Did you hear about the town hall meeting in St. Louis where union thugs attacked a black conservative and sent him to the hospital with multiple injuries?
Well, it didn't happen exactly like that. In fact, events were the opposite of what talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly broadcast and what corporate media carried across the US.
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Walking outside, McCowan saw Gladney selling buttons of Obama in blackface and Obama smoking weed. Feeling insulted, McCowan asked why a black man would be hawking material denigrating the first black president as he pointed to one of the buttons.
"When I pointed at the button, Gladney slapped my hand. So I told him not to hit me and pointed at it again and repeated my question. He smacked my hand even harder, hit me several times and pushed me down.
"As I went down, I grabbed him by reflex to break my fall. I hit my shoulder and something popped. I lost consciousness for a moment but soon realized that
Gladney continued to hit me.
"Another SEIU guy, Perry Molens, came over and told Gladney, 'He's a minister and won't fight back. He can't see out of one eye. Stop hitting him!' When Gladney kept on, Perry tried to get him off of me and threw a punch in the process.
"I don't know why Gladney had an attorney on hand, but his attorney came over yelling 'You two attacked him!' Gladney went off to find cops and told them to arrest us. The cops wouldn't listen to us and did what the Tea Party people told them to do. They arrested me, Perry, a newspaper reporter and three supporters of health care reform."
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http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/22297
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