The Film Connection is a “national public film library” that distributes DVDs free-of-charge to groups throughout the United States under a Creative Commons non-commercial non-derivative license, which means, the screening must be free-of-charge to the public.
Tami Fairweather notes that when the Board of Directors of the Vanity Theater in Crawfordsville, IN decided to take advantage of this arrangement to screen the third and fourth annual Media that Matters Film Festivals, it generated a flurry of op-eds in the local paper that started with this comment from someone opposed to the screening:
“The listing of the 32 film shorts and a brief description of each shows an extremely politically correct, Third World bias. Deriding everything from President George W. Bush to the eating of meat, this presentation seems to fly in the face of Montgomery County values.”
Meaning it’s politically INcorrect to criticise George.
Whatever possessed these justices to make a decision that for years to come will bolster a legitimate argument that liberals have no place on the Supreme Court, it’s not a stretch to envision emboldened conservatives ruling for local “values” over the rights of theater owners if a good number of groups were to take The Film Connection up on its offer.