Boy, Oh, Boy (NY Times: It's racist to call Obozo a liar barf alert)

New York Times ^ | September 12, 2009 | Maureen Dowd

[Zakeet]

The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind.

Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t.

But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!

The outburst was unexpected from a milquetoast Republican backbencher from South Carolina who had attracted little media attention. Now it has made him an overnight right-wing hero, inspiring “You lie!” bumper stickers and T-shirts.

The congressman, we learned, belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, led a 2000 campaign to keep the Confederate flag waving above South Carolina’s state Capitol and denounced as a “smear” the true claim of a black woman that she was the daughter of Strom Thurmond, the ’48 segregationist candidate for president. Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber.

[Snip]

Even if he and the coterie of white male advisers around him don’t choose to openly acknowledge it, this president is the ultimate civil rights figure — a black man whose legitimacy is constantly challenged by a loco fringe.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

The state that fired the first shot of the Civil War has now given us this: Senator Jim DeMint exhorted conservatives to “break” the president by upending his health care plan. Rusty DePass, a G.O.P. activist, said that a gorilla that escaped from a zoo was “just one of Michelle’s ancestors.” Lovelorn Mark Sanford tried to refuse the president’s stimulus money. And now Joe Wilson.

[Zakeet]

It's racist to call me a liar when I'm lying

[Dr. Ursus]

This is BS, straight-up!

[SolidWood]

Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t.

Someone pass me the vomit bag.

[aeonspromise]

Oh_Bummer, eat puke, I guess we are suppossed to lay down in the road for your train of commies liars and crooks to run us over for the rainbow of BS you shovel.
Nah, rise up America, get rid of the czars, Pelousy and all of these nut bags who want your money. Most all peoople I know who voted for you are sad they did, no Honor, no commitment, just commie lies..

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This is a Maurenn Dowd thread. Where are the pictures of Catherine Zeta-Jones?

[repubpub]

This article goes to show just how nervous the left really is.

[BerniesFriend]

This is a Maurenn Dowd thread. Where are the pictures of Catherine Zeta-Jones?

Here I am..

[Evil Slayer]

Joe should have a crew set up a screen in the chamber of congress and show a tape of the boos that were shouted at Bush during his State of the Union Address. Then, he should demand that THEY apologize. As a matter of fact, I think there was footage of Pelosi booing along with the rest of the dems.

[samtheman]

Two words you will not find in this phony rant:

1. “illegal”
2. “immigrant”

Obama said illegal immigrants will not be covered by his health plan. Wilson, rightfully, called him a liar.

The Dowdy One said Obama’s not a liar, but rather, Wilson’s a racist. But she doesn’t mention the lie, or try to defend the lie in any way. She just states flatly that Obama didn’t lie.

But he did.

[Semper Mark]

It is racist to call the racist liar, a liar.

So? How harsh is the penalty for being a racist?

Is it any worse that having this lying usurper as _resident?

[GoldStandard]

The congressman, we learned, belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans

Oh the horror of it all!

[Evil Slayer]

[Dem Guard]

Where are the films of Pres. Truman sending illegals back to Mexico in trains during his administration??

The problem with conservative protests is the libs don’t take them serious, they are too civil. Perhaps they need
to surround congressional buildings etc. to get the libs respect.

[dajeeps]

Let’s see here:

1) Getting to keep the health insurance you have — False
2) Illegals being excluded from health coverage — False
3) No Death Panels — False
4) Van Jones a victim of a smear campaign — False
5) The stimulus is working — False
6) The recession was caused by Bush — False
7) And the list of Obama’s lies and cover ups goes on...

If everything that comes out of one’s mouth is a lie that makes one a liar. Come to think about it, I think there’s a medical term for that kind of mental pathology only it isn’t coming to me right now.

[MestaMachine]

“But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!”

Maureen, you ignorant,racist slut, if this is what you thought, then of COURSE this is what you heard.
YOU heard.
Isn’t that special.

LIARS LIE. That’s what they do. ...as you have so emphatically proven with this irresponsible and insane column.

[Dallas59]

White people.....*shakes head*

[xtinct]

political correctness is a smokescreen the left uses to cover up their own racism... be they Black and hating Whites or Whites hating Blacks...

Proof ... the elites on both sides make it a point to live in segregated communities...

[Boardwalk]

You Lie Girl would have been much more fitting.

[csense]

The only one's bringing up race, are the liberals. The whole country is starting to see, and figure out, what conservatives have known all along, that the liberals are the racists.

Personally, if I had a way, I'd provide her with a soapbox that could reach every single person in this country.

Behold, the Democratic Party in all it's glory...