That’s actually true.

As a matter of logic, certainly. After all, the word “might” is inherently wobbly, leaving wide open the alternative possibility of “then again, might not.” I think you’d be hard pressed to come up with any sentence of the form “If X, then you might be a terrorist” that wasn’t true.

This week, we talk about Internet Radio, security in WordPress, corn farmers, and a bunch of stupid people. Internet Radio will be silent on June 26th in protest of the new U.S. Copyright Copyright Royalty Board fees, although last.fm will……

More Americans are well-informed about current sports and auto-racing statistics,

Maybe that’s because nobody’s spinning the statistics when it comes to sports. I’ve never seen a sports report where they only mentioned what teams lost that day without ever mentioning a winning team. Or a hilights reel that only showed the bad plays…

Maybe the “hard news” people have something to learn from the sports side?

The other bogus assumption of the left, confirmed by Ebert, is that the news excreted by the liberal media is unbiased and therefore the absolute truth, which should be immune from criticism, in the eyes of Ebert and the Left. In other words, the Left should have a monopoly on the news and its propaganda should be above criticism.

When you consider what Ebert has to say, which is typical of the Left, you realize that it’s an argument against free speech. Real Americans love criticism and debate on an issue. Real Stalinists do not.

I watched Siskel & Ebert for years without knowing what their political leanings were until I watched their nasty review for “Red Dawn” and realized they were lefty ideologues. They talked the photo down as ridiculous and a conservative fantasy because it was impossible for the US to be invaded. I thought movies were all about impossible fantasy. If they wanted to criticize an impossible fantasy, they should watch “Motorcycle Diaries” portray Che as a good guy.

Jules Crittenden runs roughshod over Roger Ebert’s review of A Mighty Heart, and quite rightly so, as he catches Ebert writing:Although we do meet the possible suspect Omar (Aly Khan), there are not any detailed scenes of Pearl with his……

The news is the news, good or bad, and those who resent being informed of it are pitiful.

Looking at this again, I’ve realized Ebert is paid to believe and say that “the news is the news,” as if he, his colleagues, and his employers are just an undistorted, undistorting signal. He’s in no better position to think and speak clearly about what he’s selling than a salesman on commission.

The Americans who complain about “negative” news are the ideological cousins of those who shoot at CNN crews.

So we can shoot at CNN crews if we get our cousins to complain about negative news?

Sweet.

When it was Siskel & Ebert, everyone knew that Fat Boy was the bitchy wife, and Gene the flustered hubby

The Americans who complain about “negative” news are the ideological cousins of those who shoot at CNN crews.

The journalists who complain about such civil, restrained opposition from the Americans are biological cousins of the dead.

In this review, BTW, he also equated supporters of the war with supporters of terrorism:

We reflect that the majority of Muslims do not approve of the behavior of Islamic terrorists, just as the majority of Americans disapprove of the war in Iraq.

Jones Zemkophill on June 22, 2007 at 9:00 PM

UH Well yes kind of like oh whats the word? Oh yeah a critic. Remember ‘Live by the Sword…..’

Nonetheless, the guy is a tedious moonbat when it comes to politics and deserves all the scorn that attends it.

The man has been ill with cancer(?) so one shouldn’t crack wise with appearance comments. It’s an automatic no-no.

But perhaps that may explain some of his statements?

kevcad on June 22, 2007 at 6:35 PM

Hey, I actually like most of his his non-political movie reviews. When Politics aren’t involved he’s the best in his field.

But that doesn’t change the fact that I’ve seen video-game-flesh-eating-zombies that looked better than that.

As for my reaction to that picture, that was my legitimate reaction.

What’s the point of “Comment forums” if you’re not allowed to comment? Feel free to dislike me for an honest reaction to that visage, but in my honest opinion, my reaction was predictable, reasonable, and normal.

What? you can only admnit a reaction when the person you’re criticising is in perfect health?

The Old Folks Home we call the Capitol Building is full of ill and diseased members of congress and their staffers.

And I’ve become jaded enough to believe that unless there’s a true reason someone can’t “Take it” (children, and … Hmmm, that’s pretty much the end of THAT list.)

Then I have no problem saying what I believe to be true simply because I am (generally) either right or willing to be corrected.

Not only that, it’s a remake.

Laura on June 22, 2007 at 8:17 PM

Holy C20, either my watch has stopped or I’ve grown gills and now live underwater? I guess when you watched too many movies, you lose the concept of reality. Pass the popcorn!

Just don’t criticize anything, but the movies, make fun of the characters, talk loud during the show, change cell phone ringers during the show, and remember peace can be found at your local video store, along with pizza and beer, a remote to pause for the cause, and you’ve got entertainment Baby! Without questioning my patriotism, of course.

Dude, it’s a movie.

saint kansas on June 22, 2007 at 8:08 PM

Not only that, it’s a remake.

Right?

…what he fails to recognize or acknowledge, is that CNN presents only the news that fits their template, buries stories that don’t fit their worldview, follows OJ and Paris around, pay their “sources”, censor themselves when they might run afoul brutal dictators, report uncorroborated stories, reproduce fauxtography, and so on.

cmay on June 22, 2007 at 6:39 PM

Bingo! Why do newspapers have editorial meetings everyday? To figure out what stories they will present or cover. They can’t report everything, they have to make choices. And those choices are being criticized more than ever. The blogsphere is a complete rejection of his statement that what CNN and their ilk present is all the news.

I am sorry for him that he is ill, but this isn’t the first idiot leftist statement he has made.

“I believe that to be “impartial” and “balanced” on global warming means one must take a position like Gore’s. There is no other view that can be defended.”

Dude, it’s a movie.

Although we do meet the possible suspect Omar (Aly Khan), there are not any detailed scenes of Pearl with his kidnappers, no portrayals of their personalities or motivations, and we do not see the beheading and its video. That last is not just because of Winterbottom’s tact and taste, but because (I think) he wants to portray the way Pearl has almost disappeared into another dimension. His kidnappers have transported him outside the zone of human values and common sense. We reflect that the majority of Muslims do not approve of the behavior of Islamic terrorists, just as the majority of Americans disapprove of the war in Iraq.

So those complaining about CNN running sniper video are the ideological cousins of those who shoot at CNN crews, but leaving out Pearl’s beheading is tact and taste.

And deposing one of the worst mass-murdering tyrants of the last 50 years makes the US government akin to the terrorists themselves.