Also, reading "obvious" as "obvious to the general public" rather than "obvious to the person I'm speaking to right now: a journalist specifically asking for co

Also, reading "obvious" as "obvious to the general public" rather than "obvious to the person I'm speaking to right now: a journalist specifically asking for comment because they already believe it's not a Starbucks" and expecting that interpretation to hold up anywhere that matters is the kind of thing you only see in Internet lawyering.