“To say that a movie or a song contains something is not to make a meaningful statement about it, except simply to say what it contains,” Ebert explained. “I think you have to look a little further into tone, mood, message, purpose, context, and origin in order to understand whether a movie or a song has a message that’s worthwhile or whether it’s simply negative and destructive. And that’s something I think that Senator Dole and other people who have joined his cause have not been willing to do.”
