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Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:00 AM

The activist

A do-gooder who fights for civil rights and the environment -- and looks like he wandered straight off a Ralph Lauren shoot.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 01:10 PM

OH YES, YES. (breathless) AND YES SOME MORE

I love those "activists" with big bullhorns in the Ralph Lauren clothes. Nothing says "I'm so full of shit I stink" like a RL white dress shirt in the middle of a demonstration against poverty, inequality, and injustice. I mean, hey, let's send him money for his cause AND his clothes! Gee, what power.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008 02:21 PM

OK, Rambling Rose, what are you talking about?

I took the "looks like he wandered straight off a Ralph Lauren shoot" comment to mean that he looks good in the clothes he wears, not that his clothes actually carry the Ralph Lauren label. In both the photo and the video, he seems to favor dark turtlenecks. So where are you coming up with the idea that he wears "RL white dress shirts" to demonstrations?

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