Idylls of the Eco-Kings

A liberal journalist's eyes are opened. He actually visits a village and discovers that elite, over-educated environmentalists have been LYING about the conditions there. Phelim Mcaleer, via RCP:

It was surprising that environmentalists would lie, but the most shocking part was yet to come. As I spoke to the Western environmentalists it quickly emerged that they wanted to stop the mine because they felt that development and prosperity will ruin the rural "idyllic" lifestyle of these happy peasants.

This "lifestyle" includes 70 percent unemployment, two-thirds of the people having no running water and using an outhouse in winters where the temperature can plummet to 20 degrees below zero centigrade.

One environmentalist (foreign of course) tried to persuade me that villagers actually preferred riding a horse and cart to driving a car.

So, patronizing and lying lefties, on your bike, take a hike. And like it. And stuff it. Go back to reading poetry or something. Keep looking for that Potemkin village.

For more, Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle, via RCP on Lear Jet Liberals.