JC Watts to McKinney: "Let it go!" (So how does she send the GJ home?)

[Atman]

"My advice to Cynthia McKinney is to let it go, move on!"

Yeah, Cynthia, you silly! Don't you see, all you have to do is tell the Grand Jury to go home, fughedaboudit. Nothing to see here!

WTF? The whole world's gone fucking cookoo.

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Saying SHE should just apologise.

She DID, btw. How about the cop simply saying, 'Sorry about that, Ma'am. I was just trying to do my job, and I meant no disrespect.'

How does a Capitol cop with more than a week on the job NOT regognize one of the 14 black women in congress?

I think this was a manufactured crisis to take the headlines away from Delay. Nothing more, nothing less.

[mondo joe]

6. She apologized? When?

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. As I understand it, within a couple hours she made a statement

with a "politician's apology" kind of like 'I'm sorry this happened' -- not her apologising to the cop per se. But the capitol police wouldn't let it go and kept attacking her in the press, so she got her back up and it escalated into this.

I just wonder what would motivate the capitol cops to fan the flames on this - other than the fact that the repubs sign their paychecks, and they effectively serve at the whim of the senate leadership - if Frist says "he's gone", then he'd be transferred to guarding a latrine in the basement of the treasury building. And they know it.

As I said, a manufactured crisis to distract from Delay, or in revenge for Delay.

[mondo joe]

10. The police wouldn't let it go?

I'd say whhen she keeps insisting it's racial profiling she's keeping the challenge open.

If that's not fanning the flames I don't know what is.

And saying you regret the incident happened while accusing the officer of inappropriately touching you and profiling is not an apology.

If someone accused you of those things would you let it go or would you defend yourself?

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Has it occurred to you that maybe the officer DID

inappropriatly touch her and WAS racially profiling?

If someone did that to you, would you let it go or would you defend yourself?

[mondo joe]

16. If the officer did that then McKinney should press charges, and I'd

fully support her in doing so.

That's what we have a legal system for.

[Demit]

2. Yeah, act like JC Watts when he's screwed over. Feh.

[cali]

3. Can't stand Watts but

timing is all here. Did he say it before the announcement about the GJ? In any case, although I certainly don't think this should have been sent to a GJ, McKinney made tactical mistakes, particularly by holding a three ring circus of a press conference and charging racism. My support for her is predicated on the overreaction to her overreaction. What she did just doesn't seem worthy of a GJ investigation.

[Atman]

4. It was a live segment this morning on CNN.

I'd say that was AFTER the GJ.

On edit...BTW, I'm not one of the people out championing McKinney's performance. She's made serious tactical and practical mistakes in her response to this whole ridiculous episodes. But to call for a person to just "let it go" when she is being hauled before a GJ for virtually nothing, well, it just reeks.

[INdemo]

8. To call for a Grand Jury

is just unbelievable.. This really makes the Repukes look stupid.Here we have a Senator that is accused of insider trading and nothings done,A White House aid that is a pervert and somehow I think this will be dragged on till it fades away and the corruption goes on and on in the Repukes own little village of crooks and thieves. Then we have a Democratic Congresswoman who probably just grabbed an officers arm or at the very worst hit him on the shoulder or something simular and she's going before a grand jury? My point I guess is that if she hauld off and hit the guy with a baseball bat,it certainly
isn't deserving of a grand jury.Come on ..what is even funnier is the MSM is just playing this like she committed manslaughter.Unbelievable.

[Brewman_Jax]

5. That's funny

from a GOP lawn jockey who got dissed by his own party from day one and dumped when he tried thinking for himself. :rofl:

[TlalocW]

7. That's funny

Considering JC Watts got all up in a security guard's face at an airport in OKC when he parked in a no loading zone and came back to find the guard writing him a ticket. He shoved the ticket underneath the guy's badge and ordered him to "take care of it."

TlalocW

[zbdent]

13. Did he get arrested for assaulting a police officer?

I mean, that is as technical of "assault" as being spun around when someone grabs your arm and your purse hits the "officer" via centripetal force . . . let's see the video . . .

[philosophie_en_rose]

11. Interesting. I didn't see her bring this out.

She's written and said that she thought that it was an unpleasant incident, but went on with the rest of her day. Someone else reported this to the media. Just because she's not groveling doesn't mean that she's the one pressing this issue.

[Pathwalker]

14. A woman is raped every two minutes in America.

Some of whom ARE grabbed from behind.

[Atman]

15. She really needs to be more careful!

ba-doom.

[mondo joe]

17. How many of them happen at the security check in Congress?

Just asking.

[Pathwalker]

18. Only 20 percent of rapes are ever reported, so

statistics on that are unavailable.

[mondo joe]

19. I see. So some percentage may be taking place in the middle of

a sucrity gate in the halls of Congress.

Thank you.

[RaleighNCDUer]

20. The point is, women do, and should, react instinctively when

grabbed from behind.

I once got an elbow in the face from my wife in my own kitchen under such circumstances. (Of course, we did later divorce so there always is the possibility it was intentional.)