Roger Ebert took to his blog to set the record straight about what he meant when he tweeted his now infamous tweet. He hints that he was just trying to be a friend. Check out some quotes below.
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Ebert on what he meant by his tweet:
What did I mean by that? I meant exactly what I wrote. I wasn’t calling Ryan Dunn a jackass. In Twitter shorthand, I was referring to his association with “Jackass.” I thought that was clear. I note that Bam Margera uses the word “jackass” in the same way in his tweet.
Ebert on the timing of his tweet:
I don’t know what happened in this case, and I was probably too quick to tweet. That was unseemly. I do know that nobody has any business driving on a public highway at 110 mph, as some estimated — or fast enough, anyway, to leave a highway and fly through 40 yards of trees before crashing. That is especially true if the driver has had three shots and three beers. Two people were killed. What if the car had crashed into another car?
Ebert on his refusal to apologize:
The story of my “refusal” has now gone viral. When I tried to log on to Facebook this morning, I found that my page had been “removed for violating our Terms of Use.” That would include, I learned pages that are “hateful, threatening or obscene.” I speculate that my page was flagged by “Jackass” fans.
Out of this the sane voice April Margera emerges: “He drove too fast and I yelled at him all the time about that.”
She was being Ryan’s friend.
