Words fail me:
Cynthia McKinney, the feisty former 4th District congresswoman, is headed for the Ivy League.
Officials at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., confirmed that McKinney has been named a visiting professor at the institution. Under her contract, she will serve as a guest lecturer for three years, beginning this fall.
“Cynthia McKinney is a person of considerable achievement in the political sphere,” said Porus Olpadwala, dean of Cornell’s School of Architecture, Art and Planning, who served as chairman of the 13-member faculty committee that selected McKinney for the part-time professorship.
“She is an internationally renowned advocate for voting rights and human rights. She has taken clear stands on a number of critical issues and been a strong voice in Congress,” Olpadwala said.
I really am speechless.
Matthew
No doubt Cornell expects her to bring new sources of money to the school. Heh.
M. Scott Eiland
*snicker*
Kind of politically moderate to be hanging out with that crowd, isn’t she? ]:-)
M. Scott Eiland
I have a five-year old niece who will begin attending college in the fall of 2016. I will make sure that she knows that Cornell seems to have no problem with hiring mentally unstable racists for teaching positions, and have confidence that she will react accordingly.
Francis W. Porretto
These days, the universities are essentially all beachheads for enemies of America. So we can take two comforts from this:
1. No new institution will be corrupted by this development;
2. No additional incarceration facilities will be required.
David Perron
Oh. My. God. And Cornell used to be such a good school.
Internationally renowned? Lemme see, my dictionary has that as “widespread honor and fame; celebrity”. I’d have to look on anyone who honored a woman who may well be the biggest crackpot currently holding office, anywhere, with suspicion.
mark
Can someone explain to me why an Ivy League education is so revered today? I went to state schools, got a great education, and was able to avoid being taught by the likes of Cornell West and Cynthia McKinney.
AnswertheQuestion
“Cynthia McKinney is a person of considerable achievement in the political sphere…”
OMG. I think John McEnroe said it best – “YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!”
HH
Coming soon: Greg Palast explains how Cynthia McKinney is actually the best professor in history.
NYer
Apparently for balance, they also hired rabidly anti-U.S., anti-Israel journalist John Pilger for the same visiting professor position. I’m truly ashamed of my alma mater.
M. Scott Eiland
Isn’t this the point where Barney comes in claiming that poor Cynthia is a victim of the evil right wing media and the Zionist conspiracy?
Sweet Lou
Yes, Barney will be happy. Isn’t it enough for you, John, to know that a bit of sunshine has come into Barney’s life? I mean, it’s not all about you.
Well, since it is your blog, I guess it really is all about you, but all the same…
Barney Gumble
“To thine own self be true.” –Shakespeare
“Don’t smoke your own shit.”
–Steve Tyler of Aerosmith
“Repeating a lie about C. McKinney you know to be a lie is lying to yourself.”
–B.Gumble
Arash
Anti-Semite? Well, the next time someone criticizes Rome, I’ll label you anti-Catholic.
And she never said that Bush knew or could’ve prevented 9/11. That was an outright lie.
Barney Gumble
You’ll never get that past this crew. They’re way over the boundary into the creating-their-own mental-reality sphere.
Robin Roberts
Right on schedule.
Kimmitt
Whatever you may think of Ms. McKinney, a person who has served as a Representative in the Congress of the United States is, in fact, a person of considerable achievement in the political sphere.
M. Scott Eiland
“Whatever you may think of Ms. McKinney, a person who has served as a Representative in the Congress of the United States is, in fact, a person of considerable achievement in the political sphere.”
And a US Senator is generally considered to have reached an even higher pinnacle of achievement–didn’t make Joe McCarthy any less of a dirtbag than he was.
David Perron
I’m a little unclear on this; is “remarkable achievement in the political sphere” supposed to be generally a good thing? And does it more than completely make up for being a crackpot (McKinney) or…being Ted Kennedy?