McKinney may be leaving Congress again, but this time she’s leaving a trail of stink that’s starting to smell worse than her last departure. Former McKinney staffer Michael Burwick has decided to come forward after seeing McKinney’s security members from the New Black Panther Party acting up and a recent appearance on Hannity and Colmes by former McKinney PR man Coz Carson.
You can see the video of his FoxNews interview with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes here.
This was a riveting interview and McKinney’s office has responded to FoxNews inquiries with a “no comment”.
He says that around the office he heard McKinney and people around her vilifying Israel as an enemy nation, that was “hell bent on destroying other people” and people she surrounded herself with were of the same mindset. He personally feels she surrounds herself with people like members of the New Black Panther Party, because they say what she and her supporters truly feel.
He says he worked in this environment, never reveling that he himself was Jewish and she was trilled with his work. During the time of some Jewish High Holy days he reveled that he was Jewish, because he wanted a day (Rush Hashanah or Yom Kippur) off. He came back the next day to find out his position was “defunded”. He was the only Jewish person he knows of that was working for her.
He’s not planning to take her to court, because he feels he does not have enough details to make a case. He can’t say he “knows” he was fired because he is Jewish. All he knows is that his position was “defunded” after requesting time off for a Jewish holiday and “immediately upon being told” that his position was defunded, he received a call from an AJC reporter who mentioned it. Below are the details of that call and some other things Mr. Burwick mentioned, from a partial FoxNews transcript. (Those folks at FoxNews really need to make full transcripts of every show.)
McKinney Staffer Claims He Was Fired for Being Jewish Partial transcript from “Hannity & Colmes,” August 17, 2006.
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He wants her to resign now!
And here are some other race related quick-hits from news I read today.
“Some of the things did bother me to a certain degree. I’m an African-American male, and there’s a white character being depicted as myself. But I’m not upset. It’s bigger than me, its bigger than Staff Sgt. Karnes (David, also a former Marine whom he met that day at the site). A lot of people lost their lives. That’s what needs to be remembered.”
Just the same, the movie makers could have re-cast for a better visually accurate depiction of the events of that day. (They said themselves that they wanted accuracy.) Given they have apologized, they should add pictures of the heroes they depicted in the movie somewhere in the credits. So everyone can see for themselves who they are. I think all movies based on real people should do this.
And if you think the race warlords should be quiet about this issue, I hope you said Jonah Goldberg should have kept his mouth shut about that 9/11 statue depicting firefighters. I only feel they should pipe-down on this issue because the person offended is not harboring angst himself. If he can let it go, then so can I.
Did those statue makers ever apologize to those 3 White firefighters?
And hey, despite all the nuts mentioned above, America is still the greatest nation on earth!
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August 21st, 2006 at 12:26 pm
A small quibble:
“I revealed that I needed to take a day off to celebrate Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur.”
Which is it? Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur? One is at the beginning of the “high holy days” and the other at the end. 10 days apart. Not doubting the gist of his account, BUT we can’t trumpet this as a true account if the guy can’t get his facts straight. He says he asked off for one day in the Jewish High Holy Days, but can’t narrow it down to a window smaller than 10 days. If he’d said EITHER Rosh Hashanah OR Yom Kippur, then I’d be all over this like flies on rice.
August 21st, 2006 at 2:29 pm
That matter of which holiday does not change that he was fired after mentioning he wanted to celebrate something related to the Jewish faith. Plus the call he received after being fired, that pretty much confirmed everything.
He was rushed to tell the story and did not recall exactly which one. Bottom line is that after he mentioned he was Jewish he was out of a job.