Roger Ebert, the Internet’s most prolific writer (and also a famous film critic), typed this succinct & damning Twitter reply to Mark Kirk’s brave election-winning plan to bring back insurance bans on Americans with “pre-existing conditions.” [Ebert via Daily Kos]
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March 24, 2010
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Well said!
Why is Roger Ebert ramming his thumbs down our throats?!
Restore the dinosaurs too.
Drove past an insurance office today and there was a crowd of protesters with signs reading, “Defend the Pre-Existing!”
I think there is a logical problem here. How can he restore a pre-existing condition? I mean, if it pre-exists, then it already exists, and doesn’t need to be restored.
Is this the kind of thing you need 6 Brandy Alexanders and a rim job to understand?
Obama’s evil genius surfaces. And I recall being irritated at his apparent inaction. Somehow he knew it would be much more fun to watch them commit slow, painful self-destruction.
[re=539395]Extemporanus[/re]: Cuz he knows we can’t do it back to him.
Ebert is exactly right. But he was way off on “The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift.” That movie is fuckin’ TITS.
Two thumbs up!
Two Thumbs up yours, Kirk!!
[re=539395]Extemporanus[/re]: [re=539407]user-of-owls[/re]: At least it’s not his penis. Be grateful.
[re=539395]Extemporanus[/re]: Maybe because Roger Ebert is currently dying of a preëxisting condition.
How does keeping 18 to 25 year olds off their parent’s insurance help the GOP appeal to the “youth” vote?
What’s with the accurate punctuation and grammar and full spelling, Ebert? U R not supposed to make Grassley look bad.
“If I’m elected as your Conservatard congressman, I promise to raise the cost of medications for all the blue hairs, to bring back pre-existing conditions, and lastly, to HATE the gheys I’m sucking & fucking – FOR AMERUKKKA!! GOD BLESS LITTLE BABY JESUS, AND GOD BLESS AMERUKKKA!!”
[re=539403]unclesahm[/re]: while Obama simply sits out on the White House porch having a smoke waiting for them to commit this slow, painful self-destruction..
Nicotine gives you awesome powers of concentration.
[re=539418]Scottie[/re]: or the parent vote?
Roger Ebert has become more of an empty headed cheerleader for whatever shit Hollywood produces in recent years. But he still has good working condition liberal centrist instincts going for him.
Oh, Mark Kirk – you’ve got nothing but love and compassion. Stop trying to hide it!
If any Republicans respond to this, it will be to point out that Ebert is in Chicago, and so is obviously an Obama crony.
The very term “pre-existing condition” makes me want to ragecrap on Republicans.
[re=539402]Aurelio[/re]: Go read Ebert’s review of Back to the Future III, and it’ll all make sense.
[re=539407]user-of-owls[/re]: [re=539415]Larry McAwful[/re]: Excluding anything written by Neilist, these are the two most tonally-opposed replies I have ever received to the same comment.
Oh, c’mon. Mark Kirk ain’t so bad. Well…as long as you’re rich and white. You can even get a fair shake as a rich, white lady from Marky-poo.
Mark Kirk is a pre-existing condition. And why is he giving this dog a reach around?
http://chicagoist.com/2010/03/23/mark_kirk_vows_to_lead_the_charge_t.php
Needs less school, more skool. complain to teh twitters.
[re=539433]Extemporanus[/re]: Guess that makes me the little cartoon devil whispering sweet evils into the main character’s ear.
Cross that one off my bucket list!
That’ll work Kirk till Health Insurance companies realize being an adult crybaby is a pre-existing condition.
Roger Ebert should volunteer to teach Twitter literacy to unfortunates like Chuck Grassley.
[re=539403]unclesahm[/re]: That’s the man’s style. POTUS will smile as he hands you the rope to hang yourself with.
You know we’ve reached a sad state in American media when a film critic can make a better political observation in his Twitter feed than any editorial writer for the NY Times.
[re=539436]Snarkalicious[/re]: You can’t spell Mark Kirk without KKK. This is a true thing!
First, Stephen Hawking, now Roger Ebert. The robots are TAKING OVER!!!!1111!!!!
[re=539458]coolcatdaddy[/re]: Or indeed, most members of Congress.
I followed the link and it would seem Kirk said this March 12. Now, Mar 12, HCR was not certain, but it was becoming a stronger possibility and who would want to restore the “pre-existing conditions” status anyway? I mean, why would he even say that?
It’s to be remembered that supporting lynching black men was once a cinch to getting elected, opposing it, not so much.
This is all part of a grand and glorious tradition which created blues music and death, but not all at the same time.
Roger Ebert would be unable to speak if he had to live under OBAMACARE!
[re=539467]Sharkey[/re]: I see what you did there.
Increasing American suffering is a play out of the Karl Rove Official Election Playbook.
I understand Mitch McConnell has already seen how repealing the entire might be a bit unpopular, so he’s going with a new slogan, “repeal and replace.”
Reminds me of that scene in Full Metal Jacket with the military journalists sitting around a table and the lieutenant says, “we have a new directive from M.A.F. on this. In the future, in place of “search and destroy,” substitute the phrase “sweep and clear.” Got it?”
Yeah, Mitch, we get it, a catchy slogan will win ‘em over very time.
[re=539425]sati demise[/re]: No shit. I plan to personally congratulate a friend of mine. Now her college-age daughter who has survived thyroid cancer won’t be unable to get insurance for the rest of her life. She was VERY concerned about this.
Even I could have REALLY USED the extra two years of coverage when I was at McJobs right out of college.
Today we are all middle-brow, formerly obese, sweater-wearing film critics dying of a horrible form of cancer!
Every fucking Democrat in the country should run a variant of this ad in November.
Ooh, excuse my language.
Goodness.
I would like to stand and applaud Mr. Ebert for writing a Twitter message consisting entirely of complete sentences with accurate grammar and punctuation.
[re=539426]Marxist-Leninist Papist[/re]: I don’t know, his review of The Book of Eli was pretty fucking funny.
Watching Mark Kirk lurch ever farther to the right is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. He voted for cap and trade – now opposes it. Voted for the bailouts – now opposes them. Criticized Palin – now desperately wants her support. By the election, this cat (whose district in Chicago is rich, socially liberal and really only elected him because he acted like a Dem on everything but taxing rich people) will be wearing shitkickers, driving a Ford F-1 and spitting every other sentence. And he’ll still be too liberal for the hard right nuts.
Seriously, dude had a real chance before he went for the full retard (satire) and lost every voter in Chicago for his trouble. Now Alexi Giannoulis will probably win even though his family’s bank is going to go under this summer.
I saw the name Roger Ebert and said “Ebear”. Too much Stephen Colbear! I think it’s a great idea and it should be suggested for all Repubs running for office. I would have called them repugs, but that’s a slam against pugs and they’re just harmless, sweet little dogs.
And what is going on right now is the best cinema, ever; it’s great that Ebert is leading the discussion on the film.
Some Ebert trivia – he wrote the screenplay for the Russ Meyer classic “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” and the follow-up “Beyond the Valley of the Super Vixens”. A couple of classics, although not critically acclaimed.
And he’s a good liberal voice with many editorials in the Chicago Sun Times to his credit.
[re=539415]Larry McAwful[/re]: Sure, but if he’s looking for a handout, he came to the wrong place [tosses dollar bills].
[re=539430]facehead[/re]: heh. ragecrap.
you might need digestive enzymes or possibly a stool softener also. too.
What is it when two pickles are playing ping pong?
“Volley of the Dills”
Sorry.
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