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Minneapolis radio host said Code Pink protesters "ought to have all their tubes tied"

September 05, 2008 8:16 pm ET

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SUMMARY: On his Minneapolis radio show, Chris Baker stated of Sen. John McCain's speech at the Republican National Convention, "I'll tell you, though, in the speech -- the best part of the speech was when those Code Pink nuts -- another bunch that ought to have all their tubes tied. All right? I can't stand these Code Pink broads."

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On the September 5 broadcast of his Minneapolis radio show, host Chris Baker asserted that the Code Pink protesters who interrupted Sen. John McCain's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on September 4 "ought to have all their tubes tied." Baker stated of McCain's speech, "I'll tell you, though, in the speech -- the best part of the speech was when those Code Pink nuts -- another bunch that ought to have all their tubes tied. All right? I can't stand these Code Pink broads." Code Pink describes itself as "a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities."

The Chris Baker Show airs on Minneapolis' 100.3 KTLK-FM, owned by Clear Channel Communications.

From the September 5 broadcast of 100.3 KTLK-FM's The Chris Baker Show:

BAKER: I'll tell you, though, in the speech -- the best part of the speech was when those Code Pink nuts -- another bunch that ought to have all their tubes tied. All right? I can't stand these Code Pink broads.

CO-HOST: Uh, that's "chicks."

BAKER: Oh, I'm sorry. These -- OK, "these stupid Code Pink chicks."

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    • Author by princeofwheels (September 05, 2008 8:21 pm ET)
         

      Hey Chris, I hope you like your balls...I mean Charity events.

      Code Pink Frolic Ball being one of them..Be afraid, these broads, "chicks" can whip you in a fight. And they like to take home two prizes at a time.

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      • Author by MissDee (September 06, 2008 8:04 am ET)
           

        Think of it this way. if say for example, some militant, rightwing "hide to survive in montana" group had managed to purloin (I'm being kind - I thought right away that the loonies at MSNBC probably handed them out to the Code Pinkos) passes to the DNC on its final night, and ran at Obama on stage, you would be trumping it up to make it a conspiracy worthy of 911 or Dallas. They had no business there- in fact, their rights to protest do NOT trump the rights of the normal processes of the election of officials to the highest offices in the land. You talk about the sacred 1st amendment, but they clearly exemplify that they have no respect for it themselves, and had a Secret Service agent done what comes naturally when they ran for the stage, you'd all be decrying the worst thing since the Boston Massacre (which if you read history properly, you'll know didn't happen the way it's been portrayed in the classroom)...

        Maybe social darwinism does have a place...

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        • Author by sportsguydave (September 06, 2008 10:35 am ET)
             

          Ah, Missdee has slithered out from under her rock.

          How you enjoying your idiot candidate's campaign so far??

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          • Author by MissDee (September 06, 2008 10:50 am ET)
               

            Reveling in it actually. It's wonderful to see all you liberals running around in circles while holding your asses in  a panic while your stooges/media shills make themselves less credible by the hour. keep up the good work!! lol

             

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            • Author by princeofwheels (September 06, 2008 10:58 am ET)
                 
              You seen to be missguided.The Cons are throwing out smoke screens but that is okay. Being afraid to have the Princess of the North answer questions and to justify her lying, a great trait from a good mom, is a ploy which will have to end. We are patient. She'll be required to answer questions somewhere, sometime. And I'll bet that you are pushing for that right now.
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        • Author by princeofwheels (September 06, 2008 10:49 am ET)
             
          Missdee, I really don't know if you are a former poster, but you seem to ramble more often that Billy Madison. How do you know what I think? I don't know the answer to that from one moment to another...but it is better than always being bitter.
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          • Author by wolf kotenberg (September 06, 2008 3:20 pm ET)
               
            Missdee has been posting here awhile and i think she might actually be Dana Perino dressed up as a poster. definitaly a troll.
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        • Author by BottleBlonde (September 06, 2008 12:40 pm ET)
             

          Another shining example of a lack of reading comprehension or an unwillingness to acknowledge reality.

          No one has ever said that these protestors weren't out of line. The objection is to the suggestion of what the 'punishment' should be.

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        • Author by wzwriter (September 08, 2008 10:02 am ET)
             

          Maybe social darwinism does have a place...

          Amd Missdee is an evolutionary throwback.

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    • Author by carlileb5935 (September 05, 2008 8:30 pm ET)
         

      I really think these guys are all just doing comedy routines. They're just trying to be funny the way they think funny is. That includes Palin on Wednesday night.

      I'm right, aren't I....?

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      • Author by princeofwheels (September 05, 2008 8:48 pm ET)
           
        They should practice with Knock-Knock jokes before the try to be funny. But, we don't seem to understand Conedy
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    • Author by DAWUSS (September 05, 2008 9:50 pm ET)
         

      What does having your tubes tied have anything to do with protesting? I thought you were recruited into this, not bred into this.

       

      I mean, that's like protesting Alaskan sled races because Sarah Palin is the GOP VP.

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    • Author by Lorelei (September 05, 2008 9:53 pm ET)
         

      Gawd, over and over again I am reminded why I can't stand republicans.

       

       

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    • Author by fawltylogic (September 05, 2008 10:08 pm ET)
         
      I thought these guys were AGAINST birth control?
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    • Author by tman418 (September 06, 2008 3:11 am ET)
         
      I really hope for the sake of the future generation, Chris Baker gets a vasectomy.
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    • Author by MissDee (September 06, 2008 7:57 am ET)
         

      Well, despite all the bad attempts at humor you people are tossing up here, you aren't Letterman, and lately even he sucks at his tosses at McCain/Palin. The fact is this- in the TRUEST form of liberal hypocrisy of equal opportunity (you really should start calling your viewpoint FECAL opportunity and respect for "diveristy", the hollywierd celebrity grinder press, the beltway broads, et al, have shown that in your viewpoint, a woman is only qualified for the highest offices if she's a ranting raving liberal with an elitist point of view. You demonstrate this dichotomy over and over again.

       You see, I understand this phenomenon very well- I work within what is perhaps the most liberal, yet most mysogynistic, patronizing and "double X chromosome derisive" field you can find- scientific academia. The fact is that the selection of Governor Palin has sent your perfect little world of eltite smugness, grandiose beliefs in the superiority of your ideology, and a derisive sense that you have all the answers, tumbling to the ground in tatters. It's obvious from the immediate reaction. two weeks ago, I'd have guessed that nearly NONE of you here even had heard of Gov. Palin, but within 24 hours you were ALLLLLL experts on her and reinforce your demntia with blogs like the Kos and rags like US magazine's disingenuous cover.

      The Republicans bested you at your own game, with sincerity, and they can smell the fear coming off you, and see the stains in your armpits grow by the minute. Good thing that metaphor combination isn't reversed. We've had enough of that stink already. LOL

       

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      • Author by princeofwheels (September 06, 2008 10:53 am ET)
           
        Maybe you can enlighten us about Princess Sarah. No one else can ask her anything. She is being protected by the Republican Con(dom) machine..all men by the way.
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      • Author by Brabantio (September 06, 2008 11:04 am ET)
           

        Right, and if Obama had picked some unknown radical to be his running mate, the screeching from your quarters would have shown that you were scared and that your ideology was in tatters.

        Women aren't any boon to political movements just because they're women.  Their positions still have to make sense.  If Palin is going to show off her pregnant daughter as proof of her commitment to life, then she should support every girl who gets pregnant instead of cutting funding for them.  This is especially true when she opposes comprehensive sex education, a position which creates more unwanted pregnancies.

        She's not undermining anyone's ideology except her own.

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        • Author by princeofwheels (September 06, 2008 11:14 am ET)
             

          BAR, this is typical manly reepublican behavior. Let's get a woman because all the stupid women will follow along. If you need any proof, read some posts here by MsDee. She seems to be following the crumb trail without questions. And MsDee Fied probably doesn't know anything about the Princess' positions espeecially those on Iraq. And of course, MsDee Monic doesn't need to asked questions because she works in some type of subordinate position and is used to taking orders.

          Sorry, Mist D, but women are smarter than you and can see what is happening. Too bad for you.  But you may be right about Gov. Palin, but how will anyone know other than what the guys tell us.

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          • Author by mary59 (September 06, 2008 12:26 pm ET)
               
            You are all so mistaken about missdee. She's a man and a scientist. she sees liberals all the time at work, herds of them, so knows what all of us liberals are thinking. We're sheep and think the same at all times. And that's a scientific fact, and if you deny it, I'll cut off your mike: so there, smarty pants.
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        • Author by BottleBlonde (September 06, 2008 12:47 pm ET)
             

          It's similar to when the Republicans say "well, lookie here, we have Condi Rice and Clarence Thomas and Colin Powell in our midst, so that proves ..."

          When you have to pick out individual people like that to try to prove your point, it disproves your point.

          If the Republican Party were truly gender-neutral and race-neutral, that would be terrific. They aren't, and parading out an example or two, when those examples don't prove what they're trying to prove, only weakens their case.

          Sarah Palin is not a champion of women's rights. Men and women alike can champion women's rights, but women seem more invested in it. Sarah Palin isn't. The fact that she's a woman doesn't give her automatic credibility when her actions speak much louder than her gender.

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      • Author by ultrasanktpauli (September 07, 2008 1:29 pm ET)
           
        no offense sister...but maybe it was late when you wrote this:

        The fact is this- in the TRUEST form of liberal hypocrisy of equal opportunity (you really should start calling your viewpoint FECAL opportunity and respect for "diveristy", the hollywierd celebrity grinder press, the beltway broads, et al, have shown that in your viewpoint, a woman is only qualified for the highest offices if she's a ranting raving liberal with an elitist point of view.

        for an academic, that's a mighty confusing run on sentence. try to be a little bit more clear.
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        • Author by princeofwheels (September 07, 2008 2:38 pm ET)
             
          Ultra, this is as clear as missdee gets. Learn to live with it. I understand that if you close your mind, its ramblings are crystal clear. Along with forgetting anything you may have learned in any school...or have read. Just breathe it in an you will become as BLISSFUL as this miss dee character.
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    • Author by mercado (September 06, 2008 8:35 am ET)
         
      Prince of Wheels/Oscar the Grouch, what is "Conedy?"
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      • Author by princeofwheels (September 06, 2008 10:54 am ET)
           
        Mercado, just a play on the word coMedy. Using coNedy when the Repubs try to be funny..which it usually isn't.
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        • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (September 06, 2008 1:59 pm ET)
             

          Not intentionally funny, anyway. Notice MissDee's posts, several attempts at jokes, all falling flat, but always followed by the "LOL", the cyber equivalent of the laugh track.

          There is, however, comedy in her post. Pretending to be employed in some sort of scientific field,while posting a rambling, emotional rant that shows a complete abscence of the logic and objective thinking needed to even follow driving directions to a Museum of  Science, now that's funny ! 

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    • Author by CarmanK (September 06, 2008 12:50 pm ET)
         

      I think we all ought to be afraid, Sarah Palin is George W. Bush in a skirt.  She is good looking, charming, disarming and makes her decisions from her gut.  She believes Iraq is a God driven mission.  She is arrogant and superior to others, not their equal as she purpots. She lives in a bubble.

      She claims fiscal conservatism but leaves Wasilla $20 million in debt.  She claims empathy with mothers of disabled children but as Governor reduced the Spec ed budget 62% two years running when Alaska is flush with cash from oil profits. Education is low on her priority list. Her two oldest children are not college-bound but the Army and childhood motherhood. In Sarah's mind they  didn't need an education to compete in the "global economy." And of course her health care isn't a problem for her and her 5 children because her husband belongs to a Union. And finally, she equivocates. As governor she has no qualms about negotiating lucrative exclusive contracts with her husband's employer because "he's not in management". 

      Make a donation to Obama, better yet call a friend.

       

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    • Author by congero6189599 (September 06, 2008 2:48 pm ET)
         

      Col. do you think we'll see a MissD. character on the fall premier of "The Golden Boys?"

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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (September 06, 2008 7:18 pm ET)
           
        Very possible, Conger. Right now I'm riveted to Fox news, reporting that McCain supporters , the night after Obama's Denver speech, found thousands of American flags thrown in dumpsters. As far as I can tell, they were extra flags that weren't used, rolled up in plastic bags, but if the nutbags get desperate enough to try to run with this one, I'm going to start feeling sorry for the poor souls.
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        • Author by princeofwheels (September 06, 2008 10:22 pm ET)
             

          Colonel, They will be sent to the CSI labs under the supervision of Missdee to check for fingerprints. If true, find out who put them there then make a big deal of it. We know that a Reeper would never do that

          They are worried about flags in a dumpster but are not worried about the flags that cover the coffins of our dead soldiers from Iraq which we are NOT PERMITTED to see.

          You should've seen what was leftover after the Reepublican convention......oodles of common sense.

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          • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (September 07, 2008 4:28 am ET)
               
            And the janitorial crew spent hours sweeping up the shreds of dignity that the GOP sloughed off with the selection of Caribou Barbie. Not because there was a lot of that dignity, they were just tiny little shreds, and they had to use tiny little whisk brooms.
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        • Author by ultrasanktpauli (September 07, 2008 1:35 pm ET)
             
          i guess that the economy ISN"T so strong after all. i mean if they repubs are dumpster diving...i'm just sayin.
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