Posted on 05/10/2010 5:37:13 PM PDT by woofie
Film critic Roger Ebert is never shy with his opinions, be they about movies or otherwise. But after criticizing five California teens who chose to wear clothing bearing the American flag to their high school on Cinco de Mayo, Ebert has faced a particularly angry backlash.
On his Twitter account, Ebert, whose battle with thyroid cancer has disfigured his appearance and taken his voice, wrote the following:
@ebertchicago
Kids who wear American Flag T-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July. Ebert's words set off a firestorm with several right-leaning Twitter users. Caleb Howe, a blogger at RedState, fired off a series of jabs at Ebert, including the following: You know, @ebertchicago, I'm not as expert on flag etiquette as you. Tell me, which do I fly when you die of cancer? Conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation dedicated a post to Ebert's tweet.
"So is May 5 now an anti-American flag day?" wrote Rory Cooper. "Isn't the great thing about America that we can celebrate more than one culture at a time, regardless of the day?"
Responding to those who had, by way of criticizing his tweet, made reference to his cancer, Ebert returned to Twitter, and fired off the following retort:
Dear TeePee tweeters making fun of my cancer: You want ugly? For that you have to look at a mind, not a face.
Shortly after that apparent reference to the tea party movement, Gawker ran a story titled "Tea Party Turns on Roger Ebert, Mocks his Cancer," which was reposted hundreds of times on Twitter. Whether or not the skirmish involved self-described members of the tea party movement, the Cinco de Mayo episode in California has touched a nerve ....
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Culture Wars never fed a hungry child
The parodies are becoming parodies of themselves..
“Waaah, waaah, free speech means I can never be criticized.”
You wanna play politics, Roger? It gets dirty. Ask Sarah Palin.
Don’t worry, though, the portrait in your attic is *gorgeous*!
They do.
Roger Ebert, just another self-righteous liberal looking down his elitist nose at the common patriotic public.
So which flag does he want? What he said about those kids was just as ugly as mocking someones cancer.
Twitter has become the high-speed wikipedia of useless information.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
“aleb Howe, a blogger at RedState, fired off a series of jabs at Ebert, including the following: You know, @ebertchicago, I’m not as expert on flag etiquette as you. Tell me, which do I fly when you die of cancer?”
Ebert’s an ass, but that was a cheap shot. Criticize the man for his looney ideas and bad arguments, not for his illness. It’s beneath conservatives and it just gives ammo to the lefties who want to smear us.
Americans are now “right-wingers”! Cool! That would make “left-wingers” a bunch of anti-American commies like Egbert.
Ebert is an ass, plain and simple. And his taste in cinema sucks too. Gene Siskel carried his lame ass for years.
I agree...
So now wearing the US flag on a non-American holiday is for EXTREME RIGHT WINGERS eh? Nice going media, hope you’re proud. I know they are though.
I don't think the kids are allowed into the faculty lounge.
My memory is starting to fail me but if I remember correctly, if not for Texas Rangers, Mexico would have been overrun by Indian raiding parties..........
Yep, Comanches. Rangers and their Colt Walkers. Mexico repaid them by lancing one of their captains, name escapes me, young fellow.
you win today’s repartee award
Just started following Andrew Breitbart myself.
Ebert: “Kids who wear American Flag T-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July”
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Speechless...
(And y’all know that’s hard for Nana...)
I liked Ebert back in the very early 80’s when i was 13 years old.
I enjoyed watching Siskel and Ebert on my old 13 inch black and white tv.
Then I grew up.
This clown apparently didn’t.
Ebert is getting a lot of mileage out of this ‘tweet’.
But think about how frustrated he must feel to realize that, throughout his prime, he mistakenly chose to criticize Hollywood instead of his Country. Better late than never I guess...
“Gene Siskel carried his lame ass for years”
I hear that.
The only reason i used to watch.
I can’t remember if it was Johnny Carson or who it was, but I remember an interview with someone years ago where the subject of Siskel and Ebert came up. The person being interviewed commented that: “One of them is nice.”
I think as the years move on it’s becoming more and more evident which one he was referring to.
Roger, if you refer to your political opponents as toilet paper, you’re not in a good position to complain when they’re not nice to you. If you can’t cope with that, maybe you’re better off sticking to movie reviews.
Ouch. Good one.
LLS
Mr. Ebert should be wondering why Cinco de Mayo isn’t being celebrated in Mexico.
You know a nation is dead when it becomes a “crime” to display that very nation’s flag.
Ping!
John Greenleaf Whittier. 1807–1892
81. Barbara Frietchie
UP from the meadows rich with corn,
Clear in the cool September morn,
The clustered spires of Frederick stand
Green-walled by the hills of Maryland.
Round about them orchards sweep, 5
Apple and peach tree fruited deep,
Fair as a garden of the Lord
To the eyes of the famished rebel horde,
On that pleasant morn of the early fall
When Lee marched over the mountain wall,— 10
Over the mountains winding down,
Horse and foot, into Frederick town.
Forty flags with their silver stars,
Forty flags with their crimson bars,
Flapped in the morning wind: the sun 15
Of noon looked down, and saw not one.
Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then,
Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
Bravest of all in Frederick town,
She took up the flag the men hauled down; 20
In her attic-window the staff she set,
To show that one heart was loyal yet.
Up the street came the rebel tread,
Stonewall Jackson riding ahead.
Under his slouched hat left and right 25
He glanced: the old flag met his sight.
“Halt!”—the dust-brown ranks stood fast,
“Fire!”—out blazed the rifle-blast.
It shivered the window, pane and sash;
It rent the banner with seam and gash. 30
Quick, as it fell, from the broken staff
Dame Barbara snatched the silken scarf;
She leaned far out on the window-sill,
And shook it forth with a royal will.
“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, 35
But spare your country’s flag,” she said.
A shade of sadness, a blush of shame,
Over the face of the leader came;
The nobler nature within him stirred
To life at that woman’s deed and word: 40
“Who touches a hair of yon gray head
Dies like a dog! March on!” he said.
All day long through Frederick street
Sounded the tread of marching feet:
All day long that free flag tost 45
Over the heads of the rebel host.
Ever its torn folds rose and fell
On the loyal winds that loved it well;
And through the hill-gaps sunset light
Shone over it with a warm good-night. 50
Barbara Frietchie’s work is o’er,
And the Rebel rides on his raids no more.
Honor to her! and let a tear
Fall, for her sake, on Stonewall’s bier.
Over Barbara Frietchie’s grave, 55
Flag of Freedom and Union, wave!
Peace and order and beauty draw
Round thy symbol of light and law;
And ever the stars above look down
On thy stars below in Frederick town! 60
That was probably posted by a leftie that wanted to smear us.
Think that is a fair question. What he he answer? The hammer and sickle?
He looks down and spits on the average American for years. He did again in this case. So its open warfare everything is on the table.
When he dies and he will, will anyone except the liberals notice?
IMHO, the question is, are the "Mexican-American" students "looking for trouble" by celebrating a Mexican holiday that is not celebrated in Mexico?
quite poor taste
And what does that have to do with an ignorant delusional movie reviewer or illegal aliens?
Juat wondering.
I left my Ouija Board in my other suit...
Uglier.
How many of us are survivors of thyroid cancer and never use it as a crutch to plead a mental handicap for a 75 IQ?
Since I don't twit, nor do I ever plan to, does anyone know this loser's email address?
His comparison is so irrational and stupid, that I would love to send him an email educating him about reason and logic.
"The question is obviously not whether Americans, or anyone else, has the right to wear our flag on their T-shirts," Ebert said. "But empathetic people realize much depends on context. If, on Cinco de Mayo, you turn up at your school with a large Mexican-American student population wearing such shirts, are you (1) joining the spirit of the holiday or (2) looking for trouble?"
Apparently, Jolly Roger doesn't even have a grasp of what "context" means.
No, Doofus, if on Sept 16, Americans in Mexico paraded about waving American flags and reminding Mexicans that they were thoroughly trounced by the US, and the only reason we left was that there was nothing worth holding on to there, I could understand the Mexican's bruised macho image and their inclination to murder an mayhem.
But that's not what happened. What happened was in the United States of America, legal resident Mexican nationals are guests, and illegal Mexican nationals are not even invited to enjoy our charity, on any day of the year.
The ultimate adding insult to injury is that Stinko de Mayo is not even a Mexican holiday. It's a made up wetback holiday for those who need to invent a culture to feel any importance at all. And if you don't like it, they'll defend their honor, so long as it's 5 of them against one of you.
Strictly fantasy here but wouldn’t it be great if we could actually ship him down to Mexico...deep in the heart of Mexico. No money or anything. Let him find out how “bad” America and Americans are by rubbing elbows with the friendly people of Mexico.
Let’s figure out how to develop an ‘underground’ railroad to the heart of Mexico. These people, (rabid american citizens) need to be smuggled out to an area more in line with their thinking.
*sigh* fantasy over...(sort of)
it just seems to me that Ebert is the one fighting (and instigating) this culture war and Im sure he hated Bush for fighting a war not of his own making
The Liberal stance is all war is bad unless its one they want to fight
The kids were “provocative by wearing flag shirts ?
my answer: ignore it and move on...
If it caused a riot ..(which it didnt ) they should quell the riot and go back to teaching
As one conservative pundit observed: When Ohaha got elected, it’s as if he yelled “olly, olly, octen free” and every weirdo and his uncle came crawling out of the woodwork.
Using Ebert’s disturbed thinking.......we should not object when tee shirts with swastikas start appearing at lunch tables.
Can’t get any weirder, can it? (/snix)
Also, Ebert is such a (cough) talent he penned the worse screenplay in the history of film: Beyond The Valley of The Dolls!
Wait. My mistake. He also wrote this piece of trash too: Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens
I think Ebert ate too much popcorn seeing all those movies and somewhere along the line a Popcorn Kernel must have gotten stuck in his brain. As for being a total incompetent, he sure thinks mighty highly of himself.
His massive ego is on display. Would a normal person allow themselves to be filmed the way Ebert looks? It’s like watching a horror movie.
Massive ego is right.
After Gene Siskel died Roger Ebert 'thought' he became a 'someone'. The truth is he was still a nobody, and a big fat nobody. But Eberet tried to continue on with 'Ebert and Roeper'. (Look Ma, I'm on top of the World!)
However, Richard Roeper is a (cough) 'semi-famous', liberal asswipe Chicago 'reporter'. So that program went no place with two liberal asswipe 'crtics'. Roeper is now doing a part time radio gig on a Chicago radio station, WLS- AM [(890 on your radio dial)(snics)]. His next job will be peddling pencils in front of the Wrigley Building on Michigan Ave.
Where Roger Ebert's fat behind should have been shipped off to long ago.
“As one conservative pundit observed: When Ohaha got elected, it’s as if he yelled “olly, olly, octen free” and every weirdo and his uncle came crawling out of the woodwork.”
A most memorable quote, due to its deadly accuracy.
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