Certain conspiracies have been winding their way through the more desperate and hungry parts of the blogosphere; various liberals have alleged that I, Andrew Breitbart, and others “lied” about Patricia Redington’s handling of Kenneth Gladney (who still hasn’t received justice) and Kelly Owens’ cases.
This is the problem when one is driven not by intellectual curiosity, but by a pronounced obsessive bitterness, when bloggers’ content is based upon fruits from scavenge and bias, as opposed to actual investigation which requires more skill, demonstrated by 24thState, in a post which requires full reading. This lack of attention to facts was exhibited last week in a hastily-written piece – too hasty to bother confirming the identity of the intended target – on Crooks and Liars. The cogs in the machine each provided cover , a crack in any flank, according to their rulebook, is invalidation of their own. But as for the matter of Gladney and Redington:
They’re wrong, as usual, but then the Soros and SEIU funded Media Matters has never been interested in the truth. I speak to this because starting that night, August 6th, I’ve been collecting the information on the Gladney case, from public statements to health records to statements from public officials, and just last week, I delivered much of that information to the prosecutor overseeing the case.
Aside from all of this, I’m glad to see, for the first time, real interest in one of the most under-reported hate crimes in America in the past several years. I’m glad that liberals have mustered up enough interest to ask the questions they couldn’t be bothered to ask last fall when they were too busy trying to cover up the crime against a black man. Perhaps they will also ask why it took Redington so long to talk to witnesses, or about this:
The hospital records were not the complete medical records. Gladney went to his personal doctor, the one paid by coverage through his wife’s insurance (despite a report and non-correction you might have read in the St Louis Post Dispatch). Pat Redington’s office had no way of knowing this because prior to them bringing charges, they wouldn’t meet with or speak to Kenneth Gladney, or any of the witnesses in the police report. Thus prior to the charges being brought, Redington’s office couldn’t check the full medical records. They didn’t know of the existence of the full medical record.
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These medical records were important, because Redington’s failure to press timely charges was excused by the complexity of the case. And yet, the information the counselor’s office had was no different the day they pressed charges, then it was on August 12th. In other words, Redington’s claim of dozens of witnesses and multiple arrests was intended to be an excuse. The truth is there was no, and I repeat this strongly, NO, investigation from the counselor’s office.
Those on the left stated an aversion to name-calling when they decried when conservatives declared certain of the administration’s politics to be socialist, tossing around words like “liar” and “racist” seem to be excepted from their double-standard, even when those against whom they rail have the advantage of possessing information on the story and not just SEIU rhetoric.
I wrote in December of last year:
St. Louis County Prosecutors watered-down the charges in the Kenneth Gladney case from a misdemeanor to an ordinance violation without so much as even calling St. John’s Hospital, where Gladney received treatment for his injuries, and checking Gladney’s hospital record or speaking with care providers on site.
The truth stands. Continuing:
It has been discovered that no one from Patricia Redington’s office ever accessed Gladney’s medical records for use in determining the charges filed in the case.
The truth stands. Redington received a fragment copy of Gladney’s medical records with the police report. I didn’t realize that it was customary for some to expect that charges in cases be assessed without having all of the information; I also don’t expect some crackpot bloggers, like MMFA, to understand how the difficulty of reporting things during an ongoing criminal investigation. Again:
Thus prior to the charges being brought, Redington’s office couldn’t check the full medical records. They didn’t know of the existence of the full medical record.
From 24thState, who also has signed documentation from the hospital:
For Media Matters or any other blogger to complain about the ethics of citizen journalists is ridiculous. We know what we know about the Gladney case because I and a few others wouldn’t let it go.
Here are questions I would like to see liberal bloggers address:
The prosecuting attorney assigned to the case doesn’t get a file until after charges are pressed. And yet, if there was going to be no further investigation, why then were charges filed based on information that was 15 weeks old? Redington has never had to answer for that.
It’s in your court, Soros-circus.
Why was SEIU paying the criminal and legal expenses for Elston McCowan and Perry Molens despite stating that they sent no staff to the event? Waiting for your answer, Soros-circus.
Or:
The prosecuting attorney assigned to the case doesn’t get a file until after charges are pressed. And yet, if there was going to be no further investigation, why then were charges filed based on information that was 15 weeks old? Redington has never had to answer for that.
I’ll let the peanut gallery take a crack at that. Please keep in mind that I’ve only posted excerpts of 24thState’s article, a blogger who knows more about this case than anyone on the web. Full reading of the original is required.
Those in pursuit of denying justice to Kenneth Gladney and Kelly Owens are welcome to ask questions as those striving to bring these victims justice encourage it, however, those finally asking questions may be most unhappy with the answers, or lack thereof, they receive. Forgive me if I seem suspicious of their sudden concern, providing that these same people deny that an attack took place at all:
(Here’s a shot-by-shot examination of the Gladney attack.)
It’s easier to throw out false, uneducated charges about a case with which your unfamiliar while others actually do the work of reporting the story. This little habit defines so much of liberalism, nay, socialism, does it not? So are liberal bloggers finally admitting that the Gladney beating took place? After the recorded evidence, the charges against several members of SEIU, finally? Incompetence, indeed, Boehlert.
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