Peter Glickert is a self-professed new media strategist who works for Democratic politicians. Last year he worked on Sam Page's campaign. Before that, he was working on state senate campaigns. And now he wants some bigger fish to fry, so he recorded a video of the Claire McCaskill townhall and pushed it to CNN, claiming it showed a black woman attacked for carrying a Rosa Parks sign.
Peter Glickert is a liar, and he is trying to use a portion of video he shot for the event to boost his career. His video has now been seen by hundreds of thousands, and he's making media tours with Maxine Johnson, making false claims on what really happened.
Peter showed you a portion, but he didn't get it all. But now someone who did see it all and has better video has come forward to show you the truth. Maxine Johnson was intentionally disrupting the townhall. She and her three friends marched into the townhall later carrying signs, when the rest of the crowd had their signs taken away and sometimes destroyed. This video is excerpted from video first published at ConservativeTVonline.
I strongly urge you to head over there and watch the full video, which combines Glickert's piece and the full footage.
Notice several things:
1) They are carrying signs in front of them, and yelling at the crowd. McCaskill has to ask them to stop.
2) Maxine gets into several verbal disputes with people to her right, and McCaskill again, has to ask her to stop.
3) The four seats available are conveniently located directly in front of Peter Glickert, despite a packed auditorium.
4) The man who grabs the poster never touches Maxine. He sets his hand on the chair, and grabs the poster.
5) Maxine jumps up after him, and the cops come running. They separate the two. The man is calm, and is backed away. Maxine is struggling, yelling, and is then hustled out with the assistance of another officer. A third officer is carefully and politely helping the older woman, who is trying to get Maxine to calm down.
6) Maxine heads outside, where she immediately is surrounded by people with cameras and video.
I have extra video of the women outside directly after the attack, as well as video of townhall attendees having their purses and bags searched. Despite what is now being reported on MSNBC and CNN, this is not a racially motivated incident. Claire McCaskill is on record on CNN saying it was a disruption, not a racially motivated attack. And yet Peter Glickert continues to write and post video as if it happened.
Let's take a look at Peter.
Peter considers himself to be a new media strategist for Democrats. He has made a lot of YouTube Videos. He is also part of the ObamaStrikeForce, which is a group of young Democrats in St Louis that were active during the Obama campaign, but have been silent, until the McCaskill townhall.
Glickert started his blog, HatingNotDebating, just recently. He opened a Twitter account on August 11th, the day of the townhall. His YouTube channel has only one video, before adding the truncated version of the Maxine Johnson video. And this new media, self-proclaimed viral video Democratic consultant, just happens to be sitting in front of four empty chairs in a packed auditorium that were abandoned shortly before Maxine Johnson arrives.
Maxine is no random woman. She's connected to Elston McGowan, who endorsed her as a fellow Green Party candidate earlier in the year. It's enough for the Post Dispatch to write about the coincidence. And she has been heavily involved in Democratic politics in St Louis. Could it be this was a set-up?
Glickert has been accused of this before. In this StlToday.com article, a commenter named Tripple 6 Mafia leaves the website address for http://condrathecon.com. That site refers to Tony Condra of SEIU. The next commenter looks up the whois address, and finds it is registered to Scor Media Advisement, which is the former company of Peter Glickert. Condra was running against Maria Chappelle-Nadal for state senate, and Glickert worked on her campaign. The site is now gone, and the domain has expired.
But that's a big problem for Peter if it was true. Starting an attack website against an SEIU heavyweight is bad for your career. If true, it certainly shows Peter is not against doing black hat tactics in campaigns (though he wasn't very good at it).
So where does that leave us? First, we know Peter is actively promoting a lie and playing only a portion of the video. This second round of videos is clearly an attempt to falsely make the story about race. Second, we know that Maxine Johnson is incorrect in her statement that she was grabbed or pushed, nd we know that she entered the auditorium with the intent to make a scene, and she got one. Was this a set-up, or was it just blind coincidence? We know this - the media's desire to run with this story was based on their blindness and manipulation by Peter Glickert and Maxine Johnson.
The officers reacted correctly to split up two people who looked to be on the verge of violence. They removed the one who was struggling, and moved the other (who was calm) out of the way. Maxine was identified twice by Senator McCaskill as a disruption, and then she wonders why she was removed? Was this racism, or was this another blatant attempt by HCAN members to cast the townhalls in a bad light and attack all of the Tea Parties as racist?
To address that, let's tackle one last piece. There is video of white people standing and holding Gasden flags in the back, and not being removed. Officers come up to a man and tell him to stop, but he refuses, and is not removed. An observer says you can't just take out black people for having signs. The police officers do not make that statement. And we now know Johnson was removed because it looked like violence was about to occur. She was removed, but not arrested, but the man was.
1) The man with the yellow flag is not causing a disturbance
2) The approved tactics of HCAN include forbidding all signs of protestors, and distributing them inside for pro-Obamacare supporters. Tea Party folks there had their signs taken, and some destroyed, and then walked in to see HCAN Supporters passing out large stickers and pieces of paper to wear on their chest.
3) According to sources, certain protestors went to the president of the college, took the flags off of their sticks, and showed they were the same size as those allowed by HCAN organizers. The President agreed, and this is why you see small Gasden flags held up, and protestors not removed.
The left wing blogs and media have done all they can to twist the truth and lie about what happens. They chose not to publish video disproving Peter Glickert. They chose not to interview any of the people involved.
The truth remains. Johnson sought a scene, won her scene, and a Democratic new media strategist conveniently caught what he wanted to catch.
And CNN and MSNBC fell for it.
btw - no sign or picture of the "n-word" Obama sign has been seen. Nor will it be. Like the story about the twisted wrist and the shoving, it never happened.
Notice several things:
1) They are carrying signs in front of them, and yelling at the crowd. McCaskill has to ask them to stop.
2) Maxine gets into several verbal disputes with people to her right, and McCaskill again, has to ask her to stop.
3) The four seats available are conveniently located directly in front of Peter Glickert, despite a packed auditorium.
4) The man who grabs the poster never touches Maxine. He sets his hand on the chair, and grabs the poster.
5) Maxine jumps up after him, and the cops come running. They separate the two. The man is calm, and is backed away. Maxine is struggling, yelling, and is then hustled out with the assistance of another officer. A third officer is carefully and politely helping the older woman, who is trying to get Maxine to calm down.
6) Maxine heads outside, where she immediately is surrounded by people with cameras and video.
I have extra video of the women outside directly after the attack, as well as video of townhall attendees having their purses and bags searched. Despite what is now being reported on MSNBC and CNN, this is not a racially motivated incident. Claire McCaskill is on record on CNN saying it was a disruption, not a racially motivated attack. And yet Peter Glickert continues to write and post video as if it happened.
Let's take a look at Peter.
Peter considers himself to be a new media strategist for Democrats. He has made a lot of YouTube Videos. He is also part of the ObamaStrikeForce, which is a group of young Democrats in St Louis that were active during the Obama campaign, but have been silent, until the McCaskill townhall.
Glickert started his blog, HatingNotDebating, just recently. He opened a Twitter account on August 11th, the day of the townhall. His YouTube channel has only one video, before adding the truncated version of the Maxine Johnson video. And this new media, self-proclaimed viral video Democratic consultant, just happens to be sitting in front of four empty chairs in a packed auditorium that were abandoned shortly before Maxine Johnson arrives.
Maxine is no random woman. She's connected to Elston McGowan, who endorsed her as a fellow Green Party candidate earlier in the year. It's enough for the Post Dispatch to write about the coincidence. And she has been heavily involved in Democratic politics in St Louis. Could it be this was a set-up?
Glickert has been accused of this before. In this StlToday.com article, a commenter named Tripple 6 Mafia leaves the website address for http://condrathecon.com. That site refers to Tony Condra of SEIU. The next commenter looks up the whois address, and finds it is registered to Scor Media Advisement, which is the former company of Peter Glickert. Condra was running against Maria Chappelle-Nadal for state senate, and Glickert worked on her campaign. The site is now gone, and the domain has expired.
But that's a big problem for Peter if it was true. Starting an attack website against an SEIU heavyweight is bad for your career. If true, it certainly shows Peter is not against doing black hat tactics in campaigns (though he wasn't very good at it).
So where does that leave us? First, we know Peter is actively promoting a lie and playing only a portion of the video. This second round of videos is clearly an attempt to falsely make the story about race. Second, we know that Maxine Johnson is incorrect in her statement that she was grabbed or pushed, nd we know that she entered the auditorium with the intent to make a scene, and she got one. Was this a set-up, or was it just blind coincidence? We know this - the media's desire to run with this story was based on their blindness and manipulation by Peter Glickert and Maxine Johnson.
The officers reacted correctly to split up two people who looked to be on the verge of violence. They removed the one who was struggling, and moved the other (who was calm) out of the way. Maxine was identified twice by Senator McCaskill as a disruption, and then she wonders why she was removed? Was this racism, or was this another blatant attempt by HCAN members to cast the townhalls in a bad light and attack all of the Tea Parties as racist?
To address that, let's tackle one last piece. There is video of white people standing and holding Gasden flags in the back, and not being removed. Officers come up to a man and tell him to stop, but he refuses, and is not removed. An observer says you can't just take out black people for having signs. The police officers do not make that statement. And we now know Johnson was removed because it looked like violence was about to occur. She was removed, but not arrested, but the man was.
1) The man with the yellow flag is not causing a disturbance
2) The approved tactics of HCAN include forbidding all signs of protestors, and distributing them inside for pro-Obamacare supporters. Tea Party folks there had their signs taken, and some destroyed, and then walked in to see HCAN Supporters passing out large stickers and pieces of paper to wear on their chest.
3) According to sources, certain protestors went to the president of the college, took the flags off of their sticks, and showed they were the same size as those allowed by HCAN organizers. The President agreed, and this is why you see small Gasden flags held up, and protestors not removed.
The left wing blogs and media have done all they can to twist the truth and lie about what happens. They chose not to publish video disproving Peter Glickert. They chose not to interview any of the people involved.
The truth remains. Johnson sought a scene, won her scene, and a Democratic new media strategist conveniently caught what he wanted to catch.
And CNN and MSNBC fell for it.
btw - no sign or picture of the "n-word" Obama sign has been seen. Nor will it be. Like the story about the twisted wrist and the shoving, it never happened.
Maxine Johnson enters in a processional with giant signs. She is not removed for having the signs. They would have stopped her or removed her when McCaskill twice called her out.
Maxine is removed when she struggles with the officers and begins shouting. What should the officers have done - let her stand there and make a scene for the national press? Give her five minutes to embarrass the college?
Winfrey was removed. Johnson was removed. But it wasn't about a sign.
Posted by: Jim Durbin | 08/20/2009 at 04:41 AM
Are you serious? You are a moron. It was about a sign you dope. How ignorant do you have to be to think she was taken out for fighting with the police? Apparently as stupid as Jim Durbin.
This whole story feels like you're grabbing straws, you look even more angry, racist, and ignorant.
Great story. We are all laughing... all across the state.
HAHAHAHA.
Posted by: Jon | 08/20/2009 at 06:48 PM
I hope the media that aired Johnson’s distorted version of the event will have the fairness to reveal the truth. But I doubt they will.
I don’t understand why this black lady wants to proclaim racism when there was no racism. The man didn’t grab her or twist her arm. I was at the meeting and there were no n-word signs. Why did she and Glickert lie on national TV and radio with the intent to deliberately agitate relations between the races when most people, black and white, want to live in peace? Why? For God’ sake, why?
The man who tore up the sign and was arrested probably has reason enough to file a lawsuit against them for defamation of character.
Posted by: Jonah | 08/21/2009 at 10:32 AM
I believe that the narrator on the video noted that the four seats (that were taken by the ladies with the signs) had been vacated just prior to their appearance. I note also that the two fellows seated in front of them also vacated their seats shortly after.
The whole situation appears clumsily manufactured. Without seeming overly cynical, has anyone considered whether the young lady kneeling at the poster or the man that grabbed it were also part of the "cast"?
Posted by: kkong | 08/22/2009 at 05:42 PM