IF IT'S ANTI-AMERICAN, IT MUST BE CODE PINK – AT 8:51 A.M. ET:  They're back.  Wherever there's a chance for a really good zinger against the United States, Code Pink shows up.  Naturally, they'll be described by the painstream media as, variously, an "anti-war" or "human rights" group.  They are, of course, neither.  They're an extreme leftist group allied with anti-American causes around the world.  Now they're in Egypt:

Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin Wednesday headed up a dozen Code Pink banner-bearing activists in Cairo's Tahrir Square -- a scene she said descended into a bloody "war zone" as "government thugs" battled pro-democracy demonstrators.

But Benjamin told us by cell phone just minutes also that while the government of Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak government has now signalled it will "go down kicking and screaming,'' pro-democracy protesters are fully determined and "ready to die here."

We caught Benjamin just after midnight Egyptian time as she retreated from the embattled square in Cairo -- in a country where Internet coverage is just returning after days of blackout. Benjamin, a longtime Bay Area progessive activist, has been in the region since Monday with Code Pink and said the lack of Internet connection has been frustrating.

But she noted it couldn't stop her and the Code Pinkers who took to the square Wednesday, parading a large banner in both Engligh and Arabic, reading: "The World Says It's Time For Mubarak to Go."

COMMENT:  Medea Benjamin must have heard that Mubarak is considered an American ally.  Therefore, she was on the next plane out.

Oh, by the way, have you noticed that no one does any reporting on this group in detail.   Like, where do they get the money for all these foreign trips they take?  Who's financing them?  What do they really believe?  If America is for it, they're against it, but no questions are asked. 

Once again we see the double standard in journalism.  If you're on the right, your whole life is examined.  If you're on the left, drive right through.

February 3, 2011