McKinney: DoD shot 5,000 prisoners during Katrina
posted at 12:15 pm on October 1, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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It wouldn’t be an election cycle without Cynthia McKinney’s lunacy, and fortunately she hasn’t shied away from providing it. Here, we watch as the Green Party’s endorsed presidential candidate accuses National Guard soldiers of committing 5,000 murders of prisoners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina:
If you think that this is the kind of insanity one normally hears from Alex Jones, well … you’d be right. The conspiracy theorists on the Left and the Right tend to embrace each other at a certain point, just south of rationality. For these people, little points like evidence and common sense provide no obstacles at all to paranoia and fantasy.
For instance, let’s skip past the extremely weak sourcing McKinney uses to make her charges and go right to some obvious points. Wouldn’t the families of these 5,000 prisoners wonder what happened to them? And which prisoners, specifically, have not been accounted for? At least a few names of people who were in Louisiana state custody before Katrina and then not in custody afterwards would provide a starting point for any investigation. And it’s possible to lose a few bodies in the Louisiana swamps, but not even that legendary territory could hide 5,000 of them at once without a few of the locals taking notice.
Normally, we’d dismiss this kind of idiocy, but this is no ordinary idiot. McKinney is a former member of Congress and a candidate for President on a party that wants to claim national legitimacy. This shows the intellectual level of the Greens, but it also puts in play yet another baseless conspiracy theory about Katrina and its aftermath. We’ll be hearing this lie for the next few years, thanks to McKinney.
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Wait…for some reason, I’d assumed that Nader was the Green Party candidate. Is he running purely as an independent this year?
(shows how much attention I’ve been paying to the third party candidates this year)
flipflop on October 1, 2008 at 1:11 PM
…a proven racist whacko practicing gnostic politics…a’ la Oliver Stone…accusing “the system” — 40 years ago, I’d've said “the Man” — of Buchenwald-esque infamy based on information from unnamed “insiders”….
This woman is on the same short bus with the likes of “Spike” Lee and others who claim that Mr. Bush dynamited the levees to kill black folks…the folks who claim that a million Iraqis were killed by the UN sanctions…and who’re strangely silent when the perp who commits actual crimes is anything other than a white male American taxpayer….
…they’ve even had academics assert that blacks can’t be racist….
Lewis Carroll is scripting the 21st Century…and Ms. McKinney’s in the role of the Queen of Hearts…”Off with their heads!”….
Puritan1648 on October 1, 2008 at 1:12 PM
To mis-quote Sen. Owens (D-NY), I’ll bet alligators “still swim the route.”
(you may remember him saying that so many slaves were thrown overboard that to this day sharks still swim the route)
hoosiermama on October 1, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Insanity is never pretty. Professional help is just a phone call away, Cynthia!
gordo on October 1, 2008 at 1:13 PM
What scares me more are the Useful Idiots ‘humming’ and basically agreeing with her there at the event.
Then again, they are in California.
Blue-eyed Infidel on October 1, 2008 at 1:13 PM
That’s it. Brilliant! I think i’m going to just grab a microphone and start spouting off the weirdest most incredible things i can think of, maybe wear a bunch of pink and grovel around on the ground with a sign that says 9/11 was an inside job, wear a che guevera tshirt and a keffiyah, and you know what will happen? People will vote me into congress. Oh yea, and she forgot the part about Bush’s failed policies being the cause of these 5000 people’s demise.
scalleywag on October 1, 2008 at 1:15 PM
So… the imaginary mother’s imaginary son can’t tell anyone any of the details because he signed a non-disclosure agreement that told him to not testify against mass murderers. That might sound idiotic, but remember: a document like that is fully enforceable in Fantasy Land.
As crazy as all that sounds, it’s the tip of the iceburg. If these people were just psychotically paranoid, that would be perfectly understandable. But they’re not.
The same people who make these insane claims against a free country are the first ones to DEFEND totalitarianisms where covering up such crimes is not only possible, but downright easy to do. That’s not paranoia, that’s treason.
logis on October 1, 2008 at 1:16 PM
Jesus fn Christ! Could it be possible that McKinney is P-Diddy’s sister?
TheSitRep on October 1, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Will someone please find a way to tie her into Obama. Something…anything….
grdred944 on October 1, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Ooops. Correction: Major Owens was a Representative.
hoosiermama on October 1, 2008 at 1:18 PM
Looks like old Cynthia has had her head in a bag-O-pork rinds for a couple of months.
How can she look at the camera with a straight face and come out with that tripe? I can’t even believe she was a Congresswoman. That really degrades my opinion of Congress just when I thought it couldn’t go any lower.
Geronimo on October 1, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Those EYES….damn scary!!!
120pages on October 1, 2008 at 1:22 PM
Cynthia McKinney, Jesse Macbeth is on the line with another tip.
moxie_neanderthal on October 1, 2008 at 1:24 PM
Are you trying to get banned or something?
RINO in Name Only on October 1, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Democrats
Cynthia McKinney is off her meds.
Better hope Obama, if he get elected, stays on his.
Farmer62 on October 1, 2008 at 1:41 PM
“Three men may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
- attributed to Benjamin Franklin
Vic on October 1, 2008 at 1:42 PM
[Comment deleted for inappropriate remark. Racist language will not be tolerated. -- Ed]
Marines for Mccain on October 1, 2008 at 1:44 PM
McKinney is only reaching out to the voters who think the US started AIDS and bombed the levies. Call it the Jerimiah Wright-Spike Lee vote. Makes perfect sense if you think about it.
Infidoll on October 1, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Woooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
SlimyBill on October 1, 2008 at 1:46 PM
This is a small but instructive example of why we’re in such trouble now. Our institutions are sinking under the weight of the McKinney’s of our world. Their effect has been felt, and incorporated into our society. We are not in trouble if something isn’t done soon, we are in trouble. We are past the point of speculating how bad things might get if this type of absurdity is allowed to continue. The future has arrived. As in other countries, the system now often works purposely against you. Beware.
JiangxiDad on October 1, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Whoa that is one ugly chick.
Thebishop on October 1, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Give her a break. Look at the size of her goiter. Thyroid deficiency will cause some individuals to lose track of reality. Clearly she has a medical condition that should excuse her for saying such silly things.
oonly on October 1, 2008 at 1:50 PM
So let me guess, the national guard was all moose hunters.
Fuquay Steve on October 1, 2008 at 1:51 PM
Cynthina McKinney does serve a purpose: I look at her and listen to her and it strengthens my belief in God because there has to be more than this. There has to be a place where morons like this don’t exist…or at a minimum a place where their stupidity won’t effect me.
So for that, I thank you Ms. McKinney.
watchmen on October 1, 2008 at 1:52 PM
“Alaska? Alaska, motherf*cker? You must be trippin’. You are definitely buggin’ the f*ck out. Seriously. Alaska. There’s not any black people in Alaska. Alaska?”
Possible relations to P-diddy. 3rd cousin on her mother’s side twice removed…….but they still have the “nut” chromosome.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 1, 2008 at 1:53 PM
Question : Were there any Jooooos there?
Fuquay Steve on October 1, 2008 at 1:53 PM
I guess that’s a yes. Hopefully you will get your wish soon.
RINO in Name Only on October 1, 2008 at 1:55 PM
As long as she is siphoning off Obama votes, she should keep it up.
JC in CA on October 1, 2008 at 1:55 PM
How come she doesn’t get invited to the debates? It would make them worth watching.
Vashta.Nerada on October 1, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Wow. I just… wow.
McKinney is completely off base and is out-of-touch with mainstream society, of that there is no doubt. But to come here and expect civilized discourse about politics and media and see comments like
or
or
It saddens me that people say these ugly things. If you disagree with McKinney (and I would think that 100% of the commenters here do) say so — but what does her race (or the race of a presidential candidate) have to do with anything? You know how liberals always accuse conservatives of being racist? Comments like these give them more ammunition for that kind of a charge.
I’m sorry to be on a soapbox, but I had to speak up.
thePajamaPundit on October 1, 2008 at 1:58 PM
still swim the route…
hoosiermama on Oct 1,2008 at 1:12PM.
hoosiermama: Yes I remember that,on Rush Limbaugh show,
years back,Rush did the math,and it was
something like ships bumper to bumper dumping
bodys overboard for a hundred years to come
up with Sen.Owens astronomical numbers!!
And Sen.Owens crazy assumption as to why there
are sharks that follow that route!!
canopfor on October 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM
…an..an…and…I heard. The dead prisioners rose from the swamp..an..and..formed a zombie army…and.
Now this is just what I heard. And um…they…um…they sold crack…the zombies… to inner city kids that the….uh…the CIA gave them…and…um…programmed voting machines for…uh…Diebold.
Interpretation: So it’s okay if we cheat, because they cheated first. It’s okay if we’re violent, because they were violent first. It’s okay if we do anything we want because we are the righteous and they are evil because “no faith shall be kept with heretics.”
29Victor on October 1, 2008 at 2:02 PM
What a waste it is to have lost ones mind or to not have a mind at all, how true that is.
- Dan Quayle
MB4 on October 1, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Kirk: “First rule of conspiracy…”
Spock: “Kill the conspirators.”
Star Trek VI
artlover on October 1, 2008 at 2:11 PM
Don’t be sorry, I think most of us here agree with you, and are hoping that Ed or AP bans these trolls soon. I think they are usually pretty good about cracking down on this kind of filth.
RINO in Name Only on October 1, 2008 at 2:11 PM
Hey Marine for McCain. Why don’t you take that racist crap some place else. We’re not the DU or KOS here and we don’t play that crap.
Sockpuppet.
hawkdriver on October 1, 2008 at 2:12 PM
There is only one solution; Arrest General Honore and let McKinney take him into a room to interogate him!
Star20 on October 1, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Yep. I thought I smelled something.
LimeyGeek on October 1, 2008 at 2:15 PM
OMG! She might sit on him. It’s called lapboarding.
hawkdriver on October 1, 2008 at 2:16 PM
lost one ’s mind….
MB4 on Oct 1,2008 at 2:05PM.
MB4: McKinney,believes in Calypso Louie’s Mothership,
oh my!!!!!!
And btw,long time,no hear from ya,hope you are
having a great day!!:):)
canopfor on October 1, 2008 at 2:16 PM
I’ve often thought that if you go far enough to the Right or Left that the universe bends back in on itself and the positions become utterly indistinguishable from each other.
crazy_legs on October 1, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Dear Cynthia:
Thanks for ensuring that I’m not the craziest black woman in Atlanta named Cynthia!
Signed,
Cynthia Tucker
radjah shelduck on October 1, 2008 at 2:29 PM
what a load
my cousin works at foti’s fortress and stayed behind to protect prisoners—it nearly cost her life
she was attacked while rescuing prisoners from rising water and beaten before being rescued by her fellow guards
frankly—some of these prisoners could use a slug in the wig
devadevadasa on October 1, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Where are the mass graves?
Evidence, please.
aengus on October 1, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Black racism is very trendy this year.
Kind of sets MLK’s imaage back about one hundred years.
Hening on October 1, 2008 at 2:36 PM
I heard alphie in the background…
Mr_Magoo on October 1, 2008 at 2:37 PM
This lady is crazy, she needs help.
pukara61 on October 1, 2008 at 2:43 PM
Isn’t she the one moderating the debate, tomorrow night?
Star20 on October 1, 2008 at 2:44 PM
I think she dozed off and woke up to an episode of K-Ville (before it was cancelled because it sucked, BTW).
Mr_Magoo on October 1, 2008 at 2:45 PM
I have had many afternoons over at the site, “After Downing Street”. These folks are amazing to interact with. They will send you hours and hours of videos that have been made to support their claims and then the videos themselves become the evidence. But conspiracy theorists are absolutely amazing in the manner in which they weave totally unconnected documents and irrational reasoning into theories. I’ve had a little psychology training with the instructor courses I’ve had in the Army. These loons demonstrate the most classic definition of “Reaction Formation” I’ve ever seen, Specifically, to them anything that is released by a government agency that doesn’t suit their reasoning is the covert elements of our government trying to mislead them. If the data supports their delusion, then the information leaked out without the governments help. The theme is always that the government is never up front about any data that gets out. They would never be able to read something that changes their mind. It by it’s nature pro or con support the belief.
But they are also a hateful, hateful ill-tempered bunch. They are supporting a candidate who when elected will bring GWB to trial and depending upon the outcome either imprison and get this, they don’t think the death penalty would be inappropriate! It took me a couple days to get them to admit they wanted all of us involved in the war prosecuted too.
I think of them as critters in a cage that you engage with and get to trusting you. Then buy the time they’re taking peanuts from your hand, you start poking them with a stick.
hawkdriver on October 1, 2008 at 2:47 PM
True dat. That’s the ironic thing about teh media and the liberals. They’ve become what they’ve always accused us of being. The way the media and the dems are acting this year is Brown Shirted and thuggish.
hawkdriver on October 1, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Is it just me?
Or Ms. McKinney looked like she put on 50 lbs since last time she was in the news (capitol hill shuffling)?
Sir Napsalot on October 1, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Looks like. But she still has that healthy moonbat glow.
hawkdriver on October 1, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Let’s see. She says one guy’s task was dealing with 5,000 bodies and dumping them in Loojana swamps. I wonder how far he had to tote each one? How many could he do in a day, 25 or so? I doubt if he could dump them all in one spot. If he could do 25 in a day, then it took him 200 days to do it. Somebody would have wondered what was going on. Right? And that’s without weekends off or vacation or sick days or personal days or family leave days.
Sloan Morganstern on October 1, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Not to my mind. The right and the left in America tend to split on the effectiveness of government and the amount of government intrusion into personal lives (or federal intrusion into states’ areas of responsibility). The far extreme on the right leads to anarchy, while the far extreme on the left leads to totalitarianism. There are, of course, many plain old lunatics who are neither right nor left – they don’t even have much reason behind their ideas, at all – and they can end up anywhere.
progressoverpeace on October 1, 2008 at 2:53 PM
Oakland/San Fran typical…BTW, I thought it was more like 10,000, but then I am counting the ones in the hospitals.
right2bright on October 1, 2008 at 2:54 PM
That “B” is crazy. It’s just that simple.
Oink on October 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM
I heard it was more like ten million. I guess it depends on what unnamed source you believe the most.
logis on October 1, 2008 at 3:07 PM
MsforMc was a pretty obvious sockpuppet/provocateur. Glad it got the boot.
DrSteve on October 1, 2008 at 3:08 PM
They were probably ordered killed by some racist general.
Oh wait, General Honore, a really cool black guy who could bitch slap Rambo, was in charge.
Star20 on October 1, 2008 at 3:28 PM
You know what, I’m sorry to take it here, but I’m really tired of these idiots… It’s too bad McKinney wasn’t dumped in a swamp. This evil, racist, lunatic, POS isn’t worthy of our nation.
RightWinged on October 1, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Um, where’d our $114,000,000,000.00 go? This woman is a lunatic and a racist.
marklmail on October 1, 2008 at 3:38 PM
That lady is stuck on stupid, fo realz.
Seixon on October 1, 2008 at 3:42 PM
She would probably be great at finding truffles.
Akzed on October 1, 2008 at 3:51 PM
I personally shot 325 of them (please don’t tell anybody that I told you).
lionheart on October 1, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Gosh, she makes her argument so convincingly that I’m utterly convinced and everything!
What was she saying, again?
R. Waher on October 1, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Mr. Slaw from RedState Update is more coherent than Cynthia McKinney.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 1, 2008 at 5:20 PM
You would think that if she really believed this country was so awful she would emigrate to some nice place like Cuba or Iran or somewhere.
crazy.
Terrye on October 1, 2008 at 5:26 PM
How in the hell did this imbecilic moron get out of her padded cell, and straight jacket?
byteshredder on October 1, 2008 at 5:37 PM
LOL
But I shot 326 of them myself, so nah nah na nah…..
Hog Wild on October 1, 2008 at 5:48 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm……………….Perhaps SHE is the REAL mother of Obama’s “punishments”????
Certainly they (the Obama’s) make enough money to intimidate a hospital…..
I should point this out to the AssHat Sullivan.
Talon on October 1, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Not only is her cheese not attached to her cracker, they aren’t even on the same continent! Oy! What a nutbag!
hburns on October 1, 2008 at 6:31 PM
You mean that they shot 5000 people and not one person even thought about pumping a bullet in her head?
Tim Burton on October 1, 2008 at 6:50 PM
She is one of those cases of being Psychotic with a very low IQ.
TheSitRep on October 1, 2008 at 6:55 PM
She’s not from Georgia, she’s not from Georgia, she’s not from Georgia, she’s not from Georgia, lalalalalalalala.
(Is she gone?)
MsUnderestimated on October 1, 2008 at 7:24 PM
I have also heard that quote tributed to Joseph Stalin, Al Capone, Vito Genovese, and Ben Siegel.
Pelayo on October 1, 2008 at 8:09 PM
Hawkdriver, I read a little story about conspiracies where people believe in the perfection of government cover-ups or something phrased similarly. The more nefarious the deed, the easier it is to keep it secret. They are deluded into believing that the government that could not hide the atomic bomb from Stalin can hide every other dirty little secret.
I found Alex Jones on shortwave radio back in ‘03. He claimed that the US government was going to release sarin gas on our troops just to justify the invasion of Iraq. He even had a “guest” who claimed that he entered Iraq secretely and planted sarin explosives. Jones has been screaming “detention camps” since 2003. The man is a lunatic who should be institutionalized, or else he is a shrewed businessman who has found all of those suckers that P.T.Barnum spoke about.
Pelayo on October 1, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Jones is certifable! Did you see the video of him chasing MMalkin around Denver? What a tool. I do think he truly beleives what he says though.
It’s hard sometimes to think that’s what some people believe we’ve done overseas and what they beleive their own soldiers are capable of.
hawkdriver on October 1, 2008 at 9:09 PM
Er, let‘s try “certifiable” and “believe“.
hawkdriver on October 1, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Pass the crack pipe, please. Wasn’t that Rev. Wright I heard in the background?
warriorlawyer on October 1, 2008 at 9:54 PM
Do we really want black people running this country?
revolution on October 1, 2008 at 9:55 PM
If they have integrity and are the best persons for the job?
Absolutely I wanted Condi as my choice, but not Barry Soetoro Communist thanks.
sven10077 on October 1, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Why not? I nominate Thomas Sowell, Alan Keyes, Walter Williams, Star Parker, LaShawn Barber, Condoleezza Rice (yes really), Clarence Thomas, JC Watts, etc etc etc…
inviolet on October 1, 2008 at 10:28 PM
LOLOL
First thought with that video: whatz up with those EYES?!
inviolet on October 1, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Dr Evil wrote:
I unfortunately know her personally. And, yes, she has monsterous problems of that kind.
noblejones on October 2, 2008 at 2:37 AM
12 shades of guano.
ZK on October 2, 2008 at 8:51 AM
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