McKinney apologizes

But what is really an apology for what she’s accused of doing, or an apology that the news about it has reached a national level? Watch and decide (transcript below in case you can’t listen to/watch the video at the moment):

REP. MCKINNEY: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I come before this body to personally express again my sincere regret about the encounter with the Capitol Hill police. I appreciate my colleagues who are standing with me, who love this institution, and who love this country. There should not have been any physical contact in this incident. I have always supported law enforcement and will be voting for H.R. 756, expressing my gratitude and appreciation to the professionalism and dedication of the men and women of the U.S. Capitol police. I am sorry that this misunderstanding happened at all and I regret its escalation and I apologize. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Whadda ya think?

Update: Malkin links up to a video showing McKinney’s bodyguard in an altercation with a reporter and also has a link roundup of all the latest McKinney info.

30 Responses to "McKinney apologizes"

Gary Gross says:

April 6, 2006 at 2:28 pm

Notice that she didn’t apologize to the officer that she belted. As I said on my blog, McKinney’s a race-baiter.
Baklava says:

April 6, 2006 at 2:32 pm

It is a better apology by far than Dick Durbin’s.
Joshua Taj Bozeman says:

April 6, 2006 at 2:36 pm

This isn’t an apology. She is apologizing FOR the officer who she still thinks is a racist who attacked HER. To apologize, you have to admit you’ve done something to apologize for. On WETA-FM she said. “I want to categorically deny that I did anything wrong.”

Problem is- her apology is a non-apology. If she thinks she did nothing wrong, she’d have no reason to apologize. Like I said, she’s really trying to apologize for the officer, the media, etc.
Karl says:

April 6, 2006 at 2:45 pm

she never actually admitted her part and apologized.

This is just a “sorry for the fuss” apology without really meaning it.
A Blog For All says:

April 6, 2006 at 2:50 pm

Better Late Than Never

Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who got into an altercation with Capitol Police has made an apology on the Capitol floor, expressing “sincere regret.” Took her long enough. And it’s skillfully written to muddy her actual role in the kerfuffle
HD Wanderer says:

April 6, 2006 at 2:54 pm

She’s apologizing for the event, not her actions. She’s also apologizing to the wrong group. She needs to apologize personally and sincerly to both the Capital Police and the officer she assaulted.
CavalierX says:

April 6, 2006 at 3:04 pm

Just another politician’s non-apology. “I’m sorry for the misunderstanding” means “I’m sorry you’re all making such a big deal out of this and trying to blame it on me.”
Leaning Straight Up says:

April 6, 2006 at 3:24 pm

“Checkpoint Cindy” Update 2-Fer..No, Make That a 3-Fer

Mckinney’s case has gone to the Grand Jury, and she has apologized on the House Floor…sort of.
And on the heels of that her body guard has been caught threatening a reporter.
First up, her case has gone to the Grand Jury:
Grand Jury Pr…
steve says:

April 6, 2006 at 4:00 pm

The Dems told her to shut up and sit down because she was becoming a distraction. And with Libby indicating that bush authorized the leaking of Plame’s name and broke even more laws, they(the Dems) didn’t need her mug all over FOX News. Peace
sanity says:

April 6, 2006 at 4:14 pm

Interesting development.

Even though she seems to want to put this to rest, she feels the need to hire a bodyguard for some reason, and an aggressive one at that. Capitol Police have good reason to worry, if this aggressive bodyguard tries to intefere if McKinney is stopped again because she has no identification again, what will a (possibly) armed bodyguard do?

What is McKinney trying to prove by hiring a (possibly) armed bodyguard now?

She has stated this was a mistake, she has apologized…albeit to the wrong people, her apology should have been to the Officers and not to the House.

But now, after all this, why does she feel the need to hire a (possibly) armed bodyguard?

Does it seems like she is apologizing but then backhandedly insulting the Police by hiring a bodyguard, silently sayng, I don’t trust the Capitol Police?
G Monster says:

April 6, 2006 at 4:30 pm

McKinney is a joke. If you or me assaulted a police officer, a police officer doing his job no less, how quickly do you think we would be arrested, and how high would are bail be?
G Monster says:

April 6, 2006 at 4:33 pm

I guess since she is congress, she is above the law. The laws congress make are for the little people like us. She is way too important to the country to bother with unimportant people like the police.
sanity says:

April 6, 2006 at 4:55 pm

Gives a whole new meaning to the Democrat Message: TOUGH ON SECURITY.
Center for Sanity says:

April 6, 2006 at 5:36 pm

Federal Grand Jury to Hear McKinney Assault Case

I can imagine that many other Democrats behind the scenes have been telling McKinney to shove a sock in it. She has become radioactive in her own party, especially when Democrats are trying to act like they are tough on Security of this Nation. Tough…
Mwalimu Daudi says:

April 6, 2006 at 6:04 pm

Guess the Deomcratic leadership took her to the woodshed.
Baklava says:

April 6, 2006 at 6:14 pm

Just heard her on Hugh Hewitt.

Hugh and his guest did not think it was a very good apology.
Baklava says:

April 6, 2006 at 6:27 pm

Tom Delay was on Hugh Hewitt’s show. Great interview.
solitaire says:

April 6, 2006 at 6:41 pm

They haven’t released the video so we just don’t know what happened. If he called to her to stop, just maybe she didn’t know he was addressing her, or didn’t hear him. How hard did he grab her? From behind, obviously, otherwise she would have been stopped and facing him. I tell you if someone grabbed me from behind, I would turn with my fist too.
What I think is interesting is the pin!
If I have a pin, and I think I could make an identical one very easily, I can go around the metal detectors~! Cool~ and who’s to say I’m not a member of Congress? They obviously haven’t memorized the faces, or even say that they should have to. So the pin is the real deal~! No badges, no keys, no personal hi there how you doin…. just walk on in~!
You know, at first blush it seemed to me that a US Congresswoman was acosted by a man who didn’t do his job. But after thinking it over for a while, it is my opinion that the security in the Capital is… lax, and that this kind of thing was bound to happen some day. IT’s unfortunate that it happened to a black woman, because it brings out the most dispicable bigoted side of some people’s nature and tends to cloud the issue with comments like ,,,

Well, if I lived in that district, I’d vote for him over “Buckwheat” any dayâ€¦

Comment by camojack @ 4/5/2006 – 4:13 am
sanity says:

April 6, 2006 at 7:07 pm

Your right solitaire, and comments like this:

If this was a white congresswoman, the policeman would have been thrown in jail. – GA State Rep. Roberta Abdul-Salaam (D)

the real issues were “sex, race and Ms. McKinney’s progressiveness.” – One of McKinney’s Lawyers.

“this whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female, black congresswoman.” – Conresswoman McKinney

By the way, glad she pointed out she was BLACK and FEMALE, I would never have figured that one out if she hadn’t.

“assaulted” by a Capitol Police officer – James Myart Civil Rights Attorney

Because you know that she has to have a Civil Rights Attorney because this is a landmark Civil Rights Case!

she was assaulted and placed in impending fear of her safety – James Myart

“Not every assault deserves to be criminally prosecuted.”Michael Raffauf McKinney’s other attorney.

Thought that last quote was awfully strange considering the smear campaign McKinney was on for the Capitol Police, then suddenly it’s “Not every assault deserves to be criminally prosecuted.”

Well, if I lived in that district, I’d vote for him over “Buckwheat” any dayâ€¦ – Yeah camojack may be a bit more blunt, but doubt it was anything racist and bigoted as McKinney has been making. Personally I took his coment more on her hair appearance in which she really did look like Buckhwheat, or Don King.

But her comments and her lawyers comments were a smear campaign of the worst order agains tthe police who protect members of Congress. Personally I would support a censure of McKinney.
Karl says:

April 6, 2006 at 7:15 pm

According to reports, the video tape is inconclusive.

It shows her blow the checkpoint, but she had moved beyond its coverage before the officer grabbed her.

It’s up to eyewitness accounts for the grand jury, and there are enough inconsistent accounts I expect it to be dismissed.

But I will be happy to be poroven wrong if they indict her.
Sloan says:

April 6, 2006 at 7:37 pm

As a Caucasian male living in the Georgia 4th congressional district, and therefore one of Ms. McKinney’s constituents, I’d like to point out that most of us “white folks” in the 4th district who oppose her do so, not because we’re racists, but because Cynthia McKinney is an arrogant, race-baiting, self-aggrandizing, dictator-coddling leftist demagogue who seems bent on embarrassing the good citizens of Georgia at every opportunity. That’s why many of us “rich, white Republicans” went out and voted for Denise Majette, a LIBERAL BLACK WOMAN, in the Georgia Democratic primary a few years ago, and ousted McKinney from office for a few blessed years…because we were sick and tired of her, and Majette was at least marginally less liberal than McKinney and probably could be counted on not to say and do stupid stuff all the time. God, I miss Denise! I wish she’d run again, but I suspect Cynthia has jerrymandered the district to her own favor by now.

We don’t give a damn about the color of Cynthia’s skin. We care about her politics, which are abominable, and her behavior, which is irrational. I’m hoping and praying that she will continue to flap her gums and eventually dig the hole deep enough to get her ridden out of Washington on a rail, but I’m not holding my breath. Like most liberals, she’ll get a pass.
steve says:

April 6, 2006 at 7:38 pm

This has clearly turned into the crime of the century for the Republicans. At least this lady didn’t “accidentally”, almost shoot somebody’s face off. Peace
Sloan says:

April 6, 2006 at 7:43 pm

One more thing: Cynthia McKinney’s House web page gives the lie to any idea that she is really sorry for what she did. Check it out:

http://www.house.gov/mckinney/
solitaire says:

April 6, 2006 at 8:49 pm

I assure you, from the point of view of many women, a gentleman would not have pressed the issue… let alone charges.
I’m just sayin’.
Severian says:

April 6, 2006 at 8:56 pm

That presumes you are dealing with a lady, bad assumption, sol…
Mwalimu Daudi says:

April 6, 2006 at 8:57 pm

Solitaire, a lot of women (or ladies or men or gentlemen) would not have hit a police officer in the first place.
solitaire says:

April 6, 2006 at 9:36 pm

Sev, no, any woman, regardless of the man’s opinion of her status as a “lady”.

Daudi, you are assuming she knew who was grabbing her. That is not known to me. I don’t think this whole scenario plays well with women. In my opinion. That’s all.
Big Bang Hunter says:

April 6, 2006 at 9:41 pm

“….And with Libby indicating that bush authorized the leaking of Plame’s name…”

– Libby hasn’t said that Steve-oh. Interesting how you just get through reading an entire article on the ass-hats assidiously avoiding the facts and you repeat what you’re hearing said on KosKids or some such. Do you idiots really believe if you repeat lies long enough and often enough you’ll get anywhere?

– Simply amazing. Judging from the nature of your posts, you’re either a complete simpleton that can’t read english or you’re willfully lying. either way its pretty dumb.

– Bang
sanity says:

April 6, 2006 at 9:45 pm

Wrong solitaire.

A police officer doesn’t care one bit about whether you act like a lady or not. They care about being respected most of all, and McKinney has done everything but spit in the police face.

The Congresswoman was in the wrong, she admitted it, then she went on a smear campaign, and then apologized for the ‘incident’.

If she was so maligned by the police then why did she apologize for what she did?

She was in the wrong, the officer did his job, and she took offense and used her power as a Congresswoman to make a media blitz and smear campaign castigating the officer in public media.

I have never seen such a horrible act of arrogance and mis-use of public power in an elected official.
Big Bang Hunter says:

April 6, 2006 at 10:15 pm

– This entire episode was not about the incident. It was about “face time” for the militant Southern caucus. But its looking like its backfired on her and her “handlers”. If the Grand jury goes forward I’m betting it will be because she accused officers, doing exactly what they get paid to do in the exact proper way, of being racists.

– That sort of thing simply has to stop. Grutuitous playing of the race card everytime you do something out of line. In this case made worse because it was as much a play for national exposure for CAIR/NAACP, and its miscreants, as anything else.

– Ms Mckinney may well be a decent good person thats getting very bad advice from people who have lost their minds and all common sense to their ideological extremist views. Some people seem to be forever stuck in victimhood with no way out.

– Bang

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