There was no need for your silly attempt to impersonate a newspaper reporter, however amusing that was to me. I would have answered your question regarding our position on film incentives regardless.

If you wish to use this subterfuge in the future, I would suggest you try to do actual “reporter things,” such as, off the top of my head: start by asking the name of the person to whom you’re speaking, check the spelling of that name, ask for the position held by that person, explain what you’re writing about, maybe even attempt a few pleasantries, and in general try not to sound as if you just downed a sleeping pill with cheap Merlot.

I suppose you were as disappointed as Rep. Susi Hamilton was when your attempted, poorly assumed and ill-researched gotcha failed. The John Locke Foundation is and has been quite consistent in its approach to economic incentives. We’re opposed to them. We’re not just being mean to the film industry.

In pushing for corporate tax breaks across the board instead of a favored few, we are sticking up for all industry, film included. It would be an all-comers economic incentive. Not just cronyism.

Of course, when you got that answer when you were expecting us to be in favor of massive giveaways to automobile manufactures (ha!), you did your final non-“reporter thing” by hanging up while I was in midsentence. Have a nice day.