Surreal Time With Cynthia McKinney

I don't know what school of PR Cynthia McKinney's lawyers and handlers went to, but one of the first things I ever learned about damage control was, "If you're in a hole, then put down the damn shovel."

In the latest stop on her you-a culpa tour, the Georgia congresswoman was on HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher," denying that she had asserted that her altercation with a Capitol policeman was a function of racism, and then disingenuously expounding in the same breath on the racist nature of society.

Using the royal "we," McKinney argued essentially that her liberal credentials put her personal behavior off-limits to scrutiny, even when such behavior is potentially criminal.  To his credit, Bill Maher tried to call her on her bullshit – in his own timid, left-leaning way.

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Comments

[Patrick]

You should update this post with a clip from last week's "VH1 Best Week Ever" compilation of McKinney's "Much Ado about a Hair-Do" soundbyte...

[Josh]

Her lawyers went to school? They coulda fooled me.

And both of them came across as assholes.

[Jamie]

Oh, she just needs to shut up. She apologized now, in her own half-hearted way, so why go on shows like Maher's to keep looking like a fool?

Biden was magnificent, however.

[Queer Conservative]

Oh, she just needs to shut up. She apologized now, in her own half-hearted way, so why go on shows like Maher's to keep looking like a fool?

Because she scared shitless that she might get indicted, or WORSE lose her seat in Congress (again).

[blewsdawg]

Oh, she just needs to shut up. She apologized now, in her own half-hearted way, so why go on shows like Maher's to keep looking like a fool?

At this point, she's trying to avoid prosecution. Prosecutors have indicated their intention to swear out a warrant for her arrest. Her method of avoiding answering embarrassing or actionable charges is always - al-ways - to counter with racially related charges.

Her father is well known in Georgia for the same thing.

[Queer Conservative]

The elder McKinney is also well know in Georgia for blatant anti-semitism. And as they say, the nut doesn't fall very far from the Nut Tree.

[The Libertarian Guy]

What, exactly, is "inappropriate touching"? It sounds like a line from a sexual-harassment class...

More importantly, though: How does it apply to McKinney?

[Attmay]

Remember the episode of I Love Lucy where Lucy fell into a vat of laundry starch and ended up looking like that?