Video: Code Pink “Impeach Bush” protester at Plame hearing
posted at 12:57 pm on March 16, 2007 by Ian
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What appeared to be a transvestite Code Pink protester joined the Valerie Plame hearing wearing a t-shirt with the words “Impeach Bush” written on it. The protester made several signals with his/her fingers, one is shown in the still shot below:
Higher resolution stills are available here.
Update: Zombie is back from Nancy Pelosi’s house with photos of the pink peace creeps who are camped outside.
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What the Heck is that?
Helen Thomas in drag?
PinkyBigglesworth on March 16, 2007 at 1:02 PM
Transvestite? Hell he looks like an extra from Monty Python’s Spermalot!!!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on March 16, 2007 at 1:03 PM
As to the hearing itself …..
Prosecutor Fitzgerald spent three years investigating the Plame leak and found no evidence that anyone purposely outed a covert CIA agent. Maybe I missed something, but I don’t remember any indictments handed down for the alleged crime he was assigned to investigate.
Porky Waxman & friends are on a witch hunt, believing they can convince the public of something that is not true, has proven not to be true in a court of law, simply by saying over and over again a covert agent was outed by the evil Bush cronies and by displaying concocted flow charts that look like an explosion in a spaghetti factory.
This is a classic MSM practice put into play by house Democrats. Repeat a lie over and over again, and say it so many times the uninformed public will eventually believe it to be true. SAYING IT DOESN’T MAKE IT SO. THERE WERE NO INDICTMENTS!
Much ado about nothing.
Grandstanding.
fogw on March 16, 2007 at 1:05 PM
She must have been talking about Patrick Leahy and J.D Rockerfeller IV the last half of that statement. They were (some of) the ones that actually did that kind of damage.
LegendHasIt on March 16, 2007 at 1:06 PM
At least in that segment, she never says “my status was covert” or that “the fact that I work for the CIA was classified”. Maybe she does in her full remarks. Maybe she doesn’t. I’d be interested to see what she has to say under oath.
see-dubya on March 16, 2007 at 1:12 PM
I thought she was using sign language for the hearing impaired.
HarryStar on March 16, 2007 at 1:12 PM
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha
(snort)
Awesome!
Somebody take a note: putting a giant pink transvestite in any situation makes it funny.
That was awesome. If that was really some Bush supporter doing a parody, it’s even more awesomer. Awesomest, in fact.
I only have three questions:
1) Who is that pink gal?
2) How in God’s name did the CIA hire somebody like Plame?
3) When is Plame appearing in Playboy?
Professor Blather on March 16, 2007 at 1:15 PM
Of course there were. Karl Rove was indicted last May. Didn’t you hear?
Ask Jason Leopold at Truthout.org.
Professor Blather on March 16, 2007 at 1:17 PM
Was s/he/it on the guest list?
Defector01 on March 16, 2007 at 1:17 PM
Goldangit, you people! This is serious!
(snicker)
see-dubya on March 16, 2007 at 1:18 PM
I think only Q knows what agent Double Oh Plame was really up too.
oakpack on March 16, 2007 at 1:22 PM
What the hell is Donna Rice doing testifying before Congress? I thought that whole thing was put to bed years ago.
Readymade on March 16, 2007 at 1:26 PM
Who is going to be fired this week?
tomas on March 16, 2007 at 1:27 PM
Can you say “tranvestite?” You don’t have to go to rehab for saying that do you?
BelchSpeak on March 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM
don’t they know to look out for idiot-protestors by now?
Opinionnation on March 16, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Old rat face Waxman and the antiwar crowd are having a slobber fest at the taxpayers expense. Plame is a phony and her husband useless, egocentric dolt.
rplat on March 16, 2007 at 1:34 PM
A Congressional “Investigation” with, so far, only ONE witness?
Hmmmph
franksalterego on March 16, 2007 at 1:35 PM
And the guy who investigated this for 4 years, costing MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars, is NOT on the witness list…
Not watching, is anyone on the panel asking her tough questions???
Romeo13 on March 16, 2007 at 1:37 PM
Didn’t I see that guy in pink last stalking Jodie Foster in a basement during “Silence of the Lambs?”
Beside that, I love Valerie’s Plame’s “Do any on you girls out there ever have days like this?” expression in the freeze frame.
52Ranger on March 16, 2007 at 1:39 PM
I considered that possibility as well, because seriously… how can people like this really exist!? The best part is, that nutjob gives the “impeach Bush” crowd the face they deserve. That this person is the one sent up to get on camera during this event is evidence for the mainstream of just what type of loons make up the anti-war left.
Lol, I remember!
I’m prepared to take the blame, as I used that word when emailing AP and Ian about this. If it turns out that this is an un-PC term, or that we’re in fact looking at the ugliest woman on the planet, I take full responsibility and will endure all the rehab necessary.
RightWinged on March 16, 2007 at 1:41 PM
PS – Regarding the protester…Eddie Izzard is a transvestite, ladies and gentlemen…
THAT is a walking mess.
52Ranger on March 16, 2007 at 1:42 PM
The pink transvestite is Joe wilson in a top CIA disguise provided him by his wife.
bopbottle on March 16, 2007 at 1:43 PM
On the serious side of this thing, in the opening remarks by Henry Waxman he kept referring to her as covert, and even Republicans on the panel did. Plame herself did, though it all seemed carefully worded enough so as not to be clear whether she was covered under the specific law that this whole “controversy” was about (which she wasn’t according to even the law’s co-author). Sometimes it didn’t seem carefully worded, and she seemed to outright claim she was covert, but she would then be lying under oath (she did swear in)… though she’s not in a court of law, so I don’t know if that really matters.
Just in the opening statements the word “covert” was used 17 times…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/16/AR2007031600811.html
… and I’m sure dozens more throughout the event.
E.D. Hill and Julie Kirtz discussed it shortly after and noted that Plame had said she was covert early on, but in response to questions she was very careful not to state so matter of factly that she was covert at the time.
Again, as we all know, the “leak” was done by an Iraq war critic anyway, and even still didn’t break the law because it would have to be with intend to blow cover, etc. etc. This whole thing is stupid, but will allow the media to tear off another approval point or two from the President’s numbers.
RightWinged on March 16, 2007 at 1:47 PM
ROFL, Readymade…too rich! Love it. Love all the comments here. heheheee…
Also, I agree…how in the hell did someone that dumb get hired by the CIA? Was her “covert” status to act like a bimbo to cover artificial intelligence? If she’s the face of the CIA, I’m REALLY scared!
I bet she’ll make a return visit to the pages of Vanity Fair, too.
MsUnderestimated on March 16, 2007 at 1:48 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Giant Pink Transvestite has been named as the new head of the DNC.
ReubenJCogburn on March 16, 2007 at 1:50 PM
Tell me that “Miss” Impeach Bush does NOT have on a matching hot pink sailor hat?!?!
Who’s that girl?
Maybe it’s über CIA spy Mitch Rapp (for you Vince Flynn fans)…those CIA undercover agents are so cleverly disguised that if it hadn’t been for blabbermouths like Novak, they’d never be found out!
This is so hilarious! God bless C-Span!
Jen the Neocon on March 16, 2007 at 1:52 PM
Transvestite? I don’t think so; that’s a man, baby!
DR Good on March 16, 2007 at 2:02 PM
No, but “she-male” and “tranny” will get you back-razor duty at the O’Donnell mansion. While wearing a pink thong and matching gag ball.
Kid from Brooklyn on March 16, 2007 at 2:02 PM
Juxtaposition of two pinkoes, or pinkies…
Entelechy on March 16, 2007 at 2:03 PM
Come on everyone. Let’s get this right. He/she is a gender challenged individual…
maintenanceman on March 16, 2007 at 2:10 PM
Anyone seen the 1980 horror movie Dressed to Kill?
RightWinged on March 16, 2007 at 2:10 PM
Sorry Jen, that’s Agent 13 from Control looking for Kaos spys!
JohnnyD on March 16, 2007 at 2:10 PM
That was Edwards in his drag queen getup.
csdeven on March 16, 2007 at 2:10 PM
lol, liberals will love this… there’s Ann Coulter ad right below the video!!!
RightWinged on March 16, 2007 at 2:11 PM
I’m beginning to think that Pink Xerxes is a plant. A tactically brilliant plant.
Kid from Brooklyn on March 16, 2007 at 2:11 PM
Actually, now it’s the drummer from Blink 182.. but it was Coulter on the previous page load.
RightWinged on March 16, 2007 at 2:12 PM
Silence of the Lambs anyone?
Mazztek on March 16, 2007 at 2:12 PM
And he stated he couldn’t do this because Scooter Libby obstructed justice.
Nonfactor on March 16, 2007 at 2:24 PM
Lol, you’re serious aren’t you?
RightWinged on March 16, 2007 at 2:28 PM
Armitage and Rove both copped to “leaking” Plame’s name to reporters. They even have Armitage on tape. Please explain how Libby’s obstruction has any bearing on that
Shivv on March 16, 2007 at 2:29 PM
Plame shouldve worn Pink to show solidarity with her ilk.
Viper1 on March 16, 2007 at 2:33 PM
Are you saying that Fitzgerald didn’t state this?
Nonfactor on March 16, 2007 at 2:34 PM
I wonder if Joe Wilson went to Somalia wearing a pink burqa?
It’s circus, a Monty Python skit. You tax dollars at work.
Kini on March 16, 2007 at 2:35 PM
You heard Waxman read the statement from the CIA that she was covert, right?
Nonfactor on March 16, 2007 at 2:35 PM
I am watching this country slowly go insane, it is a tragedy. :)
djohn669 on March 16, 2007 at 2:41 PM
seriously …, who’s the hot brunette on Val’s right?
yo on March 16, 2007 at 2:45 PM
Hmm, let me see… I ONLY BEGAN THE COMMENT YOU’RE REFERENCING THIS WAY!
What’s you’re point? Who the eff is Waxman? What does he know? If she was covert there would have been a conviction, or at least still an ongoing investigation. Please Nonfactor, will you just shut up for once. You’ just obnoxious and frankly either stupid or dishonest. I know when you take the job as a liberal, you’re require to check the box that you’re either be stupid or dishonest, so I can’t hold it against you, but please dude… sometimes we’ve had a big enough dose of you already.
Exactly Shivv. Nonfactor, this is why I simply laughed at you with that comment, because it was obvious you were serious.. obvious and sad. Even if we were to accept that Libby having as bad a memory as all witnesses against him was some kind of a crime, those “lies” he told didn’t prevent any investigation from going forward. Even you liberals know that he was tried simply because the left would have rioted in the streets if someone hadn’t gone down. We all know that this is the only reason Fitz carried on the case after learning in the beginning that Armitage “leaked” the name in the first place. There was no crime because there was no intent and Plame wasn’t covered under the law anyway, but that wouldn’t have mattered to the media and the left. So he chased his tail until enough time went buy where someone got their details mixed up about how a couple events (seemingly unimportant at the times they occurred) went down.
RightWinged on March 16, 2007 at 2:50 PM
Valerie Plame Gives Committee Secret Decoder Ring
http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2520
Connie on March 16, 2007 at 2:52 PM
You need to learn how to control your anger, it’s pathetic.
I wasn’t stating an opinion; I was stating a fact of what Fitzgerald himself said.
Still hung up on the “bad memory” defense even though he’s been convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. How does the saying go? Denial isn’t just a river in Egypt?
Nonfactor on March 16, 2007 at 2:57 PM
It seems the Code Pink protester was actually sent back to the 21st century in order to kill Sarah Conner.
link
uptight on March 16, 2007 at 3:00 PM
“Lives are literally at stake” – true, but now yours deary.
What dangers could have beset Valerie Plame? A nasty burn from the office coffee machine? A nasty incident involving the stapler?
uptight on March 16, 2007 at 3:04 PM
Ignorance is bliss.
You have fallen into the trap they have set for gullible people like you …..
“Repeat a lie over and over again, and say it so many times the uninformed public will eventually believe it to be true”
Your honor, I present exhibit #1 … Nonfactor
fogw on March 16, 2007 at 3:04 PM
She lied, her husband lied and yet nothing will happen to them.
Tim Burton on March 16, 2007 at 3:09 PM
I find this funny because Libby was convicted of perjury. Do you have a problem with me saying what Fitzgerald himself said?
How many arguing with me are in the “Scooter Libby is innocent” crowd?
Nonfactor on March 16, 2007 at 3:09 PM
Are you talking about the same Fitzgerald that brazenly lied when he stated, in announcing the indictment, that Libby was the first to leak Plame’s name to a reporter when he knew for a fact that it was Armitage?
They’re allowed to check both boxes, rightwinged.
thirteen28 on March 16, 2007 at 3:17 PM
I only saw a few minutes of the hearing this morning but, when asked directly whether she was “covert status” at the time Rob’t Novak wrote his article she replied yes…
Now maybe there is some nuance here that I am missing but, to a regular english speaking person that would imply that her status was covert and her name was not to be divulged.
For all these years I was under the impression that she was not covert at the time of Novak’s publication… So, was she lying or was she covert at time of publication?
Babs on March 16, 2007 at 3:17 PM
Also, who is the brunette on the left. I don’t care about Plame, I wanna see the brunette speak….to me….over dinner…
Tim Burton on March 16, 2007 at 3:20 PM
Scooter Libby is innocent of the charges that were under investigation by Fitzgerald – purposely outing a covert agent. Others who were found to be innocent; Bush, Cheney, Rove, McClellan, Fleischer, Peter Pan and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Libby was found guilty on a perjury count.
There were NO INDICTMENTS for outing a covert agent. NO, as in nada, zippo, zero. If Fitzy claims he couldn’t nail anyone because of Libby’s lousy memory after three years of investigations, he is one hell of a sorry excuse for an attorney.
Maybe he should have called on Armitage or Joe Wilson to testify. That might have helped his case in getting to the truth. I can figure that out, and I assure you I am not a lawyer.
On a side note …. Gloria Toensing kicked some butt, didn’t she?
fogw on March 16, 2007 at 3:22 PM
I don’t know, but you have good taste in women….
Tim Burton on March 16, 2007 at 3:23 PM
I thought I just heard her asked if it’s ok to mix a Chanel suit with a Prada handbag. And what her thoughts are on the leggings trend…
pullingmyhairout on March 16, 2007 at 3:23 PM
Allah/Ian/Bryan … please post some of the Toensing questioning in an update if you can. Thanks in advance.
thirteen28 on March 16, 2007 at 3:26 PM
On a more serious note, (not saying that Prada is not a serious topic…) but can anyone explain to me the point of this hearing? Didn’t Fitzgerald hiimself say that this was pretty much over?
pullingmyhairout on March 16, 2007 at 3:27 PM
Scoring political points! Could it not be more obvious?!?
Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard all that sanctimonious BS from Waxman et al. about finding the “truth”, but we know better.
thirteen28 on March 16, 2007 at 3:32 PM
yeah well, they should’ve just asked Armitage for the truth. I think someone should send those clowns up there in Washington a bill for wasting taxpayers money on this load of cr*p. The grandstanding is nauseating.
pullingmyhairout on March 16, 2007 at 3:39 PM
Guys, this is a serious issue.
Disclosing the location of Plame’s desk could threaten national security.
RedCrow on March 16, 2007 at 3:39 PM
According to AP:
Plame said she did not select her husband for a CIA fact-finding trip to Niger. Wilson said in a newspaper column that his trip debunked the administration’s prewar intelligence that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium from Africa.
“I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him. There was no nepotism involved. I did not have the authority,” she said.
Then there’s this from the WaPo, July 10, 2004:
The report states that a CIA official told the Senate committee that Plame “offered up” Wilson’s name for the Niger trip, then on Feb. 12, 2002, sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations saying her husband “has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity.”
If the Post’s story is correct, then didn’t Plame perjure herself today? And can she really be that stupid or self-deluded?
Athanasius on March 16, 2007 at 3:40 PM
Of course they should have, but that didn’t fit the left’s agenda, and given this adminstration’s lack of testicular fortitude when faced with criticism from the left, this thing has snowballed to appear to have a legitimacy it would never have if it was merely a search for the truth.
thirteen28 on March 16, 2007 at 3:42 PM
this is depressing.
pullingmyhairout on March 16, 2007 at 3:47 PM
Interesting. According to evidence in the Libby trial, the CIA didn’t receive a request from the VP’s office to look into the matter until Feb. 13th.
She clearly gave some answers today that, at their most charitable, can be described as misleading. But she also knows that there is no way in hell she is going to get charged with anything.
thirteen28 on March 16, 2007 at 3:49 PM
looks like somekind of some latenight show joke.
Drtuddle on March 16, 2007 at 4:12 PM
Uh, oh. You’ve wandered off your programmed talking points, my Factorless friend. Remember: perjury is NOT a serious crime in your “reality based” world. Ah – you remember now, don’t you?
This is why you need to follow the printed instructions. If you just wing it, you wander off course like this. What’s that saying? Liberals are mindless automatons incapable of intellectual consistency? Ah – that’s the one.
Now try again – but this time, stick to your programming. Perjury is harmless silliness not worthy of prosecution. Right?
Professor Blather on March 16, 2007 at 4:16 PM
That comment is so funny I may have just pooped a little. Don’t worry – it’s non-factor (wink).
Seriously, Kid … I’m gonna be laughing at “Pink Xerxes” for a week. That was good.
Professor Blather on March 16, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Karl Rove’s indictment is going to be released any day now. C’mon. Would an organization named “Truthout” actually lie about something like that?
I heard they’re waiting til THIS May 12th … sort of a “happy first birthday, phantom indictment” party.
Professor Blather on March 16, 2007 at 4:20 PM
Ladies, help me out here–if you were married to a clown like Joe Wilson, wouldn’t you use any excuse to get him out of the house?
“Pink Xerxes”. That’s awesome. The face of the Democratic Party, ladies and gentlemen. (My condolences to the rarest of endangered species, the sane adult patriotic Democrats.)
ReubenJCogburn on March 16, 2007 at 4:39 PM
Ladies, help me out here–if you were married to a clown like Joe Wilson, wouldn’t you use any excuse to get him out of the house?
I have a problem answering because I couldn’t see myself married to another man who likes to twist facts to his own purposes. Once was enough.
baldilocks on March 16, 2007 at 4:45 PM
The DUers hate it:
When you’re in a public hearing, for something important. Take off the pink tiara…
JinxMcHue on March 16, 2007 at 4:46 PM
Plame’s identity isn’t the only thing about her I’d like to see exposed.
Halley on March 16, 2007 at 4:47 PM
I’d bet money that Mr. Hefner has already had his people call her people.
The possible “exposed” and “undercover” jokes are just about endless!
Can’t wait to see the DUmmieFUnnies on that thread!
Professor Blather on March 16, 2007 at 4:53 PM
Best line from that DU thread – and no, I’m not making it up:
He seems a little eager to have not one but two tiaras rectally inserted.
I have a feeling he speaks from experience. In both tiaras and, uh, the other part.
Professor Blather on March 16, 2007 at 5:06 PM
Interesting, because after reading her “testimony”, some of the things she said do not coindice with other peoples testimony…
Was she under oath? Sounds like a sure case of perjury to me…
Romeo13 on March 16, 2007 at 5:09 PM
News.Yahoo.com headline – Plame remarks sparks Capitol Hill stir – can’t they get a literate person in there?
Real CIA agents have something different to say – it can’t be posted here.
Entelechy on March 16, 2007 at 5:15 PM
Did she say “lies are literally at stake”! My goodness, she’s telling the truth!!
warriorlawyer on March 16, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Freak-fest
SilverStar830 on March 16, 2007 at 5:35 PM
Valerie Plame seems to be playing the role of “outed covert agent”. So, who is she playing it for? The CIA or someone else? Could it be that she is indeed a covert agent after all, just not any agent acting on behalf of the American people. Did she not take an oath to uphold the laws of the country when she accepted the job?
naliaka on March 16, 2007 at 5:40 PM
gatewaypundit has Valeria Plame caught in THE LIE
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
naliaka on March 16, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Just as we’re seeing happen right now, with this fired federal prosecutors dumbshow. RINOs never learn, apparently.
Mike H on March 16, 2007 at 6:43 PM
From the Pelosi Camp pictures…
She looks like Cindy Sheehan (pictures # 3 & 4)
Pelosi, huffy, “you’re not my constituents” – Yes, they are…
Entelechy on March 16, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Nonfactor, I’m not denying being angry occassionally (like when Democrats commit at the very least “borderline treasonous” acts by meeting with foreign leaders and actively aiding our enemy, etc.), but I’m not unloading anger on you.. I’m pointing out what an obnoxious either liar and/or simpleton you are.
As could have been predicted, you chose to go after me for being in denial about the Libby verdict… I’m not in denial about the verdict, I know it was wrong… Oh that’s right, OJ was innocent, right? A conviction does not a guilty person make… but anyway, your response of focusing in on that part of my statement was predictable because you have no argument about the fact that anything Libby did, even if one were to call it “lying” and “obstructing” didn’t prevent Fitzgerald from anything AND YOU AND ANY 3 YEAR OLD LOOKING AT THIS KNOWS IT!
Again, please leave while the grown ups try to decipher the carefully worded statements made at today’s hearing.
RightWinged on March 16, 2007 at 7:17 PM
I’m amazed that you guys spend more time talking about the tranny than you did the brunette on the left…. :shakes head in disappointment:
Tim Burton on March 16, 2007 at 7:18 PM
Nonfactor, the troll, wrote: “You heard Waxman read the statement from the CIA that she was covert, right?”
Waxman LIED, fool.
georgej on March 16, 2007 at 7:46 PM
I don’t get why some of you are so excited by ‘the brunette on the left’. She looked like she was having cramps (both kinds at the same time) for the whole clip. Even if she smiled occasionaly and had more than half an eyebrow, she would be no better than average looking.
LegendHasIt on March 16, 2007 at 7:46 PM
Actually, that’s Riff Raff, from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Pretty sure.
SouthernDem on March 16, 2007 at 8:17 PM
I think we all agree she’s a good lookin’ broad, but it’s not like she’s Julia Allison or something. And come on, we see hot broads every day.. but how often does the Buffalo Bill make an appearance… on every cable news network… through the entire segment of a big news story! This was hilarious, and frankly I think a good example of what type of people make up the left. You’d have to be this deranged to agree with most of the lefty’s “ideas”.
RightWinged on March 16, 2007 at 8:38 PM
She’s a wanna be blow hard, if she was NOC, she wouldn’t have been in Langley let alone CIA HQ.
Alden Pyle on March 16, 2007 at 8:44 PM
so… if “senior officials in both the White House and State Department” [her words] knew that Secret Squirrel was, in fact, a Secret Squirrel….
Whaaa? is there, like, a list of secret agents taped to a wall somewhere?!? Howinhell did *all* these people know?!?!?
Claire on March 16, 2007 at 9:23 PM
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