Is the Washington Post allergic to the word "ultraliberal"? Yes. Here's Exhibit A.
The top of the Sunday Style section of the Washington Post celebrated the far-left protest group Code Pink, complete with colorful pink pictures. Reporter Libby Copeland’s gooey feature was headlined "Protesting for Peace With A Vivid Hue and Cry / Code Pink’s Tactics: Often Theatrical, Always Colorful." Only once in this long piece on "peace" was there a label for the group. Their rented house was a "sort of lefty group home you might expect to find on the outskirts of a college campus. Here, though, some of the lefties double as grandmas."
Inside the section, another gooey headline introduced a full page of text and color pictures: "Activists Are Flush With Hue & Purpose." Copeland explained that Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin said "‘Crazy male testosterone’ was poisoning the planet...fun and outrageousness might save it." Outrageousness? Such as? At the group’s founding retreat, "the discussion about creating Code Pink ended with her suggesting – ‘in the spirit of joy and exorcism’ – that the women do nude cartwheels. And they did."
The only other nod to a label came from the Code Pink women hugging "Rep. Neil Abercrombie, a liberal Democrat from Hawaii (‘He’s wonderful,' Benjamin says.)"
It's not hard to guess where Code Pink stands, since we're told about them unfurling a three-story banner reading 'VOTE PEACE / FIRE BUSH," and the woman wearing the prison-orange jumpsuit with the "GONZALES, A" on the back. She later steps out of the jumpsuit to reveal tank top that says IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY. But Copeland also didn't note the group's "visceral hatred" for Team Bush the way that the Posties did during the Clinton years.
There are no critics of the protesters in the Copeland piece. There's no Democrats who think they're too radical, or "peace" groups who disagree with their tactics, no Capitol Police to disagree with their bizarre claim that they're loved by the cops, and certainly no conservatives to suggest they're not just anti-war, but fans of tyrants like Fidel Castro.
On the Post website, readers can also see a very pink photo layout (most of which appeared in color in the Sunday Post) and a washingtonpost.com video by Lucian Perkins, which looks a lot like a Code Pink promotional video, complete with Medea Benjamin's narration. You can see Code Pink shove and tussle with the Capitol Police and then protest the police brutality. You can see Code Pink members confront Congressman Trent Franks ("he's one of the worst," the Pink-o says after he tells her to take it to bin Laden). And there's weird footage of Code Pink protest theater with some oddball named "Reverend Billy" from the "Church to Stop Shopping." The video link is here.
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center



















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June 12, 2007 - 14:08 ET by PolazerusOh how they long for the summer of love again. Please move forward people and stop fighting Vietnam. This is a different enemy and a different fight. These people want to kill the code pink members as much as Bush. They don't care as long as you are not the particular type of radical islam that they believe in.
Yes, don't miss the part wher
June 12, 2007 - 15:17 ET by Tim GrahamYes, don't miss the part where one of the daughters of a group member (her last name is Lynch) goes by the name Autumnrain Symphony.
If they were ultraliberal the
June 12, 2007 - 14:14 ET by TruthMongerIf they were ultraliberal then they would be labeled that way...
But these people are just "normal."
Tim, "Exhibit A"? Y
June 12, 2007 - 14:37 ET by Chris NormanTim, "Exhibit A"? Yeesh, surely you must be up to Exhibit Z Squared, by now.
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
Tim, "Exhibit A"? Y
June 12, 2007 - 14:37 ET by Chris NormanI can't see your post - i fee
June 12, 2007 - 14:46 ET by TruthMongerI can't see your post - i feel like such a liberal...
TM,That's what you call a &qu
June 12, 2007 - 14:50 ET by Chris NormanTM,
That's what you call a "Ghost Post". :)
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
thanks chris ol buddy!
June 12, 2007 - 14:54 ET by TruthMongerThanks - I can intelligently read and comprehend that one - I feel conservative again...
The only thing I would change
June 12, 2007 - 14:41 ET by bassndudeThe only thing I would change on Code Pinks dress code, is a target on the front and back of their shirts.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
"We wanted Code 'Hot Pin
June 12, 2007 - 15:01 ET by Airforce_5_O"We wanted Code 'Hot Pink,' " Benjamin says as she walks with six others, "but it was already a porn site."
How about "Code Hot Purple Dinosaur" and you can sing that "I love you, you love me song" while holding hands. Then when your done with your little protest you sing the clean up song.
Is this wishful thinking?