thinkprogress.orgGladney in a wheelchair two days after his "beating".In yet another example of how truth is stranger than fiction, I present you with the case of Kenny Gladney. Who is Mr. Gladney, you ask? He's the current poster boy for the St. Louis national Tea Party movement. Gladney is the sympathetic black conservative who the Tea Party reports was "severely beaten" by "union thugs" last Thursday at a healthcare forum in south St. Louis County. Two days after the attack Gladney showed
So many Ass Clowns this week. So little time. You know how to play: Vote for the local newsmaker you think made the biggest idiot of themselves this week. And the nominees...1. Kenneth Gladney: Gladney is the man whose attorney David Brown says was selling flags at a health care forum last month when he was beat up by union members. (View a video of Gladney's purported beating here.) After walking away from the scuffle, Gladney showed up two days later in a wheelchair at a Tea Party protest
Kenneth GladneyShhh! Don't tell Kenneth Gladney's attorney -- David Brown -- the news. He and his client are likely to get so angry they might hold a protest right outside the doors of the Riverfront Times. But, hey, it's not our fault. Like our favorite television network, all we do is report the news. You decide! And by an overwhelming margin, you the readers of Daily RFT have decided that Kenneth Gladney, hero of the St. Louis Tea Party, is this week's Ass Clown.
King says his buttons -- from Obama "Hope" to Obama "Dope" -- sold very well at political rallies.Errol Hosea King was shaking his head watching TV coverage of the Tea Party Express all last week. The 16-day, cross-country rally ended Saturday in Washington, D.C., with different news outlets suggesting wildly different attendance numbers for the final day. Whether hundreds or thousands, a fired-up crowd equals easy money to a button-seller like King, who says that could have been him out ther
