Posted on 10/02/2007 4:48:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The first thing the members of Congress did before they heard the testimony of General David Petraeus, the Administration's new political point man on the war, was to throw the members of Code Pink out of the room. The Code Pinkers are those obnoxious females wearing their eponymously colored T-shirts with end-the-killing slogans on them.
The women of Code Pink are liable to pop up at any solemn public gathering demanding peace at the top of their voices. They are unable to understand that elected officials are better informed and wiser than they are and thus they mistakenly dis people important enough to warrant bodyguards.
During Code Pink's brief moment in the sun, several Republican members of Congress groused to House Arms Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D- MO) about the scandalous troublemakers. American politicians, who these days are equipped with security details, have come to regard political heckling as a misdemeanor of greater gravity even than making a pass at an undercover cop in a men's room. Heckling used to be an inseparable part of public debate and, once upon a time, a politician was judged in part by his ability to come through with the kind of humorous riposte that sets audiences to laughing and the hecklers to the sidelines. Lincoln, Churchill and Disraeli were masters at it.
The Code Pinkers are playing what ESPN would call Extreme or X-politics. X-politicians make noise, bust up meetings, chain themselves to furniture, do the big floppola in front of the security personnel and wail like hell when they are dragged off. Most of us are incapable of playing X-politics, but thank God the women of Code Pink are not.
You don't play X-politics because you want a new school superintendent or a stop sign on your block. You play it when it's about war, about dying, maiming and mass misery on a scale too large for any mind to encompass. You play it because the war party always has all the drums and all the bugles and all the flags. You play it because somebody has to smash through, be the truth-teller. And it's not going to be people with normal temperatures and Anglo-Saxon inhibitions.
X-politics is only for the lion-hearted. Samuel Adams played it at the Boston Massacre and the wildest, craziest and yet most essential X-politician in our history was John Brown, Old Potawatamie, who ended dangling from a noose, the North's most electric abolitionist martyr.
An X-politician does not have to lead an armed insurrection, but he or she must do something that enflames indignation and ignites anger. On a small scale that is what Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. did. He's the man who was gang-tackled by the Capitol cops to keep him out of the hearing room. Put your hands together and give it up for the Reverend as you watch the seven-minute video of his encounter with Capitol Hill's finest:
MoveOn.org plays its own, somewhat more sedate brand of X-politics. The day before the hearings it kicked war partisans in the shins with a full-page New York Times ad, with a headline that screamed, "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" It drove the likes of Orrin Hatch (R-UT) to offering resolutions of condemnation and denunciations of MoveOn.org's wickedness for suggesting the General cannot be counted to tell the whole truth.
(In the interest of full disclosure, the writer confesses to having sent MoveOn.org a small contribution immediately after having read that ad.)
A newspaper ad alone could not have so convincingly disseminated the thought that Petraeus had moved from being a four-star general to being a four-star Republican politician. For that the ad had to provoke a furious reaction from the war lovers.
The essence of X-politics, whether it's Cindy Sheehan or Eli Pariser, one of MoveOn.org's better known people, is to use the other side's rage, money and status against itself.
May Code Pink strike again. And again.
mental-disorder-alert
The idiot doesn’t have a clue. The people he compares the moonbats to braved DEATH to do the things they did. These nuts whine about the mere request for common courtesy and would run crapping their pants at the thought of a real fight with truly evil people.
“ You snivelling wipers of other peoples bottoms....I fart in your general direction!”.....Monty Python
These people are anti-american. They need little or no recognition.
...I’m sorry, the founders took up arms to FIGHT HIGHER TAXES which Code Pink is in favor of...
It sounds better to make yourselves out to be freedom fighters and defenders of what is right than to view yourselves as most Americans do - as loony moonbats.
Van Hoffmann is still around? He was a has been thirty years ago.
We need a heck of a lot more unruly conservative activists. Some that will tell the damned Democratic establishment that we intend to keep our freedoms. And we’ve had it with their corrupt manner of governing.
Someone help me out here. Just so I don't confuse this group with some other organization, is this the same group of women that want 16 year old girls and above to have the right to kill all the babies they can produce? I'm just checking?
If you want to end the killing, let's start at home.
Besides, what our brave men and women are doing in Iraq is ending the killing.
Code Pink, MoveOn.org, and the entire Leftist-Socialist base of the Democrat Party have certainly one thing in common with each other, and that is fraud. Facts, reality, honesty and integrity are foreign concepts to these children of Saul Alinsky. They have much, much more in common with Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) than they ever have had or will have with any of the American Founding Fathers, and it is certainly a smear to compare them to anyone but the worst the World’s leftist totalitarians. Perhaps that overstates the case, as these people are so incompetent, so inept, and so absurd as to never even aspire to the taking of the Winter Palace or match any of the brutal inhumane crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Great Terror of Stalin. Are they even Americans? Well...
“The Nation” really sucks now....used to be a good magazine.
YUK!
I can’t believe I read the whole thing. I kept waiting for a punch line!
These folks center their lives around these activities.
They are well organised and they attend training
sessions on How To protest, How to disrupt, How To perform during and after getting aressted. It is all fairly planned
and organised. Many of them are mentors for newbie protestors.
And it is always a badge of honor to be arrested at one event or other.
Funny how they hate the military yet they are much like the military themselves. I am surprised they don’t have
a place for badges and epaulettes on their PInk-o uniforms.
meaning that they are organised and trained and wear uniforms and have a common goal...
Nicholas von Hoffman?? The guy who was fired from 60 Minutes 35 years ago for being too commie? Wikipedia doesn’t give his age, but he must be 80.
and I'm such a sweetheart..I don't understand.
Von Hoffman never went to college; he worked in the Chicago stock yards and later served as a political organizer for the community activist Saul Alinsky; Ben Bradlee, then the editor of the Post, hired him from the Chicago Daily News.
was fired by Don Hewitt for calling then President Richard Nixon the dead rat on America’s kitchen floor.
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