Twitter feud with a celebrity: Check!

Well, he’s not exactly a celebrity and it wasn’t really a feud, but you catch my drift. This afternoon Richard Roeper, journalist, film critic and former Roger Ebert co-host, published the following tweet:

Which linked to the following photo:

to which I replied:

and he said:

That response from Roeper made me realize that I made a mistake by calling him an asshole. I overreacted to a tasteless joke and fired back, aided by the relative anonymity that Twitter supplies. But that doesn’t change the fact it was a crude joke. So, what say you, dear followers? Was I right or wrong?