I swear sometimes the folks on the Left lack some ability to learn from their mistakes. From August to May, left wing blogs, progressive media centers and left wing commentators, have been screaming over and over that Kenneth Gladney was faking his injuries for some kind of financial benefit.
Go to Google and type in "Kenneth Gladney faked his injuries." There is a lot of apologizing and correcting needed from those folks, but you won't ever see it. They're admitting that there were injuries (that's what the hospital and personal medical records show), and yet in their attempt to smear Dana, they'd too stupid to realize they've lost the battle.
They smeared Kenneth Gladney with no evidence and no research, motivated solely by the desire to attack a black man who isn't even a self-professed conservative. That deserves more than an apology, but you'll hear nothing from the Left.
Now that the full story of the hospital records has been told - they want to scream up and down that Monday's story has me calling Dana Loesch a liar. But Dana couldn't be a liar - because I'm the one that gave her the information. I'm the one who didn't pass on the full story because as has been explained over and over, a criminal trial and preparations for a civil trial were and are in motion. I did speak with the prosecutor's office about the matter, but there was no way to come out and post that information without exposing the existence of the personal medical records. In short - I made a judgement call that since Redington waited months to bring charges, I'd wait months before explaining.
At the time, Molens and McCowan had a January trial date. Publishing Kenneth's personal information would have given Molens and McCowan additional information in their decision whether to plead the case to a lesser charge. They had no right to it in a criminal or legal sense. My research was independent, and not the county's. What I chose to do with it was my decision. And the results? McCowan and Molens each plead not guilty and demand a jury trial. They thought they could beat the system, and from what they knew, they probably would have.
I learned all this in December, but I refused to play the real game, which was to confuse the public and the press long enough to escape notice. In fact, we now know that SEIU donated $50,000 to Media Matters, followed by new posts from Media Matters asking where the charges were. Oops.
SEIU and Media Matters would have liked nothing more than for me to publish everything I had for the criminal defense team of McCowan and Molens to sift through. The goal all along for McCowan and Molens was to muddy the water. If they could just draw out the trial long enough - Gladney or the Tea Party or someone would make a mistake bad enough to get them off. Violence from the right, an angry outburst by Kenneth, or something as simple as a witness having a hazy memory would prove vindication for the SEIU staff members.
McCowan and Molens are out there now, accusing the Tea Party of racism, threatening civil suits against some phantom money interests, and even bringing in the NAACP to pretend McCowan somehow suffered a breach of equal protection under the law. That's perhaps the richest irony. The NAACP and the Left made light of Gladney's claim that his assault was a hate crime. They mocked the Right, asking "How can black on black violence be a hate crime?" And yet, how can the NAACP be involved in a case involving a black victim? Is Kenneth not black enough for the NAACP?
The dam is breaking. The prosecution has what it needs. The defense team can't produce any witnesses to back up their story. They also can't afford to go to a jury trial and have SEIU staff sentenced to jail for assault during a health care townhall. All they have, and I mean all they have is the hope that folks like Media Matters can muddle the issue enough and create enough political pressure to force the St Louis County Prosecutor to drop the charges.
Elston knows this. So does Perry. So do their lawyers. The only people who don't get it are the howler monkeys playing with their keyboards who can't even understand they were played, again.
Here's a random thought. What was on the disk I gave the prosecution? Was there some super secret evidence?
Elston and Perry have produced no witnesses, and now they've marched themselves into a corner as to what happened. Perry is on video throwing Gladney to the ground without provocation, and witnesses back that statement up. There is no denying that. That alone is enough for a conviction.
To make it worse, Elston and Perry can't get anyone to testify for them because original video and a pictorial reference exists of that night. No one is risking perjury when every statement they make can be compared to video from that evening. And, if you believe in miracles, Elston's frequent public statements can be entered into the trial record because he gave them freely, which means an enterprising blogger can take that information and provide it to the prosecution, narrowing the wiggle room a smart defense attorney might have been able to get his client off on a lesser charge.
At this point, Elston doesn't need to testify. Public records of his interviews will condemn him. And that leaves us with this. Gladney had injuries. Progressives pretended otherwise and have never apologized. SEIU funded a national think tank who responded by attacking Gladney and his defenders. And finally, Elston and Perry will be going to trial, to face the man they attacked, and there won't be any uninformed left wing blogs to help them.
Good luck with that.
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