I question why this article was even written, other than to complain that, “He doesn’t have a star on his belly like us, so why isn’t he being ostracized like the plain-bellied Sneetches!?!?!” Oh, except he is.

Chris Rufo hails from my area, near Seattle, but I don’t agree with his politics. Regardless, I find it ridiculous that you write an “essay” with the topic of criticizing a documentary director’s political beliefs more than the work itself. It’s as if he didn’t pass the intelligentsia litmus test. How completely obnoxious is that? Why not debate the ideas instead of the identity?

You are the epitome of the reason ultra-cons continuously attack and try to de-fund PBS, NEA, and NPR. It’s as if you assume all recipients of funding and distribution deals have to be “on the same team” or wear the same political stripes as you, the “good guys.” This pervasive sense of entitlement is not only nauseating, it is scary to think where this misguided attitude is headed or how off the rails things could go if it were allowed to flourish unchallenged.