Hotair.com’s Mary Katharine Ham has a petition on Change.org asking Sony to “Please release ‘The Interview’ and stop letting terrorists decide which movies Americans get to see.”
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“We fancy ourselves a free society,” the petition begins. “As such, we are allowed to make and watch movies about anyone we damn well please, even if those movies offend dictators and barbarians.”
The petition goes on to criticize Sony for negotiating with terrorists, and invokes possibly the best argument possible for watching a mindless comedy just because it annoys a dictator: “Because America.”
Until today, I was sure we were a country that would raise our silly, stoner comedies over our heads and proclaim, “From our cold, dead hands!” I like to think we’re still that country.
We will watch this movie just to piss off people who don’t want us to. Because America. Also, it sounds fun. But we can only do that if you release it.
At the time of writing, the petition had 290 signatures. You can read it in full and sign your name here.
