Here’s a 2002 article Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
All of us have voices in our heads, whispering insanities. Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s problem is that she lets hers speak. She’s the Christopher Walken character in Annie Hall, except when she’s tempted to swerve into a car’s oncoming headlights, she actually does it.
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McKinney, weeks after her statement, would say only, “A complete investigation might reveal” that “President Bush or members of his administration have personally profited from the attacks of 9-11.”
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During a nasty 1996 congressional campaign with racial tension on both sides, she called supporters of her Republican opponent “holdovers from the Civil War days” and “a ragtag group of neo-Confederates.” Never mind that her opponent was Jewish. And during the 2000 presidential campaign, she wrote that “Gore’s Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I’ve never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.” Never mind that Gore’s campaign manager was black.
Can I say in GD that she seems to be really looney tunes? And the same for the people who re-elect her?
One thing I haven’t seen is how this happened. McKinney was nominated, but what were the forces behind this? Were there people in the party that wanted to make it hard-left progressive, or was the party hijacked? It’s hard to find information about American third parties onliine.