protest = 'demonstrate in public to draw attention to'

[Jonathan Lighter]

_All Things Considered_ reported this evening on about 36 teenagers who were
chanting "We need jobs!" outside a municipal agency.

According to the highly paid journalist-narrator, they were "protesting the
need for jobs."

Kind of like Mrs. McCain becoming an "advocate for" migraines.

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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