Nutty while black.(Cynthia McKinney)

AS you may have heard, Rep. Cynthia McKinney is once again speaking out and sounding moronic. Here's what happened, according to witnesses. McKinney failed to wear her congressional lapel pin. She barreled past the metal detectors at a House office building and would not stop when a Capitol Hill police officer asked her to--three times. When the officer caught up with her and put his hand on her shoulder, she punched him hard in the chest. Then she identified herself as a congresswoman. She didn't follow up with "How do you like me now, pig?"--but it's the thought that counts.

At first, McKinney played it quiet. But then, when the press discovered this was hardly an isolated incident--apparently this is her fifth run-in with Capitol police--she opted to cry racism. "Let me be clear. This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black congresswoman," McKinney said. Her lawyer expanded on the theme at a press conference: "Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, like thousands of average Americans across this country, is, too, a victim of the excessive use of force by law-enforcement officials because of how she looks and the color of her skin.... Ms. McKinney is just a victim of being in Congress while black."

The actor Danny Glover and the calypso singer/philosopher Harry Belafonte attended the press conference. Both men are well known for unfavorably comparing America with the socialist paradise of Cuba where, to be fair, elected representatives are not required to identify themselves before going through security ...