Deconstructing Cynthia McKinney: Her complex relationship with the Jewish community

The Jewish Times ^ | November 5, 1999 | Bill Nigut

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Nigut (lead political reporter for WSB-TV/Atlanta) can be such an ass in person, but he's one hell of a political reporter.

Last time the NAACP convention was here, Nigut and I were on the back of the press platform while Al Gore transformed from buffoon to pseudo-Baptist preacher. I was aghast (it was the first time I'd heard this transformation from AlGore), but Nigut was more aghast at my anger at Gore.

Simply hilarious. Sounds like he was groveling to get a shot at Cynthia, and a picture of that, for me, would be worth the price of admission...

[Catspaw]

He called Mitnick "a racist Jew," a remark he recently said he made out of frustration because Mitnick was trying to tie his daughter to notorious anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. But McKinney was slow to apologize, and his daughter was equally slow to take action to reprimand him. (She eventually fired him from the campaign.)

What crap. Jihad Cindy's campaign manager is a member of the Nation of Islam. So is Stokely Carmichael's son, the one she hired to be a coordinator for her delegation to the UN racism conference. McKinney writes a guest column for The Final Call and is guarded by the Fruit of Islam.

Mitrick was right--Cindy IS tied in tight with the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan.

[eddie willers]

Nigut (lead political reporter for WSB-TV/Atlanta) can be such an ass in person, but he's one hell of a political reporter.

Agreed...very good political reporter.... but an insufferable liberal.

[aristeides]

I wonder when McKinney will get around to explaining why so many of her contributions from Moslem donors were dated 9/11/01. It looks to me like somebody is thumbing his nose at us.

[Shermy]

I listened to her debate with Majette. Majette put the question to her, McKinney talked about taking contributions from all sorts of people, but did not mention 9/11. Majette could have followed up pointing out McKinney's side step, but I don't think she's a "debater."

I thought maybe there would be another explanation - some kind of accounting timing or something - but McKinney offered none.

I thought when the Islamists saw the WTC fall their first instinct was not concern for victims, but to prop up their bought out politico by immediately writing a check.

But the possibility this was some kind of perverse, even nose-thumbing response is certainly possible.

[dennisw]

So is Stokely Carmichael's son, the one she hired to be a coordinator for her delegation to the UN racism conference.
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Stokely Carmichael was gay and died in Africa of an AIDs related disease but it was excused as cancer


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[billhilly]

Looks like someone is always playing the "race card."

[thegreatbeast]

What a tub of friggin' nonsense! Who's idea was this- to try at this stage of the campaign, with the primary a few days away, to try to humanize poor Cynthia McKinney? This makes me so mad. All these people trying so desperately to wrap their minds around the enigma that is CM!
Instead of accepting her for what she is (a non-responsive aggressor whose pride won't allow her to admit making a mistake), these "Jews" are torturing themselves trying to accommodate her what-have-you-done-for-me-lately persona. Such grovelling makes me sick.
What these disturbed individuals should be doing is finding a candidate that doesn't spit in their face and actually responds to their communications.
Don't buy any of this crap, people. Cynthia McKinney should not be in the House of Representatives.

[J. L. Chamberlain]

My bet is that the Druid Hills crew is going to throw McKinney out.

J

[Poohbah]

McKinney saw the vote as a threat to freedom of speech

Needs some editing...

McKinney saw the vote as a threat to freedom of speech her campaign contributions from Muslim extremists

MUCH better!

[VA Advogado]

Great story. Looks like someone is trying to rehabilitate her. I hope its too late for that.

[aristeides]

Just two weeks ago in an interview for CBS' "60 Minutes," McKinney weighed in on Emory University's fight with former business school professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld. McKinney called Emory University President William Chace a "liar" and urged Sonnenfeld to take Emory for all he could in a lawsuit.

Doesn't sound like a wise move for a politician representing a district that includes Emory University.

[tet68]

people who never saw a member of Congress, probably never dawned on them they actually had a representative up there. Be they in Jefferson County, Ga., or Dunwoody, Ga., or Haiti, Guatemala, or Australia, [or] East Timor, we define our constituency as those people who need us.

Man, I knew her district was Gerrymandered but East Timor?

[LarryLied]

I should have put the date in bold. This article was written in 1999.

Posted it to show the Jewish problem with McKinney goes back a while and that she would not be in congress today had it not been for Jewish support.

McKinney's off the cliff socialism doesn't bother Atlanta Jews, her going against AIPAC and not voting more money for Israel does. My guess is she did the Farrahkan thing just to annoy them. She wanted to let them know she could not be bought in the most in your face way.

Seeing as McKinney rose to power on Jewish support, I say let them kept her in congress. They deserve her.

On the other hand, if she is defeated by the AIPAC crowd, it could cause more animosity between Jews and Blacks in the Democratic Party.

Probably a toss-up. Conservatives will win if she is defeated or not.

[Cachelot]

Posted it to show the Jewish problem with

Ah yes, that old Jewish problem.... itches, does it?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

She is the only member of the Georgia delegation with a seat on the foreign relations committee; and if Democrats regain the majority in the House next year, she'll become chairwoman of the international relations subcommittee.

I didn't know this till now, that is the House sub-committee responsible for relations with the UN! Georgians, do your duty to your country, vote for Majette in the primary!

[Catspaw]

The "Jewish Problem?" Not "The Jew hating Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam" Problem? Geez, LL/Voegelin, you're not even subtle these days.