Cynthia McKinney is the gift that keeps on giving. In recent years, the former congresswoman from Georgia — now running as the Green Party’s candidate for president of the United States — has become a sound-bite machine … and not always for the better.
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Her quirky ways were on display a few weeks back when she spoke in Rohnert Park, Calif., at an event sponsored by Project Censored. A Yeas & Nays friend sent us an audio recording of the event and we here present McKinney’s Greatest Hits:
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» “For those of you who know about the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, everything you think you know isn’t true. It’s a lie.”
» “Georgia isn’t the most advanced place. I’ll be like Hillary [Clinton], trying to retract that in a minute.”
» “Bush said he was clicking around on the Internet. Well, Spitzer was clicking around, too, all over America.”
» “I’ve learned so much on so many issues since I’ve been here in California about the forest fires and how the forest fires might not be unpurposeful events. That there is a purpose. A public policy purpose that comes at the end of a forest fire experience that allows developers to go into pristine areas where they were previously denied access.”
All of those statements made this McKinney gem all the more ironic: “There are a few of us who choose the real world … and then there’s the great multitude who is content to laugh at the comedy that is put before them.”
