Ridiculously, The Tillman Story has lost its appeal over a “R” rating with the Motion Picture Association of America, The Wrap’s Steve Pond is reporting. I don’t get it — it’s the exact same type of case and argument as the Iraq-set documentary Gunner Palace six years ago. What, since we’re supposedly now “leaving” Iraq — always the hotter of the fronts in the two wars we’re simultaneously waging — the argument that young people who might be being recruited to serve in the military very much deserve a chance to see this sort of material no longer holds sway?
