Two Thumbs Down

Way down. Film critic Roger Ebert has weighed in on the immigration debate. On Cinco de Mayo, five students from Morgan Hill were suspended for wearing clothing with American flag designs. Roger twittered that those students should be "forced to share a lunch table with students who wear the hammer-and-sickle on the Fourth of July."

This argument is flawed on so many levels, and reflects such a child-like level of reasoning, that I am stunned. The man is a film critic, not a political scientist. There is no reason he should be commenting on the 'hammer-and-sickle,' symbol of international communism. Unless he is commenting on some deleted scenes from "Red Heat," or "Red Dawn," he avoid communism. Unless there is some lunchroom scene in "Gorky Park," that I missed, the man knows very little about communism, and should keep his mouth shut.

Which would be difficult, since he has no more lower jaw. Now he has the figurative jawbone of an ass. The only way his analogy makes sense, is if those Morgan Hill students were to time-travel back to 1985, then hop a trans-continental flight to the Soviet Union. Then they could feel the shame of being an 'outsider' at a lunch table with little commie students, who would be wearing the hammer-and-sickle. Not that anyone would have any choice about what insignia they could wear, let alone the ability to complain openly about it.

Stick to movie reviews, Ebert. I'm done with you. I would have preferred to not know the level of your ignorance, and emotional immaturity. I just want to know what you think about "Iron Man 2." Not anymore. Have a great life, and enjoy sucking your dinner through a straw for the rest of your life.