Cynthia McKinney and her lemmings think she's vindicated

The Neal Boortz Show / Boortz.com ^ | 5.16.02 | Neil Boortz

[mhking]

IS THIS CYNTHIA’S VINDICATION?

As sure as Cynthia will be wearing braids today, she and her supporters will be claiming vindication for her earlier remarks about Bush.

Let’s be clear .. No matter how puffed up Cynthia and her supporters become today, yesterday’s revelations don’t transform her from a loud-mouthed partisan into a sage.

In her Berkeley NPR statement several weeks ago Cynthia McKinney implied – she did not directly charge – she implied that President Bush had specific knowledge that Osama Bin Laden’s henchmen would hijack commercial airliners on a specific date and would fly those airliners into specific buildings in an attempt to kill innocents. Further, Cynthia implied that Bush made a conscious decision to do nothing about those warnings because he, in fact, wanted those attacks to take place so that his buddies in the defense industry could make money from the military action that would follow.

Listen --- these were Cynthia’s words on that NPR radio show in March:

[audio] <<<< There was adequate warning. There were people who failed to act.>>>>

Today McKinney will hold a press conference. She will say that yesterday’s news completely vindicates her. Her supporters will cheer. The “I told you so’s” will echo off the walls.

There is no way that anyone is ever going to convince any McKinney supporter that her remarks were and remain careless and unfounded. There was nothing in yesterday’s news that indicates that Bush or anyone in his administration knew that these airliners were going to be hijacked on one particular day and flown into the World Trade Towers in Manhattan.

Was there “adequate” warning as Cynthia charged? Well, if you want to call a generalized warning that some of Osama Bin Laden’s goons might try to hijack an airliner from an unspecified airline flying out of some unspecified airport in some unspecified part of the world on some unspecified date “adequate,” you might say that Cynthia was right. Sure --- we all know that this is “adequate” warning, don’t we.

What about Cynthia’s charge that “there were people who failed to act.” That’s rather vague, isn’t it? Did she specifically mean Bush? This morning The Washington Post – hardly friendly to Bush – reports that Bush put law enforcement agencies on alert as soon as he received the intelligence briefing. Is that a failure to act?

And what about Cynthia’s charges that Bush’s failure to act and failure to warn the American people was all a part of a plan to insure huge profits to his buddies in the defense industry? He did act. He put law enforcement on alert. No, he didn’t warn the American people. There is no evidence that he had any information that the American people were in danger? What was he going to warn them about!

Bottom line. Cynthia is going to make a completely unfounded claim of vindication. Her followers will agree. Those who resent Bush’s presence in the White House will agree. Nothing – no amount of information or logic – will sway them.

In the meantime, those who are truly concerned about our security and correcting the mistakes that WERE made will absorb this information and proceed to address the REAL failures.

[mhking]

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[sauropod]

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[roses of sharon]

I am sending McKinney that picture of W, (It was in a 9/11 mag I bought at the bookstore months ago), just to piss her off.

We should all do the same. Send one to Daschle too.

[3AngelaD]

Someone needs to ask McKinney what is was she expected Bush to do. Close down all the airports, from early August on, until the entire matter was sorted out? Forbid air travel in the United States? This horrible event happened, and could happen again, until all of these people are thrown out of our country. Let's see if she goes along with that.

[mhking]

Someone needs to ask McKinney what is was she expected Bush to do.

If any reporter has the stones to ask the question, they will either be ignored or shouted down. You can't confuse McKinney with logic - her brain will explode.

[mgc1122]

Memo to Mz. McKinney - as sure I'm sitting here watching it rain, I can say there's going to be a bank robbery in Atlanta sometime in the next 60 days ... what are you going to do to prevent it?

[HELLRAISER II]

Mrs. McKinney is pro-Black and that's O.k., but she is anti-American & that's something that I just can't overlook, yes we knew about people that wished to hurt America (like herself) but that does not mean that George Bush knew that the WTC was going to be attacked by civilian aircraft that's just nonsense. When she looks at America and America's Whites all she see's is a Racist Country & a racist people that conspire every day against the Black race and that as a whole does not exist today. She is a dangerous woman with a dangerous agenda, splitting America down the Great Racial Divide. Bottomline she is the racist nut case.

[HELLRAISER II]

The usual, blame Whitey.

[linn37]

ask Mckinney whos funding her campaign and see how much America trusts any of her statements after that.

[smokinleroy]

Perhaps she's the one with information that Osama Bin Laden's henchmen would hijack commercial airliners on a specific date and would fly those airliners into specific buildings in an attempt to kill innocents considering the scores of muslim campaign contributors she has.

[mafree]

Thanks for the ping.

I can't see how she can feel vindicated over this, though some of course will spin it that way. The whole episode will be used to beat up W.

[mhking]

Perhaps she's the one with information that Osama Bin Laden's henchmen would hijack commercial airliners on a specific date and would fly those airliners into specific buildings in an attempt to kill innocents considering the scores of muslim campaign contributors she has.

Now we don't know that, but an investigation into her connections with the Arab community would certainly let us know. And of course, inquring minds want to know whether or not she was involved or not.

[demlosers]

IS THIS CYNTHIA’S VINDICATION?

correct me if I’m wrong, NO. I remember her stating Bush explicitly (or at least insinuating) knew when, who, and where the attack would take place. Because Bush new of a general hijacking threat against the U.S. doesn't vindicate her.

[eureka!]

"Now we don't know that, but an investigation into her connections with the Arab community would certainly let us know. And of course, inquring minds want to know whether or not she was involved or not."

LOL. So true. Oh, that her supporters had some light shone on them...

[demlosers]

new = knew

[backhoe]

Thanks for posting this- I heard Neil talking about this while I was in the car.

If you aren't aware of it, here's what I have found:

The McKinney Files....

... and I'll cross-link your post to it.

[lepton]

on might be nice.

[johnny7]

Thank the Lord we have a Ms Cleo in congress.

Get rid of Rummy and let her take the wheel in the Defense Department.

Our real enemies are England, Taiwan and Japan!

Our friends are the Arab nations, North Korea and Cuba!

Wait... I see Washington DC turned into a black, theme-park!

I see the nations capitol in Berkley!

[Marysecretary]

As long as we keep letting these people in and not getting rid of those whose visas have expired, then what can we expect? McKinney is a jerk. And those who keep voting her in are even bigger jerks! Politics! Blahhhhhh!!!!