A Big Thumbs Down

To Roger Ebert.

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 7:29 am by Rand Simberg and is filed under Media Criticism, Political Commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “A Big Thumbs Down”

1. Titus Says:
   February 11th, 2010 at 7:53 am

   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?

   A friend of mine is a “Nam Vet.” In truth he was mostly doing black ops all around SE Asia – terrible murderous work that he won’t talk about to this day. Well, he came-down with one of those viscous and rare diseases one contracts in the jungle that disabled and nearly killed him. His NDE was a complete epiphany — today he’s the nicest guy you possibly could meet. If there’s anything that could make me believe n a benevolent deity, it’s knowing this guy.

   OTOH, Ebert makes me believe in the devil.

2. Bilwick1 Says:
   February 11th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

   As I’ve often commented (perhaps, here, too) “Better a teabagger for liberty than a butt-boy for statism.” And Ebert–even shrunken, post-illness Ebert–gives the term “butt-boy” new dimensions.

3. Mike Puckett Says:
   February 11th, 2010 at 3:49 pm

   Another moronic tool.

4. Don Says:
   February 12th, 2010 at 4:20 am

   I gave up on the dumber half of Siskel and Ebert a long time ago, while they were still doing their schtick on PBS. Frankly, the only movie critic that I have much regard for is Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post.

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