Posted on 06/21/2010 5:53:37 AM PDT by Walter Scott Hudson
If you would think that, after a lifetime of reviewing films, former Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert would have learned storytelling through osmosis, I'm afraid you would be wrong. In a recent Sun-Times blog post, responding to the British Petroleum oil spill, Ebert spins a disjointed yarn. Deftly channeling the psychotic nature of the environmental Left, he appears to long for human suffering.
Ebert, an outspoken proponent of the Left's agenda, seems to echo President Obama's Tuesday night speech from the Oval Office. The world is addicted to oil, and getting our fix is killing the planet. The solution: turn back the clock on consumption and embrace alternatives three heel-clicks away.
There's obviously only one remedy: An energy revolution. We must reduce consumption and develop clean energy alternatives. We try to avoid this overwhelming fact.Forgetting that Ebert's suggestion would do nothing to stop the leak in the Gulf, or clean up the spill, his steps are reversed. Alternatives must be developed first. Even apes have the remedial thought necessary to grab the next vine before letting go of the first. At no point in our rise from flint to atom did humanity reduce its energy consumption before effectively developing an alternative. The reason is quite plain: If people had begun cutting back on wood before they could effectively use coal, they would not have survived the transition.
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Up Roger Ebert’s
Okay....so who cases what he thinks?
To Roger Ebert, One Finger Up!
Doesn’t Roger know that KY Jelly is a petroleum product?
Then I guess we all need to stop going to the movies. They run too much air conditioning there, the popcorn machine wastes electricity too, not to mention the marquees.
Read Tom Baugh's Starving The Monkeys, Chapter 6, The Font of Value, for a discussion of the various forms of energy.
You will see clearly why Bozo Clown Leftards like Ebert and D'Ohbama! are full of "Joe Biden" about oil.
Of course, Leftard Ebert & The Preztard are talking about the peasants giving up oil. The elite governing class and the army that keeps them in power will give up oil when pigs fly...
Okay Rog, in order to get back to a pre-industrial revolution standard of living, you’ll have to revert to a pre-industrial revolution world population. Who dies by the billions first?
Who cares? Why doesn’t he stick to movie reviews?
He’s never been particularly good at that either.
But I don't give a crap what he thinks. He's an idiot.
Gee, he thinks the oil spill is bad?
He thinks we should do something about the US addiction to foreign oil.
This guy is a genius. Why haven’t we heard more from him about this.
//sarcasm off
The jaw-dropping ignorance of Roger Ebert is limitless.
I didn’t know Roger was homosexual. Roger is married to a much younger black lady. She has stayed with him despite his medical problems and having his jaw removed. Out of love, I’m sure, and not for the money.
Attention Whores like Ebert have no opinions. They simply regurgitate their collective thoughts as they follow each other to the edge of the cliff, then they harmoniously jump off with out much of a thought about the rocks and surf coming up to greet them.
Ebert is having a death bed conversion to being a ludite.
Who’s he to demand I surrender my standard of living when he’s “sinned” his whole life and won’t be affected by continued use of fossile fuels?
Since Ebert became Andy Gump, what little mind he had went south. How is watching movies a career? Toad.
He used to be great at it.
Is writing a career?
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