WATCH: Socialist agitators lose it when cameras turn on them
One follower congratulated them on their success deploying "psychic militancy." LAWMAKERS THROW OUT 'TROJAN HORSE' ACTIVISTS THEY SAY ARE ENGAGED IN AMERICAN SUBVERSION The day began just before 10 a.m.
Key points
- Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink, wore a shirt emblazoned with the message "NO WAR ON IRAN" and pressed him on Section 219 of the National Defense Authorization Act, which she called a "merging" of the U.S.
- "It is a collaboration on technology that we depend on Israel for, and they depend on us for, and it is for our own national security." He asked the activists whether they supported Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hamas and Hezbollah.
- CodePink activist Tighe Barry, Benjamin's husband, in a pink shirt and pink hat, yelled at him: "You're a real congressman, and you just made that statement?" "That was a horrific lie that you just said," Barry shouted at him.
When the liberal congressman called the situation in Gaza "absolutely horrific" and said he wished Hamas would allow in the aid Israel was trying to send, the group members groaned in unison.
On Veterans Day, the agitators found themselves on the other side of the lens, and they didn't like it.
Additional details
- Take care of yourself." HOW CODEPINK CO-FOUNDER MEDEA BENJAMIN'S FAMILY FOUNDATION BECAME A MAJOR FUNDER OF LEFT-WING ACTIVIST GROUPS CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin moved through the building wearing a backpack designed with the pattern of a keffiyeh, the checkered scarf that has become a symbol of the pro-Palestinian movement.
- Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., and pointed their cameras at him.
- A young man in a keffiyeh, with a name tag that read "Finn," then planted himself in front of the camera and moved with it as it tried to pan around him.
- inside the Rayburn House Office Building, where activists in pink CodePink T-shirts and keffiyehs walked into a breakfast gathering of the U.S.
- Finally, they published their footage of the confrontations, turning their objections to being filmed into content for their followers.
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