Posted on 09/09/2009 7:08:24 PM PDT by quesney
President Barack Obama’s address to Congress this evening was moving along fairly smoothly until he pledged that there was nothing in the legislation that would provide health care to the millions of illegal immigrants residing in the nation.
A cry of “You lie!” was audible from the Republican side of the aisle. The Associated Press reports that the heckler was South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson.
“It’s not true,” the president responded to the outburst, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, seated behind the president, offered her mother-of-five glare towards the Republican side of the chamber. First Lady Michelle Obama was seen shaking her head from side to side.
While lawmakers may have become accustomed to that kind of language during the contentious town hall meetings in August, Wilson’s outburst was uncommon for a joint session of Congress, where decorum usually reigns.
A spokesman for Wilson did not immediately return a request for comment.
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He joins a growing list. Most recently black economist extraordinaire Thomas Sowell:
Listening to a Liar http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2009/09/08/listening_to_a_liar
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
Good. We need to take the fascists to task more forcefully. Turn this into a Questions session like the British Parliament.
The roar heard around the world.
"If at first you don't secede, try, try again!"
and then he had to go and “apologize” to the resident socialist. The GOP needs to stop apologizing for their views. I would have been calling him more than a liar and WITHOUT an apology if that was me.
How do we write to Joe Wilson? I would like to thank him for finally speaking out!!
today on the local DC morning news, they reported that the outburst caused people to donate 75K to his opponent overnight...
I fear it might be worse than that.
To call him a liar and then to retract it is the ultimate clandestine campaign to dominate the news cycle with news favorable to Obama and (by extension) his health plan.
Little discussion of details this morning, and lots of discussion of the "breach of protocol."
Sadly, Obama is lying. There's no way to get the price of this plan by controlling waste, fraud, and abuse in medicare. It was all smoke and mirrors, sleight-of-hand.
A You Tube moment for the ages.
The look on Pelosi’s face is priceless.
what’s the diversionary method that you and calvinist dark lord taught me about?
My apologies if this is a duplicate post. NPR is asking if Joe Wilson should be “punished” for calling the POS in Chief
the truth....so far the crazies are ahead. Go here to vote
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/09/should_rep_joe_wilson_be_punsh.html
FOX NEWS
ACORN...PROSTITUTES...FILM .... AUDIO!!!
COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS INDEED!!
STAY TUNE.
"polite"..hmm, I prefer civil but, ok.
"Republican"..Conservative yes, Republican no longer.
"send flowers to 0bama"..would a Blazin' Saddles candy-gram do?
Is there a transcript online that includes the “that’s not true” response from Obama?
Well, phooey...it seems that you have to pay to listen to
Glenn, and I am too cheap! LOL!
I guess I’ll watch the TV show instead!
Thanks for the link, though.
It's called diaprax or The Delphi Technique.
It doesn't apply here. This was a direct confrontation if you refer to the challenge to Zero.
The only way the diaprax is involved is in Zero and the Democrats insisting on a dialogue over a (supposed) solution that the American people have soundly and loudly rejected.
Notice McInsane has taken the side of the Kookaid drinkers, and insisted this guy apologise, no matter what the truth value of his remarks?
The only comfort that i take in that is the fact that on the night of the long knives in Nazi Germany, it was the "true believers" who were the victims.
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