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Angry Old John McCain Throws Those "Low-Life Scum" Hippies Off His Lawn
You know those Civil War reenactments where everybody dresses up and pretends to fight the Battle of Fresno or whatever? Well, today lawmakers and guests on Capitol Hill were given a real surprise treat as Code Pink and Arizona Sen. John McCain apparently joined forces to ...read more
UPDATE: Code Pink Protest Prompts NOT-Creepy and NOT-Sexist Comment At Senate Hearing
On Tuesday morning, Secretary of State Chuck Hagel appeared before a Senate Armed Services committee hearing on the U.S. strategy against ISIS, but the real star of the show was anti-war activist group Code Pink. The group enjoyed widespread popularity on the Left during the ...read more
Send In the Clowns Pt. II: Code Pink Strikes Again
My favorite tweet of the week comes from Dave Weigel of Slate and MSNBC: Yes, if you thought that the Capitol Hill hearings on the Syria crisis were like a patient uprising inside a psych ward with just Congress in attendance, you can imagine how things got once the Code ...read more
Medea Benjamin Makes a Fool of Herself (Again)
This is one of those debates that's almost worthless to have because each side's view is set in stone and there's very little in the way of wiggle room in-between: You either think that Code Pink and Medea Benjamin are courageous warriors for social justice and against ...read more
The '60s Brand of Protesting Doesn't Work Anymore
I've said this sort of thing before many times. Matt Taibbi's said it. David Cross does an entire bit about it. But no matter how often it's repeated, there are still those out there on the left who live in their own little epistemic bubble and don't seem to get something: ...read more