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Category: Code Pink

  • Code Pink on defense

    Apparently, Code Pink is suffering some popular backlash because of their antics recently. One of them wrote an especially loooonnnngggg post in their blog this morning (at 4:35 AM….jeez maybe their problem is a lack of beauty rest) entitled “To The Haters…” in which they disparage us for pointing out they’re ugly, shrieking harpies;

    You like to say that we’re “ugly” and we’re “scum.” You like to disparage our intelligence and patriotism. Sometimes you make threats: “If I see you agian I’ll stop you,” and “If I see you bitches I will do something horrible to you.” More than one of you suggested we should be “hanged.”

    Nice.

    (Just who are supposed to be the “ugly” ones here?)

    Take a good sober look over some of your recent posts… Most of them are about wounding, involving crude sexual references, misogyny, bigotry, and hate… there’s hardly an American sentiment in the bunch.

    Do you really want to sound like some hick counterpart to the Taliban, with your hatred of women, intolerance of views with which you disagree, and your threats of violence?

    Do ANY of you consider yourselves Christians, I wonder? How so… by what definition? (Ku Klux Kristians? That variety?)

    Sweet. Tell people to stop calling them names while calling their detractors names. Here’s a few reasons I call them ugly;
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    I have more pictures, but I think you get the idea. I call them ugly because…well…they’re ugly.

    They go on and explain why they’re “flamboyant”;

    Because we’re flamboyant and because we refuse to be silenced, we sometimes get results.

    And those results are? Fundraising? Inflated egos? The war is still going on…you’ve accomplished nothing except proven yourselves buffoons and tools of your communist masters.

    Oh, and their analysis of the “surge” shows how keenly they grasp the whole concept;

    You poor schmucks actually believe that the troop Surge is behind the drop in violence in 2008 Iraq!

    But here’s the straight dope, regarding the Surge: There’s no question that the ethno-sectarian cleansing and walling up of Baghdad helped somewhat (the very bloody first phase of the Surge), but the real key to the drop in violence, per most American military officers on the ground, was putting 100,000 members of al Qaeda in Mesopotamia (AQM) on the U.S. payroll — giving them each $300/month, arms, and U.S. training to chill out for a while…

    Notice she didn’t say that we pay the Iraqi Army or the Iraqi police, she says we pay the INSURGENTS, that we pay AL QAEDA. But they add the proviso;

    It’s no reflection on our brave troops, but rather a poor reflection on our dismal politicians….

    Yuh-huh. Those brave troops they refer to are the folks who are coming back and telling us how the surge has worked. Those brave troops are the folks who bear the brunt of your ill-reasoned criticism. I guess we should get some pleasure that they’ve admitted that there is indeed a drop in violence in Iraq…small pleasure.

    Well, if Code Pink is really nonpartisan, and they only want to stop the war with their “flamboyance” (a term I usually reserve for the gender-confused), why didn’t they interupt Barack Obama’s speech to the DNC? He’s admitted that he’ll continue the current administration’s policy in the war against terror. Why didn’t they interupt Joe Biden’s speech? He voted for the use of force in Iraq and had been advocating for dethroning Hussein for more than half-a-decade before the latest war in Iraq.

    Since we know that Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink. is a top bundler of contributions for Obama (on the same level as Hollywood moguls), we all know how non-partisan Code Pink really is, don’t we?

    The same goes for Code Pink’s beard, Adam Kokesh – our future Democrat Presidential candidate in the mold of John Kerry. I know the excuse of IVAW for not interrupting Obama’s speech will be that he accepted their list of demands…in reality, SOME GUY who said he was from the Obama campaign took thier letter, while no one in the McCain campaign was willing to pretend to take their list of demands. Yeah, big difference you wantwit dorks.

    Thanks for playing our game.

  • Update on Code Pink’s RNC Insurgency

    My original post yesterday;

    An emailer sends this about the woman who tried to rush the stage;

    Woman who rushed RNC stage last night during Palin’s speech is Code Pink founder and Obama fundraiser Jodie Evans. Person who gave her the credentials is probably Fort Wayne Realtor Ann Eckrich

    Jodie Evans is a top OBAMA FUNDRAISER….with extreme radical ties

    Jodie Evans, co-founder of the radical group Code Pink, rushed the stage while Sarah Palin was speaking.

    Code Pink has a Flickr account which includes this photo of Jodie being interviewed earlier in the day wearing a name tag “Annie Eckrich, Indiana”

    Code Pink’s press release says they were given tickets by a GOP delegate;

    Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them. (Read a Washington Post description of the incident).

    Ann Echrich is an alternate delegate and RNC contributor

    Founding Bloggers, who got a whiff of my post this morning, took it a step further and called Ms. Eckrich;

    We just got off the phone with Annie Eckrich from Indiana.
    She was at the convention each day.
    She DID NOT GIVE CODE PINK PERMISSION TO USE HER IDENTITY!
    CODE PINK STOLE HER IDENTITY!!!

    Founding Bloggers, one of whom is Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit, promises audio and video of that conversation.

    Also, by way of Free Republic, Newsbusters‘ Mark Finkelstein writes;

    There is another much more intriguing explanation out there. According to Shay at Booker Rising, which describes itself a newsite for black moderates and black conservatives [emphasis added]:

    I took the shuttle bus back to Minneapolis, and I overheard a convention organizer named Phil telling a convention delegate that the protesters on Wednesday night got through because of media credentials that were traced back to MSNBC (he told her that each credential has an individual bar code for each convention invitee). They suspect MSNBC this time as well.

    What a tangled web…theft, media conspiracies, subversion. Stay tuned.

    UPDATED: Michelle Malkin links William Amos‘ video post to Medea’s false explanation for how they got the passes.

    UPDATED AGAIN: Here’s the audio of Founding Bloggers’ telephone interview with Ms. Eckrich.

  • Governor Palin’s speech at the RNC

    In case you missed it last night, here’s the whole thing. It’s 45 minutes long

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    An emailer sends this about the woman who tried to rush the stage;

    Woman who rushed RNC stage last night during Palin’s speech is Code Pink founder and Obama fundraiser Jodie Evans. Person who gave her the credentials is probably Fort Wayne Realtor Ann Eckrich

    Jodie Evans is a top OBAMA FUNDRAISER….with extreme radical ties

    Jodie Evans, co-founder of the radical group Code Pink, rushed the stage while Sarah Palin was speaking.

    Code Pink has a Flickr account which includes this photo of Jodie being interviewed earlier in the day wearing a name tag “Annie Eckrich, Indiana”

    Code Pink’s press release says they were given tickets by a GOP delegate;

    Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them. (Read a Washington Post description of the incident).

    Ann Echrich is an alternate delegate and RNC contributor

    Of course, reaction to Palin’s speech must’ve been resounding because the Obama campaign (David Plouffe) immediately sent out this email;

    Friend —

    I wasn’t planning on sending you something tonight. But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.

    I saw John McCain’s attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.

    But worst of all — and this deserves to be noted — they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.

    You know that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together. Make a donation of $5 or more right now to remind them.

    Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack’s experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.

    Let’s clarify something for them right now.

    Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

    And it’s no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

    Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America’s promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women’s suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it’s happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

    Meanwhile, we still haven’t gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.

    Emphasis is mine, btw. If being a “community organizer” is so important, why isn’t Obama still a “community organizer” since he claims he’s doing all of this for us? I’d like intellectually vacant David Plouffe to explain what attacks were made last night.

    The only people who benefit from “community organizers” is community organizers – it’s an easy way to make a living without actually having to do any work. Let’s see something Obama actually accomplished while he was a community organizer since, apparently, Plouffe wants to credit him with women’s suffrage and a forty-hour work week.

    Added: The updated post is here.

  • Convention coverage from Skye

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    I just wanted to let you know that one of the best friends of this blog over the last year, my buddy, Skye, at Midnight Blue and Flopping Aces is in Minnesota blogging it all live, so don’t forget to stop by and give your regards. She’s already bumped into the hags of Code Pink and promises videos of the encounter in the near future.

    Thanks to my other protest buddy, Kate, for reminding me.

  • Shiftless hippies unimpressed by IVAW

    Photo from People’s Press Collective

    Readers may remember back in March the IVAW put out a call to ANSWER, World Can’t Wait, Code Pink, et al. to hold off their protests on the March 15th anniversary of the Iraq War so that the IVAW/VVAW/VFP/SEIU could conduct their Winter Soldier II theater at Silver Spring, MD without competing for the attention of the media. WSII fizzled and got virtually no attention from the media (despite a large presence of media) and a result, the protest against the war which happened five days later, on a Wednesday, drew less than a thousand protesters and, in turn, fizzled out, too. Many of the non-IVAW protest organizations blamed the IVAW for their piss poor performance.

    Well, that bit of history seems to be repeating itself. According to one of the shiftless hippies caught in the theater of the IVAW yesterday;

    It was at this point I started to wonder that we’re doing as well in Iraq as we are.  If these tactical geniuses are any indication of the military resources we have at our disposal, it’s a wonder every one of them hasn’t been slaughtered.

    Anyway, back at Larimer and Speer, the I.V.A.W. negotiated some more (with someone), declared that the delegates had heard their message (somehow), and disbanded.

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    The problem is that the I.V.A.W. assholes had put a call out to the more militant protesters, claiming that they were gonna end the march by breaking through police lines and doing their damndest to confront the delegates face to face.   As such, they had a few hundred folks in the march who were ready and willing to put their bodies on the line for the assholes, and ended up wasting the entire day being herded around by police and ordered about by Medea Benjamin types.

    I guess, I’d  point out to this shiftless hippie that these are largely the military’s rejects. Their tendancy to lie and their inability to lead is generally a result of living among the American population, not a result of their training.

    I’d also pass along a warning to the Minnesota law enforcement – since Kokesh and Millard are there getting ready for next week’s protests, I’ll be betting they’re going to try and bulid their reputations up a bit. This may be their last chance. Kokesh has been willing to get arrested on countless occasions in the last year and he has yet to pay a price…he keeps testing his boundaries and since this war is winding down, he’s losing his cachet. I’d expect a grand last gasp gesture next week.

  • VFF ad: I am the surge

    Vets for Freedom asked me to put this new ad up for them;

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    The Vets For freedom are asking Senator Barack Obama to simply admit that the surge worked. According to VFF, as recently as last month, Barack hasn’t been able to form the words;

    “So far, I think we have not seen the kind of political reconciliation that’s going to bring about longterm stability in Iraq.” Obama speaks during a news conference at the citadel in Amman, Jordan, Tuesday, 7/22/08

    “But the same factors that led me to oppose the surge still hold true. The strain on our military has grown, the situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated and we’ve spent nearly $200 billion more in Iraq than we had budgeted. Iraq’s leaders have failed to invest tens of billions of dollars in oil revenues in rebuilding their own country, and they have not reached the political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge.” Barack Obama, Op-Ed, “My Plan For Iraq,” The New York Times, 7/14/08

    It’s like Fonzie trying to admit he was wr…wr….wr…wrooonnnngggg. Basically, VFF is simply asking Obama to support Senate Resolution 636 “ Recognizing the strategic success of the troop surge in Iraq and expressing gratitude to the members of the United States Armed Forces who made that success possible.“

    Should that be so hard? Well, when it means throwing the shrieking harpies of Code Pink under that proverbial bus, you can bet he won’t until it becomes politically expedient…your phones calls, letters and faxes will make it politically expedient.

    Obama’s contact information;

    Washington, D.C. Office:

    713 Hart Senate Office Building,
    District of Columbia 20510-1305
    Phone: (202) 224-2854
    Fax: (202) 228-4260

    Chicago Office: (more district offices)
    230 South Dearborn Street, Suite 3900
    Chicago, Illinois 60604
    Phone: (312) 886-3506
    Fax: (312) 886-3514
    Crossposted at Eagles Up! Talon

  • On the periphery of the Convention

    There’s an awful lot of stuff on this convention that’s not showing up on the news, so I thought I’d troll around around a bit and bring back some of the news you might have missed.

    Here’s the IVAW misfits in their class photo (yes, I see you, AS);

    Ace of Spades has AliceH on the job getting video and still of the event. You can go to her YouTube channel (and see fake waterboarding demonstrations) or to her photo blog to see the latest. Photos like this (that make parents so proud);

    The Funk the War protest conducted by IVAW among the Code Pinks and assorted anarchists was videoed by a freelancer in Denver. You can watch this video about the horrible police state in which we’re living narrated by a bunch of spoiled brats who aren’t being arrested and tossed in jail.

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    The Weekly Standard‘s Jonathan V. Last tells us about the police state inside the Convention. From the American Prospect’s blog TAPPED, we find out not all of the delegates are pleased about Obama getting the nomination;

    You have a Hillary shirt and a John McCain button.

    Karen Brown: She was my first choice. Now I’m going to vote for McCain.

    Why?

    KB: I don’t like Senator Obama. His choices are all wrong. I feel secure with John McCain.

    Where do you feel McCain and Hillary have overlap that Obama doesn’t?

    KB: I feel that Hillary would make me also feel safe as far as terrorism goes while I think Obama would be thinking about it. As he said in an interview, I’ll “confront evil.” John McCain said I’ll “defeat” evil. I feel Hillary would’ve said the same thing. I want to feel safe here in America.

    And a photo to go along with the transcript;

    My mentor, Zombie, is still on the job, of course, sending out photos that will be the hallmarks of this cluster in Denver;

    UPDATED: Zombie got in too deep last night.

  • IVAW drama queens in Denver

    Army Sergeant complains that the Denver Police are looking for potential “direct action” perpetrators. I guess this little monument to drama completely escaped the police;

    Here are the anti-war heroes of the IVAW in Denver. All the Left loves them.

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