Roger Ebert is a notoriously worshipped online presence, but the movie critic is now at the center of a Twitter firestorm. After Jackass nova Ryan Dunn in a glaring pile explosion antediluvian Monday, Ebert tweeted "Friends don't let jackasses go on a toot and drive." It's not known if Dunn was intoxicated at the heyday of his death, though he had posted pictures of himself drinking hours before the crash, and may have been speeding at more than 100 mph in a 55 mph zone.
Ebert's tweet was pronto seized upon, with Perez Hilton deeming it and Jackass fans raging on Ebert's Facebook page. The skin critic has since offered an apology, trade his reaction and saying that he "was all things considered too clever to tweet." But he also notable that many supporters agreed with his anti-drunk-driving message.
Does Ebert rate such obvious condemnation? Yes. Ebert's tweet was ill-timed and in polluted taste: This was just plane "stupid," and completely uncalled for,. At the chance of the tweet, it wasn't known conclusively if Dunn was driving drunk, and "friends and fans were still in bitter disgust over the bad news." There's no indigence for a talk from a moving picture critic on the peril of bombed driving at that point, if ever. This sums up "everything that's annoying about Twitter," namely, "people missing to be heard, me not faulty to hark them.
" Wait, Ebert might be in the right: "If Dunn was bombed and driving when his Porsche flew off a Pennsylvania highway at three in the matinal (neither has yet to be publicly confirmed), Ebert was right,". "In fact, he unadorned it." Driving pie-eyed isn't just a "jackass" reckon to do, it's a "serious offense," especially when race are killed. More accurately, it's "manslaughter" and "reckless endangerment." Like many older Americans, Ebert just doesn't get Twitter: This just shows, as "Weinergate" and Sarah Palin's "refudiate" have before, that "older society - even the very perspicacious and savviest - have a inured hour successfully navigating Twitter,".
Those over 35 seem to have illness penurious the hidden ramifications of their tweets, while even "relatively inept" juvenile stars (ahem Snooki, Kanye) get it.
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