(Dana) Perino: It seems that Congress is run by Code Pink

[sabra]

Source: The Hill

The White House reacted harshly Wednesday after a protester at a House hearing got close enough to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to put her dyed hands in Rice’s face.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, referencing the incident and calling it “despicable,” said it “seems that, increasingly, Congress is being run by Code Pink.”

The anti-war group’s members are often arrested on Capitol Hill for disrupting congressional hearings and events.

However, few protests have been as dramatic as Wednesday’s, at which protester Desiree Anita Ali-Fairooz screamed at the secretary of State and yelled that the blood “of millions of Iraqis” is on the hands of the administration.

...

Perino thanked Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) for “trying to restore order to that hearing.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/perino-it-seems-that-congress-is-run-by-code-pink-2007-10-24.html

[Solly Mack]

1. said the mouth-piece for war criminals

[tanyev]

2. If only.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. you, tanyev, have a great way with words.

the perfect comment.

[tanyev]

22. I'm a graduate of the Less Is More school.

Of course, that can get you into trouble around here, too.

;)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

38. U mean L = M

righto, mate?

[Canuckistanian]

28. Hear, hear

While I don't support everything Code Pink does, this was a powerful statement.

Fuck Dana Perino.

[leftchick]

29. I will raise you an

As If!!



:)

[Jade Fox]

43. No shite......

If that were true, I'd be joining up right away!

[calimary]

47. No KIDDING!

If it were, we'd have been OUT of Iraq LONG ago, and Iran would only be a twinkle in a frustrated neo-CON's eye. And some of that war spending might even go to repairing our infrastructure HERE AT HOME, or - gasp - maybe underwriting health insurance for every kid in America - if not every PERSON in America, too. And there'd be about 39-hundred fewer flag-draped coffins coming home to sobbing widows, heartbroken moms, and distraught dads.

We could do a LOT worse than having Code Pink "run" Congress. In fact, we are doing a lot worse.

[Zhade]

59. INDEED. We could only be so lucky.

NT!

[Javaman]

65. no shit. if it was moron* would be out on his* ass now. nt

[aquart]

3. Congress run by Code Pink?

Would that mean no more apologies?

[flyingfysh]

7. then Code Pink should start doing a better job

They haven't stopped the war on impeached Bush yet.

[MrModerate]

4. Fuck Perino and the goat she rode in on (apparently backwards) . . .

Code Pink frequently engages in civil disobedience. Shocking! How the fuck does that translate into Congress being run by Code Pink? Is it because of their impertinence in even questioning Queen Condi on how she's been doing her job?

Shit, at least Tony Snow knew how to do *his* job.

[Supersedeas]

67. Peppy Pom-Poms Perino on a Goat cheering for incompetence

[Hydra]

5. I thought "The Decider" ruled things

Did I miss the memo, or is this just the royal family having a tantrum?

[kestrel91316]

6. Nah, Dana. If Congress were run by Code Pink, you'd be at the Hague

with all the rest of your war criminal buddies.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. Damn straight.

:thumbsup:

[seafan]

8. War criminals. The whole lot of them.

October 24, 2007

Protester Desiree Farooz confronts Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a photograph taken today by Charles Dharapak of the Associated Press.

Rice was preparing to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee when she encountered Farooz inside the hearing room. Farooz had painted her hands red, apparently to symbolize her group's claim that members of President Bush's cabinet have blood on their hands because of the way they've waged war in Iraq.

The WH's swift, harsh reaction:

[Kolesar]

10. Wow. What a photograph.

The history books of this era are going to have a lot to work with.

[rurallib]

14. If something doesn't change soon, Bushco will be writing the history

books and much of this won't get a mention. That that does will be used as illustrations for what happens to those who do not obey.

[Dr.Phool]

21. It just became my desktop background.

[NanceGreggs]

13. That is a truly stunning photograph ...

... one picture, a thousand words ...

[dickbearton]

35. Exactly, war criminals.

[habitual]

9. it makes them mad as hell when they have to be around people

who aren't pre-screened. This kinda shit pisses them off and i'm sure they'll be demanding that the democrats condemn the action and apologize for it now.

The scary thing is that i don't have the feeling that the dems would resist. WTF??? i am losing it......

[kimmylavin]

11. Please call Webster's.

It seems this administration has quite a strange definition of "despicable."

[Rageneau]

12. We should ALL join Code Pink!

These brave ladies are putting their bodies where their minds are. We should all be so courageous.

[Freedomofspeech]

15. Amen. Those women have more balls than anyone else in

Washington.

[Bitwit1234]

16. Yep I go along with IF ONLY if only they were

bush's ass would be in jail.

[Yael]

18. I miss Tony Snow

I can't believe I just said that.

Just when one thinks the stupidity can't get any worse...

[Kool Kitty]

63. Yes. It's a shame, isn't it?

I thought I couldn't detest a press secretary more than I detested Snow, but this little shit is off the charts for me.

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

19. Oh, jeez

Some how those right wing bastards never miss an opportunity to make their little snide, politically divisive remarks. What the hell Code Pink and Congress have to do with one another is beyond reasoning.

[BlueStater]

20. What's despicable is war criminal enablers

Look in a mirror, Dana.

[zalinda]

23. If the dems were really clever

they'd all wear something pink to the next session. A big message without a word.

zalinda

[Orsino]

27. And then apologize for it the next day. :-( n/t

[MODemocrat]

60. Exactly, but Hell will be frozen over when Code Pink apologizes

That's the best illustration I've ever seen. Wonder how she made the blood look so realistic?
:toast:

[Sam Ervin jret]

24. We can no longer bring "hands" into the "Poeple's House"

AssHo!e$, as usual, are gladly and respectfully admitted.

[hisownpetard]

66. I just noticed your screen name. I loved that man! He was awesome during Watergate.

Welcome to DU!!!!!!!!

[GOPNotForMe]

25. That woman is amazing! (not Condi!) Too bad she'll probably end up in Gitmo somehow... nt

[noel adamson]

32. I don't think she would have trouble raising a lot of money in a defense fund...

...if the chickenhawks allowed defense.

[SammyWinstonJack]

57. Banished to the corn field. CondiLIAR looked pissed.

:evilgrin:

[Orsino]

26. It seems that, increasingly, the Press Secretary runs on Antonym Juice.

If the White House issued a statement saying that the sky is blue, I would be out my door in a flash to see what shade of orange it really was.

[noel adamson]

30. Projection; they all do it.

Their denial based isolation is the only way they can do such evil things.

[Malikshah]

31. Better them than a souless hack like yourself.

Do yourself a favor and just go away.

[lpbk2713]

33. The White House is run by Halliburton.

And I have less to fear from Code Pink.

[KeepItReal]

37. and Exxon , Chevron, Blackwater, PNAC ....

eom

[0rganism]

34. I sense new fodder for our distinguished Mr. Pitt, et al

An extended "what if", a thought experiment run amok... "WHAT IF CONGRESS WERE RUN BY CODE PINK?"

I didn't know we were even allowed to imagine such things, after Ari Fliescher told us to watch what we say, watch what we think. Hell, just having someone like Medea Benjamin elected to Congress would have been a pretty wild fantasy even during the Clinton years.

Dana gets some points for a truly amazing and original hallucination, right there -- coming up with such a mindbender on the fly is no easy feat.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. Hah! I only wish...

Code Pink would be a definite improvement over the passle of DINOs who seem to be running the party these days.

[Olney Blue]

39. It seems that the country is being run by Code Chimp.

[Paladin]

40. So---When Is Speaker Pelosi Demanding An Apology?

How about it, all you hard-core DU Pelosi supporters: don't you think Ms. Perino owes the Congress an apology for this ugly remark? Or should we Democrats continue to just "keep our powder dry," ignore yet another right-wing insult, and look forward to the next time Speaker Pelosi reduces a Democratic congressman to a pathetic, whimpering caricature?

[John Q. Citizen]

41. If only congress were run by code pink.

[moondust]

42. It seems the White House is run by murderers.

The blood of millions on their hands only a small fraction of which belonged to terrists.

[Triana]

44. Pfft! We should be so lucky... (n/t)

[NoodleyAppendage]

46. Dana Perino...Pink...whaa... Down boy, down boy.

She may be a nazi, but oh...such a hot little nazi.

J

[tanyev]

50. Dana rocked the GOP Star Search Spokesmodel auditions.

[dogfacedboy]

54. Perino is just another member of

The Right Wing Barbie Army Sluts.
Her, Malkin, Ingraham, all the strippers they have reading "news updates" on FoxNewsForNitwits, Coulter, et al.

[bunkerbuster1]

52. I nominate her for the "Most Likely to Turn Progressive"

once we're in a post-1/20/09 world.

[dogfacedboy]

53. I believe that many rightwads will suddenly be "Progressive" after 1-20-09

They will do anything they can to keep themselves from being shoved back into the caves from which they crawled.

[bunkerbuster1]

55. Rightwads? Love it...

Don't know why I'd never heard that one before, it's perfect.

[Kurovski]

48. That's the best that Perino can do?

A flip "cocktail party" quip?

[DemoTex]

49. I'll take Code Pink over Blackwater any day.

[bunkerbuster1]

51. Thanks, Dana! if the public really believed that...

Congress' collective approval ratings wouldn't be in the toilet today.

[tom_paine]

56. ROFL! Bushies have the weakest, morally-detatched Congress in American History

(well, this one is marginally better than the 109th, but it is essentially the same people (80-90% similarity in personnel)

but they want the most compliant Congress in all of German History.

Who knows? Within a generation or less, they may get their wish, they are so close.

But these comments are so ludicrous and diametrically untrue from reality that the only thing more amazing (and yet boringly mundane) to watch is that these Goebbels-like BIG LIES work so well and so often on so many tens of millions of people so frequently...that like the Nazis before them the Busheis have literally rewritten reality in their own twisted image, and dragged a former Republic to ruin.

[yurbud]

58. I think we need a Code Pink Party in Congress

[ChairmanAgnostic]

61. it would be far more effective than the current leadership.

even though I applaud nancy for bringing SCHIP 2 to the floor.

[yurbud]

62. I think your avatar of flying skinless testicles would be more effective in Congress than Pelosi

[ChairmanAgnostic]

64. rAmen!

[dkofos]

68. If it was, * & Co. would be watching world events from the Hague!!

[hyphenate]

69. Am I the only one

who finds Perino more malicious than the three men who have "served" as Press Secretary? Somehow, it appears to me at least, that she is more smooth at lying than the three guys--she appears less ruffled, and just easier at making that gap between truth and the white house even wider. Come to think of it, that can be said of all the women in this foul administration--perhaps it was the era I grew up in, where women were the "earth mothers" and the bastions of good and wisdom--finding such collusion and corruption within my own gender is just revolting.