Nets Ignore Cynthia McKinney Entourage’s Election Night Meltdown

NewsBusters ^ | Aug. 10, 2006 | Noel Sheppard

[AT7Saluki]

If a long-time member of Congress lost a primary battle for re-election, and his/her campaign entourage shouted racial epithets at reporters and about her opponent after defeat, do you think this would have been on the evening news? Well, if said member of Congress was a Democrat, the answer apparently is “no,” for not one of the broadcast networks felt it was newsworthy to report Tuesday evening's events involving Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia).

For those that haven’t heard, McKinney’s campaign entourage now includes members of the New Black Panthers. After her primary defeat Tuesday to Hank Johnson for Georgia’s 4th Congressional district, some of these folks went on a bit of a rampage referring to white reporters as “crackers,” calling her opponent an “Uncle Tom,” blaming her loss on Israel, and shouting anti-Semitic epithets at a Jewish reporter

[keats5]

"Aren't the Black Panthers and the Nation Of Islam one in the same?"

That would explain a lot.

[rfreedom4u]

Actually this was on the O'reilly Factor on Fox. It was great to see her and her minions acting like total asse$.