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♦ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2007
Cynthia McKinney has returned, I'm ecstatic
The Lord works in mysteri
ous ways. After enduring the
unending righteous indigna
tion of Al, a former television
network correspondent, and
Barney (not his real name)
who is a “charter coordina
tor” of something or other (he
won’t tell me) in the Atlanta
area, I was about ready to
insert bamboo splints under
my fingernails and find
another line of work.
Al and Barney took great
umbrage with my assertion
in a recent column on the
9/11 terrorist attacks that
self-proclaimed comedian
Bill Maher said the terrorists
were “heroes.” Score one for
Al and Barney.
In fact, Maher did not
say that. He said they were
“brave”, unlike the U.S. gov
ernment, which he deemed
“cowardly” for shooting mis
siles at long range instead of
Mahmoudapalooza: The Good, the Bad and the Craven
When my children are
grown, I can tell them
where I was when blood
thirsty Iranian thug-in-chief
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
dared to disgrace Columbia
University with his presence.
I was standing with Jewish
leaders, Iranian-American
dissidents, World War II vet
erans and other concerned
citizens, young and old, tak
ing a stand against evil out
side the campus gates.
Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi,
an Iranian-born activist
whose dissident journalist
father is jailed in her home
land, was appalled at the
ignorance and moral equiv
alence of the leftists who
paraded in front of the TV
cameras with their Bush-is
a-terrorist paraphernalia. A
few goons held a large ban
ner that read: “Ahmadinejad
is bad. Bush is worse.”
“It’s not always about
Bush,” . Zand-Bonazzi
exclaimed after schooling
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for Mercer. Around the turn
of the century and well into
the 20th Century Mercer
fielded some outstanding
teams. I remember when
Mercer University had a
football team, and it was a
good one.
The Mercer team, coached
by Lake Russell, were sur
prisingly good. It played
some of the best teams on
the East Coast of the United
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and about folks in the Bible
who committed suicide, or
tried to. She got Jeff right,
just as if she had known him
for all of his 48 years. She
gave great comfort to Jeffs
family.
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was a fellow at his death
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corrected.
I should
have said
that, in
my most
humble
opinion,
Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
yarb24oo@bellsoulh.net
his Smugness conferred
heroism on the terrorists
for what they did. After all,
aren’t heroes usually brave?
Al and Barney think that I
owe Bill Maher an apology.
Bull feathers. Maher can kiss
my bumbum. If this is all
that Al, the network guy, and
Barney, the charter coordina
tor, got out of that column,
they are poster boys for my
contention that we haven’t
learned a damned thing from
the terrorist attacks.
the apolo
gists and
pointing
out fellow
Iranian
protest
ers hold
ing signs
memo
rializing
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Michelle Malkin
Columnist
malkin@comcast.net
executed countrymen. The
ANSWER mobsters, she
fumed, “have their history
wrong. They don’t see the
greater threat. They don’t
get it.”
Rabbi Avi Weiss, a Jewish
Orthodox leader from the
Bronx, gets it. Standing
amid a small but sturdy sea
of “Hitler lives” and “Never
forget” placards, Rabbi
Weiss told me: “The First
Amendment means you have
the right to invite in the
arch-terrorists of the world.
It doesn’t mean that you are
obligated to do so - especially
States and gave them a run
for their money. The teams
were exceptionally strong,
coming from a small uni
versity.
One year when I was
writing sports in Macon
the Mercer Bears played
Alabama in Tuscaloosa and
Tennessee in Knoxville on
consecutive weekends. Both
games were very close, and
Tennessee had three All-
American players on its
team. Mercer decided to give
up competitive football in
1941 and started an intra
lion preacher!
Now Jeff is gone. And, I
have some regrets. And one
of them is that I didn’t ever
tell him that I was in awe of
him. I was in awe of him for
his welding and rigging and
water skiing - for he was
one of the best in the world
at these things. Truly one of
the best.
I just wish I had told Jeff
David Knighton that I held
him in awe before he forced
us to say good-bye.
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Fortunately, just as I
was considering a change
of careers to become John
Edwards’ hairspray techni
cian, I get word that our
former ambassador to outer
space and reigning welter
weight champion of the U.S.
Congress Cynthia McKinney
is considering a return to the
political arena.
Thank you, Lord. I have
missed her like a possum
misses rotten squash. Without
doing anything beyond inhal
ing air, the ambassador was
worth a minimum of six col
umns a year.
Let’s face it: Not even the
most imaginative among
us could ever visualize
Congressman John Barrow
or Nathan Deal standing on
the aisle of the U.S. House
of Representatives in high
top tennis shoes waiting to
wet-kiss the president (any
when this whole visit was
initiated by the Iranian mis
sion, and Iranian missions
around the world are known
to have fomented and orches
trated in the communities
where they are.”
Several anti-Ahmadinejad
protesters expressed dis
appointment that a larger
crowd had not turned out
in New York City. I concur.
Ahmadinejad’s nuclear ambi
tions, Mahdi devotion, Jew
hatred, Holocaust denial,
human rights repression and
American troop-murdering
machinery threaten us all.
Immediately before landing
in the Big Apple, the Iranian
madman was grandmaster of
a military parade in Tehran
punctuated with “Death
to America” and “Death to
Israel” posters. Newsflash:
It’s not an either/or death
wish.
Lost in the debate over
the Columbia “debate” are
the jumbo-sized jihadi dots
mural program.
A football team at Mercer
would play in a league with
such teams as Georgia
Southern and Valdosta State
and should be welcomed by
Middle Georgia football fans
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president) after the State of
the Union address.
I went immediately to the
ambassador’s Web site, www.
allthingscynthiamckinney.
com.-She’s back and badder
than ever, hawking leftover
T-shirts and yard signs in
order to reduce the campaign
debt she accrued when voters
of Georgia’s 4th District had
a temporary jolt of sanity and
threw her out of Congress,
telling us more than we ever
wanted to know about her
hairdo, ranting like a street
corner preacher and inform
ing us of myriad government
plots occurring right under
our noses. Alas, there is also
a bit of bad news: McKinney
has turned down the oppor
tunity to run for president
of the United States on the
Green Party ticket. Bummer.
She says she just can’t
take the time right now to
connecting Iran to global
Islamic terrorism, including
9/11. The 9/11 Commission
Report stated in a section on
Iran and the 1996 Khobar
Towers bombing that “the
evidence of Iranian involve
ment is strong.”
On Iran and al Qaeda part
nerships, the report conclud
ed, “there is strong evidence
that Iran facilitated the
transit of al Qaeda members
into and out of Afghanistan
before 9/11, and that some
of these were future 9/11
hijackers, mstantial evidence
that senior.”
You won’t be surprised,
then, to learn that the
weekend before Mahmoud
arrived, foreign ministers of
Iran and Saudi Arabia met
to “stress the need for unity
among world Muslims, and
called for vigilance in the
face of plots hatched by ene
mies to sow discord among
th,e Shiite and Sunnite
Muslims.”
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be our commander-in-chief
and leader of the free world
because of “postponed per
sonal priorities.” I have no
idea what that means, but
I suspect she didn’t relish
the thought of being wet
kissed by yo-yo members of
Congress trying to get them
selves on national television.
Plus, if she showed up at
the Group of Eight sum
mit wearing high-top tennis
shoes, the guy from Japan
would fall down laughing
and we might have to go to
war with them again. That
would get Bill Maher’s left
leaning drawers in a wad,
and I would get more love
letters from Al and Barney.
McKinney’s former cam
paign manager John Evans
told the Atlanta Journal-
Constitution, “I have no
earthly idea what she plans
to do.”
On my train ride home,
I spoke briefly with a
Columbia University grad
steeped in the Ivy League
haze of non-judgment. She
was upset and embarrassed
- not by Columbia presi
dent Lee Bollinger’s bone
headed decision to legitimize
Ahmadinejad at its World
Leaders Forum.
No, she was mortified that
Bollinger had delivered his
face-saving introduction
challenging Ahmadinejad.
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That is because she isn’t
thinking about Earth,
Mr. Evans. As a veteran
McKinney watcher, I can tell
you that our former ambas
sador to outer space’s head
is in, well, outer space. Some
political know-it-alls think
she might try to regain her
old seat in Congress.
Not me. My impeccable
sources tell me that she is
aiming a lot higher, like run
ning for prime minister of
Phito or viceroy of Venus
or maybe even queen of the
Quasars. Whatever she does,
it is good to have the ambas
sador back. Call her a bad
joke if you like. To me, she is
out of this world.
You can reach
Dick Yarbrough at
yarb24oo@bellsouth.net, P.O.
Box 725373, Atlanta, Georgia
31139, or Web site: www.dick
yarbrough.com.
With childlike naivete, this
alum told me; “I’m fright
ened by the polarity.” Which
about sums up the major
ity view of academia and
the Ahmadinejad excusers
on the left: They are more
afraid of standing up and
calling out evil than losing
the West, their country and
their own lives to it.
Michelle Malkin is author of
Unhinged: Exposing Liberals
Gone Wild. Her e-mail address
is malkinblog@gmail.com.
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