Video: Code Pink’s anti-war ad
posted at 10:28 am on April 9, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Utterly predictable after the first second or so. You can’t expect profundity in half a minute, but a little originality would be welcome; what you’re getting here instead is the thousandth iteration of a meme that’s been popular in anti-war thinking since toy soldiers were invented. Presumably it’s simply a commentary on Bush being cavalier about troop deaths, although with Mother Sheehan’s outfit you never know — they may mean to imply he’s actually getting his jollies from all the fighting.
No need to overanalyze, though. Just sit back and enjoy a scolding about the gravity of the war debate from a group best known for its media whoring and costumery.
P.S. Does this cover Afghanistan, too?
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That’s cool, reminds me of the great times of being a boy and blowing things up. Having rubber band fights with my brothers, setting up army men on each side of the living room and shooting them with rubber bands. We then made mini catapults (ice cream sticks and tongue depressors) and would lauch our cows and pigs from a toy farm to destroy our “enemy” bases.
Those were great days, Code Pink would not understand.
right2bright on April 9, 2007 at 10:36 AM
Isnt that special..
Viper1 on April 9, 2007 at 10:36 AM
I want to see more of the fighting footage.
Was that guy single-shooting a SAW?
unamused on April 9, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Ahhh..Good times. Good times.
Pulchritudinous Patriot on April 9, 2007 at 10:42 AM
That is possibly the most asinine thing I’ve ever seen.
Little boys playing “soldier” respect real soldiers. At least this little boy did. And when I grew up, I served six years in the Air Force.
But I never outgrew the respect I have for our soldiers and I never will.
Worst. Commercial. Ever. Code Pink should be charged with child abuse for traumatizing that poor kid.
wccawa on April 9, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Ahhh… but you see, this commercial shows that Code Pinkos don’t understand men at all.
Or maybe they do, seeing as how this is aimed at females… or at least those who wish to be so like the Ditz at the Plame hearing….
Romeo13 on April 9, 2007 at 10:48 AM
I STILL, after 36 years or so, find a few orphaned little plastic Army men at my parents’ house: in the cedear chest, at the bottom of a desk drawer in their basement, in the bottom of a closet. My favorites were the ones in the belly crawl position. Harder to kill unless the kid you were playing with lobbed a dirt bomb that landed smack dab on them.
I remember you could get a bag nearly a foot long full of them for 99 cents.
Yeah. . .good times.
Gottafang on April 9, 2007 at 10:55 AM
This is the best commercial ever…it shows how out of touch Code Pink is to little boys.
All of us who played and destroyed our soldiers (nothing like torturing a captured enemy under a magnifying glass on a hot summer day)grew up respecting and honoring our soldiers.
A few women and limp wristed men will shed a tear, but real men and women who have grown up with or raised men will laugh at how out of touch Code Pink is with reality.
No man will related to Code Pink, and Code Pink won’t relate to any real man.
right2bright on April 9, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Ah… the good old days of playing war. *sigh* Don’t worry kid, there’s plenty of patriots willing to put on the uniform, you’ll never run out of troops. I think if we’re running out of anything, we’re running out of bra-burning, old, fat, angry, abortion-guilted, hippies.
Mojave Mark on April 9, 2007 at 10:57 AM
How could they abuse that child by giving him gender specific toys anyway. They’re brainwashing him to act like a male. Get that boy some dolls to play with!!!
jjjen on April 9, 2007 at 10:58 AM
Yoooooooooo Joe!
unamused on April 9, 2007 at 11:02 AM
I would expect code pink to be happy about how things are going in Iraq. After all, there was a protest march by Iraqi Shiites. Too bad those that think this shows how badly things are going don’t see the irony that a fairly peaceful assembly and protest actually shows the exact opposite — democracy in action!
db on April 9, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Is that the bag that came with a jeep but no seated Army guy to drive it?
Also, I never could understand why there were SO many mine-detecting guys compared to the general lack of lowcrawling guys.
James on April 9, 2007 at 11:05 AM
I buy my son soldiers with sword and shield and pike and lance; in that way there is real hand-to-hand fighting. None of that sissy, kill-at-a-distance stuff.
archon2001 on April 9, 2007 at 11:13 AM
I don’t think a bag of “Code Pink” action toys would sell very well on this site.
right2bright on April 9, 2007 at 11:30 AM
The only reason I haven’t let my boy have toy soldiers is because I will be the one stepping on them in the middle of the night. But now…no question about it…We are off to buy the biggest bag I can find.
KelliD on April 9, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Code Pink is equating Bush commanding our military with little boys playing with toy soldiers? Excuse me, but when I played with toy soldiers they all looked alike and, although I didn’t realize it at the time, it was more like an army fighting amongst itself than two armies facing each other on the field of battle. In a REAL war, like in Iraq, our army fights other people, not our own.
Wake up Code Pink! Playing with toy soldiers was more like some of the training exercises that I took part in (REFORGER anyone?) than any actual combat that soldiers face in war.
BTW, does Code Pink think that, when they were kids, terrorists played with little toy Jihad soldiers that wore strap-on explosive belts and beheaded the enemy POW’s? They must have, otherwise terrorism wouldn’t exist, right Code Pink?
RedinBlueCounty on April 9, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Maybe someone will make plastic Pinkos!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on April 9, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Of course it covers Afghanistan. Wars launched by the U.S. are all illegitimate because of our power. If we were simply a ragtag bunch of reactionaries that flew planes into shit, it wouldn’t be an act of war, it would be a Teaching Moment.
Enrique on April 9, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Yeah, it would sometimes come with some kind of vehicle with no driver.
For those who want a stroll down memory lane: the Tim Mee M16 U.S. Infantry.
And I always thought it was cool that I had the same name as the company that made them.
Gottafang on April 9, 2007 at 12:25 PM
I had a big bag of Revolutionary War figures that were about 1/10th the size of the green Army men. There were cannons and cavalry figures, too. They came in two colors, blue and red, so I never had the problem of my army fighting itself. But I seem to remember there being a tan ‘other guys’ set for the green guys…they had camo nets molded on their helmets and were probably meant to represent Japanese soldiers.
James on April 9, 2007 at 12:29 PM
LOL… memory lane…
I saved my milk money and bought a German vs. American WWII set when I was 8 or 9… had Tiger tanks… MG 42s… Shermans…. was really cool…
But then had to keep it at my freinds house because of my anit war anti military anti gun Mom…
And as to Plastic Pinkos… yeah… they could use that “thing” from the Plame “testimony” as a model… one look would scare the enemy away…
Romeo13 on April 9, 2007 at 1:07 PM
What? No Pink Xerxes action figure? It could be a combination of Barbie and Stretch Armstrong, for “realistic gender-bending action.”
Stupid Code Pinkos.
ReubenJCogburn on April 9, 2007 at 1:11 PM
ROFL.
I hope they run that ad - all it does is proclaim their childishness.
Dwilkers on April 9, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Talk about being over privileged! Just kidding.
I never saw a Revolutionary War toy soldier set, but, now that you mention it, I do remember the tan ones. I never had those myself. As I remember it, thy looked just like the green ones including the equipment they carried like guns and mine detectors. You would think that the manufacturers would alt least make the faces look different!
I do have a Civil War chess set that I received as a child. I have it in a safe deposit box. I also use to make machine guns out of plywood and glue. No one could defeat me during inter-block wars! I was invincible!
RedinBlueCounty on April 9, 2007 at 1:12 PM
I wonder what they would have to say about the airsoft games I play.
liquidflorian on April 9, 2007 at 1:25 PM
I going to take out my “Army Men” video game and give it a play. I think this add is going to boost sales of plastic armies.
Gwillie on April 9, 2007 at 1:54 PM
Next, they’ll be using an air hockey table as a comparison on Bush’s domestic policy. But don’t worry, video games will soon follow.
RedinBlueCounty on April 9, 2007 at 2:12 PM
Army Men vs Ken
CLICK IT CLICK IT CLICK IT!!
- The Cat
MirCat on April 9, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Or a guy in a bunny suit.
James on April 9, 2007 at 2:39 PM
That was a great commercial. Ken is such a Silky Pony anyway. Barbie should dump his metrosexual ass and hook up with a real American hero like G.I. Joe.
I always loved this commercial for the Battle Tanx N64 video game. (Die, Snuggle bear, die!) The Code Pinkos would hate that one too.
ReubenJCogburn on April 9, 2007 at 2:47 PM
Clueless, that’s what they are. They have no idea what it means to be a little boy. Those little army guys represented the best America had to offer and even as a child I knew who and what they stood for.
Run the Ad, please. I’m begging ya. I want all of America to see how out of touch and pathetic you really are. Show everyone how far you will go to promote you “lose at all cost agenda”.
Take care all
Bogeyfre on April 9, 2007 at 3:09 PM
i don’t know about that…
I’m just smiling thinking about what would happen if you gave a boy one bag of plastic soldiers and one bag of plastic Pinkos. I anticipate humiliating defeat for one of those bags of toys.
taznar on April 9, 2007 at 3:21 PM
I think Code Pink should go back to taking pictures of their genitals and writing letters to them……..
PinkyBigglesworth on April 9, 2007 at 3:50 PM
Actually airsoft is sort of like paintball, but the guns and tactics are more “real”. I bet they’d have a field day with it, but what do I care… Its fun and they’re wacko…
liquidflorian on April 9, 2007 at 5:23 PM
Lets see……a little boy playing army. The goal of course is to beat the bad guy and do so with extreme prejudice. The attitude of the mans man.
Sounds like what should be done to the bad guys, and coincedentally, exactly what Bush IS doing to the bad guys.
Code Stupid Pinkos must be some sick puppies if they can entertain the thought that any american citizen could play with real peoples lives just for the sake of playing. How screwed up in the head do you have to be to embrace that thought to the point where you actually speak it out loud?
csdeven on April 9, 2007 at 6:42 PM
Walt Disney view of the war.
Kini on April 10, 2007 at 12:01 AM