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September 05, 2008

Claim: Code Pink Protestors Got Into Convention with MSNBC Badges
— Ace

Flaming skull? No, not yet. It's not yet confirmed. In fact, it's just overheard hearsay, supposedly from a convention organizer, reported by a blogger.

And there are alternate explanations offered which are just as plausible. (Not to hazard a guess at whom the "disaffected Republicans" who supposedly provided the badges might support, but his name rhymes with Pon Rual (!). )

But I'm rubbing the skull with alcohol, just in case.

I do note, however, that somehow the Democrats managed four nights without a stage-charging incident.

The Republicans suffered one two out of three nights.

Are Democrats merely that much more fascist when it comes to security, or what?

Looks Like Gateway Pundit's Discovered Precisely How the Code Pink Scrunt Got In During Palin's Speech: Rock-solid on that one, it looks like.

That leaves the question of how they got in during McCain's speech, but it's likely by the same sort of tactic.

Thanks to Gabriel Malor and his sissy-pants book-learnin' for straightening out my loose shit.

Posted by: Ace at 10:43 AM | Comments (32)
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1 From the sidebar to the big room. You smell something don't you?

Posted by: toby hussein 928 at September 05, 2008 10:47 AM (evdj2)

Nah, that's reckless, and ridiculous, don't call them fascists... their security is the same as the GOP. Maybe even more lax.

They're just that much more fascist about repressing dissent.

Posted by: Entropy at September 05, 2008 10:47 AM (m6c4H)

Wasn't some Code Pinko or HuffPoster or someone bragging about quasi-forging a press pass to some event earlier this year?

I wish I could remember with more (well, any) specificity. I recall that it was interesting, but apparently not interesting enough to actually remember.

Posted by: Some Guy at September 05, 2008 10:49 AM (lPxkl)

4 Is anybody really surprised by this?

Posted by: OregonMuse at September 05, 2008 10:50 AM (FO+YO)

5 Gateway pundit says they stole one badge from a delegate-alternate.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at September 05, 2008 10:50 AM (rWvvO)

Are Democrats merely that much more fascist when it comes to security, or what?

No, they just have many more attention whore cocksuckers on their side.

Posted by: UGAdawg at September 05, 2008 10:56 AM (IE6OO)

7 So the heavy aroma of mung wasn't a tip off? Do they not have police dogs at the ready?

Posted by: Nicky No Nose at September 05, 2008 10:56 AM (mM9Wr)

8 Hmmm Olby was a no show at the RNC right? Maybe he misplaced his pass.

K

Posted by: Kestrel at September 05, 2008 10:57 AM (gBnKJ)

9 The letters "MSNBC" on the pass should have been the first big tip-off.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 05, 2008 10:58 AM (Ds4I5)

10 I snuck a couple extra in under the spackle filling my pock marks. I always was hoping that shitty complexion would be worth something. Good thing Alan's as blind as a fucking bat.

Posted by: Andrea Mitchell at September 05, 2008 11:04 AM (EbR5o)

11 Wasn't some Code Pinko or HuffPoster or someone bragging about quasi-forging a press pass to some event earlier this year?

It was 2 Biden Campaign workers who used Huffington Post press passes to get into a McCain town hall event and then one pretended to be an audience member and "pastor of a church" (which was bogus too) to ask McCain if he once called Cindy McCain a "cunt"

The other dude reported it on the respectable Huffington Post as he just happen to be at an event where an audience member "pastor" randomly asked McCain this (of course also leaving out that they were Biden Campaign officials together)

----> just to refresh your memory.

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at September 05, 2008 11:06 AM (9Mhkt)

12 From the sidebar to the big room. You smell something don't you?

Yes. Yes I do. I smell queef - stinky stale old queef.

The kinds of things that constantly emanate from Queef Olbermann and those Code Pink skanks.

Can someone open a window in here please?

Posted by: Che Pizza at September 05, 2008 11:08 AM (SPSOE)

"Are Democrats merely that much more fascist when it comes to security, or what?"

No, Republicans are generally more respectful of divergent points of view, and don't feel the need to crash someone elses party.

Democrats, on the otherhand, value diversity just as long as it comports with the established criteria of the party. Hitler used Brownshirts, the Democrats use women in pink.

Posted by: GarandFan at September 05, 2008 11:11 AM (HLrE4)

I think I was thinking of some other thing, actually. Where someone with credential-issuing, uh, credentials made or distributed ones she shouldn't have.

And then bragged about it. Actually, maybe it was the same thing.

Anyway, my point is, Code Pink has dishonest members? No way, shut up!

Posted by: Some Guy at September 05, 2008 11:12 AM (lPxkl)

15 Not that I watched the whole Obama acceptance speech, but you've got to be kidding me that not one person in the 80,000 seat arena failed to unveil and anti-war banner. None of this made the TV?

Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland at September 05, 2008 11:13 AM (AHrTm)

Just asking questions, right?

I mean this stuff IS out there, right?

Yep, just asking questions.

Will someone please ask Olby to provide a DNA test to prove the pass wasn't his... it's a simple gesture and it will go a long way to help solve this most pressing concern.

- Andrew Sullivan (not)

Posted by: TripOverMe at September 05, 2008 11:17 AM (6c0zI)

17 If we can't storm the New York Times office and arrest the reporters there for revealing classified information, I think we need to let MSNBC's minor infractions go for now. Step one: deal with actual, provable treason. Then we can move on to the minor stuff.

Posted by: EnochF at September 05, 2008 11:21 AM (VXm6y)

18 ; font-weight: bold;">"Rude, ignorant screaming by fat ladies in pink is the highest form of patriotism."

Stuff Jefferson said...

Posted by: TJ Jefferson at September 05, 2008 11:21 AM (AQj/2)

19 I'm rather new here, so please forgive my ignorance, and flame me if you feel it's necessary, but what does the flaming skull mean?

Posted by: Jazz at September 05, 2008 11:23 AM (sUWlR)

20 wait for it, jazz. don't spoil your own surprise

Posted by: the strawman conservative in Obama's head at September 05, 2008 11:27 AM (evdj2)

21 flaming skull is the Ace equivalent of Drudge's "XXXX" police siren thing.

Of course flaming skull is eleventeen times better though.

Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland at September 05, 2008 11:27 AM (AHrTm)

22 Jazz

It's Ace's digital flash answer to Drudge's drama Siren.

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at September 05, 2008 11:27 AM (9Mhkt)

23 Gabriel

It's even eleven teen times better when Ace post's eleven times in one post too!

Posted by: Topsecretk9 at September 05, 2008 11:29 AM (9Mhkt)

24 I'm waiting for big-breasted-gamer-girl

Posted by: the strawman conservative in Obama's head at September 05, 2008 11:30 AM (evdj2)

25 Thanks, guys. The mystery was making me moist in unspeakable areas. I'll give a courtesy wipe and should be good for a while now. Thanks again.

Posted by: Jazz at September 05, 2008 11:32 AM (sUWlR)

26 Okay I'm no lawyer. (For much the same reason that I'm not a check forger, con artist, mugger, carjacker, drug pusher, extortionist, or journalist for MSNBC.) But isn't what Medea Benjamin and the other scrunt did forgery? Can they be charged with a felony? What about civil action by Annie Eckrich against the Code Pinkies?

Posted by: Reiver at September 05, 2008 11:37 AM (s7h/P)

27 Can they be charged with a felony? What about civil action by Annie Eckrich against the Code Pinkies?

Assuming that only the credentials were stolen or forged, Eckrich would have to be able to show damages of some sort for a civil suit. If she actually attended everything she wanted to attend, though, that would be hard. A civil claim would be unlikely, I think.

If documents were falsified, the RNC may have fraud and forgery claims that could be prosecuted in the civil courts. Again, proving damages would be an issue, but there's more material to work with on this point. Not saying sufficient yet, but more. My thoughts: Likely not.

Criminal forgery and/or fraud charges? A prosecutor would have to show some statutorily protected document was forged or that a criminal misrepresentation occurred. Either is possible, I guess - I don't really know whether docs were forged and what those docs might have been.

Honestly, when the work involved in pursuing any of these is balanced against the return, I suspect there won't be much to come out of this. Probably a misdemeanor disturbing-the-peace citation or something.

Posted by: Jazz at September 05, 2008 12:05 PM (sUWlR)

28 Thanks, Jazz. I guess the best recourse is to mock the skanky socialists without mercy.

Posted by: Reiver at September 05, 2008 04:26 PM (s7h/P)

29 How did Code Pink suddenly turn up in all these places at the same time? Not just the public appearances but in at least two different fake-ass focus groups and surveys? Four different stories this week lead back to Code Pink; it's just weird is all.

Posted by: Stoop Davy Dave at September 05, 2008 05:19 PM (hFY+e)

30 The more important thing was that U.S. Secret Service, St Paul PD, and TSA were checking IDs at the door. SPPD and Secret Service were on the floor of the convention and did nothing while these morons walked around in pink dresses with anti Palin slogans. What a bunch of incompetant bunglers. Why did not a patriot pop them one? The U.S. Secret Service is dangerously incompetant.

Posted by: Johnnie at September 05, 2008 06:15 PM (p7fL1)

31 Mobyohnnie "The U.S. Secret Service is dangerously incompetant."

Y'left out "I bleme Boooosh!"

Posted by: Stoop Davy Dave at September 05, 2008 07:39 PM (hFY+e)

Flaming skull? No, not yet. It's not yet confirmed. In fact, it's just overheard hearsay, supposedly from a convention organizer, reported by a blogger.

Wanna bet this resume bullet provides more executive experience than Barry O's?

Posted by: Mike at September 06, 2008 04:34 AM (zLYsP)

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