Roger Ebert tears into "Innocense of Muslims!" and Mitt Romney!

[BarackTheVote]

"The Romney attack was made in such unseemly haste that we had still not learned of the deaths in Benghazi. But you know all about that. My heart goes out to those victims of remote-controlled ignorance. The murdered Ambassador was by all accounts considered by Libyans to be a friend of theirs, and there has been a quiet demonstration in his memory.

I want to focus on the "efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims." The film was reputedly produced by a man named Sam Bacile, who told a reporter on the telephone that he was an Israeli Jew, and that his film was financed by "100 Jews." One person who says he has met him, a consultant named Sam Klein, has stated that this man is not named Bacile and is not an Israeli Jew. (I saw a tweet pointing out that Mister or Monsieur Bacile comes out neatly as "M Bacile.&quot

Why was he so specific about being an "Israeli Jew?" What did he hope to achieve by that? Why was he so precise about the number "100 Jews?" Not 95, or 105? No backers of any other religion?

CLIP

Is there even a movie? The name of the "movie" is either "The Innocence of Muslims" or "Muslim Innocence." On YouTube, under the first title, there's a link saying "full movie," which is less than seven minutes long. Under the second title, I find three trailers and a "full movie" clocking at at 5:22. I've read that some people have seen an 11-minute version. I can't find anything else. Maybe you can. Let us know. What I saw was mostly bad acting, lame dialogue, B-reel footage, inflammatory scrolling words, and canned horror music. I'm not going to link it; see for yourself."

Linky! http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/09/a_statement_and_a_film.html

Ebert also compares the film to "crying out "fire" in a crowded theater", implying that even this stalwart defender of the filmmaking art views this movie as obscene and not protected speech!

[riverbendviewgal]

1. Ebert is so correct.

in the article he writes.

My hunch is that when the origins of "The Innocence of Muslims" and its backers have been tracked down--and make no mistake, they will be--the full story will be vile and explosive.




This is all too fishy to me....it is election time. Cheney questions Obama's presence at meetings...The RWrs say Obama not interested in meeting Israel's Netanyahoo.

There is no long movie but the you tube versions are in arabic....hmmmm seems like political incitement for stirring up hatred. This I would say is domestic terrorism...and done by Americans. This does deserve to be investigated by the FBI and people brought in.

[HockeyMom]

2. There seems to be 3 different names for this "filmmaker"

MSNBC gave different ones he is known as. I didn't catch all of the report but they said something about a conviction for Identity Theft.