October 24, 2007
CODEPINK Dares to Touch Condi's Hair
Jezebel already saved us the trouble from making a horrifying, insensitive, racist, and un-Bay Area comment about never touching a black woman's hair. Ever. ("Condi Rice To Anti-War Protester: Never Mess With A Black Woman's Hair" -- read it while shaking your head, with a gentle sigh.)
It seems CODEPINK, a female-based grassroots pro-peace (and judging by the photographs, anti-conditioner) movement, recently got all up in Condoleezza Rice's face at Capitol Hill today. This protester, sporting fake-blood smeared hands, got a little too close to Condi, shouting "war criminal!" in her face before she was pushed away and snapped up by the police. Four other CODEPINK protesters were arrested.
We're not sure how she managed to get so near the diva, but well done, frayed-hair lady. Well done.
Images: Jezebel, via AP
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Wow. That photo. Awesome. Iconic. Cringe-inducing.
I am so tempted to put a little Photoshop action on her shirt to make it look like she's a pro-lifer fighting for the lives of the unborn. (Cause, you know, same tactics.)
As for Condi: you're in bad shape when Count Chocula Tom Lantos is the only one quick enough to come to your rescue.
Why, why, can't they just protest in a normal, dignified fashion? All this does is make the average american anti-war person look like a friggin' nut job.
Jeez, I can hear my redstate aquaintances now: "Look at all those fruity lefties. Yee haw, what a bunch of nitwits."
Sigh.
I see these GIWNLTFs around town all the time. CODE UGLY. In every sense of the word. Protesters these days only seem to have one idea. I see more thought and originality go into a single ad break on TV than the last seven years of protesting Bush. Hey people, you're completely f**king your own movement with your one trick pony. Work on your frickin' material. Like David Cross said, if I see one more prick sprayed silver protesting the war as a robot, I'll join the other side.
Condi Rice is black? Geez, you learn something every day.
#2 - I agree. The majority of the Bay Area anti-war protestors are really frustrating.
Getting in Condi's face with blood-smeared hands? Yeah, it'll freak her out - even though she'll forget about it later. It'll probably make you feel better and will impress your nutjob friends.
But if you really want to do something about the war, you'd realize you need to appear on the news in a way that actually makes the majority of the folks at home (who aren't nutjobs) sympathize with you rather than the person you're protesting.
(smacks forehead)
10 stars Cement Brunette!
Who would make a better Halloween character, Lantos or the murderous black lady?
Good protest technique. Too bad they didn't smuggle in some cow intestines for better illustrative purposes.
Sleep well witch.
Oh, and get some speach coaching, so every other word out of your mouth is not, "eeh" or "ah"
You know, when I first saw this photo my first reaction was that some geniuses managed to do one of those flash Zombie things during a congressional hearing. That would have been awesome. Then I looked at it and thought maybe Condi was being attacked by a zombie but if so, could anyone tell? And does she have a brain good enough to be worth a zombie attack?
And you know, if they did a movie about Condi being attacked by a zombie, they could just do the Iraq War version and call it "28 Years Later."
I call dibs on the glasses boy in the background.
That woman deserves the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Thank you, whomever you are...
Htessay: Do you know how much Republicans absolutely love it when this shit happens? The right have their loony bible bashers, we have these desperately predictable no-talent ass clowns. Both grab the limelight and lose the message. It's time we stopped praising these infantile tactics and started acting like adults.
Dignified protest? Please. It reminds me of the Onion article from a while back that said, "Democratic Mob Censures Bush in Effigy." Enough already with civility. These people have lied to take us into a war, thousands and thousands of lives have been lost, children and innocents, not to mention so many of our own. It's not pretty but true, these people DO have blood on their hands, kudos to Code Pink for speaking the truth, however unpleasant it may be.
The video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45cKo-KUe-Q&NR=1
Fizzandpop, don't waste your breath. If stopping the war was really the agenda of these idiots they wouldn't resort to such juvenile tactics. It converts nobody to the cause and instead paints all of us as loonys. These morons are way more interested in their stature among like-minded groups i.e. who is the most militant. Their inability to be diplomatic hurts every issue they touch.
Um, this was more than a little hazardous. Not to raise the spectre of terror that even today haunts our great republic, but we really can't have apparent nutcases getting in the faces of and physically assaulting our cabinet members without something going terribly wrong.
Code Pink, shame on you. Show your opponents a little respect, you might get some yourselves.
i can't believe condi didn't punch this bitch in the face when she stepped up to her like that. she has a lot of class. i would have dropped this skank ho in a second.
Good point, Chris Weekly. There does seem to be an aesthetic and an exclusivity involved in antiwar protesting nowadays, one that seems unnecessary and harmful to the cause.
Creepier than watching the "Thriller" video.
Yeah. Although there is no good way to tell war criminals that what they are doing is ruining the security of the country for years to come- and that blood is indeed on their hands. And while I doubt that Condi is going to forget the event, its not going to make her change behavior either.
Protest is dead. The last good protest was the Civil right movements.
The May 2006 immigration protest downtown was damned awesome. I was almost inspired to join the IWW.
The antiwar types were nowhere to be seen, off in their hideyholes, conducting seminars on how to gather their feces for slinging at public officials or something.
I agree that the Civil Rights protests of the '60s and the recent immigration protest are examples of the right way to do it. The first big anti-war march in SF, back in January 2003, was also a more effective protest. You see stuff like this on TV and think, "Wow, the people are united and they have a message."
It's a shame these militant types look at stuff like that and think, "no, a few random people crashing events and getting arrested is a better way to go."