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Again: What did I tell you?
Via the Daily Kos, from David Neiwert:
Looking into the background of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, after his heckling of President Obama last night, I came across this:
This is an organization that, as the SPLC has detailed assiduously, has been taken over in the past decade by radical neo-Confederates who favor secession and defend slavery as a benign institution...
Joe Wilson, as a state legislator, was one of only seven Republicans to go against their own party and vote to keep the Dixie Rebel flag flying over the South Carolina capitol:
A clearer picture of why this congressman might so virulently breach protocol and loudly interrupt an African-American president's speech to Congress by calling him a liar does start to emerge, doesn't it?
"You lie, nigger!"
Looking into the background of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, after his heckling of President Obama last night, I came across this:
Joe also has been a member of the Columbia World Affairs Council, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Sinclair Lodge 154, Jamil Temple, Woodmen of the World, Sons of Confederate Veterans, ....
This is an organization that, as the SPLC has detailed assiduously, has been taken over in the past decade by radical neo-Confederates who favor secession and defend slavery as a benign institution...
Joe Wilson, as a state legislator, was one of only seven Republicans to go against their own party and vote to keep the Dixie Rebel flag flying over the South Carolina capitol:
The flag came down that year after Republicans in both houses went for a compromise that would put it on Statehouse grounds at the Confederate Soldier's monument. The "Magnificent Seven" of Senators who voted to keep the flag up included current Congressman Joe Wilson (who I served with in the 218th Infantry Brigade of the National Guard.)
A clearer picture of why this congressman might so virulently breach protocol and loudly interrupt an African-American president's speech to Congress by calling him a liar does start to emerge, doesn't it?
"You lie, nigger!"
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Nice.
Thanks.
September 11, 2009 12:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah ha, the plot sickens, er, thickens.
September 11, 2009 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
But it's the same old plot we've seen for the last hundred and fifty years...white cracker doesn't like an uppity negro gettin' above his raisin'. Tries to put him in his place.
Gets caught and 'apologizes'. Meanwhile, he works both sides of his 'scandal'--by asking for money from his cracker constituents, claiming he 'stood up' to the President.
Old, old plot.
September 12, 2009 12:26 PM | Reply | Permalink