Posted on 09/13/2009 9:25:48 AM PDT by Maelstorm
Spare a thought, and maybe even a dime, for Kenneth Gladney. In August he and other members of the right-wing St. Louis Tea Party arrived at a town-hall meeting organized by Missouri Democrat Russ Carnahan to lobby against universal healthcare. In the spirit of this fraught summer, a fight broke out, ending in six arrests.
Who threw the first punch depends on whom you ask. But who got the worst of it was fairly clear. Gladney was taken to the emergency room with injuries to his knee, back, elbow, shoulder and face and ended up in a wheelchair. His troubles were just beginning. Recently laid off, this particular anti-health reform protester, it turned out, had no health insurance. Last heard, he was still accepting donations for his medical expenses.
It's not difficult to ridicule the American right. Its peculiar blend of paranoia, mania, fantasy and misanthropy has been given full rein these past few months. Those who demanded in July to see Obama's birth certificate (which does exist) ended August invoking the British healthcare system's "death panels" (which do not). That most of their claims were verifiably false was of little consequence--to them at least. At one point they insisted that if scientist Stephen Hawking were British and subject to the National Health Service, he would be dead, even though Hawking is British, alive and grateful to the NHS for his care.
So progressives could be forgiven for branding the right as stupid and crazy. But they would also be wrong.
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It’s funny how these people continually say that Barry Soetoro’s American birth has been proven, and that the birth certificate exists...but then refuse to show it.
“Trust me”...
The guy came nowhere close to Gladney’s role, trying to make a few bucks on pins and bumper stickers, completely lied about the circumstances of the attack on him by SEIU thugs. In short, “YOU LIE” Gary Younge.
This is peanuts.. straw grasping by the left... last time the Right became unhinged we had the civil war and won it.
“paranoia, mania, fantasy and misanthropy”
No bias there. /sarc Just another left wing hack scumbag...
The Right has finally woke up!
Sounds more like it’s the left-wing MSM that is coming unhinged...or has been for quite some time.
Hawking may be a Brit, but he resides in the USA and has for at least the past 40 or so years. He lives in Boston and gets the best care the USA has to offer. He would be dead if he were in England.
The left is becoming frightened. Their fear will prompt a more aggressive use of means that previously worked for them. If the right becomes too threatening to leftist power then real violence, with real beatings and shootings will take place. The federal government will defend the left and packed juries shall aquit those who shoot and maim. Never forget it is the cornered rat that bites.
Has the author seen it or is he taking it to be true on "good authority?"
ended August invoking the British healthcare system's "death panels" (which do not).
NHS London is the Strategic Health Authority for London, England. A paper leaked in April of this year (2006) openly acknowledged NHS London’s new mandate for cost containment through health care rationing, this, despite it’s stated mission to “deliver world-class care.” Among the cost cutting measures: 1) Panels were established across London to monitor the rates at which General Practitioners refer patients to hospital. Local health trusts were instructed to cut GP referral rates to the levels of the lowest 10% nationally at an estimated annual saving of 25m pounds.
http://business-school-blog.elliottback.com/79/health-care-rationing-and-the-nhs-londons-troubling-precedent/
And these same types did not say a word about the 9-11 truther nuts like Van Jones. Yet they seem to think that a few people who expect the President to be transparent on issues of his birth, his medical history, his education are some how nuts? How is that? That sounds reasonable to me. Where as believing that George Bush had something to do with 9-11 is totally nutball and a majority of Democrats believed it was possible and none of the usual suspects who are crying about Birthers said a thing about Truthers. I think it illustrates a fear from the left that things are coming apart at the seams and they are right. They elected a man on false pretenses. Most that voted for him did not think they were voting for a harsh partisan liberal. I don’t know why they would’ve thought anything different but they did. So now the left has a lame duck President and even worse a lame duck Democrat Congress they just are afraid to admit it. They are in denial.
We ask questions and they call it conspiracy and paranoia, that is the real delusion.
“They live in a politically parallel world where everyone they know believes the same as they do. They don’t like established facts, so they come armed with their own. The left has such people too, but they are marginal. With no news channels to promote them or Congressmen prepared to advocate for them, their views rarely reach the mainstream.”
Now, right there, that is funny!
I think I might know Mr. Gladney a little. Is he a veteran and former MP?
Isn't it contemptible how these liberals blithely pass over the crux of the fracas with "Who threw the first punch depends on whom you ask." Had it been an leftist who'd ended up in a wheelchair, NO ONE -- not commentators from the right, because they have integrity, and not commentators from the left, because they have a template -- would shrug it off with "Who threw the first punch depends on who you ask."
Honor is alien to the left.
These people who write articles like this slamming Americans, who they basically call right-wing nuts, are just destroying themselves! It’s not going to be long when advertisers say FU and the deception you push!
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Tell you what Younge, what say we meet in the street and see whose philosophy prevails? I’m rapidly losing whatever patience & tolerance for pugnacious little morons who insist on insult instead of dialog.
Bring it you coward...
If you disagree with Mr. Younge, you are obviously a racist. /s
Hateful, evil CBS propaganda.
Go immediately to your cable box and remote control. Remove your local CBS station from access.
Trust me, a big, big smile will appear on your face! Have a WONDERFUL day, amigo!
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