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Some select quotes from Roger Ebert on Sep­tem­ber 1, 2010:

A democ­racy depends on an informed elec­torate to sur­vive. An alarm­ing num­ber of Amer­i­cans and a major­ity of Repub­li­cans are mis­in­formed.
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I recently watched Glenn Beck speak­ing at great length about Obama’s Mus­lim father, but you would not have learned from Beck that the father, who Obama met only once, was not a prac­tic­ing Mus­lim in any sense.
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Our econ­omy has col­lapsed and it seemed clear to many Amer­i­cans that the unreg­u­lated greed of Wall Street trad­ing, espe­cially in deriv­a­tives, was respon­si­ble. These were not invest­ments in indus­try, the econ­omy or the future. They were invest­ments in a bold Ponzi scheme which defrauded home own­ers into fronting for a pyra­mid of worth­less loans. Cit­i­zens lost their homes, invest­ment houses went bank­rupt, but the crim­i­nals respon­si­ble con­tin­ued to pay them­selves multi-million-dollar bonuses.
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Beck and Palin speak about “tak­ing back Amer­ica.” The buried mes­sage is that they will take it back from Mus­lims. This is a heart­less mis­use of the tragedy of 9/11 and its vic­tims.
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Our polit­i­cal immune sys­tem has only one anti­body, and that is the truth.
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The time is here for respon­si­ble Amer­i­cans to put up or shut up. I refer specif­i­cally to those who have cred­i­bil­ity among the guile­less and cred­u­lous cit­i­zens who have been infected with notions so care­fully nur­tured. We can­not afford to allow the next elec­tion to pro­ceed under a cloud of false­hood and delusion.

Amer­ica, where have you gone?