{"id":6355,"date":"2009-09-10T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/10\/the-you-lie-guy-has-got-to-go\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T09:00:36","slug":"the-you-lie-guy-has-got-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/the-you-lie-guy-has-got-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;You Lie&#8221; Guy has Got to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, folks, were taking this MoFo down next election.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TxHKSHvMRWE&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nJoe Wilson (that is not his real name, by the way) is the member of Congress who interrupted President Obama&#8217;s speech last night with a shout of &#8220;You Lie!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, there are those of you who will say &#8220;Well, at least he wasn&#8217;t being civil!  That would have really been a conversation stopper!&#8221;  but you would be missing the point.  Which is, in carrying out that act, Joe Wilson made himself into a symbol of the teabagging astroturfing right wing anti-woman, anti-gay Republicans\/Libertarians.  He&#8217;s not just a bad Congressperson any more.  He&#8217;s a symbol.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in truth, it will be hard to take this one down, because the crackers in his South Carolina district love him, and he tends to win by landslide numbers.  The fact that he has made nasty over the top remarks in contexts where one does not normally do that has not bothered his slack-jawed supporters, probably because they don&#8217;t know or care, being largely illiterate and unempathetic.  I assume (or else why would they vote for someone with his politics?).<\/p>\n<p>But, there are signs that he is not perfectly immune. For instance, if you go to his web site right now (http:\/\/www.joewilson.house.gov\/) you&#8217;ll find that it looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-ea749dc1a815b00be38b8750bdb9496b-joe_wilson_offline.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-ea749dc1a815b00be38b8750bdb9496b-joe_wilson_offline.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Maybe he resigned?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, folks, were taking this MoFo down next election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1Ev","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}