…are gettin’ angry — so angry they are comparing me to cheese-eating surrender monkeys: “Your Star Wars comments on NRO’s Corner have bombed utterly. Your review was out of the mainstream, your attempt to politicize the film was silly, if not worse–I think you were duped by a bunch of liberals, Frenchmen, and even some liberal Frenchmen at Cannes– and your Matrix analogy is highly flawed. By the time the weekend is over, the latest Star Wars movie will have shot past the previous movie in terms of tickets sold, something the last Matrix sequel did not come close to doing. If I didn’t think you were inviting this type of correspondence, I’d remind you of the first rule of damage control: quit digging the hole deeper.”

To which my only answer is: “Tiens-moi, Anakin! Tiens moi en la manière que tu as faites par le lac sur Naboo!”