Ah, I get it: the absence of any intimidation is proof of intimidation. That makes perfect sense. Not.
...quite a lame response...I believe the poster indicated that the threat of poor publicity exposure caused the beer companies to capitulate...which is, ipso facto,intimidation, because it employs a mechanism (hostile media and governments)that is not available to the other side...in order to be the laissez-faire utopia you go on about, both sides in the issue would have equal access to the means of communications...this is not the case, as the beer
companies cannot petition some compliant media to aid in getting its message out...
What you call "hostile publicity," I call protected first amendment speech. I see no evidence of any governmental pressure on the beer companies to pull out. And Chick-fil-a seemed to do well enough in the public opinion battle.