re: #103 Charles Johnson

George Lucas’s lawyers vigorously enforce his intellectual property. It’s no “vast Koch Ros conspiracy,” it’s just simple commerce. There’s no doubt that large sums of money changed hands to make this happen.

Lucas sold off Lucasfilm in 2012 to Disney, one of the few companies that are more anal about enforcing their IP rights than Lucas was. You may be right, they may have went to the House of Mouse and paid a hefty license fee to have those performers there in costume, but that doesn’t necessarily speak to any political stance of Disney’s, because money speaks their language.

However, part of me still thinks that CPAC did this on the sly and on the cheap.