Hunter & Kurtz on Hunter

Washington, D.C.: Stephen,

Speaking of the MSNBC piece. Your name was listed as donating money to the RNC. Then you give a highly negative review of Sicko. Interesting juxtapostion. In hindsight, shouldn’t you have resisted making such a donation? Thanks.

Stephen Hunter: I’m well aware of the “interesting juxtapostion” of those two events, even if the donation was several years ago and not repeated. For the record, I do not look for opportunities to dump my own righty views on all my poor liberal readers (and, by the way I’m not aware of some shortage of liberal film criticism!) and indeed tried to beg off reviewing “Sicko.”