Kesher Talk

Cynthia McKinney to run for Senate in 2004? Those are the rumblings from her camp now. She would challenge centrist Democrat Zell Miller for the primary nomination.

Look for her to launch her campaign as a race war. The woman who ran out of racial epithets for her black-but-not-black-enough opponent (Denise Majette) in the recently lost primary, and just could not raise enough Arab money, should slip back into the racist groove if she takes up this campaign.

Her father, Georgia Democratic State Representative Billy McKinney, looks ready, having ferreted out what evil forces did in his Cynthia. He revealed the secret to an Atlanta TV station after his daughter lost last week: it was the "J-E-W-S." Will those same evil forces conspire to suport Billy's opponent in the September 10 primary runoff, John Noel?

For an insider's look at how the anti-Israeli Left (despite what many bloggers think, it is possible to be pro-Israel and Left) wants to spin the defeat, look no further than Stephen Zunes. Zunes shows that the Left could turn Cynthia into their cause celebre if she ran again. Not because she has a thing against Jews and Israel. He explains that, "Cynthia McKinney would have lost anyway, even without the infusion of “Jewish money” into the campaign." You see, she was a victim of the vast right-wing Republican conspiracy, backed by "big business" and "special interests." At essence, Zunes trades the anti-Semitic conspiracy rantings for Leftist conspiracy ranting. A big step up? Hardly...

And two days after Zunes wrote his article, conspiracy theorist Edward S. Herman replies on the same website that Zunes is missing the big picture - it is all a Jewish conspiracy, and how dare Zunes say otherwise!

posted by Howard @ 8/29/2002 09:00:38 AM