Silence on the beating of Kenneth Gladney

For those who get their news from the mainstream media, here's what they missed:

After the President himself talked about getting in people’s faces when they oppose his policies and setting up snitch lines at the White House, the only shocker in this video is that it took so long for townhalls to turn violent.

Not much of a shocker, either, that the MSM, Obama, and our liberal Congress are ignoring this. They'd be playing it up for all it was worth if Gladney had been wearing a purple shirt. Some commentary:

Andrew Breitbart: I Am Kenneth Gladney

Excerpt:

Last week, a black gentleman named Kenneth Gladney went to a town-hall meeting hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan, Missouri Democrat. While passing out "Don't Tread on Me" flags, he was viciously attacked by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members. One called him a "nigger."

These union thugs were directed by the White House to go to the protests and "punch back twice as hard." And they did.

While the attack was captured on video and is available on YouTube, Mr. Gladney's horrifying story is absent from MSNBC's 24/7 media cycle. Mr. Krugman has yet to write about it. And Mr. Cooper has yet to condemn the attack.

Read the rest.

From Mark Steyn:

Gotta love this "post-racial America": Democrat union heavies can beat up a black guy using racial epithets and leave him in a wheelchair unable to speak - and happily (unlike, say, a black professor being asked for picture ID) it's not "symbolic" of anything at all. Not a Sharpton in sight to speak up for him: Mr Gladney's only shot at fame is an entry in The Guinness Book Of Records under "Least Famous Black Hate-Crime Victim In America".

And Jim Treacher:

If Kenneth Gladney was an Obama supporter, right now he'd be more famous than Rodney King. Al Sharpton would have a whole rack of new suits.

Yes. But instead of the usual condemnations of violence and hate crimes, from the president on down, we're told that spirited dissent is un-American.

Comments welcome.
*Update: Gateway Pundit corrects the record on Kenneth Gladney, who's getting the usual treatment from the Left.

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