More Code Pink ID antics

For the last several days, I’ve been reporting here, here and here on the Code Pink clown show that weaseled it’s way into Governor Sarah Palin’s speech in St Paul last week. Kristinn from Free Republic emailed me a link to his latest investigation. In addition to the Jodie Evans picture, there were video tapes of another;

Another Code Pink member, Rae Abileah, was videotaped by CNS News at the Republican convention wearing the stolen ID of Jo Mannies, a reporter with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which she tried to hide when confronted on camera by someone who knows Mannies.

In an article about the theft of Mannies’ ID published today, the Jefferson County Journal reports Evans reaction to the controversy:

Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans said the woman didn’t intentionally misidentify herself to the media.

“She could have had (Mannies’) credentials, but it didn’t have a name on it,” she said. “The media have a lot of different credentials.”

Evans said the people who hand out the identification tags often just re-use ones given back to them from other media.

“I got in with a C-SPAN pass the night before and C-SPAN didn’t know it,” she said.

Engelbach said the woman was definitely wearing a pass that belonged to Mannies.

“They are full of baloney,” she said. “All you have to do is look at the video. It said ‘Jo Mannie — without the S – Missouri.”

Kristinn goes on to quote Little Suzie Benjamin who admits she stole hers from the Christian Broadcasting System;

The Contra Costa Times published an article and a videotaped interview during the Democrats’ convention showing Medea Benjamin claiming to have press credentials for the convention to report for the Christian Broadcasting System. Benjamin mocked the network, saying of her ‘reports’, “First they go first to God, then to CBS.”

Jon Yinger, owner and president of the Michigan-based Christian radio network filed a report with the Denver police alerting them to Benjamin’s fraudlent use of his company’s name. Yinger says that there was no response from the police after his initial contact with them. The reporter whom Benjamin spoke to about the press pass contacted Yinger once, but has not followed up with him either.

So charges have been filed with local police, which have so far come to naught. What about this latest “tangential relationship” (as Obama called these types of relationships with terrorists, criminals and racists) with Barack Obama?

As far as can be known by press reports, the Obama campaign has not been asked to comment on the behavior of one the campaign’s top fundraisers committing identity theft and attempting to storm the stage during Palin’s speech, nor has the campaign issued any statement of its own volition.

Did Code Pink crash the Democrat Convention? Did they disrupt Joe Biden’s speech? Where’s the media’s tough questions? As many readers have asked, isn’t identity theft a crime anymore?

Category: Politics