My overall point still stands: this is being raised as an issue now because it has started to have an effect on a very few right-wing targets, but it was never made an issue during the long siege of even the most distantly progressive targets by right-wingers of every description, often on the most unhinged pretexts. If it matters that Rush Limbaugh’s patrons hear criticism when he calls women who use birth control “sluts”, it should have mattered when clinics providing birth control were harassed into bankruptcy by secondary boycotts aimed at ordinary support services. Since the people who are now so concerned about the vital social need to maintain the flow of dollars to Rush Limbaugh and ALEC never seemed to care about the right to engage in legal business in the latter cases, there’s simply no reason to take them seriously.

Now, I have no problem with avoiding the draft during that bullshit war; but, when you start calling anti-war folk pussies and cowards today, the hypocrisy meter explodes.

Good to see you posting Kevin

He’s been around the block a few times on these things, so he knows the ins and outs. Generally, they’re trying to generate buzz, so the goal is to have more people show up for the screening than the theater will fit, so you have to turn people away. So we’d usually get there about 45 minutes early, and you could skip the line. The only one where they made me jump through any weird hoops was at the Slumdog preview, and that one they were mostly doing giveaways.

As I see it, I got to see a few great movies for free, so why not do it?