When the loony left gets its humanitarian groove on, they can bring a ray of sunshine to almost any kind of disaster, man made or natural.

Former congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is back in the news for all the wrong reasons.

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“A boat carrying international peace activists, including former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip sailed back into a Lebanese port on Tuesday after being turned back and damaged by the Israeli navy, organizers of the trip said.”

Hot Air says that McKinney “gets a warm Israeli welcome” and notes her long history of being on the wrong side of history.

This incident is the latest in a series of regrettable, celebrity seafaring humanitarian rescue mission disasters. Who could forget Sean Penn’s New Orleans adventure?

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PHOTO CAPTION: Efforts by Hollywood actor Sean Penn to aid New Orleans victims stranded by Hurricane Katrina foundered badly overnight, when the boat he was piloting to launch a rescue attempt sprang a leak.

Mr Penn had planned to rescue children waylaid by Katrina’s flood waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.