The Ebert Report
June 3rd, 2006 at 1:33 pm by Smantix
Refreshment Counter of The Carmike 18 Cineplex
Allah covered this yesterday but I still found myself unprepared for portly portent of cinema – The Ecofascist Roger Ebert’s dusty-kneed knobgobble of al-Gore’s speaking inconvenient truthiness to power:
When I said I was going to a press screening of “An Inconvenient Truth,” a friend said, “Al Gore talking about the environment! Bor…ing!” This is not a boring film. The director, Davis Guggenheim, uses words, images and Gore’s concise litany of facts to build a film that is fascinating and relentless.
Didn’t Leni Riefenstahl do the same thing? Ebert’s love of “relentless” propaganda documentaries is well established. But I digress.
In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to them why you decided not to.
And this is the point that too many people on the Right take for granted. Leftard ecofascists like Ebert are the norm on the other team. Deep Ecology as it is called. They do not believe that people strapping bombs to themselves or flying planes into buildings full of civilians is inherently wrong or even constitutes a threat worthy of much attention. Indeed, it can be morally justified if you will just pull your fat face out of your McMeatIsMurder burger (with cheese no doubt) and look at the way America treats dark-skinned people.
Environmentally Concerned 20th trimester fetus: Grandpa?
Grandpa: Yes, Billy?
Environmentally Concerned 20th trimester fetus: Where were you when Al Gore was trying to save us all from ourselves?
Grandpa: Uhhhhh……
Am I acting as an advocate in this review? Yes, I am. 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.
I can’t emphasize that enough. “There is no other view that can be defended.”
This is an article of faith so strong that it can’t even be questioned. Usually when it’s being spoken, an embassy is being burned somewhere or a cartoonist is being sentenced to a stoning. What makes a topic so very right that someone is not even allowed to have a differing opinion? I know this is just a movie review but this is nothing short of the Islamofascism of the Left. A fanatical belief held so deeply that your grandchildren should pillory you for the grievous offense being committed not just to your fellow man but future man as well.
What can we do? Switch to and encourage the development of alternative energy sources: Solar, wind, tidal, and, yes, nuclear. Move quickly toward hybrid and electric cars. Pour money into public transit, and subsidize the fares. Save energy in our houses. I did a funny thing when I came home after seeing “An Inconvenient Truth.” I went around the house turning off the lights.
And that’s really the solution. We should all sit in our homes with the lights off, put down the buttered popcorn and King Size Reese Cups. Excrete the spoils of our existence into our al-Gore sanctioned low flow toilets, wipe our tails with corrugated, recycled toilet paper and never again should a free blade of grass be trampled under our enviro-unfriendly bootheels. This is nothing if not scaremongering, self-hating, nutballery whose only Final Solution is our own suicide.
Somewhere between St. Albans and flunking out of Vanderbilt Divinity School to AWOL on his Vietnam service, this Senator’s Fortunate Shutterbug Son learned that he had figured it all out. For his plans to be implemented, he will need to have the full authority of the Presidency to be behind him – and then some. Be it Prince Albert In Your Can or Prince Albert’s debut at Cannes, campaigning for Mother Earth’s Mad Mullah has been decided by the Big Conservative Corporate Media to be our lot this summer. And if no one’s noticed, this is another foray by Democrats to politicize movies months prior to elections in order the circumvent campaign finance laws.
Al Gore came less than 600 votes away from becoming President of this country and held the 2nd highest office in the land for eight years. If that doesn’t scare you enough to try to reform the Republican Party from within, I don’t know what will.
UPDATE: al-Gore is on This Week with Jorge Stephopottamus.
For some reason, he’s ditched his famous black preacher dialect that he likes to engage in so often at black churches.
Mister Middle-of-the-Road then goes on to say that John Kerry is wrong and that troops should not be immediately withdrawn from Iraq by the end of the year because we don’t want to leave to soon and “make things worse than we already have”. He then says that we should immediately withdraw sooner than that.
Classic Gorespeak.
Stephopottami then asked, “How would the country be different if you’d been President?”
Gore’s response – “we would have focused on the climate crisis”.
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“The Biggest Crisis We’ve Ever Faced”.
And there you go, in a proverbial nutshell. September 11th never happened to al-Gore just like it never happened to many other leftists like him. He is a one trick pony. Global Warming, Global Warming, Global Warming. You don’t always get to choose the issues.
Sometimes the issues choose you.
June 3rd, 2006 at 8:35 pm
Ebert, even Ebert, is a moron, arggg, one good thing is we are coming to know who is an idiot and who is not.
June 3rd, 2006 at 11:33 pm
I wonder what kind of cars Ebert drives? I just bet he has at least one SUV. If I’m not mistaken Gore rides in limos to appearances.
Think Ebert will quit flying around the country in planes to save energy?
I wonder if Ebert lives in a big house that uses a lot of energy?
When is one of these limousine liberals going to apply these arguments to themselves? I’m tired of these do as I say and not as I do jerks lecturing everyone else.
June 4th, 2006 at 1:29 am
It’s not quite fair to compare Al Gore’s film with Leni Riefenstahl. Leni’s “Triumph Of The Will” was personally sanctioned by Hitler. Josef Goebbel, however, can be compared to Karl Rove. Karl Rove acts like he studied Goebbel’s personal diary like a thesis.
Karl Rove would have to be behind Gore’s film for the analogy to work.
That being said, how many people reading this are going to know Leni and Goebbels besides you and me and maybe 5 other people?
BTW, FYI–The Dean of Watkins film school,(David Hinton) was very good friends with Leni. I left Watkins shortly after finding that out. Also explains why I was graded down for taking off for Passover and had to put up with a swastika in the hall as “art.”
I digress…
I like Al Gore. I haven’t seen his film, yet, but I think it’s a foregone conclusion that global warming is very real. Gore has been talking about the environment since the 80s; authored several books on it. Film just seems like a natural progression for him. What’s wrong with that?
June 4th, 2006 at 4:06 am
Jane- Playing “Spot the Idiot” with Ebert has never been an issue. Between him and Siskel it was hands down – Ebert = Moron. It’s his inability to question his own ideology I take umbrage with.
Sharon – Karl Rove is smart and intuitive but not this much. I’m not convinced global warming is real. I think the idea is a fallacy. That cars create less pollution than an erupting volcano has been established. More Leftists believe in Global Warming than the idea of a God.
That we continue to rely on 3rd World Commies like Chavez, fascist rulers like Ahmadinejad in Iran and the House of Saud is a de facto result of placating the Earth-First, Ecofascist Left. We must have self-determination in exploring our own national resouces and it starts with Seward’s Folly in Alaska.
To paraphrase George Carlin – when the world is through with us, it’ll let us know. Until then, let’s stop propping up these jagoffs.
June 4th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Sunday Funnies…
Ace points us to the moonbat brigade that says the Canada terror bust was all a mind control conspiracy.
Expose the Left reports that Jack Cafferty says a ban on gay marraige is bigotry.
Iowahawk has two minutes of snark.
This Blog is Full of Crap a…
June 4th, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Am I allowed to drive my Hummer 50 miles to the nearest theater showing Gore\’s film?
June 4th, 2006 at 12:14 pm
You could. But it would have a greater impact if you arranged for a Caravan of Hummers to show up at a screening. Sneak in a hamburger in a leather backpack. Start smoking in the theater and during the eerie silences between PowerPoint slides – start spraying a can of aerosol.
June 4th, 2006 at 1:52 pm
dusty kneed knobgobble
I’m definitely gonna steal that. Just so you know in advance. That’s good stuff, that…
June 4th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
Smantix…
You need to go on Bill Maher’s show. #6 answer was classic Smantix.
Maybe start your own video blog?
June 5th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
I really think Gore is a phony environmentalist. I really do. I just don’t think for a minute he follows these principles in his personal life. He’s like a dog chasing a car who wouldn’t know what to do if the car stopped.
I think he knows this is HIS one issue he can attempt to get elected on.
When he moves to a log cabin with no air conditioning, rides a bike everywhere, and forgoes inside plumbing, THEN I’ll listen.
June 5th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
P.S. Ebert thinking he is coming out of the closet for the first time as an activist, PUHHHHHLEEEEZE! It’s like the Pope announcing he is Catholic.
He’s been a pinko activist and liberal proponent from day one. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.
June 5th, 2006 at 2:36 pm
“That cars create less pollution than an erupting volcano has been established.”
I don’t know if that’s true, but I’ll take your word, for the sake of argument.
Two more words are important here: “acute” and “chronic.” An erupting volcano is an acute environmental problem. It happens, then it stops. Back in the early 1800s, an erupting volcano caused an entire summer to virtually disappear in the northern hemisphere. Then the next year, summer came back.
Automotive pollution, added to industry, coal-burning powerplants, etc., creates a chronic problem. We’ve been at it for over a century, increasing output every year, and so far, we’re not stopping. To imagine that pumping all that stuff into the system could have no significant cumulative, chronic impact seems a bit pollyanna-ish to me.
If you eat a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese combo for lunch, it won’t hurt you too much. Do it every day for lunch and dinner for a year, and you’ll be obese, at best, and dead of a stroke at worst. A good conservative would say, citing personal responsibility, “well, don’t do that, dumbass.”
I think that’s essentially waht Mr. Gore is saying about our cumulative responsiblity pertaning to the burning carbon-based fossil fuels.
(Also, Ebert is an idiot. It’s false logic, though, to then say that his liking of a movie makes it bad, or that his endorsement of its thesis makes it wrong.)
June 5th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
You’re probably more right than you know Jeff. I worked next door to the Loews Vanderbilt Plaza (his base hotel when in his “home” state) back when Gore was running in 2000 and vividly remember him going over to the Vanderbilt campus to give a speech.
Approximate distance? 1 and 1/2 blocks. Several limousines, several Chevy Suburbans and full police escorts. To go less than two blocks. Several of us had a good chuckle at the time. Combine that with him allowing strip mining around his family’s farm on the Caney Fork River and his family’s extensive (at the time) stock options with Occidental Petroleum (in Venezuela) – it’s got all the markings of “do as I say and not as I do”.
One of the first “digging” pieces I did for 6MB was around the Katrina when he managed to get into Louisiana for a personal photo op. I can’t wait till the photos appear again so I can show that it was a coordinated campaign that was immediately circulated by his PR firm. E-mail addresses, diaries at TPMcafe and all.
June 5th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Theo – At any given time you could have one of these going on. And let’s not forget the cows. If we stop eating them, their gas might just kill us all.
That’s not saying that everybody should be driving around getting 6 miles a gallon but let’s try to keep things in perspective. It’s cleaner now than it was when cities were covered in soot from burning wood and coal.
No one ever seems to account for solar flares that might just make our temperature rise 1 degree over a century. Forest fires and the like.
Global Warming is not the greatest crisis facing humanity at this moment. This moment. Last moment. Any moment. Not even in the top 10 or 20. It’s a luxury worry of narcissists who have a Virginia ham under each arm and complain about not having any bread.
I’m all for conservation but not to the point of having our country rely on despots in other parts of the world who by mere happenstance popped their tents on top of billions of gallons of crude or threatening to cripple our economy by signing pie-in-the-sky feel good bills like Kyoto.
June 6th, 2006 at 12:43 am
Chili dogs. You forgot Chili Dogs. Had a couple on the golf course today. According to my playing partners, I was directly responsible for the stage 2 smog alert that hit SoCal today…
June 6th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
RE: Thelonious Funk (Monday, June 5, 2006 @ 2:36 pm)
It’s interesting that you mention the “chronic” v. “acute” argument. What is the timeframe you are considering? This chronic problem of humans causing this temporal scourge due to post-industrial emissions is on the order of decades. Considering the fluctuations in nature and the age of our environs, I’m not inclined to consider this issue particularly chronic. In this instance, relativism matters. There’s a lot of relative panic to coincide with this relatively acute concern.
The more likely issue here is the agenda driven actors desperate to emasculate a developed America (or more globally, the new West) to empower the “oppressed”. The pathology of self-loathing and guilt continues to thrive in some sectors… or at least the projection of it upon others. As has been noted, some of the most vocal heed not their own calls. Gore – thy name is hypocrisy (and capitalist).
This doesn’t mean we all become Alfred Newman with a “What, me worry?” mantra re conservation; it does mean rational policies need to be considered… one’s that don’t sabotage the economic and industrial engine that works reasonably well and can solve shortcomings if the Chicken Little’s don’t flap around shedding those feathers that clog all the gears.