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Mon. Aug 12, 2002

More on McKinney's Money

More on McKinney’s Money – (via IndePundit) It’s the story that just won’t go away. In fact, it gets bigger. "On Aug. 3, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution identified eight of the controversial donors to the McKinney campaign" but now the Washington Post reports "The reelection campaign of Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) has received campaign contributions from at least 18 donors who are either officers of Muslim foundations under investigation by the FBI, have voiced support for Palestinian and Lebanese terrorist organizations or have made inflammatory statements about Jews."

We also get a lovely quote from McKinney during the debate, when asked about these donations: ”All of our contributions are legal. My opponent, on the other hand, has an awful lot of Republican money going into her coffers,” the implication being that donations from Republicans would be illegal, which, of course, they are not. That’s just the McKinney style of debate.

And now, the people on this list are magically coming forward to, er, amend and extend their comments, as they say in Congress. It’s absolutely hilarious, in a sick way: "Al-Arian, the University of South Florida professor, defended himself at an Aug. 1 news conference in St. Petersburg. He said, ’ ’Death to Israel’ meant death to apartheid, death to oppression. . . . I never incited people to violence or murder. It never happened.’ "

”Oh, no, your culture misunderstands what I mean when I say ’Death to someone.’ I don’t endorse violence or murder against them. I mean, like they should get pneumonia and die in their sleep, or something peaceful like that.”

"Alamoudi, in a letter to The Washington Post, defended his comments supporting Hamas: ’Suicide bombings against civilians are tragic and condemnable acts of terror,’ Alamoudi wrote. ’I do not support them. Military actions, taken against military targets, are understandable acts of resistance. I support these actions, as does international law. However, Hamas and Hezbollah are complex organizations that cannot be reduced to their violent extremes. They are popular movements with both military and political wings.’ "

Yeah, the KKK was kind of like that at one time, too, with their public face saying they didn’t actually endorse stringing up blacks or burning crosses on their yard, but sometimes people get carried away, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, whaddayagonnado?

Sickening. Speaking of which:

"On June 2, the news service IslamOnline reported that McKinney told a gathering at the Islamic Foundation School in Chicago: ’I need your help …. It’s just not about a congressional district. It’s about the members of Congress who have the courage to come to the Muslim community.’ "

Wow. ”It’s just not about a congressional district.” Thanks for spelling it out and making it clear for those who had any doubt. McKinney is too obsessed with tilting at windmills to worry about some silly congressional district, that’s just not what this is about. She’s busy pleading for help … in Chicago.

Those people won’t show up to vote on August 20.