Remember that "conservative activist" who was "brutally attacked" by SEIU members?

[stevedeshazer]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019423.php

Over the last few days, a conservative activist in St. Louis named Kenneth Gladney seems to have become something of a cause celebre in far-right circles. Depending on which version of events you choose to believe, Gladney either initiated or was involved in a scuffle at a town-hall event late last week.

At least one prominent conservative blogger said Gladney was "brutally attacked" by SEIU members outside the event. After watching the video, there's ample reason for skepticism. Gladney was, in fact, pulled to the ground during the fracas, but he seemed to bounce back up quickly, and is seen walking around soon after without any obvious injuries. His attorney has argued that Gladney was beaten during the fight, but there's nothing in the clip to support that. Gladney later went to the hospital, claiming to have sustained injuries to his "knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face."

Yesterday, about 200 conservative activists held a protest outside the SEIU office in St. Louis. Gladney was there -- bandaged and in a wheelchair -- as a featured guest. Some of the activists held signs that read, "Don't Tread on Kenny." Reader R.D. alerted me to this tidbit in the local news account of the protest:

Gladney did not address Saturday's crowd of about 200 people. His attorney, David Brown, however, read a prepared statement Gladney wrote. "A few nights ago there was an assault on my liberty, and on yours, too." Brown read. "This should never happen in this country." Supporters cheered. Brown finished by telling the crowd that Gladney is accepting donations toward his medical expenses. Gladney told reporters he was recently laid off and has no health insurance.

more @ link

[mikelgb]

1. give the man an award

[Warpy]

5. I suggest an annual Parlock Award

for the most elaborate conservative fakery for the cameras.

Perhaps it could be done in the shape of a moon, and I'm not talking about the celestial object.

[stevedeshazer]

8. I'm all for that.

This guy has Parlock Award written all over him.

[tridim]

11. Is Parlock the backwards "B" girl?

[Warpy]

13. No, he's the model parent

who pinched his daughter and made her cry and told reporters a union thug had torn up her campaign sign. The union thug was an oaf of a son in a union shirt.

The mainstream press bought it. The rest of us, not so much.

[tridim]

14. Wow, I guess I missed that one. What a scumbag.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. He is a professional victim He seems to get "attacked" every election cycle.

From Top Ten Conservative Idiots - 2004

IIRC, after THIS highlighted incident, some one "shot up" his office.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/04/171.html

4.
Phil Parlock
You have to feel sorry for Phil Parlock. I mean, the guy was just trying to exercise his First Amendment rights at a John Kerry campaign event, and he was viciously attacked by Democratic thugs. They even made his daughter cry!



"They just pounced on us," said Phil Parlock, "She was crying; they were pushing and shoving her." My God - will those evil Democrats stop at nothing? John Kerry must hate children! Actually, it looks like it's Phil Parlock who hates children - see, this isn't the first time Mr. Parlock has made it into the papers after being "pounced on" at a Democratic rally. After he and his 12-year-old son Louis smuggled Bush signs into an Al Gore event back in 2000, Louis apparently hoisted a girl onto his shoulders. According to the Charleston Daily Mail, "'She walked up and said 'I'll get on your shoulders and hold a sign,' " Louis said. While she was sitting on Louis' shoulders waving a Bush-Cheney sign, a man who identified himself as a volunteer for the Gore campaign tried to pull the sign out of the girl's hands, Parlock said. He pulled so hard that Louis and the girl fell over. 'That sounds like an exaggeration,' said Sarah Feinberg, spokeswoman for Gore's West Virginia campaign." And - would you believe it - Parlock was a victim of nasty liberals at a Clinton campaign event back in 1996 as well! Again, according to the Charleston Daily Mail, "The Huntington man said he was knocked to the ground by a Clinton supporter when he tried to display a sign that read 'Remember Vince Foster' ... 'It must have been a strict Democrat who did this,' Parlock said." Yup, our Phil certainly has a habit of complaining to the media about Democratic "thuggery." Kinda makes you wonder why he took his young daughter to the event last week. But then, once you realize that Parlock appears to have a relationship with the photographer that snapped the above pic, and that the man wearing the union shirt holding the ripped up sign looks suspiciously like one of his sons, and that Parlock even happened to be around when his local Republican party headquarters were shot at by a unknown assailant ...well, it just kinda makes you think. Funny how our Phil always seems to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time - with the media in tow.

[stevedeshazer]

25. I just reread this thread after work.

Meant to thank you for the Parlock reference earlier.

I hadn't thought of that in quite a while.

[47of74]

2. I wonder if Joe the Plumber is jealous

I wonder if Joe the Plumber is jealous of all the attenion Gladney is now getting?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Donations? WTF? A Republicon Socialist

He should just pull himself up by his own scabs and bruises like a real man.

[Mariana]

16. Begging for private donations is not "socialist"

to these people. If it's for a "good cause" like, say, Sarah Palin's legal expenses, so much the better. That's why their preachers can beg incessantly for more and more money from the flock and they never blink an eye.

[SpiralHawk]

19. Republicon Socialism is as Republicon Socialism does

Anything else is just rhetorical lipstick on the republicon socialist pig. People helping people, OMG - that's not just socialism, it's frikking Godless Red
Republicon Communism.

Pull yourself up by your own frikkin wheelchairs, you Republicon commie pinko socialists.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Laid off and has no health insurance?!

Him being against nationalized health care is like the chickens voting for Col. Sanders. This guy typifies the stupidity of the republican noise machine.

[SpiralHawk]

7. Proves once again that Republicon Sheeple do what their chickenhawk fatcat 'leaders'

tell them, without ever entertaining a thought of their own.

[madaboutharry]

6. Nothing surprises me anymore.

:shrug:

[JVS]

9. HAHAHAHAHA!

[AllieB]

10. Laid off and has no health insurance? Oh the irony!

:eyes:

He's definitely a Parlock award contender.

[K8-EEE]

15. It's like rain on your wedding day....

Isn't it ironic?

[Jennicut]

12. The dumb leads the even dumber.

[tandot]

17. What an idiot. It never changes. K & R

[gratuitous]

18. Now, most people when they're assaulted, go to the police

I wonder why Mr. Gladney is attending rallies and begging for money, instead of reporting the assault to the police? Or is he waiting for a private security company to step up because he doesn't trust the socialist, big government police?

[hadrons]

20. asshat award for this bozo

[City Lights]

21. Chump.

:nopity:

[quiet.american]

22. Give Gladney an honorary Alan Keyes Award - and good luck with those donations, fella. nt

[Wednesdays]

24. K&R

:kick: