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Did Andrew Breitbart ‘Breakdown’ At CPAC?

by Andrew Marcus

Several videos of Andrew Breitbart attending CPAC 2010 are making the rounds on the interwebs. Salon.com has posted an article entitled “Breitbart’s breakdown: A video tour”, based on four of the clips floating around.

In these videos, a visibly angry Breitbart tears into Progressive writers Max Blumenthal, Mike Madden, and others, in response to their baseless charges and innuendos of racism surrounding Breitbart, Hannah Giles, and James O’Keefe.

Apparently, Salon.com doesn’t think that anger and outrage are normal reactions for a human being to have in response to being falsely smeared and branded a racist.

Salon.com sees the videos of an angry Andrew Breitbart as not much more than an opportunity to ridicule someone with whom they disagree.

By using these videos in this particular way, Salon reveals that it considers the righteous indignation of a man falsely accused to be funny. A real knee-slapper.

That’s very revealing because the videos that the folks at Salon.com are promoting clearly demonstrate why Breitbart is so furious. He explains it to their cameras repeatedly. Perhaps the editors at Salon.com are too politically tone deaf to hear the message.

Just in case, we’ve produced a little video to help illustrate what we’re talking about.

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, CPAC, Hannah Giles, James O'Keefe, Max Blumenthal
Posted Feb 26th 2010 at 5:31 am in Culture, Exclusives, Featured Story | 80814307 Comments2010-02-26+13%3A31%3A52Andrew++Marcus

Exclusive: Statement From Rep. King on ACORN Collapse

by Publius

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Congressman Steve King, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, made the following statement in response to news reports that ACORN is dissolving its national structure.

“This is not surprising news. ACORN must change its name in order to try and run ahead of the accountability that is catching up with this corrupt organization.

“Even though the one party controlled federal government is using its resources to protect ACORN, entrepreneurial new media investigators and state attorneys general are tightening the noose. Dissolving its national brand does not change ACORN’s faces nor ACORN’s crimes. This organization specializes in subterfuge, but ACORN cannot outrun the wheels of justice that are catching up with this corrupt criminal enterprise.”

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN corruption, acorn scandal, House Judiciary Committee, Steve King
Posted Feb 22nd 2010 at 1:52 pm in ACORN, Congress, Exclusives, News, Politics | 78742144 Comments2010-02-22+21%3A52%3A18Publius

Clinton Plotting Tea Party Counterattack

by Capitol Confidential

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Last week, former President Clinton was rushed to the hospital in New York for an emergency heart operation. Medical experts said the procedure was “relatively routine” and predicted Clinton would make a full recovery and be back to his regular schedule soon. To the public, at least, that schedule revolves chiefly around earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. In fact, some Clinton associates cited the work in Haiti as exacerbating his heart condition. Clinton money man, Terry MacAuliffe, even noted that Clinton’s Haiti work continued right up until the operation:

Democrat colleague Terry McAuliffe said Mr Clinton had participated in a conference call on earthquake relief efforts as he was wheeled into the operating theatre.

We’ll take Terry’s word on that. But, Big Government has learned of at least one other conference call/meeting around this time. A meeting of former Clintonistas and senior Democrat political operatives to coordinate a push-back to the burgeoning tea party movement. Consider it a Democrat party relief effort.

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Tags: 9/12 groups, Bill Clinton, James Carville, tea party movement, terry macauliffe
Posted Feb 17th 2010 at 8:36 am in Exclusives, News, Politics, Tea Party | 76634609 Comments2010-02-17+16%3A36%3A32Capitol++Confidential

Obama’s Financial Hope and Change: Free Money for Wall Street

by J.C. Arenas

A recent Pew survey revealed the nation’s big banks are drawing the most ire from the American public, and now that the Federal Reserve is poised to hand them another victory, it’s easy to see why Main Street’s anger burns deep.

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Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke released a statement to the House Committee on Financial Services which detailed the accommodative policy the Fed implemented as a result of the Great Recession and outlined its exit strategy from that policy.

The objective of the Fed’s intervention was to alleviate the pressure on the balance sheets of the banks, which would provide them with the financial flexibility necessary to begin lending to consumers and businesses once again. To meet such an end, the Fed increased the size of its balance sheet through purchases of securities and real-estate loans from the banks, and decreased the interest-rate for interbank lending to nearly zero percent.

The banks’ first ‘Win’ came as a result of those sales to the Fed which produced billions of dollars in revenue. Afterwards, many of us were wondering why the banks weren’t lending again, despite raking in record profits, but the answer was simple. They quickly realized they had found themselves with a can’t lose proposition, as they could make guaranteed money instead of taking on more risk from lending to consumers and businesses during a period of economic uncertainty.

How could they do that?

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Tags: bank bailout, bank lending, Ben Bernanke, carry trade, Federal Reserve
Posted Feb 14th 2010 at 5:59 am in Economics, Exclusives, Featured Story, federal spending | 7469491 Comments2010-02-14+13%3A59%3A42J.C.+Arenas

Senior Obama Official Steers Sole-Source Contracts to Former Business Associates

by Capitol Confidential

It has been reported, a company by the name of PharmAthene, which is closely tied to the late Congressman John Murtha and Tara O’Toole, an Under Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has received preferential treatment by our good friends in the federal governmenat the expense of Joe Taxpayer.

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BIG GOVERNMENT has learned that a little known entity named the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is adding millions of dollars to a contract awarded way back in 2003 that PharmAthene inherited, rather than conducting a fair and open competition. In government speak, that means PharmAthene is about to get huge sums of additional cash without ever having competed for it. Coverage of this sole-source award has already received significant news coverage and attention from numerous outlets, including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

But it’s not as if PharmAthene is hiding it. They’re actually promoting the fact that they’re getting sole-source contracts that do away with any competition and fatten their bottom line.

According to a recent PharmAthene press release:

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Tags: alliance for biosecurity, BARDA, Center for Biosecurity, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, CREW
Posted Feb 12th 2010 at 9:17 am in Congress, Exclusives, Healthcare, News, Obama | 7418652 Comments2010-02-12+17%3A17%3A33Capitol++Confidential

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Subpoenaed in AIG Fraud Case

by Frank Gaffney

Here’s the latest in the question of the New York Fed, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the AIG bailout, as we’ve covered here at Big Government before (here and here). Last year, Iraq war vet Kevin Murray brought a lawsuit against the Treasury Department and Ben Bernanke (Murray vs. Geithner, et al) for its acquisition of AIG– a scheme that made the US taxpayer the world’s largest provider of Shariah-compliant insurance products. Lawyers David Yerushalmi and The Thomas More Law Center’s Robert Muise found, in the course of discovery, that that was just the tip of the iceberg.

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Yerushalmi and Muise quickly realized that, in acquiring 77.9% of AIG, the New York Fed may have set up an illegal trust, with the knowledge that what they were to do was illegal. Tuesday, Murray’s attorneys issued a subpoena for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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Tags: AIG bailout, Ben Bernanke, David Yerushalmi, Federal Reserve, illegal trust
Posted Feb 10th 2010 at 10:51 am in Economics, Exclusives, Justice/Legal | 73078108 Comments2010-02-10+18%3A51%3A14Frank+Gaffney

Shariah Finance, Criminal Wrongdoing in the AIG Takeover: Will the Special Inspector General for the TARP Funds Investigate the Illegal Trust?

by Frank Gaffney

Yesterday we broke the story of possible criminal wrongdoing in regards to the bailout of AIG by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, then Director of the New York Federal Reserve, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.

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It appears that, through it’s 77.9% control of AIG’s equity and voting rights, the NYFed “sought to accomplish an illegal financial transaction through false means” by creating an “independent”: trust that was in fact not independent, placing it “in violation of federal anti-money laundering statutes (18 USC § 1956).” Here we elaborate a bit further, laying out the issue in the text of a letter submitted to Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for TARP (SIGTARP)– as the government takeover of AIG was accomplished using funds provided to the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

First, however, some context: Crucially, these facts were discovered while securities litigator David Yerushalmi and the Thomas More Law Center was representing Iraq War vet Kevin Murray in Murray vs. Geithner, et al. Mr. Murray is rightfully horrified that the very doctrines of the enemy he faced in combat would be promoted by the US government. Specifically, prior to the U.S. government’s takeover of the insurance giant AIG, the company was the world’s leading promoter of Shariah-compliant finance products and businesses. Bailing out and forcefully (and illegally) taking ownership of AIG put the American taxpayer in the position of advocating Shariah-compliant finance, which is troubling on many levels:

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Tags: AIG, AIG bailout, Ben Bernanke, Fed Bank of New York, Federal Reserve
Posted Feb 3rd 2010 at 4:47 pm in Economics, Exclusives, Uncategorized | 6965093 Comments2010-02-04+00%3A47%3A23Frank+Gaffney

The People of Massachusetts Are Taking Back Their Seats

by Mike LaChance

The Scott Brown revolution is alive and well in Massachusetts.

Tuesday night, January 26th at 7:00 when most people would like to be home relaxing after work, almost 500 average citizens from Massachusetts packed a convention hall in the Boston suburb of Braintree. They shared some common interests. They’re either running for office or helping someone else run for office. Some of them are running for federal or state offices, some for seats in local towns and cities and some for school boards. The one sentiment they share is clear: They’ve had enough.

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The event they showed up for was a “candidate school” offered by Boston talk radio host Michael Graham of 96.9 WTKK, a man the Boston Phoenix dubbed “Boston’s maestro of conservative controversies.” In between his tenure at WTKK and a career in stand-up comedy, Graham ran political campaigns. Today, he is sharing his knowledge with the citizens of the Bay State and encouraging them to participate in the system.

Attendees included people like Francis McLaughlin, a retired Boston fire fighter and registered Republican since 1975. McLaughlin is running for the Massachusetts House of Representatives for specific reasons:

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Tags: Boston, Democrats, exclusive, government, Independents
Posted Feb 3rd 2010 at 7:27 am in Exclusives, News, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party | 6825055 Comments2010-02-03+15%3A27%3A27Mike+LaChance

Lech Walesa Endorses Republican for Illinois Governor

by Publius

In an exclusive, Big Government has obtained a letter addressed by Nobel Prize Winner and anti-Communist hero Lech Walesa to the people of Illinois, endorsing Adam Andrzejewski, Republican candidate for Governor.

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Tags: adam andrzejewski, andy mckenna, bill brady, illinois governors race, illinois republican primary
Posted Jan 25th 2010 at 8:37 pm in Congress, Exclusives, News, Politics, State Politics | 6525080 Comments2010-01-26+04%3A37%3A55Publius

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Military Blogger Michael Yon Detained, Handcuffed by CBP in Seattle Airport

by Publius

Corrected: The federal enforcement agency involved in the incident with Mr. Yon at Sea-Tac was previously misidentified as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The article has been updated to reflect that it was Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents who questioned and detained Mr. Yon.

Award winning war correspondent Michael Yon was detained and handcuffed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Yesterday by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel.

Yon was returning to the United States from Hong Kong to visit family when CBP officials stopped him during a routine security checkpoint. “Officials asked me what was in my bag—nothing wrong with this question,” Yon said in an interview with BigGovernment.com. “I told them it was normal stuff, clothes and toothbrushes.”

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At this point the Customs officials escorted Yon to a designated screening area where they examined the contents of his bag. “Then they asked me how much money I make,” Yon said. Yon suggested to the Customs officials that the question was inappropriate and unrelated to transportation security. The award-winning blogger noted another CBP officer approached Yon: “he asked who do I work for.” ”I did not answer the question which clearly was upsetting to the [CBP] officers.”

Yon was escorted to a room elsewhere in the airport where he said he remained silent during much of the questioning. According to Yon, “they handcuffed me for failing to cooperate. They said I was impeding their ability to do their job.”

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Tags: BigGovernment.com, CBP, Customs, Customs and Border Protection, Homeland Security
Posted Jan 5th 2010 at 2:30 pm in Defense, Exclusives, Featured Story, Justice/Legal | 55762457 Comments2010-01-05+22%3A30%3A30Publius

Exclusive Audio: Was Bomber Ushered on to Flight 253 Without Papers?

by Larry O'Connor

Earlier today, while guest hosting on The Dennis Miller Show, Andrew Breitbart interviewed Kurt Haskell from Taylor, Michigan. Mr. Haskell was a passenger on the now infamous Flight 253 on Christmas day from Amsterdam to Detroit. We all know now how this flight ended (with the Flying Dutchman careening across multiple seats to stop a would-be-suicide bomber from exploding the plane and hundreds of innocent lives). But, Mr. Haskell shared his story of what he witnessed before anyone even boarded the plane.

While waiting in the holding area in the Amsterdam airport, in a room designated for only the passengers of Flight 253, Mr. Haskell saw a well-dressed man of apparent Indian descent accompany a young, poorly attired man of African descent to the boarding gate. What Mr. Haskell saw and heard next is of seemingly great significance:

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Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Big Journalism, Big Media, Christmas terror attack, CNN
Posted Dec 28th 2009 at 1:08 pm in Defense, Exclusives, News | 53014204 Comments2009-12-28+21%3A08%3A04Larry++O%26%2339%3BConnor

EXCLUSIVE: Transvestites, Mao And Obama Ornaments Decorate White House Christmas Tree

by Capitol Confidential

Why let a holiday season come between the White House and making some political statements? The White House pegged controversial designer Simon Doonan to oversee the Christmas decorations for the White House. Mr. Doonan, who is creative director of Barney’s New York has often caused a stir with his design choices. Like his naughty yuletide window display of Margaret Thatcher as a dowdy dominatrix and Dan Quayle as a ventriloquist’s dummy. For this year’s White House, he didn’t disappoint.

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These photos of ornaments on the White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room were taken just days ago. Of course, Mao has his place in the White House.

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Tags: christmas tree, mao ornament, White House
Posted Dec 22nd 2009 at 11:44 am in Culture, Exclusives, Featured Story, Politics | 50890965 Comments2009-12-22+19%3A44%3A06Capitol++Confidential

UN Security Stops Journalist’s Questions About ClimateGate

by Mike Flynn

A Stanford Professor has used United Nation security officers to silence a journalist asking him “inconvenient questions” during a press briefing at the climate change conference in Copenhagen.

Professor Stephen Schneider’s assistant requested armed UN security officers who held film maker Phelim McAleer, ordered him to stop filming and prevented further questioning after the press conference where the Stanford academic was launching a book.

McAleer, a veteran journalist and film maker, has recently made a documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong’ which takes a sceptical look at the science and politics behind Global Warming concerns.

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Tags: Al Gore, climate change, climate emails, global warming, Inconvenient Truth
Posted Dec 11th 2009 at 10:13 am in Environment, Exclusives, News, Politics | 44722721 Comments2009-12-11+18%3A13%3A16Mike+Flynn

Exclusive: Ex-Convict Bob Creamer Laid Out Health Care Reform Plan In 2008 Speech

by Kyle Olson

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ACORNcracked.com recently obtained an audio recording a speech by Robert Creamer, given at the Take Back America 2008 conference in Washington, DC, that was hosted by Campaign for America’s Future, an ultra-liberal organization.

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In a March 19 session entitled, “Health Care: The Politics of Winning,” ex-convict Creamer and husband of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), laid out his vision for health care reform. Of Creamer’s 10-point plan, number 5 is:

To have a movement that both deals with that fact [that health care reform should be personal] and creates a movement we have to have two elements. In a lot of campaigns we run are either about a populist kind of message and feel because it’s about people’s pocketbooks and needs directly. Or it has a moral dimension that is inspirational and empowering – the civil rights movement, for instance.

This movement needs to have both. To have a movement, to mobilize people, to inspire people, you have to appeal to their sense of meaning and purpose and something important. So we have to create a sense that this is a historic battle. This is about you’re being part of something that will make you meaningful. (emphasis added)

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Tags: ACORN, Bob Creamer, Celinda Lake, government health care, government take over
Posted Dec 8th 2009 at 12:57 pm in Big Labor, Culture, Exclusives, Healthcare, Justice/Legal, News, Obama, Politics | 4304655 Comments2009-12-08+19%3A57%3A35Kyle+Olson

Was Democrats’ Health Care Strategy Written In Federal Prison?

by Joel B. Pollak

On August 31, I headed to the health care town hall meeting of my congressional representative, Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). I suspected that she planned to stack the meeting with paid organizers, after she vowed on Real Time with Bill Maher to bring “millions” of people into the streets to support the so-called “public option.” So I brought a video camera.

A friend and I took turns filming protesters on both sides of the issue. We caught an organizer from the group Health Care for America Now (HCAN) instructing followers to block dissenting views: “So if they stand up and start asking questions, and you’re in that area, simply stand up, and start chanting… ‘Health care now! Health care now!’”

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Tags: ACORN, Alinsky, American Medical Association, Andy Stern, astroturfing
Posted Dec 7th 2009 at 3:01 pm in Big Labor, Exclusives, Featured Story, Healthcare, Justice/Legal, News, Obama, Politics | 42174489 Comments2009-12-07+22%3A01%3A13Joel+B.+Pollak

Ann Coulter – Part 2 – On Fort Hood, Single Mothers, And Protected Groups

by Washington News Observer

Washington News Observer recently sat down for an exclusive interview with acclaimed author and commentator Ann Coulter. In the second part of the interview, Ann Coulter discusses the “victimization” of single mothers and minorities, the Fort Hood massacre and other hot topics. Coulter is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers. This interview is the final segment of a two part series. If you missed the first part, it is available HERE.

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Tags: Ann Coulter, fort hood, Washington News Observer
Posted Nov 28th 2009 at 1:29 pm in Exclusives, News, Politics | 3623832 Comments2009-11-28+20%3A29%3A35Washington+News+Observer

Exclusive: Ann Coulter on Obama, Terrorism and Afghanistan.

by Washington News Observer

Washington News Observer recently sat down for an exclusive interview with acclaimed author and commentator Ann Coulter. As always, Ann Coulter is blunt about her opinions of President Obama and the War on Terror. Ann Coulter is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers. This interview is part one of a two part series.

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Tags: Afghanistan, Ann Coulter, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, General McChrystal
Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 2:16 pm in Defense, Exclusives, News, Obama, Politics | 3555034 Comments2009-11-23+21%3A16%3A00Washington+News+Observer

BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal

by Derrick Roach

On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot.

Although ACORN has denied any wrongdoing, some of the employees involved were terminated, and ACORN has publicly stated that they would fully cooperate with any investigations that followed.

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Interestingly, the local head ACORN organizer in California, David Lagstein was caught on tape earlier this month speaking to an East County Democratic Club.

Mr. Lagstein stated: “…the attorney general is a political animal, but certainly every bit of the communication we have had with them has suggested that the fault will be found with the people that did the video and not the people with ACORN.”

Continuing, Mr. Lagstein stated: “…we are fully cooperating, some of the investigators visited our office this morning and I think they really understand what’s going on.”

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Tags: ACORN, ACORN document dump, ACORN National City, ACORN San Diego, acorn scandal
Posted Nov 23rd 2009 at 7:23 am in ACORN, Exclusives, Featured Story, News, Politics | 35430680 Comments2009-11-23+14%3A23%3A46Derrick+Roach

Conservative Principles Will Defeat Harry Reid

by Sue Lowden

Ronald Reagan once quipped that when you start referring to government as “we” instead of “they,” you have been in office too long. Not only is Senator Harry Reid referring to his liberal majority in Washington as “we,” he complains to reporters about the “smell” of American taxpayers when they visit our nation’s Capitol. Harry Reid has been in Washington far too long.

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While families struggle in the face of rising unemployment, the housing crisis, and falling income, Harry Reid has chosen to carry out the bidding of Washington’s special interests and his party’s extreme liberal base. He has proven to be completely out-of-touch with overburdened taxpayers in my home state of Nevada. Currently, Nevada leads the nation in home foreclosures and we are second in the nation in unemployment. And despite Harry’s promises, Nevadans continue to lose their jobs and homes.

In 2004, voters held another out-of-touch Senate Democrat Leader accountable for failing the American people and his constituents. It took the right leadership, conservative principles and the support of conservatives from across the nation to defeat Tom Daschle. Now we have the chance to do it again.

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Tags: ATR Taxpayer Pledge, charter schools, economic recession, Harry Reid, Nevada. Tom Daschle
Posted Nov 12th 2009 at 6:23 am in Congress, Exclusives, Featured Story, News, Politics, State Politics | 29234111 Comments2009-11-12+13%3A23%3A34Sue+Lowden

Exclusive: Police Report on Gladney Beating by SEIU Thugs

by Capitol Confidential

It has been more than three months since Kenneth Gladney was viciously attacked by SEIU employees. The assault wasn’t an accident, but a deliberate attempt to intimidate and silence tea party activists and town hall protesters. The morning of the Gladney assault, the White House presented to Senate Democrats a ‘battle plan’ to quell the protests. The White House advised Democrats “punch back twice as hard.” Gladney was the first casualty.

The Gladney beating took place at a forum on ‘Aging’, sponsored by Rep. Russ Carnahan. Carnahan had been caught flat-footed by earlier protests. This time he was more prepared; the day before the forum, Sara Howard took over as his communications director. Ms. Howard is a veteran leftist activist, holding senior positions with SEIU.

SEIU and partisan hacks like Media Matters have tried to spin away the Gladney beating. They would have you believe a 130 lb diabetic, recovering luekemia patient, picked a fight with men almost twice his size. The police report puts an end to that lie.

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Tags: Bob McCulloch, Kenneth Gladney, Russ Carnahan, SEIU, Tea Parties
Posted Nov 9th 2009 at 10:47 am in Big Labor, Exclusives, Justice/Legal, News, Obama, Politics, State Politics, Tea Party | 27754281 Comments2009-11-09+17%3A47%3A06Capitol++Confidential