PJ Media "You'd think "professional protesters" would be smarter and better behaved than the unpaid variety. Yeah, no."
The columnist links to this excellent Piece by Ezra Levant
The columnist links to this excellent Piece by Ezra Levant
"....They were against the reversal of an oil pipeline called Line 9. (Right now that pipeline ships OPEC oil from east to west; the company wants to reverse it, to ship Alberta oil from the west to the east.)
"But instead of leaving — as most busy journalists have to do in order to meet their deadlines — I stuck around for two more hours. I introduced myself to more than a dozen of the protesters. And I learned something that I’m sure I wouldn’t have learned had I followed the usual media formula.
"The first thing I learned is these protesters were clueless about the pipeline they were protesting, and about oil and economics in general."
And the press takes these people seriously.
And the press takes these people seriously.
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