Medea and Code Pink take the mic at The Heritage Foundation

[EFerrari]

and the chickenhawks have NO IDEA what to do about it! On CSPAN 1 now.

:rofl:

[redqueen]

1. Oh. My. God!

:loveya:

I can't wait to see this!

[porphyrian]

2. Damn, I missed them. I guess this guy's answering them? - n/t

[EFerrari]

10. He still looks a little shaky! Maybe it'll go up on the net.

One CPer held up a pink "Bring Home the Troops" banner and sang "God bless America". Medea presented this panel of creeps with a list of everyone who died in Iraq either this week or on the day Petraeus lied to Congress, don't remember.

Then a dad whose son died in Iraq told his story quickly, asked for the war to end with his kid's boots in one hand, apologized and thanked them and left.

And the chickenhawks mumbled and cringed and sort of sat there in horror. lol

/typo

[porphyrian]

23. Heh, I'm glad they did it. - n/t

[Breeze54]

39. Far out! I want to see that video!

I'm sorry I missed that! :(

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

73. I have the video and posted it. Link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1801492

:hi:

[EFerrari]

74. Thank you!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

76. My pleasure! I knew it had to show up on the Net as a stand alone. :) eom

[KoKo]

36. One of the Kagan's was speaking about bombing Iran so I turned it off and missed it..

Damn It...that would have been great to see. I wonder if it was when Kagan was speaking...that would rattle his cage. The Kagan's don't know "disruption" ...out of their mouths come the lies the Neo-Cons are in awe of.

[Beelzebud]

3. Now cue the protest warriors here, to denounce them protesting in an inappropriate setting.

[meegbear]

6. I protest your comment about protesters protesting the protesters

I protest!

[Beelzebud]

8. Oh yeah well I protest your protesting of the protests against the protest protesters!!!

/head explodes

:D

[zabet]

28. ...

[Beelzebud]

31. When I was done typing it the word "protest" didn't even sound like a word anymore in my head.

LOL

:D

[Javaman]

14. I'm protesting your protest about comments made regarding protesters

protesting the protesters...

whew.

[Ghost in the Machine]

64. Protesting protesters protest protester protesting protesters.

Try *that* on for size! It's a complete sentence, to boot!

[Javaman]

65. Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers...

so how many...oh forget it. LOL

[Ghost in the Machine]

67. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck wood!

:hi:

[begin_within]

7. The only appropriate setting for protest is the most inappropriate setting possible.

Otherwise it's not a protest, it's just a parade.

[EFerrari]

18. Yes.

Now the auditorium at the HF is full of liberal cooties. (And they'll have to spring for security on days they're being taped.)

[cali]

9. Nah, I 'm not wild about CodePink but I applaud

them for this.

[movonne]

19. Why don't you like code pink???they are out there fighting, no matter

how they do it...I'm with anyone who gives of their time to protest...

[Beelzebud]

26. Because they dare to protest our precious Dems for not doing enough.

[peacetalksforall]

43. What? Not doing enough? Too many are doing PLENTY for war.

And they're doing PLENTY for spying on us.

They're doing plenty for cages and torture and rendition.

I'll just give you my short list.

I say protest our own who are protesting plenty of many thing, but not doing anything or agreeing with Republicans on some very human and constitutional issues that are dear to me.

I get my right to protest DEMS BIG TIME ever since the reauthorization of the Patriot Act and the abyssmal, traitorous vote on spying.

[babylonsister]

4. Darn, I missed it! Those women are so brave!

:scared:

[EFerrari]

11. Now THAT was the perfect venue. If the Heritage Foundation

can't control their own stage, I doubt we should trust their take on a theater of war. :evilgrin:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

5. Missed them! Heck! eom

[EFerrari]

13. Synopsis in #10. A thing of beauty.

lol

:hi:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

34. Oh, I hope someone posts the video somewhere! When I think

of the Heritage Foundation, I envision all of these white upper class Old men, patting themselves on the back, using We The People as pawns in their game. I hope that the Energy of Code Pink, wakes these motherf*ckers up!

Thanks and hugs!

[Maat]

12. Go, Code Pink!

Dang - I missed them!

Why are those guys stinking up C-SPAN anyway? Yuck. Organization of the Warmongering, Shameless Chickenhawks.

[EFerrari]

15. It's part of the propaganda surge. I studied directing --

I can recognize choreography even before coffee. :mad:

[Maat]

16. I believe that you are quite correct, Ma'am.

The dog-and-pony show is escalating.

[EFerrari]

25. Medea is a wonderful tactician. I saw an interview yesterday

on a PBS channel I think. She and Code Pink are managing to get a good deal of attention this week. They're pushing back and I'm so proud of them. :hi:

[Maat]

46. Yes (n/t)!

[G_j]

63. so proud!

they have been at the forefront from the beginning'
I love Code Pink!!! :applause:

[EFerrari]

66. They took the fight right to the source!

:applause:

[AlCzervik]

17. well good on them, the chickenhawks are running out of places to hide.

[EFerrari]

22. I wonder if any of these brave advocates for the needless death of our troops

wet themselves. It was funny. One of them kept saying "You have your events and we have ours" -- which puts CP on par with their fake "think tank".

lol

[Maat]

20. Has that guy speaking ever

TALKED TO AN IRAQI? Like the mom I spoke with when Global Network Exchange brought the Iraqi moms over. The Iraqis want to take care of their own business - they want us out!

[SteveM]

21. Code Pink's efforts far superior to MoveOn's bathroom scrawl...

Cod Pink was not insulting and they cooperated with their ejection. This is an old form of guerrilla theater before an "old" form of media: T.V. They know the effects of cool blue. MoveOn, on the other hand, seems to confuse the flame-bait method of "communicating" on the internet with an older media form: print material; I mean, calling a high-ranking general "Betrayus" in a major newspaper. May as well flip-off someone. Like Dick Cheney.

Kudos to the old-school for showing the new school how it's done.

[Raster]

81. Whatever it takes. The Patreus hearings were an illegitimate abomination.

Patreus DID betray us!

[tularetom]

24. Had to go outside and missed it

Some guy was shooting at doves and it sounded a bit close. I had to chase him away.

Hope it comes on again.

[EFerrari]

27. Hope it gets up on YouTube!

:hi:

[Democrat 4 Ever]

33. I'm one of those people who think Code Pink is shooting all of us in the

foot when they disrupt House and Senate hearings. Sorry, but that is the way I feel. We finally have the majority, get the opportunity to haul asses into a hearing room and grill them and we have Code Pink protesting. We have had no significant reporting by this administration for seven dang years and we have people who are shouting and taking up time that could be used more productively. While I support their right to protest and their message I believe they are choosing the wrong forums to act out.

Now the Heritage Foundation is a completely appropriate venue. Go Code Pink. Make the chickenshit chickenhawks face the music, answer questions, shuffle their feet and stare at the floor. All of these reichwing think tanks need to have one uncomfortable moment after another.

Just my opinion. All of the Code Pink supporters blast away but it won't change my mind.

[EFerrari]

35. I have no need or desire to change your mind, lol!

I hope pictures go up soon so you can see chickenhawk jaws dropping. :hi:

[SteveM]

38. Please see my comments up-thread. I agree somewhat with your...

comments about the inappropriateness of disrupting Congressional hearings. But there is a bigger problem: since the Top 40 is gone, major dailies are fading into homogeneous coverage and the Big 3 broadcasters have become just another cable outlet, where is a "community" of interests going to develop and how will these interests be "legitimized?" Like them or not, the old T.V. monopoly, the Top 40, the newspapers all had the power to identify and legitimize political change. With the rise of Internet blogging (even around political issues), how can a community rise above the fray and how would it look?

Code Pink is "old school" in the final analysis; yet they can rise above the "new school." Maybe we should take a lesson.

[EFerrari]

59. This article from today's Chicago Tribune references the labor movement:

Anti-war, in your face--that's Code Pink
Mostly female group colors the Capitol

By Gabrielle Russon | Washington Bureau
September 13, 2007


WASHINGTON - It's early morning and the Capitol Hill neighborhood awakens to suit-wearers on their way to work and children swinging backpacks over their shoulders.

But Samantha Miller, a 22-year-old Los Angeles native, is busy contemplating the best way to sneak balloons into the Cannon House Office Building for an anti-war protest. She stuffs a pink balloon in her shirt, adds a couple of oven mitts, and -- voila -- the fake pregnant look.

"If I saw you in passing, I wouldn't think a thing about it," Deb Marshall, a retired house painter from Deer Isle, Maine, says reassuringly.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-code_pinksep13,1,4702866.story?track=rss

[SlowDownFast]

62. "Now the Heritage Foundation is a completely appropriate venue..."

Agreed.

Disrupting hearings such as the Plame testimony is not.

Heritage Foundation and the likes?

Go Code Pink!

[SteveM]

42. He actually SAW dove? Jeeez, my hunts in Texas have been bare, so far.

[tularetom]

53. There are a dozen or so in my freezer....

Maybe they all came to CA?

:evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

29. Yikes -- another protestor has taken the stage. Not visibly CP

but looks familiar.

She's calling them all accomplices and yelling at both panel and at the audience. :scared:

[tridim]

30. That was great! Very passionate and real.

She called them all accomplices to war crimes.

[EFerrari]

32. And she's right, too.

I know CP makes some people uncomfortable because they are unconventional. But each one of those women is worth a hundred of these cowards.

[bdamomma]

37. one question isn't the Heritage Foundation a neo con foundation?

[EFerrari]

40. Yes, one of the more pernicious ones.

:hi:

[KittyWampus]

41. The Heritage Foundation? Thumbs Up to the ladies!

will look for the video later.

[PA Democrat]

44. Oh, I love it. The chickenhawks will be constipated all week.

Go Code Pink!

[Breeze54]

45. She's singing as an "uninvited" speaker!! LMAO!!!

They closed the meeting due too the "unscheduled speakers'!! :rofl: :rofl:

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

"When we make peace, instead of war... then I want to be in that number!
When our troops come marching home"....

[EFerrari]

47. It was so cool.

lol

:hi:

[Breeze54]

51. You watched at the end?

I missed the first part but saw the end! :rofl:

I hope it goes up on You Tube! :P

[EFerrari]

55. I TIVO'D IT so I can watch it again!

lol

[Breeze54]

68. I want a copy! Can you upload it at all?

or burn it to a cd? :shrug:

[EFerrari]

69. I don't have the right cableage! But, as soon as my CP list

tells me it's up, I'll post here and/or pm you. :hi:

[Breeze54]

70. What's a CP List?

I wonder if CSpan will have it in the archives?

I'll bet they do!! I'll check and let you know! OK?

You can PM me anytime! :)

[EFerrari]

71. Thank you. It's the action listserve for CP. But, shhhhhh!

We don't want to give away secrets! lol

[Breeze54]

72. OhmmmOmmm found the video!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1801492&mesg_id=1801492

[Missy M]

48. I was one who didn't like them interrupting the Petraeous...

hearing but this is a different story. This think tank is where all the right wing, neocon policies originate and they encouraged Junior to invade Iraq. I applaud Code Pink and hope they keep it up. I hope I can get to see a rerun so I can cheer them. :thumbsup:

[blondeatlast]

54. And it's tax-exempt to boot. nt

[Raster]

80. And I can somewhat see your point. However, the Patreus hearing was a stage-managed pack o' lies.

You know it, I know it and Code Pink knew it. And THEY did something about it. It is time to stop lending an air of acceptance and legitimacy to these lying sacks of shit and their nefarious ways.

Patreus did NOT deserve to be treated with respect. HE WAS A LIAR! He was just another water carrier for the cheney*/bush* criminal gang and their Military/Industrial Machine overlords. Code Pink called him on his bullshit and faux legitimacy.

Hurray for Code Pink!:kick:Wake up, America!

[proud2BlibKansan]

49. Awesome!!

No broken legs or false arrests I guess. Hooray!

[EFerrari]

50. One of the "panelists" keep calling them, "ma'am"

and it started to sound like "Mom!"

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

52. The TAX-EXEMPT Heritage Foundation? I tip my hat to the Pinkies! YES!

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

[libnnc]

56. They're tax exempt? grrrrrrrrrrr

:nuke:

didn't know that little nugget. thank you.

[blondeatlast]

57. Yeppers; from Give.com (part of the Better Business Bureau):

Tax Status

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

http://charityreports.bbb.org/public/Report.aspx?CharityID=1875

:puke:

[LSK]

58. holy crap!!! that is just too awesome!!!!

:rofl:

[KoKo]

60. kick....for the Kagan's getting their butt kicked.

[donkeyotay]

61. Good for them. I hope C-Span reruns it. nt

[Cameron27]

75. Now that's funny.

I have to see that video.

[EFerrari]

77. Link in #72.

:)

[Anita Garcia]

78. Love it!

Thanks for the link!
Watching Bush right now....yuck!

[Raster]

79. Where's the Protest Police and their fashion citations????

Aren't they concerned that Code Pink might offend some middle-of-the-road rethuglicans?

[EFerrari]

82. CP was mostly in civilian drag today.

:hi:

[Generic Other]

83. I was cheering, screaming, clapping

LMAO...