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ModernMindOfM
09/11/09

In reply to Joe Wilson's Lifeless Plea for Help against 'Liberal Attacks'
Really? I'm the first? Okay then...

"You LIE!"
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PaisleyPajamas
09/11/09

In reply to Joe Wilson's Lifeless Plea for Help against 'Liberal Attacks'
It's the Sarah Palin Excuse--and the Sarah Palin Solution (send money). HURL

You're such a victim, Wilson. A victim of your extremely poor teleprompter reading, which also happens to be something the POTUS does better than you.
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metroville
09/11/09

In reply to Joe Wilson's Lifeless Plea for Help against 'Liberal Attacks'
Dude looks like he's having a stroke. Hope he's insured.
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britneyspearstears
09/11/09

In reply to Joe Wilson's Lifeless Plea for Help against 'Liberal Attacks'
The framing of this shot is a good metaphor for how small el senator must feel right about now.
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MrInBetween
09/11/09

In reply to Joe Wilson's Lifeless Plea for Help against 'Liberal Attacks'
Boy, the GOP Factory really does produce an endless supply of retards.
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friendslikeJimRome
09/11/09

In reply to Joe Wilson's Lifeless Plea for Help against 'Liberal Attacks'
No Democrat has ever been rude to the President!

[mediamatters.org]
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BettyCrocker
09/11/09

@friendslikeJimRome: Um.... did you read your own example? Plus, what did Mommy tell you that two wrongs don't make?
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momof3wildkids
09/11/09

@BettyCrocker: You are the icing on the cake.
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BettyCrocker
09/11/09

@momof3wildkids: Just trying to do a heck of a job: Brownie.
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friendslikeJimRome
09/11/09

@BettyCrocker: Just wondering why the Lefties think it's clever when they are rude to the President but somehow it is very rude if a Republican speaks up when he is offended by a series of lies.
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page3
09/11/09

@friendslikeJimRome: Either you are agreeing that the GOP is breaking newer and ruder ground than ever, in which case, thanks. Or, you just gave the most retarded defense of something that I've ever seen.......In which case, thanks!
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BettyCrocker
09/11/09

@friendslikeJimRome: In the name of all that's holy, I do hope that Republitards keep speaking up when they are offended by anything and everything.

But when the President is addressing Congress, it's considered by most people prudent to shut your bigoted, ill-mannered, morally bankrupt pie-hole, should you have one.

Is there something in the water in SC? Wilson's insta-Tourettes, a hypocrite Governor who gets all outraged over Clinton/Lewinsky then flies off to Argentina for some sexxxytimes, a closet case Lieutenant Governor who's been outed in the worst possible way.... WTF comes out of the tap down there? Sea Monkeys?
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Perhaps Not
09/11/09

George Bush was a tyrant who allowed tens of thousands of people to die in pointless wars and gave permission to the NSA and DHS to violate his constituents' most basic civil liberties. He created a gulag for civilians on a military base in Cuba.

Barack Obama is trying to create a government program that will give medicine to sick people.

If you don't see the difference between the two of them, which part don't you understand?
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Trai_Dep
09/11/09

@Perhaps Not: Easy: Bush hired private contractors to apply cattle prods to suspect's children's testicles. Barry wants to get his grubby governmental mitts on our Medicare. Which is CLEARLY immoral.
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Perhaps Not
09/11/09

@Trai_Dep: When you put it that way, it's very hard to argue. RUMSFELD!
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LoveHandles
09/12/09

@friendslikeJimRome: since when did Gawker become bipartisan? Kick these nut-jobs off here. I want to wallow in my own (sometimes) mypoic view of the world. I feel so dirty, like I'm on huffpo or something.
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YardanCarter
09/11/09

In reply to Joe Wilson's Lifeless Plea for Help against 'Liberal Attacks'
well... as a member of the National Guard he should NEVER speak this way to the President. He should be up on charges (and no, it doesn't matter that he was in uniform or not). Now the Right will tell you about free speech. He exercized his free speech and he's not being punished for that. He's being punished for being disrespectful to his direct superior and commander in chief. How utterly un-American. As a vet I am so sick if these anti-gov whacks. But when they're being paid by my tax dollars it makes me sick. If you don't like our government then resign. Don't respect the military uniform or the commander and chief then resign! The right are a bunch of moronic chicken hawks taking our tax dollars then bitching about it.
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iheartapocalypse
09/11/09

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So, the fact that Joe Wilson was WRONG about the issue he was responding to is of no consequence? There were a few places he could have gotten away with it, but he was disagreeing with something that is in plain English, spelled out in the bill. Does no one care about this? You can call the President a liar as loud as you want, whenever you want, if he's LYING.
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You Cannot Untoast
09/11/09

In reply to Joe Wilson's Lifeless Plea for Help against 'Liberal Attacks'
"...On these issues I will not be muzzled"

"...On these issues I will not be muslin"

"...On these issues I will not be Muslim"

"...On these issues I will not be mumblin"

Not sure, really.
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SinisterRouge
09/11/09

In reply to Joe Wilson's Lifeless Plea for Help against 'Liberal Attacks'
Whatever happened to respect for the office? Oppose the President all you want...but it's utterly disgusting that some jackass representative yells in such a manner to the president and isn't either run out of town in shame or perceptive enough to be too embarrassed to show his face In public ever again. Why are republicans allowed to call the democratic president a liar? They only do it to Dems. And they've only gottent worse -- moreclassless-- since the last time a Dem was in power. Why aren't they all run out with pitchforks???
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Urbania
09/11/09

@SinisterRouge: I say let people yell what they want! The president isn't a king. What will happen is that either they sound apt or they hang themselves with their own rope. That's what's great about the messiness of freedom of speech, precisely this moment right here. Where a loser is gonna get whacked because he thought he was being a leader when, according to the majority of folks, he looked ill informed.
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BettyCrocker
09/11/09

@Urbania: Yes on the freedom of speech, no on time and place. This was a formal proceeding, not a town hall meeting. I agree that Wilson's inability to control himself makes him look like an idiot. I don't think that his freedom to express that trumps the President's right to be heard.
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skt.smth
09/11/09

@Urbania: It's not a question of freedom of speech. He wasn't, and never would have been, dragged out and thrown in a prison for calling the president a liar. What's at issue here is a pretty clear violation of decorum. Congressional Democrats never yelled at Bush during any of his addresses before them, and he was dragging us into pointless wars. If ever there were a time to bitch a president out on national television, chances are it came and went with GW, and yet the Democrats never succumbed to what must have been an aching desire to follow through (thankfully, an Iraqi dude didn't waste the opportunity to chuck a shoe at him).

One can't help but feel that Obama's race has a good amount to do with this. Certain people in congress somehow feel that Obama, more than any other opposition president in history, is a valid target of this kind of breach in historically-observed social decorum. I wonder why this could possibly be? Methinks it's got something to do with the fact that they just can't muster any respect for a black president.
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friendslikeJimRome
09/11/09

@SinisterRouge: Respect for the office went out the door when the Facist Left decided it was open season on GW. Obama WAS lying through his teeth, but the Liberal Press is leaving that little tidbit out of the discussion.
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Swordfish
09/11/09

@SinisterRouge: We aren't the Brits after all, and Congress is not the unruly House of Commons.
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Swordfish
09/11/09

@skt.smth: Spend any time on the Hill and you will see that Congress is ruled--RULED--by protocol. It is very 17th-century formal and extremely respectful, which is refreshing in our increasingly unruly, ill-mannered world. This protocol is maintained to keep the machine working, so it doesn't disintegrate into a name-calling brawl all the time. It is also profound sign of respect to the institution, and to the American people who these public officials serve. They are, after all, officially "public servants." Wilson violated all of that. He's lucky his fellow members on both sides of the aisle didn't tar and feather him and run him out on a rail.
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Kobayashi Maru
09/11/09

@skt.smth: Of course it's race. The thing that stirs him so strongly? So much that he cannot contain his emotion? Not pulling the plug on grandma or socialist takeovers. It's ILLEGALS.
Bottom line, this guy thinks Mexicans should die rather than be treated by an American health system. So yes, I can imagine his respect for a black President hovers around the same level.
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Excited_Utterance
09/11/09

@friendslikeJimRome: It's true, I'm always like, "hey the left, stop favoring faces so much - it's what's inside that counts."
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PhyrePhox
09/11/09

@skt.smth: One can't help but feel that Obama's race has a good amount to do with this.

Hi. Welcome to "America 2009": the Republicans won't be respectful to the president because he's a darkie. The Democrats are taking the high ground in not engaging with the bigots, but it may be to their detriment, because the ignorant are legion in America 2009.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
09/11/09

@Excited_Utterance: No, that's not what a facist is. A facist is someone who supports Face, even though Hannibal is clearly the leader of the A-Team.
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SinisterRouge
09/11/09

@Urbania: Excuse? I don't recall ANY Congressional Dem calling Bush a liar in a joint session of Congress where the President was speaking.

Not only was he WRONG and lying himself, he showed a terrible lack of general etiquette. Correctly, as you say, the President is not a King. But he is worthy of the respect of the House and the Senate when speaking in front of them as their leader.

He's a fool to be sure (Wilson), but he's also classless and trashy for behaving that way.
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Excited_Utterance
09/11/09

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Well in that case I can see why Facist leftists are ruining the country.

I also think you've uncovered the real identity of the dude in the chariot that has Glenn Beck in a tizzy. It was Face all along!
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daveyjonesisdead
09/11/09

@SinisterRouge: It's the institution of congress he disrespected and it's his fellow congressmen and women to whom he owes an apology. That's sort of hypertechnical, but its the rules of the House and Senate that he breached.
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Urbania
09/11/09

@skt.smth: I think this proves my point.

The fact that he breached "decorum" exposes the idiocy of his ideas, not to mention his barely disguised racism (and that of the people who share his ideas).

Congressional Democrats breaching decorum during outrageous *actual* lying by a president dragging us into war would have appeared apt to a lot of people, and probably woken people up earlier, and caused a sea change much earlier than it did. 2004's election might have looked very different if Congress hadn't held their tongues in 2001/2. That disgusts me far more than an idiot from the Carolinas shouting a couple of words out of turn.

There is a time and place for decorum, and there is a time and place for transgressing that decorum. I'm simply championing the power of transgressing that decorum. If you do it wrong, you look like an idiot. If you do it right, you can change the world.
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Urbania
09/11/09

@SinisterRouge: I didn't say excuse. What are you referring to?

See my comment [gawker.com]
for my opinion on Congressional decorum during the Bush years.
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A Message To Rudy
09/11/09

@friendslikeJimRome: Fascist Left??? I seem to remember when the GOP insisted that disagreeing with Bush was aiding the terrorists. If that ain't a clear bid to squash freedom of speech, well, we need a new definition of fascism.
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SultanaEleusis
09/10/09

In reply to Heckling All the Way to the Bank
It's a shame they stopped Reconstruction in South Carolina in 1877. Another century or so, and it might have become a decent place.
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louisgreene
09/10/09

In reply to Heckling All the Way to the Bank
Save your money. It's sad, but this is just going to be another loss in the style of whoever that dude was who ran against Bachmann. Lots of outrage from without but considerably less from within. There aren't enough people within Wilson's district to vote against him, and this incident will serve as nothing but a rally for his crazy constituents. Anyone who thinks he will lose does not understand what is going on in South Carolina. These people are fucking nuts.
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Rhymenocerous
09/10/09

@louisgreene: Truth. Makes a great story but as Bachmann remains, so will Wilson.
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Cynical Media Bitch
09/10/09

@louisgreene: IMHO, the big problem was that Bachmann's opponent had a name that you just can't say without giggling. I mean, "Elwyn Tinklenberg" -- seriously, who the hell wants to be represented by a guy who sounds like a character from the Harvard Lampoon parody of Lord of the Rings?

"Rob Miller" on the other hand, sounds like the guy who works in the next cubicle. That is, if you still had a job.

True, Columbia is a fairly conservative part of South Carolina, and those people have never been real thrilled about this whole "United States" idea, so I am not holding my breath.
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ms.creant
09/10/09

In reply to Heckling All the Way to the Bank
Now that's the Miller High Life.
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Awesome X
09/10/09

In reply to Heckling All the Way to the Bank

South Carolina might need to be re-reconstructed.
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Sneeze In Bed
12/05/08

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Buy us all new ergonomically-friendly chairs!
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