Roger Ebert can't stand Sarah Palin

LA Times ^ | 9/23/08 | Roger Goldstein

[pissant]

It's no secret that everyone is weighing in on politics these days, from David Letterman to Barbara Walters and the esteemed ladies of "The View," who, as the New York Times pointed out today, have had Barack Obama, John McCain and even Bill Clinton on their couch, with McCain clearly getting the toughest grilling. But should film critics be weighing in on the presidential race as well? It's no secret that America's leading film critic, the Chicago Sun-Times' Roger Ebert, has been on quite a roll lately, writing a series of barbed commentaries about GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Palin Ebert leaped into the fray with an essay about Palin where he dubbed her the ''American Idol" candidate. Ebert said, in part: "There's a reason 'American Idol' gets such high ratings. People identify with the candidates. They think, 'Hey, that could be me up there on the show!' " Roger added that he didn't want a candidate who simply appointed people to study global warming long after the scientific consensus was in. Nor did he want someone, as he put it, who "sneers when referring to people who go to the Ivy League," noting that as a teenager, he dreamed of going to Harvard, but his dad, an electrician, didn't have the money to send him.

Ebert has also weighed in on Palin's interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, which he said reminded him of being asked questions by a teacher when he didn't have the foggiest idea what to answer. He's now posted a clever questionnaire about creationism, which Palin believes should be taught alongside evolution in schools.

[pissant]

Another hideous old lesbian against Palin...

[LegalEagle61]

LOL! I hope I don’t have nightmares after seeing that picture.

[mathprof]

Thanks for posting the picture: LIPSTICK ON A PIG!!!!

[ErnBatavia]

Fags don’t like breeders....

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Hey, Roger. Gene is calling you home. Go on.

[Doogle]

hey Roger, stay out of movie house...?????..oh wait

[ErnBatavia]

Another hideous old lesbian

It's a tossup between him and Paul McCartney as to which looks more like a tired, aging lesbian. I go with Sir Paul, just for the record...

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Roger Ebert can't stand Sarah Palin

Funny, everyone else can't stand the LA Times.

[DAC21]

Used to Love his old “At the Movies Show” with Siskel. Now he is delusional in his time of need. Good luck finding those Pearly Gates

[laweeks]

No surprise with that jackass!

Hey Freepers, how do I get off Hussein Obama’s email list? I’ve been getting no end of emails from him, and I find them (and him) disgusting. I don’t want anything to do with the punk.

[rintense]

Rintense can't stand Roger Ebert

[50cal Smokepole]

[ari-freedom]

Shut up and review movies.

[LiberConservative]

Who is Roger Ebert?

[GOPJ]

He's a liberal member of the MSM and he doesn't like Palin? I'm shocked. Shocked.

sarcasm / off

[generally]

So Ebert is an expert on global warming too?

Just because there is “consensus” doesn’t mean there is good science. Science is not a popularity contest.

I find it odd that Mr. Ebert approves of “science by consensus” but not politics by consensus.

[ari-freedom]

No, Sir Paul McCartney is a hero for defying the islamofascists.

[Billthedrill]

That boy - his life is on his face.

[KarlInOhio]

At least Siskel has the decency to keep his mouth shut when he votes "Chicago Style" for Obama.

[vetvetdoug]

Round mouth Democrat. Period.

The MSM and the Eberts of the country are making themselves irrelevant.