Calif. Delegates gave disruptors their passes?? [vanity]

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[EggsAckley]

I just heard Lee and Mel on KSFO state that two California delegates were the ones who allowed the Code Pink protestors who attempted to disrupt the President's speech last night. Apparently the two protestors were seated with the California delegation.

One of the protestors was Medea Benjamin, infamous leader of Code Pink. Lee and Mel just mentioned that perhaps former CA governor Pete Wilson was one of the delegates who gave his convention pass to the protestors.

I've been searching FR for any articles about the disruption last night, but have found nothing.

[EggsAckley]

Lee and Mel happen to be the best conservative talk radio in the bay area. That you yourself don't like them certainly doesn't add anything of importance to this thread.

Grow up.

[KneelBeforeZod]

you couldn't tell I was joking?? besides, how many times has melanie jumped in on something halfway in agreement, then ended up uttering an "oh" when she realizes that the guest/whoever was saying something completely different? many many many times

[xp38]

The speech before the protesters made their presence felt was on autopilot. If anything the protesters got the President's dander up and he finished on an upnote with a flourish.

[runningbear]

do a google.com search in the news for delegate pass, and there you will get a host of papers online news.

Here is the loose cannon's mugshot:

Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the activist group Code Pink, is arrested as she begins to stage a protest outside Fox News headquarters in New York, Tuesday Aug. 31, 2004. The protested Fox News and its personalities, shouting 'Fox news lies' and 'Murdock shutup.' (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

NY Times has a great article in which the AP and KSFO I think read the information from.

[EggsAckley]

Thanks. Will follow those leads.

[EggsAckley]

OMG! I did a google search on AP news, and the page I got gave me a pop-up..........a Kerry/Edwards pop-up. Yikes!

[runningbear]

LOL....Also, SF Chronicle or SFGATE has an article, with KCBS Doug Sovern witnessing it!

[runningbear]

PS: KCBS stated earlier this morning that 1000 of those passes were stolen, but I can't find that info yet, or confirmed.

[EggsAckley]

Yeah, SFGate, that's where the search sent me. LOL!

Thanks.

[runningbear]

From Yahoo with the Medea search:

Medea Benjamin Dragged off RNC Floor for Unfurling "Pro-Life: Stop the Killing of Iraq" Banner

One of many news online listed with Yahoo.

[EggsAckley]

Thanks again, running!!

[jetson]

" Look at ME...I'm a moron..a moron ..a moron...I HAVE no brains..NO BRAINS..NO BRAINS..NO BRAINS..."

[StoneColdGOP]

Naw, that wouldn't be Pete Wilson.

Medea Benjamin's a nut from here in CA who has run for governor a few times on the Peace & Freedom ticket, anyone from CA, especially Wilson would have recognized her.

Michael Moore probably have her his credential, ketchup & mustard stained and all...

[Bob J]

Please. If people have proper ID and a pass, they are let in after going through a metal detector and/or search and walking by several bomb sniffing dogs. There was security every few feet, that's how the protesters were hustled out so quickly. Sure, a terrorist might get in the same way Medea did, but what was he/she going to do, throw shoes at the stage?

This idiocy about Pete Wilson is even more ludicrous. A more reasonable explanation might be San Francisco moles in the CA delegation or passes simply being stolen. It happens.

[runningbear]

How Women Can "Wage Peace

Medea w/o garb on

[runningbear]

And this one is the one I remember well

Medea

[TX Bluebonnet]

shouting 'Fox news lies' and 'Murdock shutup.'

"Only WE have the right to free speech. Everyone else just shut up, okay?"

[auboy]

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Whoa!! After seeing those pics of Ms. Benjamin, I'm convinced she's capable of seriously influencing the vote . . . NOT.

[EggsAckley]

Heheheh. I like her shirt.