{"id":2850,"date":"2008-09-05T14:44:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2008-09-05T20:40:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T00:40:21","slug":"update-on-code-pinks-rnc-insurgency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2850","title":{"rendered":"Update on Code Pink&#8217;s RNC Insurgency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My original post yesterday;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An emailer sends this about the woman who tried to rush the stage;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Woman who rushed RNC stage last night during Palin&#8217;s speech is Code Pink founder and Obama fundraiser Jodie Evans.  Person who gave her the credentials is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">probably<\/span> <span id=\"lw_1220522152_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">Fort Wayne<\/span> Realtor Ann Eckrich<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/news\/2074263\/posts?page=13\" target=\"_blank\">Jodie Evans is a top OBAMA FUNDRAISER&#8230;.with extreme radical ties<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jodie Evans, co-founder of the <span id=\"lw_1220522152_2\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">radical group Code<\/span> Pink, rushed the stage while <span id=\"lw_1220522152_3\" class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer;\">Sarah Palin<\/span> was speaking.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/r3881031385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2750\" title=\"r3881031385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/r3881031385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/r3881031385.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/r3881031385-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCode Pink has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/codepinkalert\/sets\/72157606998449852\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span id=\"lw_1220522152_5\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Flickr<\/span> account<\/a> which includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/codepinkalert\/2824558833\/in\/set-72157606998449852\" target=\"_blank\">this photo of Jodie<\/a> being interviewed earlier in the day wearing a name tag &#8220;Annie Eckrich, Indiana&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2824558833_5408d9bd8d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2752\" title=\"2824558833_5408d9bd8d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2824558833_5408d9bd8d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2824558833_5408d9bd8d.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2824558833_5408d9bd8d-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2824558833_5408d9bd8d_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2753\" title=\"2824558833_5408d9bd8d_b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2824558833_5408d9bd8d_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2824558833_5408d9bd8d_b.jpg 357w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2824558833_5408d9bd8d_b-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/codepink4peace.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/codepink-activists-interrrupt-sarah-palins-rnc-speech-at-side-of-the-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Code Pink&#8217;s press release<\/a> says they were given tickets by a GOP delegate;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/09\/03\/inside_the_convention_hall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> description of the incident<\/em>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Ann <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwdailynews.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/03\/features\/columnists\/terry_housholder\/hid42802sect_a85973188b5d8586bf0.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Echrich is an alternate delegate<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fundrace.huffingtonpost.com\/neighbors.php?type=name&amp;lname=Eckrich&amp;fname=Ann\" target=\"_blank\"> RNC contributor<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundingbloggers.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/code-pink-stole-delegates-identity-to-get-into-rnc-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\">Founding Bloggers<\/a>, who got a whiff of my post this morning, took it a step further and called Ms. Eckrich;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We just got off the phone with Annie Eckrich from Indiana.<br \/>\nShe was at the convention each day.<br \/>\n<strong>She DID NOT GIVE CODE PINK PERMISSION TO USE HER IDENTITY!<br \/>\nCODE PINK STOLE HER IDENTITY!!!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Founding Bloggers, one of whom is Jim Hoft at <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/code-pink-stole-delegates-identity-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gateway Pundit<\/a>, promises audio and video of that conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Also, by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/2075425\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">Free Republic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/mark-finkelstein\/2008\/09\/05\/blogger-says-mccain-speech-protestors-had-msnbc-badges\" target=\"_blank\">Newsbusters<\/a>&#8216; Mark Finkelstein writes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is another much more intriguing explanation out there.  According to Shay at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookerrising.blogspot.com\/\">Booker Rising<\/a>, which describes itself a newsite for black moderates and black conservatives [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I took the shuttle bus back to Minneapolis, and I overheard a convention organizer named Phil telling a convention delegate that <strong>the protesters on Wednesday night got through because of media credentials that were traced back to MSNBC<\/strong> (he told her that each credential has an individual bar code for each convention invitee). <strong>They suspect MSNBC this time as well.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What a tangled web&#8230;theft, media conspiracies, subversion. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/09\/05\/code-pink-thieves-stole-gop-delegate-badges\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Malkin<\/a> links <a href=\"http:\/\/williamamos.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/05\/interveiw-with-medea-benjamin-on-where-she-got-badges-for-rnc\/\" target=\"_blank\">William Amos<\/a>&#8216; video post to Medea&#8217;s false explanation for how they got the passes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATED AGAIN:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s the audio of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundingbloggers.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/audio-with-indiana-delegate-who-was-victim-of-code-pink-identity-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\">Founding Bloggers&#8217; telephone interview <\/a>with Ms. Eckrich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My original post yesterday; An emailer sends this about the woman who tried to rush the &hellip; <a title=\"Update on Code Pink&#8217;s RNC Insurgency\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2850\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on Code Pink&#8217;s RNC Insurgency<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28,43,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-code-pink","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}