Roger Ebert: Again with the uppercut, and down goes O'Reilly

[DanOregon]

Swear to God, this guy is not someone I want to cross. The guy knows how to write a beat down like no other.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090407/COMMENTARY/904079997

 

[Appgrad05]

Damn. He's good.

 

[Ace]

Two thumbs up. Way up!

 

[SockPuppet]

Bill O'Reilly = Squeaky The Chicago Mouse.

And boom goes the dynamite.

 

[slappy4428]

outstanding screed!

 

[dargan]

That was awesome.

 

[chilidog75]

This reminds me of Ebert's "feud" with Rob Schneider and the single best movie review of all time.
Still makes me laugh everytime I read it.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001

 

[greenlantern]

Squeaky O'Rilley

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

This reminds me of Ebert's "feud" with Rob Schneider and the single best movie review of all time.
Still makes me laugh everytime I read it.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001

With the greatest close of possibly anything's that ever been printed:<blockquote> Reading this, I was about to observe that (Rob) Schneider can dish it out but he can't take it. Then I found he's not so good at dishing it out, either. I went online and found that Patrick Goldstein has won a National Headliner Award, a Los Angeles Press Club Award, a RockCritics.com award, and the Publicists' Guild award for lifetime achievement.

Schneider was nominated for a 2000 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor, but lost to Jar-Jar Binks.

But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" while passing on the opportunity to participate in "Million Dollar Baby," "Ray," "The Aviator," "Sideways" and "Finding Neverland." As chance would have it, I <i>have</i> won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks. </blockquote>

 

[I Should Coco]

Great stuff. I really liked this line:

My editor informs me that "very few" readers complained about the disappearance of your column, adding, "many more complained about Nancy." I know I did.

Always a nice dig when you compare a political commentator to the worst comic strip this side of "Family Circus."

 

[Double J]

I wouldn't exactly call this a knockout punch of O'Reilly.

O'Reilly is so obtuse that he could still be standing up at the end of a 12-round fight, bleeding profusely from numerous facial cuts, both eyes closed, and be dancing around saying, through swollen lips, "he never touched me - never laid a glove on me!" That is, if he were to acknowledge he had even been in a fight in the first place.

 

[DanOregon]

Ebert's gift is that he is capable of writing pieces that are air-tight. You may disagree with his premise or point of view, but his arguments (whether in film criticism or other matters) usually don't leave much room for escape.
I read his old reviews of movies I've just seen or new reviews, and while I may differ in opinion, it's hard to argue with what he wrote. And when he takes someone on he does it in a language that hits home, a Pulitzer-winner writing to Schneider to say his film "sucks," comparing O'Reilly to an engorged and very delusional rodent? That's called using the right ammo.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

I wouldn't exactly call this a knockout punch of O'Reilly.

O'Reilly is so obtuse that he could still be standing up at the end of a 12-round fight, bleeding profusely from numerous facial cuts, both eyes closed, and be dancing around saying, through swollen lips, "he never touched me - never laid a glove on me!" That is, if he were to acknowledge he had even been in a fight in the first place.

Spot on.
The man never lets the facts get in the way...

 

[Diabeetus]

What a badass.

 

[Small Town Guy]

I wouldn't exactly call this a knockout punch of O'Reilly.

O'Reilly is so obtuse that he could still be standing up at the end of a 12-round fight, bleeding profusely from numerous facial cuts, both eyes closed, and be dancing around saying, through swollen lips, "he never touched me - never laid a glove on me!" That is, if he were to acknowledge he had even been in a fight in the first place.

who are you calling obtuse?

 

[dooley_womack1]

His review of Brown Bunny was awesome too. Ebert is the perfect crossroads of the scholarly and the vernacular.

 

[Birdscribe]

Ebert's gift is that he is capable of writing pieces that are air-tight. You may disagree with his premise or point of view, but his arguments (whether in film criticism or other matters) usually don't leave much room for escape.
I read his old reviews of movies I've just seen or new reviews, and while I may differ in opinion, it's hard to argue with what he wrote. And when he takes someone on he does it in a language that hits home, a Pulitzer-winner writing to Schneider to say his film "sucks," comparing O'Reilly to an engorged and very delusional rodent? That's called using the right ammo.

And in this case, we're talking high-caliber, armor-piercing ammo, Dan.

Love this graf:

Yes, the Sun-Times is liberal, having recently endorsed our first Democrat for President since LBJ. We were founded by Marshall Field one week before Pearl Harbor to provide a liberal voice in Chicago to counter the Tribune, which opposed an American war against Hitler. I'm sure you would have sided with the Trib at the time.

 

[Diabeetus]

Another of my favorite Ebert moments was the complete dismantling of Ben Stein: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/12/win_ben_steins_mind.html

 

[mpcincal]

I realize now how much I'm going to miss Ebert when the time comes (hopefully in the far-off future) for him to reunite with Gene Siskel.

 

[awriter]

This reminds me of Ebert's "feud" with Rob Schneider and the single best movie review of all time.
Still makes me laugh everytime I read it.

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50725001

Holy ****, that was hilarious. I had never read that review before.