The magic of celebrity!

I must admit that being even a local radio celebrity has had its perks from time to time but some people take things overboard.
It's the old story of celebrity -- or wannabe celebrity not getting the service or treatment he or she thinks should be afforded because of his or her "status." You've heard it a million times; "what do you mean I have to wait to be seated? Don't know who I am?" I know, it sounds ridiculous, but this current situation a congresswoman finds her in, to me, sound just like that to me.

Here's the situation in a nutshell. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, democrat from Georgia, was entering the capitol building in Washington, D.C. last week. She did NOT have any identification in view and was NOT wearing her congressional pin which would be identification enough to allow her to bypass capitol security. The story goes that a police officer asked her to stop not once, not twice, but at least three times before grabbing her by the arm. When he did that, the congresswoman punched the officer.
Forgetting what would happen to one of us, who are not congress people if we were to do the same thing, this legislator not only doesn't think she did anything wrong, she thinks she was wronged. Seriously!

You see, the congresswoman is African-American, and feels she was profiled. Listening to her explain the depth of the wrong done to her is not easy to swallow. She waivers between anger over allegedly being profiled to distain over how the officer didn't recognize her. Here's where the title of this blog comes into play. She literally is beside herself because this cop didn't know who she was.

Again, she had nothing in view that would suggest to anyone that she is, in fact, a congresswoman. There are well over 400 representatives in the House in Washington, and Congresswoman McKinney thinks every capitol police officer should know every representative by face and by name. That's a little ridiculous. She truly feels this person did something wrong by not knowing who she was by sight. Further, she's had a make-over recently and has a very different hairstyle. She insists that shouldn't matter and that the officer still should have known who she is. To really add a ludicrous exclamation at the end of this story, McKinney adds that she's one of only 14 black women in the House and that should be reason enough for the officer to have known who she is. This woman is completely unreasonable, illogical and is disserving her constituents.

This officer is there to protect lawmakers like her. She should have thanked him rather than punched him.

Because of her alleged violence against this officer, McKinney now may face charges. If it happened as reported, she should.