Posted on 09/11/2009 9:36:02 PM PDT by jessduntno
Parsing Mr. Wilson’s Apology GAIL COLLINS Published: September 11, 2009
Let’s take a moment to rejoice in our country’s infinite capacity to surprise.
I’d have been willing to bet that we had a national consensus on the undesirability of a congressman yelling out “You lie!” during an address by the president of the United States. But no. It turns out there are quite a few people who think this is a good idea.
Joe Wilson, who will be forever known as the “You lie!” congressman, unless he does something even weirder in the future, has a lot of fans this weekend at the Taxpayer March on Washington. This is an anti-Obama demonstration organized by FreedomWorks, the group that helped bring us the summer town hall meeting protests.
Those were, of course, the events where we learned that we did not actually have a national consensus on the inadvisability of bringing loaded weapons to places where the president is speaking.
Among the co-sponsors of the march are the Tea Party Patriots, who helped bring us those anti-tax rallies last spring, during which we learned that there are some patriots who love the country so much that they would like to see their state secede from the union.
And now they also love Joe Wilson. “People need to stop being afraid and not bite their tongues,” one of the marchers told the newspaper The Hill. Actually, fear of self-expression does not seem to be that big of a problem with this group, but Wilson undoubtedly appreciated all the supporters who honored him by yelling “Liar!” as often as possible.
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This sounds series...
Perhaps at the same place Barry Soetoro morphed into Barack Obama.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” Gandhi
we are somewhere between step 2 and 3 in this process. 4 is not far off.
Well into step 3, at this point.
Gail, You ignorant sycophant. The bottom line is Youliebama lied.
I’d bet Wilson now regrets ‘apologizing’ in the first place. It’ll be interesting to see if his reelection campaign gets a boost from Sarah Palin.
Retire you old bat....
Sorry Honey, MSNBC has lied to you. Wilson is quite an unexpected spark to a fire ready to consume the lies from Washington.
“inchoate rage”....looks like someone was making use of the Microsoft Word Thesaurus recently.
“Perhaps at the same place Barry Soetoro morphed into Barack Obama.”
Only a runt like this would make fun of a guy’s name...
“You can tell that liberal journalists spend absolutely no time around conservatives. They talk about us as if we are space aliens.”
It’s getting weirder and weirder, too...I had a wife of a friend of mine (we have known each other 30 years) start putting her finger in my face and doing the purple vein scream and ended with saying “you people are all alike” which, I guess, gives us some sort of minority status now...my friend and I are going out to play golf tomorrow...she doesn’t get how we can be friends...
Democrats never grow up. They all sound like third graders when they cry on TV.
That’s racist!
““inchoate rage”....looks like someone was making use of the Microsoft Word Thesaurus recently.”
I have a freind who sent his kid to Choate...prep school...he came back after a while in Choate, inchoate...went on to Hahvahd...can’t stand the twerp and he has less sense than you expect from a rock...he now works on a “Green” project in MI which is going to change the way we live...
Gsil, you ignorant unibrow....
Which makes me wonder if we are really ready for secession this time around!!! Let’s let the lib’s have half the country to run and give all the social crap to with absolutely NO producers. They can speechify that they CARE, all the while doing nothing productive while their population shrinks due to lack of the basics.
Let’s let the conservatives run the other half, taking CARE of their elderly and disabled among them, while letting producers PRODUCE and get out of the way. This will prove once and for all who is right, Alinsky and the commies or all those folks who signed the Declaration of Independence!!!!
“Which makes me wonder if we are really ready for secession this time around!!! “
I’d pick up and move to North Texas, let them have the EAST and The West coasts...just give us the middle of the country and the Gulf!
>This sounds series...
Actually, it’s hugh.
Evidently she's one of those confused folks who are utterly lacking in self-awareness...
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