As we might expect, ACORN is now getting into the protest game, unsurprisingly, as supporters of Obamacare. Today, the local Missouri ACORN held a protest event in the University City Loop, not too far from Claire McCaskill’s office and the now-infamous St. Louis SEIU headquarters.
Unfortunately for them, the turnout was not so great.
Looks like their astroturf needs watering.
H/T to Sharp Elbows for their coverage of this watershed event.
I didn’t put up anything on the Gladney Incident (allegedly, a conservative activist at Russ Carnahan’s town hall / aging event was sent to the emergency room last night because of an attack by SEIU people) last night because it was at the time single-source. We have gotten another report in, though - and more importantly, what looks to be video from the scene:
…which may be from the incident itself. It’s confused and chaotic, but it’s what we have right now.
Moe Lane
PS: Don’t expect it to get less confused and chaotic, by the way. This is real life, not the movies: you have to be very, very lucky to get footage of a spontaneous incident from beginning to end. Getting more than half of it - which is what happened here, more or less - is merely very lucky. You can help with that by making sure that everybody has a camera, of course… which is why I keep harping on people to get them.
PPS: On the other hand, there was a reporter on the scene - who apparently got arrested, too. When he gets out of jail, there may be some clarification of what went down, after all.
Glenn Reynolds has two very large links (here and here [the latter being the main page; the link's goofed up for some reason]). See also Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, the Repurblican, Gateway Pundit, GayPatriot, Riehl World View, Ace of Spades, and a whole bunch of others for details. The biggest one was in St Louis, with about a thousand on hand; I’m going to guess that they probably broke ten thousand nationwide. Not bad for a movement two weeks old, and made up of a bunch of people who all work for a living.
At least, it’s not bad today. Clearly, now that we’re starting to understand the operating principles, the next wave of these are going to have to kick it up a notch…
