I covered Arrogant Jerk Cynthia McKinney a while ago, and couldn’t help but notice she has popped up in the news again. This time for announcing the ridiculous claim that ‘The Government’ authorized the execution of 5,000 prisoners and dumped their bodies in the Louisiana swamp during hurricane Katrina.

Wow. The needle on my ridiculous-o-meter doesn’t have a setting for this level of ridiculousness.

McKinney is currently engaged in wasting her time campaigning for the presidency (Yes, the U.S. presidency) on the infamous Green Party ticket. I understand wasting time on a hobby (take this site, for example), but running for president? In her condition?

McKinney made her ridiculous claim at a news conference in Oakland, California. I would normally guess this was just a publicity stunt, but the subject is so embarrassing I have to assume her Arrogance has gotten the better of her.

According to news articles, she said she ‘heard it from a mother of a National Guard soldier’. Well, there is our first clue; any time you hear someone say they heard it from someone else, and then doesn’t bother to specifically name that someone else, it is probably not true.

Secondly, doesn’t it sound in-credible that The Government would choose the swamplands of Louisiana to dump the bodies? Why not just take them out to the middle of the ocean and feed ‘em to the fishes?

Thirdly; 5,000 missing people seems like an aweful big secret to keep. Did none of them have any kin to worry for them? Are we to assume that only a couple of Men in Black were privey to such a large undertaking? It takes a certain kind of mind to comprehend such a high degree of cooperation in such a highly controversial environment.

For these reasons, Cynthia McKinney gets a revisit to the top of Arrogant Jerk.