B.S.: Give the Man a Medal
Obama heckled by GOP during speech: ‘You lie!’
Editor’s NOTE: In my opinion, protocol be damned! It’s about time someone in CONgress called a spade – er – uh – a spade.
What? ‘insensitive’ you say? Sorry folks, but the man was right. I watched it. I listened to it, as did my radio audience. I was proud of the man from South Carolina. The hell with congressional decorum – the time for the niceties are over. (Ed.)
AP News – In an extraordinary breach of congressional decorum, a Republican lawmaker shouted “You lie” at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress Wednesday.
Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., tried to call Obama to apologize in person, but ended up speaking to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
The contrite congressman, “expressed his apologies” to Emanuel, not the president at whom he had shouted a few hours earlier, Wilson’s office said.
By that time, Wilson’s House Web site had crashed and he had taken a brutal beating on his Twitter page for breaching protocol and good manners during a presidential speech to a joint session of Congress.
“This evening I let my emotions get the best of me,” Wilson said in a statement. “While I disagree with the president’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the president for this lack of civility.”
Wilson’s outburst came after Obama said that extending health care to all Americans who seek it would not mean insuring illegal immigrants.
“You lie!” Wilson shouted from his seat on the Republican side of the chamber.
Republicans froze, with several looking in Wilson’s direction.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi directed a fierce frown at him; first lady Michelle Obama pursed her lips and shook her head from side to side. Vice President Joe Biden looked down and shook his head, too.
Obama, meanwhile, looked toward the outburst and replied, “That’s not true,” and went on with his speech.
Right away, Wilson seemed to sense that he had fouled up. Wilson appeared to consult his Blackberry for much of the rest of Obama’s speech. He shook his head defiantly after several of the president’s statements. When Obama finished, Wilson bolted from the chamber.
Wilson’s wasn’t the only interruption during Obama’s speech, but it was the most notable.
Obama’s Republican rival from last year’s presidential race for the White House defended the president.
Wilson’s behavior was “totally disrespectful,” Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said on CNN. “There is no place for it in that setting, or any other, and he should apologize for it immediately.”
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said “I have never in my 29 years heard an outburst of that nature with reference to a president of the United States speaking as a guest of the House and Senate.”
“It was a shameful act,” he told WTOP radio.
Hoyer said he’ll work with GOP lawmakers to decide whether to punish Wilson.
Associated Press writer Ben Evans contributed to this report.
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Perhaps the question to Wilson should be:
Did YOU vote for providing taxpayers monies to be used for healthcare for illegal immigrants in 2003 when you voted “aye” on the “Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003″ (Sec. 1011) (under the Bush administration)?
He just fits in with the rest of the hypocrites. Or maybe he just didn’t read it a la the Patriot Act?
Bush and Chenney lied so much they reminded me of a line from a Ruth Brown song “I KNOW the man is lying because his mouth is moving”.
Nothing will get accomplished and we will be doomed to fail if we do not get away from this left vs right idea of “it’s OK when I do it but not OK when you do”.
I recommend “The Adventurers by Harold Robbins”
Wake Up America!!
Bob
To hell with back biter john Mcain who cares what he thinks wilson didnt lie he shouldnt apologize obama lied he should awnser for lies not wilson.I aplaud wilson and feel his pain
Amen to the Publisher’s Comment!!
They all need to be arrested for treason if for no other reason than for violating their oath of office by signing the Patriot Act.
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”
Oh wait a minute — I guess they got around that by not reading the legislation before they signed it!
Vance Jones was right: They are all a bunch of A–H—S! He just forgot to include the Democrats!
Wake Up America!
Bob
It didn’t seem to faze the Nig..I mean the Usurper in Chief. He just continued to spread the BS around like it didn’t matter. Maybe if ALL of the members had just got up and walked out or simply turned their collective backs….Well, one can dream. Can’t one? hb AARP
Yeah – but then he would have to arrest the rest of them for being cowards and traitors as well.
What a shocker that was to see Rep. Joe Wilson stand up and be a man. He should have NOT apologized for his actions. He should have put Obama under “Citizens Arrest” right there in front of BOTH PARTIES FOR TREASON!