Katie and Cynthia
There's not much of significance to the country of either big story this week, but I can't help but find them both rather fascinating.
First is the story of Cynthia McKinney, a congresswoman from Georgia. If I understand correctly, she's from Atlanta. What makes her story interesting to me isn't what actually happened, but what I've learned about Cynthia and the case since then.
From what I've learned, I have to admit to feeling sorry for Cynthia. She is an outrageous and colorful (no pun intended) individual who allegedly slugged a security guard with her cellphone when he tried to stop her from entering the Capitol building. She was outraged that the guard would dare stop her, an important member of congress on her way to whatever meeting was happening that day.
Apparently, she could have apologized to the guard for slugging him, and maybe sent him a fruit basket or something to express her regret for losing her cool. But instead she decided to go on the offensive, and publicly excoriated the guard as both a racist (he was engaging in "racial profiling") and a sexual predator (he "touched her inappropriately").
Instead of the incident passing with little notice, she now is subject to possible assault charges. And I would suspect she's subject to a civil suit from the guard for slander and defamation of character. She's appeared with her attorneys on a variety of news programs, which have served to dig her deeper into her hole rather than sway public opinion in her favor. Even her fellow partisan Democrats are keeping their distance from this crazy woman.
I feel sorry for her, because it must be a miserable existence to live every day in extreme hatred and paranoia. If you are Cynthia, every bad thing that happens to you happens only because of your skin color. According to several people who know her, the incident is one of many.
The other story is about Katie Couric taking over the anchor at CBS News. Again, it's not significant in its national importance, other than the obvious hope at CBS that she can help boost their dismal news ratings. What her hiring shows most of all is that CBS hasn't learned anything from the incident with Dan Rather and the forged Bush National Guard documents. If anything, Katie is even more openly partisan than Dan, and will be in charge of the CBS News program. That means her broadcasts will continue the CBS tradition of left-wing propaganda thinly disguised as the news.
There's no surprise there, but I can't help but be disappointed. Someday an executive at one of the big 3 networks is going to catch on, and put together a news division that actually presents the real stories of importance to our country and presents both sides of each issue fairly and reasonably.
Do Cynthia and Katie have anything in common? Sure. They're both angry liberal women. They're both self-important. They're both lightweights intellectually. They both hate the President. They both live their lives on emotion instead of reason.
It's just that Katie hasn't slugged any security policemen lately. At least not that we've heard about.
First is the story of Cynthia McKinney, a congresswoman from Georgia. If I understand correctly, she's from Atlanta. What makes her story interesting to me isn't what actually happened, but what I've learned about Cynthia and the case since then.
From what I've learned, I have to admit to feeling sorry for Cynthia. She is an outrageous and colorful (no pun intended) individual who allegedly slugged a security guard with her cellphone when he tried to stop her from entering the Capitol building. She was outraged that the guard would dare stop her, an important member of congress on her way to whatever meeting was happening that day.
Apparently, she could have apologized to the guard for slugging him, and maybe sent him a fruit basket or something to express her regret for losing her cool. But instead she decided to go on the offensive, and publicly excoriated the guard as both a racist (he was engaging in "racial profiling") and a sexual predator (he "touched her inappropriately").
Instead of the incident passing with little notice, she now is subject to possible assault charges. And I would suspect she's subject to a civil suit from the guard for slander and defamation of character. She's appeared with her attorneys on a variety of news programs, which have served to dig her deeper into her hole rather than sway public opinion in her favor. Even her fellow partisan Democrats are keeping their distance from this crazy woman.
I feel sorry for her, because it must be a miserable existence to live every day in extreme hatred and paranoia. If you are Cynthia, every bad thing that happens to you happens only because of your skin color. According to several people who know her, the incident is one of many.
The other story is about Katie Couric taking over the anchor at CBS News. Again, it's not significant in its national importance, other than the obvious hope at CBS that she can help boost their dismal news ratings. What her hiring shows most of all is that CBS hasn't learned anything from the incident with Dan Rather and the forged Bush National Guard documents. If anything, Katie is even more openly partisan than Dan, and will be in charge of the CBS News program. That means her broadcasts will continue the CBS tradition of left-wing propaganda thinly disguised as the news.
There's no surprise there, but I can't help but be disappointed. Someday an executive at one of the big 3 networks is going to catch on, and put together a news division that actually presents the real stories of importance to our country and presents both sides of each issue fairly and reasonably.
Do Cynthia and Katie have anything in common? Sure. They're both angry liberal women. They're both self-important. They're both lightweights intellectually. They both hate the President. They both live their lives on emotion instead of reason.
It's just that Katie hasn't slugged any security policemen lately. At least not that we've heard about.
posted by Dan S. at 8:11 AM
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