Posted on 12/08/2007 8:56:04 AM PST by Wyatt K
CODE PINK'S MANIPULATION OF THE MEDIA.
Code Pink's leader, Medea Benjamin, was arrested in Pakistan and deported. She claims that she was abused by the Pakistani police, but her claims are just more staged media manipulation from a master manipulator.
Arrest Not Spontaneous
The arrest of Medea Benjamin in Pakistan was not a spontaneous event even though, at first glance, it may appear that way. It was timed to coincide with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on U.S. funding for Pakistan. The hearing, which was scheduled for Dec. 6, was advertised well in advance of that date (See Schedule of Hearings for 110th Congress).
Medea Benjamin, along with Tighe Barry, went to Pakistan ten days in advance of the Dec. 6 hearing. They kept a low profile, meeting right up until the even of the hearing and then they pressed some really hot buttons in Pakistan to catch the attention of the authorities there and to get arrested.
They made sure that Code Pink had a Pakistan blog on it detailing this trip (See Code Pink's Pakistan Blog [Scroll down a few days to see it]). It is the only blog on their site that was closed to public comments. The reason why the blog was closed for public comment is that it was designed to be a press release, not a blog. Notice how each blog details the organization and refers to Benjamin as a "human rights activist."
They knew in order to get media attention they had to get arrested and detained in Pakistan. On the day the Senate hearings started here in the U.S. they did just that (See Article on Arrest). Did you notice how the article refers to Benjamin, coincidentally as a "human rights activist?" Even before she got on the plane back to the U.S. Benjamin was on the telephone with the Washington Times telling them, she was "mistreated" and "terrorized" by the Pakistanis. She made it really dramatic by adding "I thought she was going to die (See Article)." Apparently, she felt that at a time when Pakistan was seeking money from the U.S. that they were going to kill one of its citizens.
Code Pink's media spokesperson, Dana Balacki, was ready to give a salivating press all the lurid details of Medea Benjamin's claims that she was abused by the Pakistani authorities. She claimed they pointed a gun at her in a car that was transporting her and described her experience as "terrifying." All of these details were fed to the press. The media in San Francisco really ate it up and even did a photo montage of the many faces of Medea Benjamin (See Article).
Within two hours of landing back in the U.S., Tighe Barry, one of the few Code Pink members allowed in Senate hearings because of his lack of a significant arrest record, rushed to the Senate and disrupted the hearing on, you guessed it, funding for Pakistan (See Washington Times Article). He was arrested a will appear in court later this month.
Staged and Planned Events Designed to Look Spontaneous
The actions of Code Pink are staged and planned. Nothing is spontaneous when it comes to Code Pink. It is all designed to manipulate a naive media who reports it to an even more naive public that thinks all of these events just happened out of the blue. If you buy that, I will sell you a bridge in Brooklyn! This was nothing more than a staged event to get some ink the only way Code Pink knows how and to undermine U.S. relations with Pakistan at a crucial time by staging an event to insure bad press.
More whining from the pinko’s.
Yes, it would be a real shame if she'd been roughed up by the Pakistani police. Just a real shame.
Do I really need the Sarc flag?
Naive media?
More like ‘complicit media’ don’t cha think?
I wonder if Medea knows who she was named after? Maybe her real name is Media. And her middle initial is M, for Media Manipulation.
Gustav Moreau, Jason and Medea
So, what was she arrested for in Pakistan and why did they just deport her instead of locking her sorry ass up?
Medea and Tighe? Why do liberals always have such weird names?
They were not abused by the Paki police. They were taken into an office, sat down, and asked questions which they refused to answer. The pinkos are just trying to create a sob story to gain sympathy.
They were not abused by the Paki police ...
The abuse started when their parents gave them those names!
Poor little boy Tighe probably led a lonely cloistered life after his first day at school.
Condi looks like she’s thinking, “Man, if these cameras weren’t here...”
I wish Pakistan would issue a press release telling their side of the story!
Gruff, jowly John Murtha wouldn't seem to be a Code Pink kinda guy...
But there the congressman was, in a Rayburn House Office Building hallway, gallantly protecting some war protesters from the group who had been tossed out of a hearing room and threatened with arrest.
"He said 'I know these people,' he gave me his hand and said we wouldn't be arrested," said Medea Benjamin, a San Francisco human rights activist who was doing her earnest best Tuesday to end the war when her lobbying methods provoked the displeasure of the U.S. Capitol Police. Code Pink ladies on one side; uniforms on the other. In the middle, the impressive bulk of 74-year-old Murtha. He called the sergeant at arms and didn't leave until he was assured the women would be released, Benjamin said.
"He's one of the most principled people I have ever met," said Benjamin of the Pennsylvania Democrat. "I don't know about the past. I'm sure there's plenty I wouldn't like. I'm sure there's plenty about his present record I wouldn't like. But I really respect his position on this issue. And today, he stood up for us."
The media isn't naive. You can't manipulate a media that is dominated by lefties to give the lefties a pass. That's not manipulation, that collaboration. And the public isn't so naive, they don't believe the media stunt with the NIE and they could care less about Code Pink.
It's not as bleak as you think.
It seems she's never seen the FBI-ABSCAM sting video starring Fat Jack Murtha, of course in Medea's eyes that video probably makes him a hero. Partners in crime and their victim is our country.
Your consistent declaration of CODE PINK'S MANIPULATION OF THE MEDIA is already old.
As I posted to you earlier this morning on the other thread:
The enemedia is not naive. They are partners in the phony baloney.
56 posted on 12/08/2007 5:23:59 AM PST by Just A Nobody
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936324/posts?page=56#56
Your overall thoughts on the issue are good and I support them, but the "naive and manipulated" media twist leaves me unimpressed.
Me too. That would be interesting to hear.
Susan, AKA “Medea” Benjamen named herself. As a man hating abortion rights advocate she knows her Euripides.
Ah, that explains it. Then we need an older picture of Medea.
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