OF COURSE A REDSTATE.COM BLOGGER WANTS ROGER EBERT TO DIE!

When Laura Ingraham was in trouble for degrading crap she said about Meghan McCain after her remarks about how vulgar conservatives have been, Ingraham tried to justify herself as she guest hosted Bill O’Reilly’s show by bringing up some obscure blogger that had said hateful things about her and her cancer fight. Well it’s good to know that she will not tolerate hate directed at cancer victims. Now let’s see how much she talks about a scumbag on her side named Caleb Howe. Why is it we are not surprised this turd is a blogger over at RedState.com? After all, that’s the website where we find Aaron B. Gardner, the equally vapid nimrod who, like any child would do, called DLJ a racist because he called Andrew Breitbart one. Well, Howe proved himself above and beyond the call of Redstate dirtbagness. In response to movie Roger Ebert twitter remark that the five kids who wore American flag t-shirts in protest of Cinco de Mayo (what, were they busy St. Patty’s Day?) should sit with people wearing hammer and sickle flags, Howe decided to wish death upon Roger Ebert and attack him via the cancer that has been so devastating he has lost his lower jaw (hence the picture). Seriously, these are the kind of people who want to get back into power in November. Never mind if what we say here is partisan or not. Right-wingers have been pulling the shrill crap for a few years now, and they think it should win them votes? What the hell would we do that to ourselves for? We submit this though. You want Howe to really feel the pain? Get personal with him. Go after something that would utterly drive him insane about him to attack. But don’t do it if other conservatives call him out on it, because it would be a sign that they are getting sick of it too. Are you listening Ms. Ingraham?

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The esteemed film critic and prolific tweeter criticized five kids who wore American flag T-shirts and bandannas to school on Cinco de Mayo. The Tea Party beast was awakened, and mocked his recent cancer and the disfigurement it left him.

Five kids were sent home from a California high school on Wednesday for what seems like a fairly open-and-shut case of trying to start trouble. Of course, to the nutbag right, this was not the case at all and the whole thing was anti-American. Last week Ebert sent this message in response to the story:

@ebertchicago Kids who wear American Flag t-shirts on 5 May should have to share a lunchroom table with those who wear a hammer and sickle on 4 July.

According to an Ebert blog post today, it was met with predictable outrage from people with predictable Twitter handles:

@lonestarag05: Its the USA not Mexico. They are allowed to be proud of their country. I wonder sometimes why you even stay here.

Ebert has defended the Tweet very eloquently here. He points out, using humor, reason, logic and fact that the kids had done something analogous to wearing a Union Jack on St. Patrick’s day in Boston, or a Confederate flag to the Bud Biliken parade in Chicago — they were disrespecting the heritage of a community busy celebrating that heritage. Like, for example, “wearing the hammer and sickle on the Fourth of July.” He adds in the blog post that those who defended the kids might try that “at a NASCAR race, for example.”

Of course humor, reason, logic and fact are utterly alien to the Tea Party and their enraged acolytes. And they know no sense of proportion. Ebert, as this excellent Esquire profile outlines, has suffered through repeated bouts of cancer, and operations to remove that cancer, that have left him without a lower jaw. The picture above is the one that Esquire ran with that profile.

Knowing what we know about the Tea Party it shouldn’t have been surprising when Ebert tweeted this last night. But it was sad.

UPDATE: Commenter Atlasfugged points out that these are probably among the Tweets that Ebert was responding to. MediaMatters have more. The man behind this particular batch is called Caleb Howe. He blogs at Redstate.com. The picture from his Twitter profile is inset.

Howe, of course, is perfectly entitled to say what he likes. We’re sure Ebert would be the first to defend his right to free speech. But we’ve emailed Howe to ask for a comment, and whether he stands by his tweets as a proportionate response. As he cites Redstate as his official website on the Twitter feed, we’ve also emailed them to ask if they stand behind their contributor. Any responses will be posted here.