Discovery Protester Paid the Homeless

In case you weren't already convinced that the one-man crusade against Silver Spring's Discovery Channel, which also produced a series of ads promoting the protest in the print edition of Express, was more than a little light on widespread support, take a look at the photo above. Flickr contributor chip py the photo guy snapped this shot yesterday of a man who was paid by the organizer to join the protest.

After a low turnout for the planned protest of the Discovery Channel, homeless people from the nearby Progress Place were paid ten dollars an hour to demonstrate. On Monday when it began to rain many of the demonstrators, such as this man right here, demanded to get paid and left.

We previously expressed some skepticism about the "Save the Planet Protest Against the Discovery Channel", which was planned from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for the entire week of February 15—23.