Rick Mercer's Hilarious Takedown of the "Radical Foreign Interests" Echo Chamber

onJan 20, 2012 @ 10:40 PST

This Rick Mercer video started making the rounds several days ago, but in case you missed it, it’s a hilarious skewering of the “radical foreign interests” talking point that the ‘ethical oil’ crowd is trying to inject into the debate over the Enbridge Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline proposal.

Watch:

By Brendan DeMelle

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