# Rep Cynthia McKinney, like bottom feeding much? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 12, 2002, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258 "2002-04-12T16:37:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/21 "2002-04-14T03:31:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jello \* > **… with Ralph Nader and Jello Biafra…** Nothing to add here. Just enjoying the image this conjures up. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/22 "2002-04-14T14:09:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 3waygeek \* > \*\*You’re probably referring to Bob Barr, from Georgia’s 7th district, which has recently been redrawn to include me – and I thought I had it bad when Newt was my voice in DC. \*\* Nothing personal, but if I were you, I’d leave Georgia altogether for someplace whose reps are somewhat saner. Robin ---
**Author:** ![3waygeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e95f7d/32.png) [@3waygeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3waygeek)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/23 "2002-04-14T14:12:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MsRobyn \* > \*\* > > Nothing personal, but if I were you, I’d leave Georgia altogether for someplace whose reps are somewhat saner. > > Robin \*\* Does such a place actually exist? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/24 "2002-04-14T14:28:18Z")
I like it when McKinney says something wacky. It distracts the press from Dorothy “I see dead people” Pelote. ---
**Author:** ![Qwertyasdfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ecc23a/32.png) [@Qwertyasdfg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwertyasdfg)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/25 "2002-04-15T02:45:57Z")
I’d rather have paranoia like that, than the government silencing any investigation into alterior motives. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/26 "2002-04-15T07:00:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Is Chenoweth still there? That ® from Utah(?) who wanted to get an investigation going about the UN’s “black helicopters” operating stealth in UFO-abductee country? Fortunately, no. She rode to election in 1994 on a pro-term limits platform and kept her promise to leave after serving three terms. Also, she was from Idaho (as if that state didn’t have enough bad publicity with the Aryan Nations and Randy Weaver). ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/27 "2002-04-15T09:33:19Z")
I also live in her district, and I’m horrified by the things she says. Some people need to have their mouths sewn shut, and she’s one of them. Thank God I’m moving out of state this summer. Between her and the bodies being dug up in Noble, the past year has been exceptionally bad for Georgia’s image. Not that it was great to begin with. ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/28 "2002-04-15T20:14:48Z")
**Lsura** : Don’t forget the assassination of Derwin Brown, the House of Prayer and the Gold Club. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/29 "2002-04-15T23:47:06Z")
I know, I know **Jello**. I was hoping no one else really remembered those stories though, no matter how unlikely it really is. ---
**Author:** ![45\_70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/5f9b8f/32.png) [@45\_70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/45_70)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/30 "2002-04-16T02:56:50Z")
Why is it that most jobs have a job description and required skills, but to run for congress all they have to do is check the box titled " assinine idiot"? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/31 "2002-04-16T04:11:34Z")
Because it’s the American Way, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/32 "2002-04-16T04:27:01Z")
Someone in Cafe Society asked to see some funny web sites and that site that the picture of McKinney is located would fit right in. What a bunch of fucking nutjobs. Why doesn’t McKinney say something like that on the floor of the House? ---
**Author:** ![obidiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@obidiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obidiah)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/33 "2002-04-16T15:48:29Z")
Wow! This is neat. Look at all the close minded people in this forum! I mean, a lot of you guys have the ability to discuss things with an open mind UNTIL it comes to the terrorist attacks. I’m surprised it took an elected official this long to bring up some interesting points about these attacks. However, she is branded a “screwball” and “nutjob”. “Here in America, patriotism doesn’t mean keeping quiet. It means speaking up. It means exercising our freedom of speech and debating what we believe is right and what we believe is wrong.” -Al Gore, April 13, 2002 “Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar.” –Julius Caesar Flame on! ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/34 "2002-04-16T16:00:29Z")
obidiah, if someone wants to accuse the president of accesory to murder, there had better be some evidence other than he has friends who are defense contractors. Aside from that, what are her “interesting points”? ---
**Author:** ![obidiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@obidiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obidiah)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/35 "2002-04-16T16:40:53Z")
Here is an article outlining some interesting events: [http://66.169.67.188:8010/geeklog/public\_html//article.php?story=20020227103928364](http://66.169.67.188:8010/geeklog/public_html//article.php?story=20020227103928364) It is a little long, but at least it is a place to start. ---
**Author:** ![zigaretten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/91b2a8/32.png) [@zigaretten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zigaretten)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/36 "2002-04-16T16:50:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obidiah \* > \*\*Here is an article outlining some interesting events: > > [http://66.169.67.188:8010/geeklog/public\_html//article.php?story=20020227103928364](http://66.169.67.188:8010/geeklog/public_html//article.php?story=20020227103928364) > > It is a little long, but at least it is a place to start. \*\* I believe that the article you’re linking to is what some people refer to as “parody.” Ron (or am I being whooshed here?) ---
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/37 "2002-04-16T17:11:27Z")
McKinney is not the root of the problem. It takes all sorts to make a world and there will always be a few like her around. The problem is when you have people like that in sufficient numbers that they are the majority and they can vote for one of their own. McKinney is just a reflection of her district which, BTW, I have absolutely no information about except the person they elected to represent them. ---
**Author:** ![obidiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@obidiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obidiah)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/38 "2002-04-16T20:37:20Z")
[http://66.169.67.188:8010/geeklog/public\_html//article.php?story=20020128170543597](http://66.169.67.188:8010/geeklog/public_html//article.php?story=20020128170543597) ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/39 "2002-04-16T21:13:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by obidiah \* > \*\*[http://66.169.67.188:8010/geeklog/public\_html//article.php?story=20020128170543597](http://66.169.67.188:8010/geeklog/public_html//article.php?story=20020128170543597) \*\* ::sigh:: **obidiah** , yer a jackass. The premise of the linked article is that, because President Bush knew that a plane had crashed into the WTC, but continued on with his schedule, the Bush Administration was behind the attacks. Newsflash, **obidiah** - I knew of the first plane hitting WTC minutes afterwards (I live right across the East River), but continued with my schedule. My dog really had to go. I don’t think I was behind the attacks, but I could be wrong. But let’s get back to reality here – Bush (nor I) would alter his/her schedule for an accident. And that’s what everyone’s first impression of the first attack was - an accident. It was only when the second attack occurred that we all realized it was an attack. Card was informing Bush of the second attack when he whispered in Bush’s ear in the now infamous news clip. As for the FAA “open line” conspiracy silliness, the FAA did have some indication that the planes were hijacked before the first attack, certainly. So likely, the FAA was the first institution to have a clue that the first attack really wasn’t an accident. So it would make sense they would be on the line to the Secret Service earlier than anyone else. Sua ---
**Author:** ![Zoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6de8d8/32.png) [@Zoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoff)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258/40 "2002-04-16T21:36:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by zigaretten_ > Ron (or am I being whooshed here?) There’s some whooshin’ going on, but it’s not you Ron. I think it’s pretty clear that the article is tongue-in-cheek. Multiple references to the X-Files and a compilation of “facts” that don’t actually connect are strong clues. The author makes it clear that the article is a satire at the end: > [@](#): > > But be warned. > > The Pentagon has just established a new Office of Strategic Influence that calls for the planting of false stories in the foreign press, phoney e-mails from disguised addresses and other covert activities to manipulate public opinion. > > This could be one of them. > > Ian Mulgrew claims to be a Vancouver Sun reporter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rep-cynthia-mckinney-like-bottom-feeding-much/103258.md?page=3)