Click on this image (hat tip, Gateway Pundit) to get a better look at the 1,000 troublemaking paid political mobster/shills of the insurance industry waiting in line to get into a "town hall meeting" (so called) held in South Saint Louis by Missouri Congressman Russ Carnahan. Although it was 40 minutes before the meeting, these people already were locked out.Not locked out, however, were SEIU members, who were shuffled in through the "handicapped" entrance. The SEIU is the Service Employees International Union. The "largest and fastest growing union in North America" are strong Obama supporters and have plenty of political clout: they even had voting booths moved into their workplaces in Nevada so they wouldn't have to travel to regular polling places to vote like the rest of America. You will recall that Obama won Nevada, a crucial state for him in his campaign.
Here's a video of SEIU members after the meeting, proudly wearing their SEIU tee-shirts, beating up Kenneth Gladney, who was selling and distributing yellow Gadsten flags, symbols of the original American colonies and of American patriotism. According to one of his attackers, who was a black man, Gladney, also a black man, had no business handing out symbols of American patriotism.
Next morning, Carnahan blamed the violence on the Republican party! A Jamie Allman, a radio host, managed to question Carnahan about the beating:
Take another look at the photo of the "disrupters" at the top of this post and draw your own conclusions.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius did just that, and afterwards called SEIU members, hailing them as her "brothers and sisters," and urging them to show up at town hall meetings. "Keep doing what you're doing," she said.
Like we didn't already know who counts.
I'm guessing Sebelius' statement indicates that President Obama will not be announcing at any upcoming press conferences that SEIU members acted "stupidly" in beating up an American citizen peacefully attending a town hall meeting at the invitation of his elected Congressional represent
ative (even if said Congressman had no actual intention of allowing his conservative constituents into the meeting).Another event following the Town Hall Meeting That Wasn't (and there are getting to be a lot of those) was the protest against the beating of Gladney outside the SEIU headquarters in Saint Louis. Several hundred attended.
Via Gathering of Eagles:NY comes this video:
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Some scary stuff is happening... and it's not the fiery disagreement and violence. That happens, and has happened before. It's scary but hardly new.
ReplyDeleteWhat really concerns me is the one-sidedness of the press and the silence or spin they put on these incidences. The US has had plenty of experiences with one-sided press in the past, but in the past 60 yrs. or so the public has been sold on the noble neutrality of the free press. Frankly, people currently seem unprepared for divisive issues to expose the intrinsic lie of unbiased reporting. This seems very odd to me, and I don't know of any historic precedent for it.