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Home Front: Culture Wars
TV station catches gaffe by McKinney
2006-04-24
Hat tip Orrin Judd.
Move over Britney Spears, Cynthia McKinney's — oops! — done it again.

The flap-plagued congresswoman, who has been in the media spotlight since she scuffled with a Capitol Hill police officer last month, was caught bad-mouthing a senior staffer Saturday.Unfortunately for McKinney, a DeKalb County Democrat who is running for re-election in the 4th Congressional District, a TV microphone she was wearing picked up her indelicate grumbling.

"Crap!" an irritated McKinney is heard saying after ending an interview with CBS 46 in which reporter Renee Starzyk repeatedly asked about the fallout from the police dust-up. "You know what? They lied to Coz and Coz is a fool."

McKinney, apparently realizing her blunder, then returned to face the camera and tell the reporter that comments about her communications director, Coz Carson, were off the record. But the TV stationed aired the footage Saturday and the story later was picked up by CNN.
Posted by:Steve White

#24  Damn! She's hot! I like my wimmen scary and crazy...
Posted by: Flotle Chese2061   2006-04-24 18:36  

#23  It's not about votes yet, it's about money. I don't imagine she gets boodles of cash from corporations, so she has to appeal to the constituencies of Brother Jackson and Brother Sharpton for her war chest. Every time she gets publicly dissed by The Man, her cash register jingles.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-04-24 18:35  

#22  They elected HER... Repeatedly.
Posted by: Phugum Spager6621   2006-04-24 18:23  

#21  There's an election on. She's playing to her base.

Even in her district I'm not sure how much of the electorate has a sub-room temperature IQ.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-04-24 17:59  

#20  does she still have a strong following?
Posted by: Jan   2006-04-24 17:55  

#19  There's an election on. She's playing to her base.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-04-24 14:22  

#18  Not at all clear she's all THAT bothered by the reporting on it -- free publicity, she dissed The Man etc etc.
Posted by: lotp   2006-04-24 14:08  

#17  Hasn't she learned that NOTHING you say to a reporter is off the record?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2006-04-24 14:05  

#16  You have to wonder why the mainstream media hurts their own friends.

Simple. It was her communications director. She dissed one of their own. That trumps political partisanship.
Posted by: Pappy   2006-04-24 12:50  

#15  For crying out loud, Besoeker, you're embarrassing yourself. Put a sock on it.
Posted by: Steve White   2006-04-24 11:43  

#14  Living proof you don't need more than two brain cells to function.
Posted by: DarthVader   2006-04-24 10:55  

#13  Don't see much of Jack Benny or Bob Hope, either. Buy a CD or join Netflix, if you miss 'em.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-04-24 10:21  

#12  Why is everyone dissing Buckwheat by comparing him to this bigoted brain-dead fool? He worked for a living when he was a kid, and was a nice guy.
Posted by: Ernest Brown   2006-04-24 10:06  

#11  #9 Whenever I see that pic, I expect to hear something about "Alfalfa" and "Spanky".
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2006-04-24 07:17

Strange isn't it, we don't see much of Alfalfa and Spank anymore. Don't see much of Amos and Andy either. I miss them all.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-04-24 09:32  

#10  She is living proof that fools are well represented in America today.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-04-24 09:15  

#9  Whenever I see that pic, I expect to hear something about "Alfalfa" and "Spanky".
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2006-04-24 07:17  

#8  one day. that's all I give her before she decides to badmouth the station and call their actions racist.

no doubt her followers will then send money in her defense.

what a gimmick she's got going for her.
Posted by: PlanetDan   2006-04-24 06:46  

#7  havin a bad hair day are we?

What shocked me about the interview I saw on TV was that the hair was the same, as were the large bug eyes.
She goes about normally looking just like this

And she talks nonsense, really crazy conspiracy stuff...

Posted by: john   2006-04-24 06:43  

#6  You have to wonder why the mainstream media hurts their own friends.
Posted by: gromky   2006-04-24 06:19  

#5  havin a bad hair day are we?

if you know the tune, Whisle...
ô 'She aint freaky she's just plain Scary right down to the bone'ô

[/Oprah off]

or Cynthia is having some passive agressive issue moments.

[/Dr. Phil off]
Posted by: RD   2006-04-24 03:14  

#4  Didn't she make an appearance on D.W. Griffiths' "Birth of a Nation"?
Posted by: borgboy   2006-04-24 02:35  

#3  I agree with Cynthia. Kos is a tool fool.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-04-24 00:51  

#2  "But the TV stationed aired the footage Saturday and the story later was picked up by CNN."

Whoopsie.
Posted by: Fordesque   2006-04-24 00:44  

#1  I had assumed the Rantburg graphic of Mckinney was photoshopped.

Then I saw her on TV.

Gawd...

Posted by: john   2006-04-24 00:31  

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