Their complaints sounded serious for roughly five minutes.
Then the facts arrived, and the complaints did not survive contact with them.
- UFC paid the central production cost.
- A federal judge refused to block the event.
- The public had real access through a free lottery at the Ellipse.
- The enormous structure that critics treated as a monument to vulgarity was temporary, and it came down the next morning.
So the question worth asking is not whether the event was corrupt, illegal, or desecrating, since it plainly was none of those things.
- The question is why the anger continued long after every factual basis for it had collapsed.
Consider a familiar pattern...
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