Zombie Witnesses a 9/11 Truth March at the DNC (Updated)
It was disturbing how large it turned out to be. Latest: Code Pink and Abortion Protesters Fail to Disrupt EMILY's List Gala with Hillary, Michelle and Nancy
8/30, 12:17 pm PST
Cross-posted at Little Green Footballs
One of the hottest tickets at the Democratic National Convention was the “EMILY’s List Gala” starring Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama and Nancy Pelosi, held at the Sheraton Hotel on Tuesday afternoon, August 26. Here’s my souvenir button.
Code Pink, whom you’d think would be happy about an event celebrating a bunch of liberal women politicians, showed up to protest the gala. Partly this is because of their obsession with Nancy Pelosi and her failure to impeach George Bush, but mainly it’s simply because Code Pink will go anywhere where they think there will be media.
This video shows the young Code Pinker depicted above leading them in a chant of “This is what democracy looks like!” outside the Sheraton; she practically screams herself hoarse she’s so frantic, and just loves all the attention she’s getting.
Some of the other Code Pinkers tried to oonch themselves closer to the entrance, but the Sheraton security team and the police were having none of it.
Even after being ordered to retreat back to the sidewalk, the Code Pink ladies refused at first to budge, until later when they were physically escorted off the Sheraton’s private property.
I ventured downstairs into the Sheraton itself; the warm-up speakers were being broadcast on big screens outside the ballroom where the gala was being held. Here’s EMILY’s list founder Ellen Malcolm. (No, her name is not Emily, but Ellen; EMILY is actually an acronym for the phrase “Early Money Is Like Yeast.” Seriously.)
Periodically, Code Pinkers would successfully sneak into the Sheraton and try to crash the gala. But in each instance that I saw, they were spotted by security and instructed to leave immediately.
Code Pink’s strategy when told to leave, as we saw earlier, is to just stand there and do nothing. So the security detail would call for backup.
One by one, over and over, Code Pink would-be infiltrators were escorted back up the escalator and kicked out of the building.
Code Pink leader Medea Benjamin showed up (with a fake press pass) to lead the infiltration efforts, but I don’t think she was any more successful than the others.
And so, confined to the sidewalk, all Code Pink could do was scream.
Some naive and wholly innocent EMILY’s list members, unfamiliar with Code Pink and their tactics, showed up wearing pink clothes, unaware that this immediatley placed them on the “watch list” and subjected them to questioning and monitoring by security.
Anyone wearing pink who tried to enter the ballroom was subjected to extra searching by the Secret Service. The security checkpoint was as thorough as it is at airports: no liquids allowed in, metal detectors, all bags inspected.
All sorts of politicos were milling around the lobby, if you knew who to look for. For example, as mentioned in my earlier “Celebrity-Hopping” report, I ran into San Francisco Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Finally, the big stars came out to speak, and the whole thing seemed to go off without a hitch. As to what they said: Does it really matter?
Thinking there was nothing more of interest to report on, I left the ballroom, and emerged only to find that a new protest had popped up outside the Sheraton, on a completely different topic: abortion. On one side were extreme anti-abortion protesters who displayed disturbingly visceral signs purporting to show the results of late-term abortions.
Facing off against them were even more extreme pro-abortion and anti-Christian protesters, led by World Can’t Wait. Middle ground? Compromise? Forget about it.
A pro-abortion (her own words) woman went on a long diatribe denouncing Christianity and praising abortion.
The anti-abortion protesters, on the other hand, simply stood there silently with their stomach-churning signs.
If you’re going to protest against something, you really ought to learn how to spell it.
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27 Comments
1. John Moore:I wonder how much crossover there is into the troofers from the lefty radicals. After all, the troofer silliness attracks the far right conspiracy mongers and the Bush haters.
Aug 29, 2008 - 10:53 am 2. Matt, Esq.:But but but but 9-11 was the first time fire ever melted steel!!!111
Rosie O’donnel told me and if you can’t trust Rosie, then who can you trust ?
Aug 29, 2008 - 10:56 am 3. rbj:Hmm, that “9/11 Official Story = lies” poster. Everything looked professionally done, until the “= lies” part, as though that was an after thought for them. Probably too many bong hits.
Aug 29, 2008 - 11:09 am 4. J.J. Sefton:Hey John: Let’s get the lefty radicals and the troofers en masse to reach across the aisle — and strangle each other.
Bi-partisanship you can believe in!
Aug 29, 2008 - 11:13 am 5. Air2air:It’s why zombie is the hit that she is. You just need to look at the individuals to finally understand why they come up with their insane ideas.
Aug 29, 2008 - 11:18 am 6. Tyler1984:This (and the DNC convention as a whole) sums up my completel ack of faith for the future of mankind.
One phrase sums everything up nicely: “The masses are asses”
Aug 29, 2008 - 11:52 am 7. Self-hating boomer:No grassy knollers? What about the Apollo moon landing hoax? And fluoride!!!11
when South Park calls you a retard…
Aug 29, 2008 - 11:52 am 8. Adirondack Patriot:Tin foil hats for sale here! Black helicopter detectors. . . half-price! Pretty little Zoloft cozies with every purchase.
Aug 29, 2008 - 12:31 pm 9. Saltherring:Shake the tree and all kinds of nuts fall out! But I guess if you really don’t mind making an utter and absolute fool of yourself, you may as well do it on a public thoroughfare….
Aug 29, 2008 - 1:30 pm 10. Whitehall:Captives of the wrong narrative, a narrative that appeals to their sense of self and activates their sense of self-worth for “knowing” the “truth.”
Of course, reasonable people just think their batsh@t.
Aug 29, 2008 - 1:44 pm 11. kay:Its the same anti-science lunacy that captivates the global warming cult. To hell with science!
Aug 29, 2008 - 4:05 pm 12. Opinionated Jackass:One of the pictures doesn’t seem to want to load on Safari. It’s IMG_5617.JPG. Has anyone else noticed this?
Aug 29, 2008 - 5:00 pm 13. mishu:OJ, I got the same problem with Firefox.
Aug 29, 2008 - 6:07 pm 14. mishu:Don’t forget Roswell Self-hating boomer. These are the same type of people who’d burn women and claim they’re witches.
Aug 29, 2008 - 6:11 pm 15. Raoul Deming:911 Was An Outside Job
Aug 29, 2008 - 6:15 pm 16. Anonymous Patriot:I love revisionist history; you get to make stuff up as you go along!
Stuff like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denying the Holocaust ever happened.
Why do so many people believe in conspiracy theories? Shouldn’t they be considered “reality deniers??”
Aug 29, 2008 - 7:28 pm 17. rebelscum:I’ve got a better one
THE DEATH STAR WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
Ha Ha!
Aug 29, 2008 - 8:43 pm 18. Benson:Re the problem with 5617.jpg: it seems to be unavailable at its supposed source, which is given in the page HTML as http://www.pajamasmedia/files/2008/08/img_5617.jpg. Maybe a typo. Try the same URL but replace “5617″ with any other photo’s number (5604, 5606, etc), and you should get a .jpg in your browser. You may have to enter the URL a second time as the first attempt will probably take you to the PJM site, not all the way to the individual photo. I can’t be 100% certain, but this does not appear to be a browser-related issue.
Aug 29, 2008 - 10:02 pm 19. Jeff_NH:I don’t have any answers about img_5617, I am just asking some questions. While it might be true that there are other images that can’t be found on the internet, this has to be the first time in history this image on this page can’t be found.
The speculation above about the missing image is clearly lies. This missing image is just a pretext for neocon take over of the blogs.
When I looked at the html for this page I saw an tag for it which is a way of ‘pulling’ images which means this image was pulled on purpose.
Aug 30, 2008 - 4:00 am 20. Gary from Jersey:I think the problem here is that we think we’re looking at adults in those photos. Their emotional and intellectual maturity stopped somewhere around age 14, when they started to try to understand the world and believed the fist things they heard. Fact, reason, history and logic be damned; conspiracies make them feel smart and get them into a community that juset feeds more of the same. These people have a long way to go before they grow up.
Aug 30, 2008 - 9:49 am 21. Daniel J. O'Connell:Can’t say it better than Gary from Jersey…these are infants…or 14 yr-olds…not much difference (apologies, infants)…and not as concerned as Zombie they number in the hundreds, not dozens. This is a big country…
I do appreciate the humor in many comments.
Perhaps we should kidnap Ahmadinejad, round up of few of these crazies, not to mention the dude in Area 54…and literally “fly-them-to-the-moon”…no need for the expense of a return vehicle…
BUT, leave them communication equipment so they can tell their saviours where to find them…who will of course never believe them…and couldn’t save them, anyway, because that would require, uh, technology.
Nice idea…but after it all died down (as did they)…
There will be those who whisper: What REALLY happened to them…?
Aug 30, 2008 - 10:25 am 22. Elyse O'Riley:Zombie says she “doesn’t know what motivates” these protesters… but somehow the signs kinda tipped me off.
If any of you did research before claiming that these protesters are denying reality or operating beyond the realm of logic…. you would realize that there ARE some serious inconsistencies in the government’s official report of what happened on Sept. 11. People base the truth on on what is reported to them. There are so many differing accounts on 9/11–whether these protesters are right, or whether the government is right, is not something that can be decided so easily.
I’m not saying that you’re wrong on all accounts, because, yes, people do tend to go crazy with conspiracy theories sometimes. I’m just saying that these protesters knew exactly what they were marching for. I think it is a great thing that they are encouraging us to reexamine the facts that the government and the media has presented to the American people.
If you must hate them, hate them because they take things too far. But I encourage all of you to read the 9/11 commission report and review other facts and accounts before dismissing their message. These people are only marching for the pursuit of truth in America–that’s not something they should be disrespected for.
Aug 30, 2008 - 5:44 pm 23. OmegaPaladin:I read the 9-11 Committee report, and several documentaries on 9-11. The Truthers are nuts – their claims don’t stand up to scrutiny at all.
Aug 30, 2008 - 10:56 pm 24. schnargely:Oh. So these are the ones they’ve been waiting for?
God, please save us from such fools. Amen.
Aug 30, 2008 - 11:02 pm 25. Herr Morgenholz:Elyse O’Riley:
Your views intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Aug 31, 2008 - 11:18 am 26. CSAP:At least these people know what they believe in… unlike the so-called “anarchists”. I commend these people for still believing in free speech and patriotic dissent. This is what democracy is about.
Aug 31, 2008 - 5:49 pm 27. Jane:The one female that called it “pro-abortion” was probably an idiot or a plant. Nobody on the choice side is pro-abortion, they are pro-choice. Anyone that would call it “pro-abortion” is being disingenuous and playing on people’s emotions. I’m pro-choice, but I choose life. I just recognize the fact that nobody can foresee everybody else’s situation. Also, I have never met anyone on the choice side that favors late-term abortions, or using it as a form of birth control. Surely it happens, but it’s probably more rare than your priests molesting little boys. Some people ruin it for everyone.
Jan 1, 2009 - 5:54 am