Comments on: Cynthia McKinney joins civil rights history with “being in Congress while black” line http://themoderatevoice.com/5658/cynthia-mckinney-joins-civil-rights-history-with-being-in-congress-while-black-line/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 30 May 2012 19:48:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Christopher Walker http://themoderatevoice.com/5658/cynthia-mckinney-joins-civil-rights-history-with-being-in-congress-while-black-line/comment-page-1/#comment-843 Christopher Walker Sun, 02 Apr 2006 12:59:40 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/04/01/uncategorized/cynthia-mckinney-joins-civil-rights-history-with-being-in-congress-while-black-line/#comment-843 So let me get this right. Some guy who actually WORKS on Capitol Hill assaults a Democratic congresswoman from Georgia, threatens HER with a lawsuit when she defends herself, and claims he didn't recognize her. It must be because there are so MANY black Congresswomen on the Hill, I guess. They both behaved badly. If it was a misunderstaanding, as seems likely, grown-ups would have apologized to each other and moved on. The media would not have been alerted. Hellfire and damnation, I live a thousand miles away from her district, but *I* know what Cynthia McKinney looks like. Why doesn't he? Sheesh. Tempest, meet teapot. I guess the blogosphere needs a real story to get worked up about. All over the Net, on blogs left and right, the last three frenzies have been about this unseemly altercation, about the brief engagement of a conservative blogger to get a bigger platform (who cared? who cared?), and, amazingly, post-prandial ruminations about whether or not we're unreservedly glad that Jill Carroll got released. The blogosphere this week has looked like a pack of mad dogs tearing at an open sore, to borrow an expression Jack Carroll once used about something else. Not a pretty sight. So let me get this right. Some guy who actually WORKS on Capitol Hill assaults a Democratic congresswoman from Georgia, threatens HER with a lawsuit when she defends herself, and claims he didn’t recognize her.

It must be because there are so MANY black Congresswomen on the Hill, I guess.

They both behaved badly. If it was a misunderstaanding, as seems likely, grown-ups would have apologized to each other and moved on. The media would not have been alerted.

Hellfire and damnation, I live a thousand miles away from her district, but *I* know what Cynthia McKinney looks like. Why doesn’t he?

Sheesh. Tempest, meet teapot. I guess the blogosphere needs a real story to get worked up about. All over the Net, on blogs left and right, the last three frenzies have been about this unseemly altercation, about the brief engagement of a conservative blogger to get a bigger platform (who cared? who cared?), and, amazingly, post-prandial ruminations about whether or not we’re unreservedly glad that Jill Carroll got released.

The blogosphere this week has looked like a pack of mad dogs tearing at an open sore, to borrow an expression Jack Carroll once used about something else. Not a pretty sight.

]]> By: Joshua http://themoderatevoice.com/5658/cynthia-mckinney-joins-civil-rights-history-with-being-in-congress-while-black-line/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Joshua Sat, 01 Apr 2006 19:27:58 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/2006/04/01/uncategorized/cynthia-mckinney-joins-civil-rights-history-with-being-in-congress-while-black-line/#comment-842 So, let me get this right. Cynthia doesn't follow the rules. She then is asked to stop three times by the guard. She doesn't. He grabs her. She then accuses the man of racism? She then holds a news conference with Belafonte. The last time I heard anything from him, he was hugging Hugo Chavez and claiming what a great guy he was. Just as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell embarrass the hell out of many Republicans, people like Cynthia Mckinney embarrass me to no end. Cordially, Moderate Democrat So, let me get this right. Cynthia doesn’t follow the rules. She then is asked to stop three times by the guard. She doesn’t. He grabs her. She then accuses the man of racism? She then holds a news conference with Belafonte. The last time I heard anything from him, he was hugging Hugo Chavez and claiming what a great guy he was. Just as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell embarrass the hell out of many Republicans, people like Cynthia Mckinney
embarrass me to no end.

Cordially,
Moderate Democrat

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