The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
News of the Oxymoronic
“World’s Smallest Mammoth Discovered”–headline, FoxNews.com, May 9
Fashion Tips From the Lefty Haters
“Workers at some Chicago office towers are being encouraged to dress down to avoid being targeted by protesters during the meeting of world leaders May 20 and 21,” Crain’s Chicago Business reports:
Safety procedures in some high-rises include the recommendation that employees set aside suits, ties and anything with corporate logos.
CBRE Inc., which manages the office building at 1 E. Wacker Drive, has told tenants their employees should stay away from wearing suits, urging workers to “look like a protester,” according to an email sent by one tenant to its employees, which was obtained by Crain’s.
It’s possible that this will prove to be an overabundance of caution. Crain’s quotes one local executive as saying: “I wear a suit every day. It’s my uniform. I’ve walked through the Occupy Chicago protests and they’ve never bothered me.”
Still, it’s worth underlining the difference between left-wing protesters and right-wing ones. Though the media routinely smear the latter as potentially violent, warnings like this have never been necessary at any Tea Party rally.
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