Far-left activists from the network funded by communist tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham can dish it out, but they can't take it.
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they → fund → it
For years, CodePink activists, easily recognizable in hot pink T-shirts, have heckled lawmakers and officials in public settings with a tactic called "bird dogging," cornering targets, peppering them with hostile questions, like "Why do you support baby killers?" and shaming them on social media with tactics that amount to humiliation rituals.
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that → heckle → rituals
On Veterans Day, the agitators found themselves on the other side of the lens, and they didn't like it.
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they → find → it
For six hours on Wednesday, Fox News Digital followed members of CodePink, BreakThrough News, the People's Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation and allied groups in the Singham network through the halls of Congress during a lobbying event organizers called the "Taxpayer Uprising."
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organizers → follow → event
But when the cameras turned on them, they angrily refused to answer questions and covered the camera lens, one time with a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf and another time with a backpack designed with the pattern of a watermelon, a symbol adopted by the Palestinian movement.
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they → turn → movement
Then, they responded with smears and ad hominem attacks.
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they → respond → smears
Finally, they published their footage of the confrontations, turning their objections to being filmed into content for their followers.
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they → publish → followers
One follower congratulated them on their success deploying "psychic militancy."
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follower → congratulate → militancy
Breakfast with Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.
The day began just before 10 a.m. inside the Rayburn House Office Building, where activists in pink CodePink T-shirts and keffiyehs walked into a breakfast gathering of the U.S. House Bagel Caucus.
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activists → begin → Caucus
At 9:59 a.m., they surrounded Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., and pointed their cameras at him.
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they → surround → him
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. and Israeli militaries.
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she → wear → militaries
"It is not a merging of the militaries," Goldman said.
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Goldman → say → militaries
"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."
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it → depend → security
He asked the activists whether they supported Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hamas and Hezbollah.
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they → ask → Corps
"We're not funding them.
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We → fund → them
We're funding Israel," Benjamin replied.
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Benjamin → fund → Israel
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.
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members → call → unison
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?"
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you → yell → statement
"That was a horrific lie that you just said," Barry shouted at him.
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Barry → say → him
"As a sitting congressman, I take deep offense at that.
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I → sit → that
We're enjoying the Bagel Caucus here," Goldman said before walking away.
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Goldman → enjoy → Caucus
'I'm sorry, I can't hear you'
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I → hear → you
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.
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that → move → movement
At 10:06 a.m., the group shuffled to the Rayburn cafeteria, where organizers had set up tables numbered by lobbying group.
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organizers → shuffle → group
Pink signs reading "TAXPAYER UPRISING" and "WAR IS NOT GREEN" sat on the tables.
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WAR → read → tables
Confrontations began within minutes.
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Confrontations → begin → minutes
Hey, out of here," a CodePink volunteer told the reporter at about 10:09 a.m.
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volunteer → tell → a.m.
Asked for an interview, Barry turned to his fellow activists and balked, saying, "Why would I?"
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I → ask → activists
A woman at the check-in table asked the reporter to "move your camera away."
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woman → check → camera
Another activist used a keffiyeh to block the camera's view, and a Muslim woman in a headscarf put her hand over the lens.
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woman → use → lens
At about 10:12 a.m., a activist hoisted a pink backpack printed with watermelons in front of the Fox News Digital camera.
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activist → hoist → camera
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.
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it → read → him
"Is this what you do in your free time, is like, wander around?" he taunted.
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he → wander → time
Melissa Garriga, CodePink's media contact, refused to answer any questions, priding herself to the team on refusing to answer emailed requests for comment from Fox News Digitai.
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Garriga → refuse → Digitai
Asked a question by the reporter standing right in front of her, she cupped her hand behind her ear and said, "I'm sorry, I can't hear you.
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I → ask → you
Can you speak up?"
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you → speak → ?
Asked again, she responded, "I still can't hear you.
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I → ask → you
You're gonna have to talk a little louder.
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You → go → ?
Then, again: "Can you please speak up?"
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you → speak → ?
Asked about Singham's funding of CodePink, Garriga waved her hand across the lens.
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Garriga → ask → lens
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