Following in the muddy footsteps of Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, movie critic and leftist tool Roger Ebert is politicizing the life and death of astronaut Sally Ride, who passed away yesterday at 61. Like the typical liberal, Ebert fancies himself an intellectual, sensitive to political nuance and feminist issues. So what does it say about him that he’s trivialized her death in this way?
Ebert had his cheerleaders, of course:
https://twitter.com/JDaugherty1081/status/227890283923247104
https://twitter.com/JDaugherty1081/status/227890334665961474
https://twitter.com/mltaylor13pt1/status/227890214058733568
@ebertchicago Bump-thump. Nice one!
— Arden (@ArdenTyneKent) July 24, 2012
https://twitter.com/frankmengarelli/status/227890476232110080
Clearly there’s room for more than one loose screw in the toolbox.
Other Twitterers were not amused:
https://twitter.com/JosephMDemma/status/227890183524188160
https://twitter.com/Neal_Dewing/status/227893956279676928
https://twitter.com/DennyMall1/status/227898552213454848
https://twitter.com/holdencaul/status/227891457032327169
@ebertchicago Boy Roger that was a nasty thing to say
— John Talleos (@JohnTalleos) July 24, 2012
@ebertchicago I expected more of you than to turn someone's regret at another's death into a side act… Shame. His beliefs aside.
— Norman Hunter (@BigGamePhoto) July 24, 2012
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I'm sure she'd be happy you used her death for a cheap slur. MT @ebertchicago Mitt: Shouldn't you express regret that Sally Ride was gay?
— ryuge (@0ryuge) July 24, 2012
https://twitter.com/hoppingstance/status/227893986910691329
Mr. Ebert would do well to stick to what he knows: self-important film reviews.