Sad: Washed-Up Movie Critic Takes to Twitter to Trash Tea Partiers

You'd think a guy battling cancer would have more to worry about than harboring insane rage against Americans fighting for their freedom. It's really sad this far-left kook can't let go of his anger.

Who's the biggest scourge of the tea party movement these days? It might be film critic Roger Ebert, who lately has been tossing brickbats at Sarah Palin and other right-wing politicians in between rendering verdicts on the latest movies.

Over the last few weeks, Ebert has used his busy Twitter page to give the tea party belittling nicknames, predict it will quickly fade and opine that "a loud movement is not the same as a mass movement."

"I write about the TeePees because it's so sad how they've been manipulated to oppose their own best interests," Ebert said in an e-mail, using his latest epithet for the tea party followers. "I am a liberal."

Yes, people just cannot do what's in their own best interests and think for themselves. Instead, they're being "manipulated" by some dark, unseen forces, unlike liberals who always think for themselves, naturally.

Now here we have a grown man reduced to using the term "TeePees" to refer to Tea Partiers.

So clever I'm surprised nobody else came up with it. Get it? TP, like toilet paper?

But due to complications from cancer surgery in 2006, he has been unable to speak. The story of his recovery battle, along with a jarring portrait that revealed his surgically ravaged jawline, recently appeared in Esquire. Tuesday, he will appear on a taped piece on "Oprah" to unveil an electronic device that promises to give him back some vocal function. Given the fact that for years Ebert was never far away from a microphone, there's irony in the fact that his current battle with the tea party followers is conducted in text only, with bite-sized tweets and blog posts.

He might gain some sympathy if he acted like an adult.

Roger Ebert Succumbs to Palin Derangement Syndrome

What makes this hilarious is this slob actually has the temerity to ridicule her choice of eyewear.

Hello!

Soak in the smug pomposity. It doesn't get any more elitist, arrogant and snide than this. Just keep it up, Rog. You'll have much more venom to spew in a couple of months after Obama gets hammered.

You don't need to be a pointy-headed elitist to travel abroad. You need curiosity and a hunger to see the world. What kind of a person (who has the money) arrives at the age of 44 and has only been out of the country once, on an official tour to Iraq? Sarah Palin's travel record is that of a hopeless provincial.

Uh, maybe someone who's busy raising a family in Alaska and rising to the highest office her state, dipshit. She must be crushed she didn't have time to traipse around Europe with the sophisticated set. Poor Sarah.

But some people like that. She's never traveled to Europe, Asia, Africa, South America or Down Under? That makes her like them. She didn't go to Harvard? Good for her! There a lot of hockey moms who haven't seen London, but most of them would probably love to, if they had the dough. And they'd be proud if their kids won a scholarship to Harvard.

Palin is a shallow, chirpy person with those vaguely alarming eyeglasses. Now her fans all want a pair. Remember back when women wore glasses that departed their ears in plastic swoops and swirls? My theory is, anyone who wears glasses that look weird is telling me something I don't want to know.

I trust the American people will see through Palin's facade, and save the Republic in November. The most damning indictment against her is that she considered herself a good choice to be a heartbeat away. That shows bad judgment.

Such sanctimonious snobbery.

Please, keep it up.