The GOP media machine was all over this story, commending the Capitol Police and babbling about how McKinney shows that the Dems aren't serious about national security, helping to give the teapot-tempest "legs" in the mainstream media, because a cascade of articles about an obese, uppity black-woman Democrat with bad hair and a big mouth successfully helped deflect or displace front-page coverage of DeLay's ignoble exit from Congress, a storm of violence in Iraq, Feingold's censure motion, Gonzales' revelation that NSA wiretapping of Americans communicating with one another in the US is legalTM, and this week's revelations about the Leaker-in-Chief. The tactic could only work so well, because the other issues are, shall we say, of more gravity, but for several days this week when I checked Google News for stories on Iraq and Libby, McKinney's big black face was staring at me from the top of the page. Mission accomplished -- with help from McKinney.
posted by digaman at 8:59 AM PST on April 8

The story in question was the Cynthia McKinney/Capital Police fiasco, posted on mefi