Cynthia McKinney

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Cynthia McKinney
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The Democrats' answer to Michele Bachmann, McKinney is really stunningly insane, and despite the good stuff she’s done, she is a real threat to sanity and society.
—Encyclopedia of American Loons[1]

Cynthia McKinney (1955–) is a conspiracy theorist and former member of the U.S. Congress from Georgia. She was the presidential nominee of the US Green Party in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections.

Electoral history[edit]

She was first elected in 1992 but lost her seat ten years later. Critics charged that her undoing came from claiming Bush knew 9/11 would happen but did nothing and getting documents released about the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. She got her seat back in 2004 but lost it again when she slugged a Capitol Hill officerWikipedia's W.svg who attempted to stop her from going into a restricted area of the Capitol because she was not wearing her ID pin and the officer did not recognize her.[2] She blamed the officer, because apparently all officers should be able to recognize all 535 members of Congress on sight, even though over three-quarters of them change every 2 years (all 435 House seats and a third of the Senate seats). She lost her last Congressional election when she and her father began slinging antisemitism around, though this was nothing new for McKinney Sr.[3] It definitely did not endear her to many.

Had she been elected president in 2008, she would have been the first African American woman, the first woman, and the first Green Party politician to become president of the United States; but with endorsements from the likes of Roseanne Barr and Ward Churchill, who needs a Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy™ to sink one's candidacy?

Either way, her political career is probably over.

Political positions and beliefs[edit]

McKinney has a profound anti-war stance, generally opposing brutal dictators. However, she supported the rule of Gaddafi in Libya.[4]

She was outspoken in her support for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

McKinney is known for supporting a wide range of conspiracy theories. She holds truther views, and expressed these views for the Congressional record on the floor of the House of Representatives.

A fellow conspiracy enthusiast, Greg Palast, reported in June of 2003 that none of the media outlets making this claim offered a proper citation of McKinney's alleged statement in the Congressional record. This, he said, caused him to search that record and fail to turn up the quote.[5]

Palast further claimed that McKinney actually made the following statement for the Congressional record: "George Bush had no prior knowledge of the plan to attack the World Trade Center on September 11." Unfortunately, Palast neglected to provide a proper citation of this claim, making it extremely difficult to verify without extensive trawling through the Congressional record.

McKinney signed on to a 9/11 Truth Movement demand for more answers about 9/11.[6] A year after that, she held a Congressional hearing on the subject.[7] Charged that she was promoting trutherism, she responded with a letter that essentially says she was just asking questions.[8]

McKinney has also expressed support for many other conspiracy theories, including:

Government conspiracies
McKinney supported the disclosure of documents regarding the assassination of Martin Luther King[9] because she believes that his assassination was part of a government conspiracy. Not surprisingly, she believes that the Kennedy assassinations are also part of a conspiracy.[10][11][12][13]
Hurricane Katrina
McKinney believes that the US military shot and killed 5,000 prisoners during Hurricane Katrina and dumped their bodies in the bayou,[14] and that the city of New Orleans executed thousands of people in the aftermath of Katrina.[15]
Vaccine denial
McKinney believes that vaccines exist to poison black kids.[16] This belief stems from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intentionally omitting statistics that imply an increased risk of autism in African-American boys who receive an MMR vaccine before the age of 36 months.[17]
Boston Marathon bombing
McKinney's first reaction to the Boston Marathon Bombing was to tweet that Boston cops were having a "bomb squad drill" on the same day and that a familiar pattern was emerging.[18][19]
McKinney embraced the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and extreme Trumpism.[20][21]
Jewish conspiracy theories
McKinney supports international Jewish conspiracy theories, such as the "Dancing Israelis" theory, as well as claiming that Israel is behind the Nice and Munich terror attacks.[22]

External links[edit]


  1. #266 Cynthia McKinney at the Encyclopedia of American Loons, 27 November 2011.
  2. Police report: McKinney hit officer with fist
  3. Michael Barone, Lessons from Rep. Cynthia McKinney's defeat. Archived from the original at US News and World Report, 29 August 2002.
  4. Eric Kleefeld, Former Rep. Cynthia McKinney Appears On Libyan State TV., 23 May 2011.
  5. Greg Palast, "The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney," June 18, 2003.
  6. 9/11 Truth Movement statement, October 26, 2004.
  7. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "McKinney Reopens 9/11", July 23, 2005.
  8. Cynthia McKinney et al., Letter to the Editor, August 2, 2005.
  9. Introduction of the Martin Luther King Jr Records Collection Act of 2005., 23 May 2005.
  10. Jerry Ray Declares his Brother James Earl Ray Didn’t Shoot Martin Luther King, Jr., 9 January 2012.
  11. Cynthia's endorsement of "A Memoir of Injustice," a conspiracy screed.
  12. banging it out: "If it's a terrorist act and the culprit yells Allahu Akbar, know that's CIA-speak for 'We did it!'
  13. Additionally, "Russian colonel says ISIS is a division of the CIA."
  14. Cynthia McKinney - DoD Killed 5000 Prisoners and Used Katrina to Hide the Bodies., 3 October 2008.
  15. Cynthia Mckinney Reveals 5,000 Executed Post Katrina. YouTube, 30 September 2008.
  16. Cynthia McKinney Speaks Out on Dyncorp, Child Trafficking, Fraud and Vaccines., 2 October 2017.
  17. Link Between Vaccines and African-American Boys Hidden by CDC Says Whistleblower., 9 May 2016.
  18. Jack Coleman, Ex-House Member Cynthia McKinney Eyes Boston Cops as Suspects in Marathon Bombing., 16 April 2013.
  19. "The pattern is becoming too, too familiar. So, Boston cops were having a "bomb squad drill" on the same day as..." Twitter, 15 April 2013.
  20. writing: "Drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.! Arrest those pedophiles!"
  21. controversial stories about pedophilia amongst elite politicians and celebrities.
  22. "Same Israeli photographer captures Nice and Munich tragedies. How likely is that? Remember the Dancing Israelis?" Twitter, 23 July 2016.