There is, alas, nothing very remarkable about the fact that
Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) should have given public
voice to her suspicions that the President of the United States
(R-Tex.) was complicit in the terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon, that he knew about them in advance
and did nothing to forestall them because his corporate friends
stood to make a lot of money out of the war that he knew would
follow. It was rather more remarkable that such paranoid lunacy
was reported in The Washington Post. The pillars of the
American journalistic establishment can usually be relied upon to
treat such a faux pas by someone whom they regard as being,
even ex officio, a “black leader,” with the discretion of a
good domestic servant. Most Americans still do not know, for
example, that “Minister” Louis Farrakhan makes no secret of his
plainly delusional belief that he has been “taken up” into a
spaceship for posthumous conversations about the future of the
world with the Hon. Elijah Muhammad—and then, as President
Kennedy once said in another context, “safely returned to the
earth.”

Most remarkable of all, however, is the fact there now
appears to be so little
disposition among our political and
journalistic elites to regard such a charge, acknowledged by Rep.
McKinney herself to be merely conjectural, as being in any way
extraordinary. The Post reporter Juliet Eilperin dutifully
sought a “reaction” from the administration,