty work over there. but funny thing is, they’re not complaining. Quite the contrary, many of them want to stay and finish the job.
Piece of advice people. When war breaks out, leave the fighting to the folks who do it for a living. They don’t need armchair generals telling what to do what not to do and for how long.
Rest easy, slugs, and let the rough men do the work you’re too cowardly to do.
And be grateful to them.
Growltigeron 06 Nov 2008 at 10:33 am 4What is really astounding, what nobody ever mentions or makes comment on is the sanity of our military men and women. Hear me out. After decades (it started with Vietnam) of being spat upon, belittled, called rapists and murderers, slandered, arrested for war crimes they didn’t commit, dissed and sneered at, not one has gone completely bats**** and either put a smart bomb down the chimney of the NY Times building or blown an irksome little slug like Ebert off the face of the earth. THAT is an accomplishment!
Kyleon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:35 am 5Abe,
There are lots of people who disagree, there are a lot of people who disagree with the war and can make a compelling arguement. But these comments are embarassing, and it shows no individual thought or insight. This makes me wonder if he is a 9/11 Truther at heart.
Look, if your an O-man then congrats. I think he will bankrupt the nation, but time will tell. I want him to be successful, because that means the country is successful. But this kind of sentiment is the sort of thing that can be said if Bush was taking acutal faciast steps, not the lame ass exuses for ones that the left claims.
John McClainon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:36 am 6Sounds like Roger has developed a brain tumor like is late partner Gene Siskel did.
Die Hard Fan
Jonnyon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:37 am 7Growl, indeed.
And if one does step out of line, the rest of ‘em are raring and ready to put him back into line.
Speaks volumes about the stuff our people are made of.
billypaintbrushon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:38 am 8Ebert has evolved into a political hack as a way to sustain his acclaim. Movies have gotten boring now, but the political stuff gets his fans excited.
Maybe the cancer and drugs have dulled his senses and the adulation thrills him into adrenaline rush.
Aitch748on 06 Nov 2008 at 10:39 am 9I’m so going to enjoy pointing at Obama’s supporters and laughing every time Obama f**ks up.
Johnny Ed's Babyon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:41 am 10I love the racism inherent in the “Obama didn’t write his books” line. Of course, a black man certainly couldn’t have written his own books!
Bigots.
Disagreeing with abe on Obama’s skills = bigots.
Good to see the election hasn’t changed your opinions here. Is Axelrod still paying you for 2008 or is this the start of the 2012 campaign?
Mullholland Kevinon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:49 am 11Fresh out of University of Illinois, Urbana, young Roger Ebert spent about ten minutes “on the street as a reporter in 1968″ before his bosses at the Chicago Sun-Times, desperate to do something with the kid, stuck him with what was, at the time, the least prestigious job on the paper: reviewing movies and interviewing starlets. That Mr. Ebert turned a lousy job into a multi-million dollar private empire (via public television) is a tribute to his avarice and hustle, but this self-portrait as a Front Page-style go-getting reporter (no doubt with a “press” ticket in his fedora) is the happy fantasy of an unwell, old man.
Jimbo2on 06 Nov 2008 at 10:57 am 12Our long national nightmare is only just beginning. Welcome to The Second Great Depression. We will have 15% unemployment and 15% inflation faster than you can say “Jimmy Carter.”
Oh and don’t forget. Expect more of our embassies to be bombed.
Jillon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:03 am 13Thank God for the internet so we can laugh at these people. These people who don’t like God because they think nobody could be smarter than they are.
Capt. Nemoon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:14 am 14My favorite parts are when he tacks on so many hopes for Obama.
Pulling out of Iraq and closing Gitmo are biggies.
I think it would be fun to hold his feet to the fire on this one and see if any of his expectations play out.
David Marcoeon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:18 am 15I’m less worried about what Obama might do than I was a few days ago. Here’s waiting for the weeping and gnashing of teeth when their Messiah turns out to be a false prophet.
the bookkeeperon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:18 am 16My guess is he’s starting on 2012 JEB, otherwise he’d already be gone.
PerfectTommyon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:19 am 17So Ebert leaves open the possiblity that Condi Rice is a good person? (”Good Person” - definition, voted Democrat)
I was tempted to write “that’s awfully white of him” but that would be racist.
The Dow Jones seems very excited about Obama’s new Eden.
ChristopherMCon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:22 am 18“Occult objectives”? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard from a liberal . . . today. Likely not the stupidest thing I hear all month, sadly.
dudesaplentyon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:33 am 19Stephanie i Believe there is a South Park website that has the Episode in question on it.In fact here it is it’s Called “About last Night” http://www.southparkstudios.com/
Robert Lindseyon 06 Nov 2008 at 11:46 am 20Occult objectives — Ebert is confusing Raiders of the Lost Ark with reality, since Bush is Hitler, his brain made the got mixed up.
Rice is no more likely to vote for someone just because he is black than Ebert is to vote for someone just because he is white. And that’s how it should be.
I’ve said before that most people should disappear from the public eye long before they do. Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, Dan Rather, Jimmy Carter, these are all people I had some kind of respect for at one time, but they have made too many incredible illogical statements to be worthy of any respect at all.
Kiton 06 Nov 2008 at 11:51 am 21He thinks COndi voted Dem cause she’s black?
Dirty Harry, I would have used the Jeff Dunham quote by Ahmed the Dead Terrorist*:
“You Racist Bastard!”
*Jeff Dunham is a ventriloquist and Ahmed the Dead Terrorist is one of his puppets. A spelling for Ahmed that is given is “A-H-flem-M-E-D”
Michaelon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:04 pm 22Ebert embarrasses himself again. I thought you were talking about that hat!
Michaelon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:11 pm 23Last night Mark Levin played a speech by Ronald Regan in 1964. Here is the link to that speech.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganatimeforchoosing.htm
You will hear Reagan in top form before most of us were born. The strength, the wisdom and the relevance to current events is astounding. I highly recommend listening in.
Kiton 06 Nov 2008 at 12:14 pm 24Ebert looks like a creepy guy in the sex-slave business.
ChristopherMCon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:21 pm 25Remember folks, this here’s a member of the reality-based community.
Not sure which reality they’re based in, though.
The_Rickon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:31 pm 26“Ebert embarrasses himself again. I thought you were talking about that hat!”
I just thought Ebert had that picture taken as a tribute to Hannibal Lecter in the final scene of “Silence of the Lambs.”
Michaelon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:35 pm 27Regarding Ebert, (and the rest of the liberals out there)
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
Ronald Reagan
Kiton 06 Nov 2008 at 12:36 pm 28The_Rick,
“I just thought Ebert had that picture taken as a tribute to Hannibal Lecter in the final scene of ‘Silence of the Lambs.’”
Ebert looks creepier than Lecter does saying “I ate his liver, with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”
Heck! Judging by that picture, I’d rather be at Hannibal Lecter’s dinner party than a roundtable film discussion with Roger Ebert.
Michaelon 06 Nov 2008 at 12:50 pm 29I don’t agree with the man, and I don’t like his hat, but in fairness he has been very ill in the last few years and I think that explains some of his looks.
Floyd R. Turboon 06 Nov 2008 at 1:24 pm 30Gene Siskel must be flummoxed down there watching his buddy self-immolate.
JohnFNWayneon 06 Nov 2008 at 1:26 pm 31I wonder if he agrees, with Oliver Stone, that Tommy Lee Jones really killed JFK …
pizzadogon 06 Nov 2008 at 1:28 pm 32Anyone notice the news of Mahmoud’s love letter to BHO?
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4A57YH20081106
Raise your hands if you didn’t see this one coming……
Anyone?
The_Rickon 06 Nov 2008 at 1:36 pm 33pizzadog,
cue Samberg from SNL digital shorts singing “IRAN”
G-MANon 06 Nov 2008 at 2:07 pm 34No surprises from Iran nor from the other terrorist organizations that have already given public support. They are already making plans to rebuild.
Aside from that, I am somewhat relieved this won’t be a repeat of the Carter years. However, the cabinet picks are looking like a repeat of the Clinton years.
Change they thought they could believe in. It’s like taking off your shorts, turning them inside out and putting them back on.
abeon 06 Nov 2008 at 3:24 pm 35There’s nothing “embarrassing” about these comments. I mean, if you’re going to try to shame Ebert, it helps that he knows you exist.
A lot of people are happy that Obama was elected, and DH can’t stand it.
Sour grapes…
abeon 06 Nov 2008 at 4:01 pm 36This is nice:
http://www.zefrank.com/from52to48withlove/
JohnFNWayneon 06 Nov 2008 at 5:18 pm 37I didn’t know Dr. Moreau had moved off the island and into the Sun-Times entertainment section.
Rusty Jameson 06 Nov 2008 at 6:04 pm 38Say what you will about Ebert but he’s a man of letters. He was using the term “occult” in a less conventional but perfectly acceptable manner. See.
http://www.answers.com/topic/occult
Frankly I think y’all could have a little more respect for the guy. As my hero Werner Herzog so eliquently put it “he’s been a good soldier of cinema”.
Of course he’s out of touch and aloof. The man has felt the cold touch of death. He’s not long for this world, we should enjoy him while we can.
And besides, everyone knows that it was his weird pointless creationist stunt that was embarrassing.
Kenn Christensonon 06 Nov 2008 at 6:08 pm 39Hey abe - looks like you’re in good company - Ahmadinejad likes the new president, too!
Kenn Christensonon 06 Nov 2008 at 6:26 pm 40…and don’t forget, he’s also “slightly creepy.” Guess that’s how they make ‘em in Manchuria.
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=214933
YatYason 06 Nov 2008 at 6:34 pm 41Abe,
Ebert is like so many other extreme liberals that have talked of President Bush and his administration as taking our freedoms and starting a war based on lies. Well, it is amazing that no one has been sent to a concentration camp for spreading lies about the president and an election has been held with the first black American chosen to be the next president I do not like Obama based on his values, but he has been chosen as the president, so I will respect that choice. I only hope Obama realizes the dangers to this country, both economically and most importantly from Islamic Extremists and makes good decisions. God bless our country and our military forces.
Major Grahamon 06 Nov 2008 at 8:03 pm 42I don’t think he looks like Dr. Moreau as much as Truman Capote. What a tool. Oh how I look forward to all the obamaphiles dismay once their dear leader shows his true colors.
JohnFNWayneon 06 Nov 2008 at 8:20 pm 43Steven De Beste said it, well, best. There is no way he can actually live up to all his hype. I remember the hype for Bush, that he was the second coming of Reagan, and the Republican congress. That pales next to the Messiah.
When reality hits, the predictable will happen. First his poll numbers slide, then comes the usual media backstop to save the day, followed by cries of racism for anyone that is upset by the policies or the performance. Bin Laden could march down Pennsylvania Ave., the only problem will be racist America.
SpideyTerryon 06 Nov 2008 at 8:34 pm 44“Our long national nightmare is ending.”
Yeah, I hated living under a president that helped ensure there were no terrorist attacks on American soil for over seven years. *snark*
“[Our troops] were sent to endanger their lives by zealots with occult objectives.”
It always amazes me that the people most opposed to the war in Iraq never had to fight in it to begin with. Meanwhile, the people most supportive of it have been the troops themselves. (Just look at the re-enlistment rates.)
“I agree with Oliver Stone…”
Speaks for itself, doesn’t it?
“At the end, let me tell you about a hunch I have. In the privacy of the voting booth, I think there is a possibility that Condoleezza Rice voted for Obama.”
I agree, Dirty Harry. A very racist statement.
“In 1968 I was in the streets as a reporter,”
Wow, you can’t possibly imagine how little that means to me, Rog.
BTW, one more thing. Forgive me if this has already been asked, but am I alone in thinking that the picture makes Ebert look like Belloq from “Raiders of the Lost Ark”… especially after the Ark of the Covenant was opened?
Jack Marinoon 06 Nov 2008 at 10:53 pm 45That is Roger!! Hell I thought he was dead already… i bet he hangs around just to keep boring us with his boring opinion and who cares???
Rodon 07 Nov 2008 at 4:52 am 46That picture is GREAT-he looks like Tom Wolfe on Amphetamines.
beartoothon 07 Nov 2008 at 5:45 am 47DH:
My understanding is that on any number of sanity tests question #3 starts with, Do you agree with Oliver Stone…
Cripes Harry, what are questions 1 and 2 ?!!
Ebert:
… I think there is a possibility that Condoleezza Rice voted for Obama.
Errr … not that likely. Rice is a Republican *because* she’s black. Rice is a Republican because Dems wouldn’t let her father register.
(OK, that’s unfair: she’s a very bright grown woman and I’m sure she has very good intellectual reasons as well, but I believe she’s on record as saying something along those lines.)
Crocketton 07 Nov 2008 at 6:27 am 48“long national nightmare?”
More like long national temper tantrum. That God THAT’S over…except it meant leaving the 2 year olds in charge.
Stephanieon 07 Nov 2008 at 6:37 am 49Long national nightmare…..the man has no freaking idea what he is talking about. Jobless numbers out..14 year high. Obama is going to make Jimmy Carter look like Ronald Reagan. Watch. Actually I am sort of laughing right now. Its just the beginning. I agree with Rush. You wanted change..ok you spoiled brats your gonna get it.
Jack Marinoon 07 Nov 2008 at 7:59 am 50Steph, the Obama and the democrats are going to screw up everything both domestic and foreign and AMerica will be attacked as soon as Bush leaves office and this loser will do nothing by talk and raise out taxes in a recession and steal all our 41ks. I hope they drive this country into the ground that the Democrats beg for Bush to come back because it will get worst than that. After these next four years, they will all be voted out and not even their mothers will vote for them. We just sit back and let the retards drive this country into a brick wall at 100mph.
If we are attacked and he don’t retaliate he can be impeached for not doing his duty as Commander in Chief. He put himself in a world of shit and he hasn’t the brains to fix the problems that are coming up but raise taxes, that is all the Dems know how to do.
wfon 07 Nov 2008 at 5:18 pm 51It´s liberal tools like Ebert and our Abe here that have been sold a bill of goods.
Obama moved so far to the right after the primaries that he practically ran as Bush light. Of course he is a liar. But even so there is a distinct possibility that we will have troops in Iraq by 2012 and that Guantanamo will be open a year from now. Obama voted for FISA once he realized that the next terror attack on American soil might happen on his watch. Even a corrupt lefty like him doesn´t relish the thought. All the policies these Bush haters screamed bloody murder about will now become … good. Just like nobody cared about rendition when Clinton did it. And even if Obama screws it all up, the realization will dawn among those who still have an ounce of objectivity that Bush was right.
The rehabilitation is inevitable.
This article by notorious RINO Michael Gerson is a good start:
Because of the passage of Medicare Part D, nearly 10 million low-income seniors are receiving prescription drugs at little or no cost. No Child Left Behind education reform has helped raise the average reading scores of fourth-graders to their highest level in 15 years and narrowed the achievement gap between white and African American children. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has helped provide treatment for more than 1.7 million people and compassionate care for at least 2.7 million orphans and vulnerable children. And the decision to pursue the surge in Iraq will be studied as a model of presidential leadership.
These achievements, it is true, have limited constituencies to praise them. Many conservatives view Medicare, education reform and foreign assistance as heresies. Many liberals refuse to concede Bush’s humanity, much less his achievements.
But that humanity is precisely what I will remember. I have seen President Bush show more loyalty than he has been given, more generosity than he has received. I have seen his buoyancy under the weight of malice and his forgiveness of faithless friends. Again and again, I have seen the natural tug of his pride swiftly overcome by a deeper decency — a decency that is privately engaging and publicly consequential.
Before the Group of Eight summit in 2005, the White House senior staff overwhelmingly opposed a new initiative to fight malaria in Africa for reasons of cost and ideology — a measure designed to save hundreds of thousands of lives, mainly of children under 5. In the crucial policy meeting, one person supported it: the president of the United States, shutting off debate with a moral certitude that others have criticized. I saw how this moral framework led him to an immediate identification with the dying African child, the Chinese dissident, the Sudanese former slave, the Burmese women’s advocate. It is one reason I will never be cynical about government — or about President Bush.”
And the Wall Street Journal writes:
“It seems that no matter what Mr. Bush does, he is blamed for everything. He remains despised by the left while continuously disappointing the right. Yet it should seem obvious that many of our country’s current problems either existed long before Mr. Bush ever came to office, or are beyond his control. Perhaps if Americans stopped being so divisive, and congressional leaders came together to work with the president on some of these problems, he would actually have had a fighting chance of solving them.
The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. (…). He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time. Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty — a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.”
wfon 07 Nov 2008 at 5:30 pm 52That people have been played for suckers is especially true regarding the economy.
Ever since 2001, over half of Americans constantly believed that we were in a recession or just about to enter one. No wonder people are exhausted! It´s was another lie spread by the liberal media and Democrats.
In fact we had excellent growth and lower unemployment than under Clinton. Sure congress spent too much, but that won´t change.
Only in September 2008 did the US economy finally enter a recession. Yet liberal blog commenters assured me countless times that “Bush tanked the economy” … in 2006! (they ALL use this expression “tanked” which proves what mindless drones they are)
Boy, if you do not remember Carter you don´t even know what economic trouble is.