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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
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!
Y A W N
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!
Should read:
That most of my above misunderstanding of their claims are verifiably false is of little concern--to me at least
There fixed it.
Actually, no. He lives and works at Cambridge University in England, and has since 1962.
Cambridge has several of the best hospitals in the world associated with it and he has benefited from this.
It is idiotic to claim the NHS has provided him treatment that would have otherwise been unavailable to him. Top flight world-famous scientists receive the best available medical care in every country on earth.
The medical socialists would have a better case if they could show that Joe Blow with a similar disease routinely gets better care in UL than US.
So CBS news sees fit to have a far left guy who writes for The Nation contribute a hit piece?
If the “right wing” is “unhinged”, it’s because the left wing didn’t think the Constitutional “nuts and bolts” that hold everything together were important. Now we part company.
For a moment I thought the author might be interested in understanding why "the right" is violently opposed to these "reforms," and then perhaps try to explain to them why they shouldn't be opposed.
No such luck. Having discarded the stupid and crazy explanations for right-wing resistance to the building of utopia, he plumps whole-heartedly for the only remaining alternative, in liberal/socialist eyes.
Conservatives are neither crazy nor stupid, they're just wicked.
There, in a nutshell, is what the arrogant *@!%$ liberals think of most of this country. Rot in h*ll, jerk, and take your friends in the White House and congress with you.
Gary is either a mental case or an extraordinarily evil person. There are no other choices.
Put cBS and The Nation together, and the result? Comedy gold!
It's especially easy when you have abandoned any shred of integrity or the least pretense at actual investigation and inquiry and decided that you love Eurosocialism so much that you'll embrace any Ci-cago gang that seizes the rhetoric of it to impose mob bossism on the entire country and destroy the Constituion.
gary is a well-trained, leftist propaganda professional. The Soviet Union certainly had their government propaganda artists and we have ours. There are people like this in every country in the world.
He knows exactly what he is doing. He is not a free-lancer! Deluded, mental case .... no! He is a pro! (And America will defeat her adversaries.)
What a childish screed! I haven’t seen such juvenile dreck since reading my campus rag in college.
Right wingers actually partake in the same behavior that the left has used for decades and all of a sudden we are ‘unhinged’.
Look here, the Leftwingtards can be both professional propagandists AND mental cases. This guy is off his nut.
We studied.
Perhaps the author of the article would care to explain then who decided that premature babies, born at 21 weeks and five days, shall be denied medical care.
Was the British Parliament involved in this decision? Was this an isolated decision made by the woman's doctor? Or was this a policy decision made by the UK's equivalent of a "death panel" deciding matters of life and death in the rationing of health care?
The author seems to think that "death panels" don't exist as long as we call a decision-making group, that excludes the patient and doctor and which denies access to public care resulting in death, something different. Perhaps we need to call them "Choice Panels". The government has decided to exercises the right to CHOOSE who lives and dies.
It's just the ultimate extension of being "Pro-Choice".
Number nine in the series “The Liberal’s Dictonary:
right-wing: The people who won’t go along with converting the United States into a Soviet Republic - mainstream America.
okay, so he is a professional mental case.
No, he lives in England. So I guess your statement, “He would be dead if he were in England” is automatically retracted, as he is still alive.
The Author
He was a guest speaker at "Marxism 2007 A Festival of Resistance" a few years ago: http://www.marxismfestival.org.uk/2007/speakers.html So he's a Brit Van Jones, so to speak, yet here's CBS News and The Nation giving him a soapbox. Hmmmmm...
an unbiased observer then? /sarc
No end to the racist demagoguery. I have to believe that the West’s institutions of lower learning are but a mill of hatreds for the people who actually created the West, talk about sick self hatred. So they churn out this ingrate who if he hates us so much should go live in Liberia and take some of his conspirators with him.
Play the racism card and when that doesn’t work call your opponents loony.
Alinsky rules for radicals
5. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.”
Last I heard, Hawking was in the hospital in Boston or Cambridge, where he holds a professorial position. I cannot remember which university, just that it’s in Cambridge and it’s not MIT.
Lol, you heard correctly, except that particular Cambridge is in England. You’ve heard of it, it’s where Cambridge University is, where Hawkings holds the Lucasian chair. You’ve heard of it as well, Isaac Newton held it as well. Too funny.
All this time, I thought Hawking was in the US. Too many Cambridges!! Kind of like Oxford and Occidental. Thanks for setting me straight!!
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