Atlanta "Progressive" News slimes Civil Rights Hero John Lewis

Implies guilt by association...



...although Lewis has been a supporter of McKinney since... Hmmm...



1. Johnson has ties to Republicans like McKinney has ties to groups that support terrorists.

2. Looks like he has a pretty good "specific issues" platform.



hmmm... John Lewis isn't supporting McKinney, but has called Hank Johnson AND Joe Lieberman his friend and he IS supporting Lieberman... I sense a case building...



So the implication is, Lieberman is a friend of Lewis's. McKinney is not? Or is the implication Civil Rights Hero John Lewis is betraying "progressives" by being friends with two people the "progressive" movement has come to despise?



OK. Its getting clear now. Civil Rights hero John Lewis isn't supporting McKinney. But he is friends with McKinney's opponant Hank Johnson and Joe Lieberman and is supporting Lieberman. Since "progressives" despise Lieberman and Johnson, this is some sort of betrayal. And as associations go, Lewis now has "ties to republicans" and is a "bush enabler."

We get it.

Source material: http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0075.html

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What is up? You won't rest till you post every article ever published that casts some doubt on the viability of Rep. McKinney?

Go Cynthia...REPRESENT!

You won't rest till you post every article ever published that casts some doubt on the viability of Rep. McKinney?

Great companion pieces to "every article ever published that casts some doubt on the viability of" Senators Lieberman and Clinton that get passed through the bowels of DU daily.

There are currently 7 anti-Lieberman threads on this page.

She fights for us - even you. Lieberman fights for the Chimperor...and HIMSELF.

The irony!

No, I doubt you do.

She's an anti-Semitic loony who campaigned with Louis Farrakhan....

You yourself are not a source.

At least, not a source of what I'm asking for here.

Fuck that noise, as we say in Brooklyn.

I was just wondering if you could back up your (oft-repeated, from the looks of the board tonight) accusation that McKinney is an anti-Semite. Didn't think so. :D

Fuck that noise, as we say in Brooklyn.

Kiss my grits, as we say in Georgia.

Ok, we don't really say that in Georgia.

you seem to be clueless about the antiSemitic loony. McKinney's supporters all seem to be so deep into denial they seem zombified.

"Ok, we don't really say that in Georgia."
Ok. Fuck that noise too.

It's odd. Do you hear voices in your head?

McKinney's supporters all seem to be so deep into denial they seem zombified.

Then enlighten me. Show me the proof.

Ok. Fuck that noise too.

You're such fun to taunt. :D

"Then enlighten me"
If that were possible, you wouldn't be here whooping for nutso.

"You're such fun to taunt"
Yeah, but you're just another tedious nothing.

If that were possible, you wouldn't be here whooping for nutso.

Translation: I still can't find a quote proving that she's an anti-Semite.

Yeah, but you're just another tedious nothing.

Ah, woe is me. :rofl:

Both you and your posting friend seem to whinge on about this, without posting specifics.

are deep into denial--they're even pretending the antiSemitic loony never slapped a cop, when she not only admitted doing so but apologized.

because anti-Lieberman/Clinton/etc threads hurt his feelings.

And we're supposed to listen to these bozoes about how democrats should act? Not on your life.

Getting the crap kicked out of him in 1965 as the Nazi policemen in Montgomery, AL attempted to keep SNCC protesters away from the state capitol...Lewis was taken to the hospital with a skull fracture




He has earned the right to support who he damn well pleases!!!

John Lewis took a beating so people could vote in the CT primary. If folks don't like Lieberman, fine but don't ever attack one of our nations greatest heros. If it was not for John Lewis who led the first attempts to cross over the Edmond Pettis Bridge in the march to see the King , (Gov. Wallace)from Selma to Montgomery the Voting Rights Act may never have been passed.

http://www.edwardsdavid.com/BushVideos/MarchFromSelma650321-25.rm

We're getting a good eyeful of what the far left REALLY stands for, aren't we?

Is this "news organization" McKinney's pet or is a friend of hers running it or something?

In addition to this craptacular hit piece on a great rep, they even ran a hit piece on Majette running for the School Board of Ed this year and had ads pimping her opponent in that race.

A bunch of spiteful pricks if you ask me.

He put his life on the line long before it was the cool thing to do (and before a black person could slap a Capitol Police Officer and live to tell the story). He marched and fought and spoke out and had his skull bashed in so that Blacks could not only vote, but could run for and be elected to public office. Cynthia McKinney owes him an enormous debt. And so do we all.

There's nothing more bizarre than watching so-called liberal white folks scream and yell in support of any Black person they think speaks truth to power ("Right on Soul Sister!"), without having an even rudimentary understanding of the difference between useless and counterproductive whining and real courage and action.

But when they go to the extreme of attacking real heroes in their pathetic defense of pretenders, they not only display just how woefully ignorant they are, they reveal a grossly paternalistic bent that gives meaning to "the soft bigotry of low expectations."


Matthew Cardinale, the piece's author and editor of the Atlanta Progressive - probably a nice guy, well-meaning. But I certainly don't need this clueless kid deciding for me which Black people are behaving properly and which aren't, thanks all the same.

http://www.freewebs.com/matthew_cardinale/curriculumvitae.htm

Which he also helped organize.

But what does he know?