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OK, I apologize for posting a dupe thread. It was a mistake, it happens, get over it. It does not make me lazy. Someone posted a dupe thread on a recent library controversy that I had posted about. I don't recall any snarky remarks from the peanut gallery; certainly none from me, because it didn't bother me in the least. People do make mistakes. /rant
As to the conspiracy theories, this should be pretty easy to check out, and I'm sure Media matters will soon have it plastered over everywhere if it was a fraudulent staged interview. Somehow I doubt that the Daily Caller people are that stupid.
I'm not surprised that the left opts to grasp at that straw in the wake of the revelation of a sleazy, disingenous tactic from a union.
CPAC protester tells reporter he was paid $60 to be there
So you thought that the people protesting the big conservative convention CPAC, were a grassroots movement of people who were genuinely concerned, and who thought conservatism was somehow harmful to the country?
You've been had.
Again.
Aren't you getting tired of being duped the same way, again and again?
by Michelle Fields -- The Daily Caller
Published: 12:46 PM 02/10/2012 | Updated: 7:02 PM 02/10/2012
Protesters at Friday’s “Occupy CPAC” event, organized by AFL-CIO and the Occupy DC movement, told The Daily Caller that they were paid “sixty bucks a head” to protest outside the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
One protester told TheDC that all the “Occupy” activists were being paid to protest, and that his union, Sheet Metal Workers Local 100, approached him about the money-making opportunity.
“I have nothing nice to say about Local 100. … They just told me ‘you wanna make sixty bucks? So c’mon,’” the protester said.
Other “Occupy CPAC” protesters were unwilling to speak on camera because they were unaware what they were protesting and what the CPAC event was about.
Remind me again, how many TEA Party participants were paid to be at their demonstrations?
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CPAC protester tells reporter he was paid $60 to be there
