Film Critic Roger Ebert’s now-infamous attack on five California students disciplined for wearing patriotic clothing on Cinco de Mayo, is a classic in the annals of leftist debate technique: Silence your opponent by strangling an argument into a stultifying mass of reason-killing sophistry.
Take Ebert’s statement: “Kids who wear American flag T-shirts on 5 May should [...]
Why Does the Left Want Immigrants to Hate America?
May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Generation South Park Part 6: Tweeting ourselves Towards A Room Temperature IQ
April 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Does using social networking websites make us stupid? We have all heard the term “the dumbest generation” and no one wants to be a part of that. The truth is that websites like Facebook and Twitter have many positive and negative consequences in terms of communication and social debate. Users can be very productive when [...]
Citizen Ebert: Roger’s Culturally Illiterate Tweets
February 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
As someone who was a working film critic for nearly 20 years—and, I’m pretty sure, the only Baptist to win 2 Catholic Press awards for movie reviews—I probably owe Chicago Sun Time film critic Roger Ebert (and his late partner Tribune critic Gene Siskel) a nod of tribute for popularizing such writing.
Siskel and Ebert were, [...]
Ebert Gives Limbaugh Health Scare Two Thumbs Up
January 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
When I first read that Rush Limbaugh was in the hospital, I did a quick look at “tweets” with his name as keywords. What I found was a disgusting collection of death wishes. Of course, anytime a major figure might be staring death in the face there will always be a soulless group who wish [...]
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