M. Gross is correct. The best line of the entire article was:
Earlier in the day the activists daringly boarded Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise with neither stealth nor force, but by baffling the crew with doughnuts, and unfurled a banner that read “Ship of Lies” off the starboard side.
You can buy a lot of banners with the ExxonMobil and Chevron poured into CFACT (for fairness, Exxon stopped funding it, but not before dumping a cool $500k into the effort).
Kirk Parker: You may not like CFACT, but can’t deny they are kinder and gentler than the French.
As a New Zealander, I certainly would not deny that. It remains a bitter irony that the only terrorist attack in our nation’s history was perpetrated by agents of a supposedly friendly government.
He didn’t say the most unethical corporation; he said “one of the world’s most unethical corporations.” Any reasonable person would leave room for Blackwater, KBR and tobacco companies, and we should not presume the author to be unreasonable.
ArthurKirkland: He didn’t say the most unethical corporation; he said “one of the world’s most unethical corporations.”Any reasonable person would leave room for Blackwater, KBR and tobacco companies, and we should not presume the author to be unreasonable.
Indeed, the civilians killed in Iraq by Greenpeace, the area of the oceans polluted by the Greenpeace ships, and the millions killed by GP’s secondhand exhaust, dwarfs the record of any other corporate villain.
Wow. I just started reading this blog, and was enjoying it, but this post makes me question the intellectual honesty of its writers. Is this Kopel fellow just an oddball, or do the writers generally use such heavy ideological spin? Or maybe I’m being too literal-minded? If this is humor, I apologize for being dense.
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M. Gross says:
They had delicious doughnuts, though, who could resist?
December 16, 2009, 5:25 pmDjDiverDan says:
I didn’t look on the link — Where on the U.S. Capital Building was the banner hung?
December 16, 2009, 5:33 pmDave N says:
M. Gross is correct. The best line of the entire article was:
December 16, 2009, 5:34 pmNate says:
Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. Kopel has demonstrated that he shouldn’t be taken seriously on anything climate change-related.
December 16, 2009, 5:38 pmBT says:
I wonder if they included any Bismarck’s?
December 16, 2009, 5:39 pmMike McDougal says:
I’m going to add donuts to my bag of tricks.
December 16, 2009, 5:51 pmAlyssa says:
The only thing left is to get the 9th circuit to enjoin all Sierra Club activities for violating the Administrative Procedures Act.
December 16, 2009, 5:53 pmjccamp says:
Good for a laugh, I suppose, but in hindsight, a waste of good doughnuts.
December 16, 2009, 6:09 pmjosh says:
Wow. Hyperbole, anyone?
December 16, 2009, 6:20 pmrj says:
You can buy a lot of banners with the ExxonMobil and Chevron poured into CFACT (for fairness, Exxon stopped funding it, but not before dumping a cool $500k into the effort).
Just FYI.
December 16, 2009, 7:04 pmKirk Parker says:
You may not like CFACT, but can’t deny they are kinder and gentler than the French.
December 16, 2009, 7:37 pmDNJ says:
As a New Zealander, I certainly would not deny that. It remains a bitter irony that the only terrorist attack in our nation’s history was perpetrated by agents of a supposedly friendly government.
December 16, 2009, 8:00 pmPeteP says:
I was expecting to see the UN building with a sign on it.
December 16, 2009, 8:01 pmrpt says:
Greenpeace is the world’s most unethical corporation?
December 16, 2009, 10:33 pmArthurKirkland says:
He didn’t say the most unethical corporation; he said “one of the world’s most unethical corporations.” Any reasonable person would leave room for Blackwater, KBR and tobacco companies, and we should not presume the author to be unreasonable.
December 16, 2009, 11:33 pmM. Gross says:
I’m afraid the old “ExxonMobil gave them money” ad hominem lost what little credibility it had in the eyes of the public some time ago.
December 16, 2009, 11:36 pmrpt says:
Indeed, the civilians killed in Iraq by Greenpeace, the area of the oceans polluted by the Greenpeace ships, and the millions killed by GP’s secondhand exhaust, dwarfs the record of any other corporate villain.
December 17, 2009, 12:11 amArthurKirkland says:
Yeah, there has been progress on that front . . . but some people still demonize tobacco industry-funded medical research.
December 17, 2009, 12:42 amjccamp says:
I’m already scrambling back to the “Who are you?” threads…so helpful.
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December 17, 2009, 8:37 amAndyinNc says:
Nothing says social justice like a corporate-sponsored propaganda ploy!
December 17, 2009, 10:23 amNM says:
Wow. I just started reading this blog, and was enjoying it, but this post makes me question the intellectual honesty of its writers. Is this Kopel fellow just an oddball, or do the writers generally use such heavy ideological spin? Or maybe I’m being too literal-minded? If this is humor, I apologize for being dense.
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December 17, 2009, 11:44 amDotar Sojat says:
I like the French solution.
December 17, 2009, 12:47 pmbob says:
If Mr. Kopel ever had any credibility, he would have lost it with this post.
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