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BECAUSE OF RACISM?

Looks Like Things Didn’t Work Out So Well For Kenneth Gladney

Remember that wingnut Kenneth Gladney, who pretended to get super super beaten up by the Obama’s “union thugs” outside a town hall in St. Louis, and then wanted to make tons of money being half-famous like Joe the Plumber? His lawyer isn’t paying the website bills anymore! Huh. And so, with this, we will now close the very thin file on Kenneth Gladney. [Washington Independent]


4:26 PM on Mon September 21 2009
By Jim Newell
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  1. …and then he was eaten by rats.

    The End.

  2. What’s the frequency, Kenneth?

  3. SayItWithWookies says at 4:30 pm, September 21st, 2009

    It should redirect to IAmAForgottenMeme.com.

  4. chascates says at 4:30 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Today we are no longer Kenneth Gladney.

  5. Buzz Feedback says at 4:30 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Freedom isn’t free and neither is bandwith.

  6. El Pinche says at 4:32 pm, September 21st, 2009

    when keepin it reals goes wrong

  7. ManchuCandidate says at 4:32 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Soon to be rebranded as a gay porn site.

  8. A Better American Than You! says at 4:32 pm, September 21st, 2009

    I never heard of this guy, but if it brings good luck to wear a red baseball cap and spit on his head, I’m all for it.

  9. queeraselvis v 2.0 says at 4:32 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Wow. Those fifteen minutes got ate up quick!

  10. Come here a minute says at 4:34 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Sorry to hear it. I thought “The Tipping Point” was good.

  11. Nice typography, I didn’t want to read that quote anyway.
    Why does every conservative web site suck?

  12. Extemporanus says at 4:35 pm, September 21st, 2009

    OH MY GOD!

    They billed Kenny!

    Those bastards!

  13. bitchincamaro says at 4:35 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Fuck you Kenny, and the chapter 11 you rode in on.

  14. hobospacejunkie says at 4:35 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Any man with a surname that evokes a corrupt adoption agency which has served the tastelessly rich in Dallas for decades by fighting to keep vital information from adoptess deserves anonymity. A stretch, to be sure, but it’s all I got.

  15. And don’t pay the “website developer” either. The font for his no doubt heartwarming quotation is illegible. And the photo makes my skin crawl. Is Kenneth a Special Olympian about to be molested by a tatt guy whose sexuality hasn’t been turned inward enough through porn?

  16. KilgoreTrout_XL says at 4:36 pm, September 21st, 2009

    I guess the Missouri bar is cool when one of its lawyers sets up a website with a big photo of his client on it, claiming that the guy is a deadbeat who shirked an (probably) outrageously overpriced legal bill.

    This is clearly RACIALISTISM and really fucking stupid.

  17. BTW, what’s up with Bush and the $20 polyester sport coat he wore to the Cowboy’s game last night?

  18. DirtyHarriett says at 4:40 pm, September 21st, 2009
  19. RoscoePColtraine says at 4:44 pm, September 21st, 2009

    What does it cost to keep a website up and running? $9.95 a month? The wingnut’s sympathy for colored cripples is simply not sufficient to pay the exorbitant webmaster fees of GoDaddy.

  20. Extemporanus says at 4:46 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Scarab: Wasn’t last night “$20 Polyester Sport Coat Night”?

    Or is that every night in Dallas?

  21. Crank Tango says at 4:46 pm, September 21st, 2009

    but who will be the embodiment of irony for us now that uninsured teabagger/healthcare protester kenneth gladney can’t afford to?

  22. TimeCubist says at 4:49 pm, September 21st, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: But all porn is gay porn.

  23. slappypaddy says at 4:50 pm, September 21st, 2009

    no, i don’t remember him. is he the fellow who carved a backwards “o” on his cheek?

  24. eclecticbrotha says at 4:52 pm, September 21st, 2009

    “Liberty knows no race, sex, creed or color. You see, liberty is for us all. It was given to us by our Creator. That includes all of us, even us coloreds who are shamelessly working against our own self-interest by aligning ourselves with a party steeped in bigotry and hate-mongering based on a delusional fear of the other. Unfortunately, Liberty knows not how to write a check because Liberty has no hands. Because Liberty couldn’t write me that big fat check it promised me if I helped promote death panels and lies about socialist medicine my sleazy lawyer could not in good faith continue to support my site. Liberty also felt it was necessary that my lawyer post an embarrassing message highlighting my insolvency instead of the usual “This site no longer exists” most left wing liberals post when the webmaster’s check bounces. This is how the free market is supposed to work.”

    —Kenneth

  25. Today we are all deadbeat, website-owning, attention whores.

  26. Snarkalicious says at 5:08 pm, September 21st, 2009

    I call bullshit. If real union thugs would have gotten hold of this guy, he’d be mouldering under 3 feet of expertly poured concrete foundation by now.

  27. Suds McKenzie says at 5:09 pm, September 21st, 2009

    The Internet doesn’t care about black people.

  28. slappypaddy says at 5:23 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Snarkalicious: teachers union. no concrete. their method was to make him fill in the little bubbles on standardized tests, WITHOUT A #2 PENCIL, until he screamed for mercy.

  29. kewlguy42069 says at 5:23 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Kiss/Pat On The Head A Negro Boy For Good Luck 2009

  30. Jukesgrrl says at 5:25 pm, September 21st, 2009

    FOX has enough people on staff making up stories. They don’t need to support freelance liars like Kenny or that crazy chick with the backwards B.

  31. He looks like he’s wearing a SpongeBob life preserver in that photo. Not exactly the way to get respeck.

  32. eclecticbrotha says at 5:28 pm, September 21st, 2009

    On second glance, I’m pretty sure that photo backdrop was from a “Clayton Biggsby for President” rally in 2008.

  33. Dr. Spaceman says at 5:34 pm, September 21st, 2009

    RoscoePColtraine: My work website costs $10 a year. No wonder the bitters are so poor, they suck at personal finance.

  34. A brief scan of the conservative celebrities grasping for an extension of their 15 minutes of fame (political dingleberries if you will) seems to suggest some latent racial disparities:

    Famous for making an ass of yourself: Carrie Prejean, Joe the Plumber, Joe Wilson, Kenneth Gladney
    Able to convert fame into money, credibility, speaking gigs: Carrie Prejean, Joe the Plumber, Joe Wilson
    Left in his wheelchair: Kenneth Gladney

    Of course correlation is not causation…

  35. RubberSoul says at 5:53 pm, September 21st, 2009

    ManchuCandidate: Judging from the photo, I’d assumed it already had.

  36. queeraselvis v 2.0: and ten of them were spent replaying the video where he jumps right back up off the ground after getting bumped into.

  37. Today, we are all white men in red baseball caps kissing bald heads of Negroes for good luck.

  38. Extemporanus says at 6:10 pm, September 21st, 2009

    eclecticbrotha: I voted for Clayton earlier today, but I didn’t see Kenneth.

  39. glamourdammerung says at 6:14 pm, September 21st, 2009

    And of course, those corrections about Gladney’s story being bullshit should be being printed/filmed any time now.

    Right?

  40. user-of-owls says at 6:30 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Also Nicht Sprach Kennethustra.

  41. american mutt says at 7:20 pm, September 21st, 2009

    eclecticbrotha: A tear of pride and patriotism rolls down my cheek at Kenny’s words.

  42. DoktorZoom says at 7:35 pm, September 21st, 2009

    The specificity and spite in this message is striking. Normally, if you don’t pay yer bills, doesn’t the ISP just pull the website and let an error 404 or 410 show up?

  43. Lionel Hutz Esq. says at 7:55 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Liberty knows no race, sex, creed or color.

    Yes, but it also knows that its best friend is a ten or a twenty.

    Keep fucking that chicken Kenneth. Keep fucking that chicken.

  44. Why is that white guy kissing the retarded black guy on the head?

  45. DoktorZoom: Me thinks the ISP tired of answering wingnut threats and put in a special message.

  46. norbizness says at 10:21 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Well, he’s always got his day job in Gnarls Barkley.

  47. the problem child says at 11:15 pm, September 21st, 2009

    Black icon, okay. Crip icon, okay. Conservative icon, okay. Black crip conservative icon? Fuggedaboudit. It’s gotta be a scam.

  48. OK, so a couple months ago we were all supposed to be Kenneth Gladney.

    So, who are we to be now;
    O’Keefe the pimp?
    or
    Giles the whore?

  49. Is that a backwards “G” I see carved into Kanye’s head?

    http://kanyelicious.appspot.com/http://www.iamkennethgladney.com

  50. LoweredPeninsula says at 6:40 am, September 22nd, 2009

    I said it before, but Kenny is stupid for trying to hitch his wagon to people that despise his guts. Joe the Plumber can get by with being unemployed; his white conservative brethern will come to his aid at the drop of a dime. Kenny; you’re black; they can’t stand you nor will they ever accept you, and you want to rely on their kindness and their charity? Do you forget what they say about folks like you that accost them with “Brotha’, can you spare a dime?”

    Yeah, good luck with that. Oh yeah: dumbass. Also.

    Today, we are all delusional Clayton Bigsbys.

  51. Wow. This “movement” had the perfect amount of false outrage and ridiculously saccharine martyr-making with a dash of race thrown in, I was sure wingnut America would have jumped all over it. Surely any group of people capable of somewhat paying attention to Joe the P surely would have fallen all over the fakeness of this Kenneth guy. Perhaps the picture of the guy kissing him on his bald head was too reminiscent of the gehys for the party to support?
    All snark aside, this was possibly the most terrible horrible see-through attempt at becoming famous ever wraught upon America, at least the American political arena, the same America which gave us Lady Gaga and KFed. Seriously?? Showing up at a press conference two days after an alleged beating on camera when suddenly he’s turned into an invalid? Who gets kissed on the forehead tenderly like he’s some kinda baby Jesus?! You are grown adults, stop acting like that for fame, it is seriously creepy!!!!!!!! Only in America would people this blatantly awful be rewarded for their efforts, so it is good to see at least this once even America decided they were too crazy for it.

  52. Tundra Grifter says at 9:00 am, September 22nd, 2009

    Joe Wilson: 1.8 Million dollars.

    Kenneth Gladney: Zero Dollars.

    All this love on Wonkette: Priceless.

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