Who is Kenny Gladney?

According to witnesses, an African-American man wearing an SEIU uniform approached Gladney Thursday about 8:30 p.m. as Gladney showed his buttons and flags to the wife of a minister. The SEIU thug said, “Why is a n***** handing out ‘Don’t tread on me’ flags,” before punching Gladney to the ground. According to video taken at the scene by numerous witnesses, other SEIU thugs joined in to kick and beat Gladney.

These union thugs were directed by the White House to go to the protests and “punch back twice as hard.” And they did. One of the six men arrested is Elston K. McCowan. McCowan is a former organizer – now the Public Service Director of SEIU Local 2000 – and board member of the Walbridge Community Education Center, and is a Baptist minister, has been a community organizer for more than 23 years, and now, he is running for Mayor of the City of St. Louis under the Green Party.

The mainstream media and the Democratic Party are working in concert to make sure that what happened to President Bush — sustained organized grass-roots protests (“mobs,” if you will), relentless media criticism and permanent opposition-party obstructionism — does not happen to their guy. Complicating matters, the media’s fate is directly tied to the president’s. Without them, Barack Obama would still be a backbencher from Illinois. That’s why the media and the Democratic Party are scared and are throwing outrageous and hateful accusations at everyday Americans — hoping that people stay home out of fear.

But the mockery. The recklessness. Unsupportable libel isn’t working. The tea parties and, now, the health care protests at town-hall meetings have only gotten bigger and stronger. The anti-big-government movement is pure. Its participants represent something close to what used to be considered normative in this country.

If you still aren’t motivated to get involved and stop the Chicago thug intimidation politics being played out here, then perhaps you can just stand in solidarity with Kenny Gladney. Patriots deserve no less.

**Editors Note: As pointed out in comments, the YouTube selection did have an Obama-Joker face on it. A clean copy of the broadcast has replaced it. No need to go down that road again.

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