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Emily, I cringed last night when I saw the clip of Joe Wilson screaming
“You lie!” during Obama’s speech. I’m on the record as thinking it was
silly for people to pull their kids out of class rather than listen to
Obama’s back-to-school speech. But do you really think the vitriol that
Obama faces is worse than what President Bush faced? Insulting the
president reached national-pastime status not long after Dec. 12, 2000,
when President Bush was finally declared the winner of the 2000
election. (Not that it wasn’t a growth industry during the Clinton
administration.) ... (Read more in DoubleX)
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Everyone seems to agree that it was bad for South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson to yell "You lie!" at the president last night during the health care speech. Gail Collins calls it "not a good plan,"
New York Democrat Joseph Crowley called it "outrageous," and Rahm
Emanuel said: "No president has ever been treated like that. Ever."
That's when I started to get suspicious. Rahm Emanuael? The man known
to fit three "fucks" in a sentence, outraged by "lie"? The president
himself said his opponents "lie" not seconds before, and it's much more
unusual for a president to use that word than for some back-bench
congressman. ... (Read more in DoubleX)