The New York Film Critics Circle expelled cantankerous freethinker Armond White this morning, as punishment for his alleged heckling of 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen. White, steadfastly rejecting any critical consensus, disputes the prevailing interpretation that he did wrong, or that it was heckling at all.

Critic Armond White has denied heckling Steve McQueen at Monday's New York Film Critics Circle awards. "I was misquoted, lied about...I didn't yell anything. I was talking among my friends at the table," White said regarding his behavior during McQueen's speech. So he was rude, but not that rude.