A different take on a comment by Cynthia McKinney
There's been some noise recently about Cynthia McKinney, the Georgia Congresswoman who got into an altercation at a Capital checkpoint.
A video was made of a recent Q&A session involving CNN and other reporters.
McKinney answering a question.
McKinney's remark after she walked out, not realizing that the microphone was still on.
Many people have complained about her "scandalous" remark about her aide -- but that isn't at all the aspect that caught my attention. Consider: The expression she used was interesting: "Oh, crap -- now you know what, they lied to Coz and Coz is a fool."
"Coz" is one of her aides -- but there are a number of implications:
-- McKinney had intended to pre-screen the reporters, to avoid their asking her embarrassing questions.
-- "Coz" was to do this pre-screening.
-- "Coz" apparently reported back that he had reached an agreement with the reporters that they would not ask about The Incident.
-- The reporters, it seems, did make such a promise.
-- And the reporters, then, broke this promise.
How often is it, I wonder, that such promises are exacted from press conference attendees? You know it isn't true of White House reporters.
McKinney's attempt to salvage the situation -- demanding that they not report what she said when she was "not sitting in this chair" backfired, predictably. But the original comment, and its implied agreement reveals rather more about the reporters, and the practices of the media, than it does about her.
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A video was made of a recent Q&A session involving CNN and other reporters.
McKinney answering a question.
McKinney's remark after she walked out, not realizing that the microphone was still on.
Many people have complained about her "scandalous" remark about her aide -- but that isn't at all the aspect that caught my attention. Consider: The expression she used was interesting: "Oh, crap -- now you know what, they lied to Coz and Coz is a fool."
"Coz" is one of her aides -- but there are a number of implications:
-- McKinney had intended to pre-screen the reporters, to avoid their asking her embarrassing questions.
-- "Coz" was to do this pre-screening.
-- "Coz" apparently reported back that he had reached an agreement with the reporters that they would not ask about The Incident.
-- The reporters, it seems, did make such a promise.
-- And the reporters, then, broke this promise.
How often is it, I wonder, that such promises are exacted from press conference attendees? You know it isn't true of White House reporters.
McKinney's attempt to salvage the situation -- demanding that they not report what she said when she was "not sitting in this chair" backfired, predictably. But the original comment, and its implied agreement reveals rather more about the reporters, and the practices of the media, than it does about her.
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