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Cynthia McKinney: Gaddafi’s Useful Idiot
frontpagemag.com ^ | June 7, 2011 | Brendon S. Peck

Posted on 06/08/2011 11:50:07 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

While Muammar Gaddafi grows ever more desperate as he loses key military support, former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) is shamelessly serving as a propagandist for the Libyan tyrant’s regime.

Venomous remarks recently made by the former six-term congresswoman on Libyan state television were deeply disturbing, to say the least. Among her many outbursts, she charged that America is spending “money on death, destruction and war.” The fact that these comments were broadcast on Libyan state television, which serves as Gaddafi’s mouthpiece, makes matters all the more reprehensible.

Yet such behavior by Cynthia McKinney should come as no surprise. It is, in fact, demonstrative of a definable historical pattern. McKinney is part of a long Western leftist tradition of progressive sycophants traveling to adversarial lands in an effort to undermine America.

In 2009, for example, McKinney traveled to Libya and praised Gaddafi, calling him a “global leader” and thanking him for “reaching out from Africa to the entire world.” As she fell over herself to laud this mass murderer, a man who is widely believed to have ordered the bombing of Pan-Am Flight 103, she equated America’s economic system with “bondage.”

After her most recent Libyan rendezvous, McKinney traveled to Iran for what was billed as an “anti-terrorism” conference. There, she claimed to have been “politically assaulted” by American advocates of Israel during her time in Congress.

McKinney also propagated the anti-Semitic myth, widely believed in the Muslim world, that it is mandatory for U.S. Congress members to “pledge allegiance” to Israel. Much like her longstanding assertion that the September 11th terrorist attacks were part of a U.S government conspiracy, such cancerous falsehoods are readily used by jihadists to garner support for their cause.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cynthiamckinney; libya; mckinney
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1 posted on 06/08/2011 11:50:12 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Gaddafi pays well.


2 posted on 06/08/2011 11:51:04 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Oh but she’s not merely Gaddafi’s.


3 posted on 06/08/2011 11:52:02 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Tea Party: La Resistance)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

is it too early in the rhetoric to ask for her to be hung for treason?


4 posted on 06/08/2011 11:54:48 AM PDT by SF_Redux (Sarah stands for accountablility and personal responsiblity, democrats can't live with that)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Middle east you can keep her. I hear she likes her sex rough.


5 posted on 06/08/2011 11:55:51 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I don’t think she’s even useful.................


6 posted on 06/08/2011 11:56:13 AM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I have to say, Cynthia McKinney is too much of an idiot to be useful to anybody.


7 posted on 06/08/2011 11:57:51 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Tailgunner Joe
FP. Plenty of blood suckers out there.

How about Richard Perle.

8 posted on 06/08/2011 11:58:24 AM PDT by Palter (We can't afford a Republican or Dem President. We are broke.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

She’s Maxine Waters’ spiritual twin, but her district is smarter than Maxine’s, and voted her out.


9 posted on 06/08/2011 12:01:38 PM PDT by American Quilter (DEFUND OBAMACARE.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Talking about the pot calling the kettle....I guess I can’t go there, can I?


10 posted on 06/08/2011 12:07:10 PM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly (Loose lips sink ships.)
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To: SF_Redux

Yes, and our involvement in Libya violates the War Powers Act, not to mention that there is no reason for one dollar to be spent on this Wag-the-Dog military adventure.


11 posted on 06/08/2011 12:19:03 PM PDT by achilles2000 ("I'll agree to save the whales as long as we can deport the liberals")
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To: Tailgunner Joe

If George Washington was in charge she’d be hanged for treason.


12 posted on 06/08/2011 12:21:23 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Only a SECOND party will get my vote.)
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To: achilles2000

And she should be charged with treason if we’re at war or not. Of course so should about 90% of the rest of the dems.


13 posted on 06/08/2011 12:23:05 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Only a SECOND party will get my vote.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I didn’t like Qadafi as little as the next American. But, after Iraq he turned a leaf and turned over his WMD program and started working against Alqaida with us. He even pitched his dumba55ed tent in New Jersey.

Freepers need to look at the big picture here and understand we aren’t overthrowing him now because we give a damn about a handful of protesters. We are helping to overthrow ALL of our allies in the Middle East! Look to Soros and where he’s building his banking empire. He’s looking to be THE bank for all of these new regimes.


14 posted on 06/08/2011 12:25:29 PM PDT by Dogbert41 (I hate posting with ipad:( too many typos!)
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When we look at Cynthia McKinney as a U.S. Representative, we have to consider the reason an idiot gets elected to Federal office. It helps to look at the person that replaced her in Georgia's 4th district (Atalanta), Hank Johnson. Johnson is the fool that questioned Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, about Guam tipping over due to overpopulation.

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The problem is not the fool but is instead the fools that elect them!

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - - - Winston Churchill

15 posted on 06/08/2011 12:33:09 PM PDT by CharlyFord
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To: Tailgunner Joe

So Ms. McKinney is at odds with ZerO. Interesting.


16 posted on 06/08/2011 12:35:03 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: Dogbert41

Yep! How many people will be surprised to learn that the “Arab Spring” was planned and orchestrated by a Marxist “community organizer” in the White House??


17 posted on 06/08/2011 12:40:20 PM PDT by CharlyFord
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To: American Quilter
She’s Maxine Waters’ spiritual twin, but her district is smarter than Maxine’s, and voted her out.

Don't forget Sheila Jackson-Lee (d), TX. I hope, but don't think the TX house will redraw that district enough to get rid of her.

18 posted on 06/08/2011 12:42:20 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (zero hates Texas and we hate him back.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

She’s got some use? Who would have guessed?


19 posted on 06/08/2011 12:46:05 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Dogbert41
I hate to burst your bubble but the reason we forced Qaddafi to give up his WMD's was so he'd be easier to overthrow.

Welcome to reality.

20 posted on 06/08/2011 12:47:40 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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