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By: bob

bob — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:03:36 +0000

If Mr. Kopel ever had any credibility, he would have lost it with this post.

By: Dotar Sojat

Dotar Sojat — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:47:04 +0000

I like the French solution.

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By: NM

NM — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:16:29 +0000

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.

By: AndyinNc

AndyinNc — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:23:30 +0000

Nothing says social justice like a corporate-sponsored propaganda ploy!

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By: jccamp

jccamp — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:29:55 +0000

I’m already scrambling back to the “Who are you?” threads…so helpful.

By: ArthurKirkland

ArthurKirkland — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:42:43 +0000

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.

Yeah, there has been progress on that front . . . but some people still demonize tobacco industry-funded medical research.

By: rpt

rpt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:11:19 +0000

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.

By: M. Gross

M. Gross — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:36:31 +0000

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.

By: ArthurKirkland

ArthurKirkland — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:33:53 +0000

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.

By: rpt

rpt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:33:47 +0000

Greenpeace is the world’s most unethical corporation?

By: PeteP

PeteP — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:01:09 +0000

I was expecting to see the UN building with a sign on it.

By: DNJ

DNJ — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:00:25 +0000

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.

By: Kirk Parker

Kirk Parker — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:37:33 +0000

You may not like CFACT, but can’t deny they are kinder and gentler than the French.

By: rj

rj — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:04:05 +0000

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.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:20:47 +0000

Wow. Hyperbole, anyone?

By: jccamp

jccamp — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:09:44 +0000

Good for a laugh, I suppose, but in hindsight, a waste of good doughnuts.

By: Alyssa

Alyssa — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:53:22 +0000

The only thing left is to get the 9th circuit to enjoin all Sierra Club activities for violating the Administrative Procedures Act.

By: Mike McDougal

Mike McDougal — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:51:27 +0000

I’m going to add donuts to my bag of tricks.

By: BT

BT — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:39:53 +0000

I wonder if they included any Bismarck’s?

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:38:51 +0000

Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. Kopel has demonstrated that he shouldn’t be taken seriously on anything climate change-related.

By: Dave N

Dave N — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:34:39 +0000

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.

By: DjDiverDan

DjDiverDan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:33:04 +0000

I didn’t look on the link — Where on the U.S. Capital Building was the banner hung?

By: M. Gross

M. Gross — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:25:53 +0000

They had delicious doughnuts, though, who could resist?