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Give it up. She is a dumb congresswoman.
The only reason this is still in the news is because she is a black dumb congresswoman who tried to play the race card and failed.
Game over.
Racial Profiling from the Halls of Congress to the Studios of MSNBC
The Assault on Cynthia McKinney
By REMI KANAZI
[QUOTE]Joe Scarborough, political hack and host of Scarborough Country on MSNBC, went on yet another odious rant on April 3. This time his scurrilous remarks were aimed at six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The Congresswoman is accused of punching a Capitol Hill security officer in the chest (with cell phone in hand). After McKinney skirted a metal detector (members of Congress are not required to go through metal detectors) an officer, according to a witness, asked McKinney to stop several times. The officer claimed that he didn't recognize the six-term Congresswoman (although each officer is given pictures of members of Congress); it seems that the confusion was due to McKinney's new haircut. What would they have done to Cheney in hunting gear? McKinney's lawyers allege that a skirmish ensued after the officer "harassed" the Congresswoman and forcefully grabbed her by the arm. The Washington Post quoted McKinney, "Let me be clear: This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black congresswoman."
If you were watching Scarborough Country, you wouldn't have heard McKinney's claim, because Scarborough dove right into slanderous commentary and demonizing drivel: "How do you solve a problem like Cynthia McKinneyThe six-term Congresswoman from Georgia has long been considered an embarrassing fact of life for cons uents, Congressman and Capitol Hill police." Scarborough went on to misquote McKinney, asserting that the Congresswoman claimed that George Bush knew about 9/11 and didn't do anything about it because it helped Bush's family's stock portfolio. Scarborough ended his diatribe with words of reassurance, "The good news, saying stupid things is not a crime." That's right, because Joe Scarborough, media guardian of Natalie Holloway and defender of creationism, would have jailed a long time ago.
It didn't concern Scarborough that a class action lawsuit has been filed by black Capitol Hill police officers against the United States Capitol Police department or that McKinney has been targeted by the brave protectors on Capitol Hill in the past. Race just isn't an issue in America anymore-we all learned that after Hurricane Katrina. Apparently it wasn't enough to bash McKinney alone, so Scarborough brought on founding editor of Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox (the quintessential apologist democrat). Cox echoed Scarborough's assertions and added, "I worry [as a democrat] that she [McKinney] makes us all look a little crazy." Cox need not worry, incompetence and feebleness trumps craziness, and the democrats have enough to go around.
The McKinney coverage coincided with the resignation of former House leader and truth teller Tom Delay. In an apparent tribute to Delay, Scarborough said that in all his years in Congress Delay had always been honest with him. Maybe Scarborough was introduced to the soft side of the Hammer, the rest of us know him as the morally bankrupt zealot who went down in flames quicker than Bush's foreign policy.
Scarborough's recent tirade came just weeks after he went ballistic because one of his guests asserted that "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism." God forbid Scarborough let the Jewish lobby get upset (oh wait, I forgot the Israel Lobby doesn't exists). McKinney has been an outspoken critic of Israel's Apartheid-style policies and was vilified by the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee in her 2002 election run.
But is McKinney the problem as Scarborough claims? I would beg to differ. What is "embarrassing" is Scarborough's disregard for journalistic integrity. If Scarborough had the sack to report on matters such as no wmd's, the 100,000 plus dead civilians in Iraq, America's persistent human rights abuses around the world, and the impoverished and downtrodden in American society, people like McKinney wouldn't have to work so hard. Maybe "craziness" is an aftereffect of doing your job. The fact remains: progressives like McKinney are few and far between in Congress, while "pundits" like Scarborough are flooding cable TV with propaganda and neocon complicity.[/CENTER]
Remi Kanazi is the primary writer for the political website www.PoeticInjustice.net He lives in New York City as a Palestinian American freelance writer, poet and performer and can reached via email at mailto:[email protected]
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Give it up. She is a dumb congresswoman.
The only reason this is still in the news is because she is a black dumb congresswoman who tried to play the race card and failed.
Game over.
She's lucky. Most black people get six warning shots to the back. pwnt.
This is manna from heaven for the right. They have something to blather on about on talk radio and cable news shows rather than having to defend Delay.
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The Mainstream Media's N******** of Cynthia McKinney:
The Rude Pundit wasn't going to write about the incident where Representative Cynthia McKinney sauntered past security at the Capitol, didn't answer calls for her to stop, and then struck a DC cop who touched her arm to stop her. McKinney's a showboating publicity , has been for a long time, and the cop's actions, however justified, were a gift, like a drag queen finding a trashed stash of Judy Garland's boas - such unexpected joy in the most unexpected places. And McKinney's pathetic press conferences to tout the racism and sexism of the cops asking her to stop and plaintive cries that her hair style may have radically changed, but her face did not were and are laughable, distracting, and meaningless. Besides, Aravosis dealt with it over at Americablog, puttin' that puppy to sleep and tossin' it in the dumpster.
Yet there was still an uncomfortable taste left by the whole rigamarole. It wasn't that Neil "I Can Swallow This Here Pig Whole" Boortz said that McKinney looked like a "ghetto ," which he later apologized for, although he had previous said that McKinney is "the cutest little Islamic jihadist." One expects such things from idiotic wads of like Boortz, people whose talk radio studios are so filled with the piquant stench of their own farts that the crew has to wear gas masks to adjust the mikes.
It was the contrast between the mainstream media's treatment of McKinney and of the fallen Tom DeLay. This morning, the Rude Pundit was watching that hilarious parody of a news program on Fox called Fox and Friends, and while mostly enjoying the delicious undercurrent of gay male tension between Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade (try and figger out which one is the pitcher or catcher between those two), the Rude Pundit was struck by the way that Kilmeade aggressively interviewed McKinney, a guest on the show, and who, like every in' politician out there, stuck to her idiotic talking points instead of answering the questions. Kilmeade dogged McKinney, asking her repeatedly if McKinney had struck the cop. And that made the Rude Pundit wonder: did anyone ever on one of the "news" networks go after Tom DeLay and ask him over and over, directly, if he had laundered money in Texas, even during his farewell interviews last night?
For example: Here's CNN's Wolf "My Manly White Stubble Can Sand Wood" Blitzer with McKinney on Monday: "Congresswoman McKinney, did you strike one of those Capitol Police officers during this incident on Capitol Hill?" McKinney, of course, did not answer.
Now, here's Blitzer with Tom DeLay last night: "How worried are you that these former aides of yours might say something or provide some sort of evidence or suggestion that could further cause you grave, serious legal problems?" and "What would you have done differently involving your relationship with the now-indicted Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist? Looking back on that relationship that you had with him, what would you have done differently given what you know right now?" DeLay, of couse, said he would do nothing differently and he's done nothing wrong. (This is not to mention Blitzer's later comment to DeLay, "But everybody makes mistakes, right? You're not perfect," the verbal equivalent of a reach-around.)
Which one of these members of Congress has been indicted for a felony? Which one is being treated like a felon?
Let's see if we can hold a few seemingly contradictory thoughts in our heads at once. Yes, Cynthia McKinney is an arrogant, self-aggrandizing head who deserves whatever backlash is coming her way. Yes, Tom DeLay is a skeevy sucker who has pissed in and poisoned the already-putrid wells of Washington. And both should be treated with contempt and pursued aggressively to show the cynicism and greed - for power, money, and/or attention - that drives them.
But you wanna know where the racism and sexism is here? It ain't with the Capitol cops (in this case), who are in a crappy position under the stress of terrorism neurosis that pervades everything. It's with the media, who act with deference towards a white male thrice-admonished alleged felon who has intimate connections with convicted felons and who feel free to attack the black woman who has yet to be charged with anything.
Oh, and that's not to mention that McKinney's a Democrat and DeLay's a Republican.
So Partisan pundits have made a human punching bag out of a congressperson of opposite political affiliation.......................
Holy ing .
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Racial Profiling from the Halls of Congress to the Studios of MSNBC
The Assault on Cynthia McKinney
By REMI KANAZI
Joe Scarborough, political hack and host of Scarborough Country on MSNBC, went on yet another odious rant on April 3. This time his scurrilous remarks were aimed at six-term Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The Congresswoman is accused of punching a Capitol Hill security officer in the chest (with cell phone in hand). After McKinney skirted a metal detector (members of Congress are not required to go through metal detectors) an officer, according to a witness, asked McKinney to stop several times. The officer claimed that he didn't recognize the six-term Congresswoman (although each officer is given pictures of members of Congress); it seems that the confusion was due to McKinney's new haircut. What would they have done to Cheney in hunting gear? McKinney's lawyers allege that a skirmish ensued after the officer "harassed" the Congresswoman and forcefully grabbed her by the arm. The Washington Post quoted McKinney, "Let me be clear: This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black congresswoman."
If you were watching Scarborough Country, you wouldn't have heard McKinney's claim, because Scarborough dove right into slanderous commentary and demonizing drivel: "How do you solve a problem like Cynthia McKinneyThe six-term Congresswoman from Georgia has long been considered an embarrassing fact of life for cons uents, Congressman and Capitol Hill police." Scarborough went on to misquote McKinney, asserting that the Congresswoman claimed that George Bush knew about 9/11 and didn't do anything about it because it helped Bush's family's stock portfolio. Scarborough ended his diatribe with words of reassurance, "The good news, saying stupid things is not a crime." That's right, because Joe Scarborough, media guardian of Natalie Holloway and defender of creationism, would have jailed a long time ago.
It didn't concern Scarborough that a class action lawsuit has been filed by black Capitol Hill police officers against the United States Capitol Police department or that McKinney has been targeted by the brave protectors on Capitol Hill in the past. Race just isn't an issue in America anymore-we all learned that after Hurricane Katrina. Apparently it wasn't enough to bash McKinney alone, so Scarborough brought on founding editor of Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox (the quintessential apologist democrat). Cox echoed Scarborough's assertions and added, "I worry [as a democrat] that she [McKinney] makes us all look a little crazy." Cox need not worry, incompetence and feebleness trumps craziness, and the democrats have enough to go around.
The McKinney coverage coincided with the resignation of former House leader and truth teller Tom Delay. In an apparent tribute to Delay, Scarborough said that in all his years in Congress Delay had always been honest with him. Maybe Scarborough was introduced to the soft side of the Hammer, the rest of us know him as the morally bankrupt zealot who went down in flames quicker than Bush's foreign policy.
Scarborough's recent tirade came just weeks after he went ballistic because one of his guests asserted that "anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism." God forbid Scarborough let the Jewish lobby get upset (oh wait, I forgot the Israel Lobby doesn't exists). McKinney has been an outspoken critic of Israel's Apartheid-style policies and was vilified by the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee in her 2002 election run.
But is McKinney the problem as Scarborough claims? I would beg to differ. What is "embarrassing" is Scarborough's disregard for journalistic integrity. If Scarborough had the sack to report on matters such as no wmd's, the 100,000 plus dead civilians in Iraq, America's persistent human rights abuses around the world, and the impoverished and downtrodden in American society, people like McKinney wouldn't have to work so hard. Maybe "craziness" is an aftereffect of doing your job. The fact remains: progressives like McKinney are few and far between in Congress, while "pundits" like Scarborough are flooding cable TV with propaganda and neocon complicity.[/CENTER]
Remi Kanazi is the primary writer for the political website www.PoeticInjustice.net He lives in New York City as a Palestinian American freelance writer, poet and performer and can reached via email at mailto:[email protected]
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Cynthia Mckinney being supported by a palestinian? WTF!!
It's like being supported by toilet paper.
Palestinians are the garbage of the mid east.
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