Obama speech disrupter a health industry darling
Published: September 10, 2009
Updated 5 months ago
During President Obama’s address on health insurance reform to a joint session of Congress last night, he observed that some people have been spreading bad information about his proposal — and that contrary to what’s been said it would not cover illegal immigrants.
At that point the president was interrupted by Rep. Addison Graves “Joe” Wilson (right), a Republican from South Carolina.
“You lie!” Wilson shouted from the crowd.
Obama paused for a moment before continuing his address as Wilson’s colleagues looked on in shock following the breach of protocol.
Whether because of his outspokenness or in spite of it, Wilson is a major recipient of contributions from the health care industry.
In fact, over his entire congressional career, health professionals represent Wilson’s top industry contributors, donating a total of $244,196 to his campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org database. He received another $86,150 from pharmaceutical companies, $73,050 from insurance companies and $68,000 from hospitals and nursing homes.
Among Wilson’s top contributors are the American Hospital Association, a lobby group that represents the interests of hospitals and health networks, and the American Medical Association, which represents physicians.
During a post-speech interview with CNN’s Larry King, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Wilson should apologize, calling his behavior “totally disrespectful.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told the New York Times that Wilson’s behavior was “not appropriate.”
Wilson’s office later issued an apology for the outburst:
“This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the president’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill. 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.”
It was not the first time Wilson — attorney, U.S. Army vet and former aide to U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond — has raised eyebrows by shouting at political opponents.
Seven years ago this month, the then-freshman Wilson appeared on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” with five-term Congressman Bob Filner (D-Calif.) to discuss whether to go to war in Iraq, action that Filner opposed but Wilson supported. In the course of the discussion, Filner noted that the U.S. supplied weapons to Saddam Hussein’s regime during the Iran-Iraq War — a fact revealed by the investigation into the Iran-Contra Affair, which discovered the Reagan administration secretly sold weapons to Iran, then under an arms embargo, to win support for freeing U.S. hostages in Lebanon and to fund the Nicaraguan contras, a counterrevolutionary rebel force that was fighting the country’s government.
But Filner’s statement incensed Wilson, as the Washington Post reported at the time:
“That is wrong. That’s made up,” Wilson fired back. “I can’t believe you would say something like that.”When Filner calmly held his ground, advising Wilson to read newspaper reports and other documentation, the Republican erupted: “This hatred of America by some people is just outrageous. And you need to get over that.”
As moderator Connie Brod sat by helplessly, Filner challenged: “Hatred of America? . . . Are you accusing me?”
“Yes!” Wilson shouted. For good measure, over the next minute Wilson accused Filner of harboring “hatred of America” four more times, of being “hateful” three times and of being “viscerally anti-American” once. Filner responded, “This is not worth replying to,” and Brod finally regained control of the discussion by taking viewer phone calls.
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I just can’t figure why Obama is coddling these assh*les. He should have stopped his speech and called that delusional Christianist to the podium and asked him to explain to the American people what their President was lying to them about, and how much the health care criminals were paying him to disrupt the address. A delusional Christ Cultist debating with Obama is coming to a gunfight with only a knife. What is up with S Carolina anyway? Are they giving away free stupid with happy meals?
found this today….
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The NEXT time South Carolina wants to secede from the US, can we wish them GODSPEED and don’t let the door hit ya on your way out?????
The inbred nitwits of South Carolina will probable vote this turd to the Senate….
Do that, and when it comes time to pay the piper, keep away from our doorstep because you already played your hand ya stupid sheep!
Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non US
citizens, illegal or otherwise
Inbred nitwits? Wake up jacka**, time is running out!
Where does it say that? Could you link us to it?
He can’t because it doesn’t exist. And all these toolboxes need to realize, IT ISN’T WRITTEN IN STONE YET, OBAMA CALLED FOR IDEAS AND SAID HE WAS OPEN TO THEM IN THE SPEACH!
Hologram, I’m liking the way you post now. Something’s changed in your opinion, which I take as a positive. Thanks for your contribution to the debate.
Tell us what is it like to be sooo ignorant?
You get your information from websites we all know are promoting falsehoods and you come here trying to pass it off as factual?
Disruptor not “disrupter”. Regardless, good info. I made my call to his dogged out phone answerer…actually felt pity for him. No reason to be disrespectful regarding my statements about Wilson. Wilson did enough of that.
I forgot your name, but you’re the Republican cretin who called my president a liar, right? You stink on ice, what’s your name.
Large campaign contribution from the health industry, not surprising. Former aide to U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, now that says everything.
This douchebag took almost a half a million dollars from those crooks/cretins in the insurance industry over the last year. OF course he wants the bill to fail, it’ll kill the entire repug’s cash cow.
Obama took 19 million and you are calling this guy out for
$240,000? Give me a break!
Wilson was WRONG. Dead wrong. He apologized. Nuff said.
Leave it to the democrats to use it as a fundraiser and then call out Wilson for doing the same thing.
I can’t believe people are putting faith in real change happening with any party alliance.
Actually, we’re calling YOU a douchebag. Wilson’s apology was horsehit and insincere: the dickhead said as much himself. Furthermore, Wilson blatantly broke the protocols the Congressional Rules Committee maintains with regard to respect for the Office of the Presidency and the Congress.
But more importanly, Wilson is a shill for Big Pharma — and you forget: this turd is a weak-assed, small-district Representative for SC — which means $240,000 doesn’t quite compare with the amount of funds donated to the Presidential campaign of Barack Obama, a former Senator from Illinois. And in case you missed it, Obama is trying to reform healthcare in spite of the donations; Wilson isn’t. Furthermore, dickweed, Wilson is a cheap, racist hack — a former aide to Strom Thurmond and a man who once said Thurmond’s confessed daughter should have kept her mouth shut about the affliliation to save the racist Senator’s reputation — that’s how much of a racist this shitbag is. And you also for excusing this behavior.
The first instance of heckling a president, the first African-American president, in the history of televised Congressional addresses: that’s what Wilson achieved. Like the rest of the Repug thugs, he is nothing more than a shouting, drunken frat fuck. This shit never happened to Bushler, and if it had, you wingnuts would’ve had your diapers tangled to a torniquet.
Your accusations are baseless and misdirected: Wilson should be censured for his infantile remarks. As for the fundraising, maybe enough people are sick of shitbag shills like this? I know I’m sick of the likes of you and your misinformation.
Misinformation? Go to OpenSecrets.org regarding Obama’s campaign contributions. How is it ok for Obama to take millions from the health insurance industry and Wilson to take 240k?
Personally, I don’t believe ANY candidate should take corporate money. How are they supposed to be honest brokers when in fact they are bought and paid for?
You are a prime example as to why there will never be meaningful change for the people. You have chosen a side and your guy can do no wrong. You will not hold him accountable, because he is on your team. That’s crazy.
The far left is just as corrupt as the far right.
The only thing you can accuse me of is misinformation, but the facts are on my side.
The whole congress and POTUS is PAID for. Period.
Obama said he would negotiate drug prices with the drug industry on C SPAN. Didn’t happen. With all the billions in concessions over 10 years, do you realize that equals about 2%? Wow. Obama is a tough negotiator huh?
Obama promised to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices to fix the horror of a drug bill instituted by the GOP. Guess what? It’s not happening.
I do not condone Wilson’s antics on the floor. I would like to see a bit of civility return to politics.
That said, if you want real change in this nation, you better start paying attention and stop trusting your team to take care of you.
The Oligarch’s which form most of our House and Senate are beginning to show their stripes.
Disgustingly enough. The Supreme Court will give it to them. Sotomayor was just window dressing.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/09-0
Rep. Wilson was paid very well for his preformance and making sure the voters in his district never get Health Care Coverage. Now the Middle Class and poor citizens of South Carolina will have to suffer as they are asked for their vote to put Rep. Wilson back in office. Now other businesses know Rep. Wilson is for sale for the right price. Next Rep. Wilson will blame President Obama when the citizens in his district begin to suffer from lack of Health Care. As we see many Law Makers are paid to vote for businesses while lying to the voters. Look for the Insurance Company to give Rep. Wilson another big fat check for job well done. Karl Rove might even be paid to fix the voting machines again to make sure Rep. Wilson wins. Even Rep. Wilson’s son is running for office as he follows in his Father’s foot steps and who knows who’s giving him money for future votes. At lease we know now how it works in DC.
I find it remarkable that you and this article fails to see the disparity of coverage on monetary donations. Wilson got $240,000 from health care industry in his career! vs Obama raking in much money one year totals: Hospitals/Nursing Homes $3,335,944 plus Health Professionals $11,716,570 donations to Obama in just one year! $16M in one year. I cannot believe how skewed the numbers and opinions are. (Those figures for Obama’s donations came from this web site)
Further, The President had just called many people of America ‘Liars’ from the podium. It is Karma, you get what you give and in this case Wilson evidently vollied the insult right back at him.
By the way have you READ the thing? I have and it does cover illegals!
Don’t misunderstand I do not believe in health insurance, I find it criminal that the people of our nation are without health care. Health insurance is a racket.
Yeah, right. Like you read the whole proposal. Now doubt you read all the multiple revisions that are happening even as we speak, you being a Senator or Representative, right?
You read shit. What you’ve done is taken a copy of a proposal currently under debate and by no means final — an older working copy probably “leaked” by the same assholes who want reform to fail (Wilson, other tit-sucking Repugs) — and passed it off as current fact.
Well, here’s a little fact: this bill is currently being debated in both the House and Senate. There are multiple proposals and multiple amendments being made even as we speak. It is by no means final and it is a living document, which means it changes with every congressional debate.
So just how in the fuck is it that you, a guy living in his mom’s basement, managed to get the de facto, final copy of a bill that has event made it out of committee yet? Yeah, that’s what I thought. You got your facts from Fox, which means you pulled them out of your ass.
Here’s what your boy Grandpa Abe McCain has to say about it (and he should know since he’s actually seen the current rendition of the bill):
“But Republican Sen. John McCain told NBC’s ‘Today’ show on Thursday that Obama’s health care reforms do not apply to people who come to the United States illegally.
‘They do not, as far as I can see, nor should they,’ McCain said.
McCain also disagreed with his former running mate Sarah Palin that the president’s plan would create death panels.”
Try adding to the debate rather than misinforming it.
Here’s one more beauty from FactCheck.org:
“H.R. 3200: Sec 246 — NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS
Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.”
http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/seven-falsehoods-about-health-care/
I know you’re not, but I’m absolutely sick of liars sabotaging this much-needed reform.
Oh Damn, here we go again. HR3200 may not cover illegal aliens, but other laws do. So what’s the difference? Yea, we should solve our illegal immigration problem, but not by denying health care to immigrants and their children.
HR3200 is nonetheless a bad bill because it leaves the insurance industry in the loop, not just to reward them for past contributions but to ensure the political cash flow for the future.
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Jack Lohman
jelohman@gmail.com
http://MoneyedPoliticians.net
http://SinglePayer.info
With _serious_ reforms, like not being able to deny coverage, period.. not being able to charge more for pre-existing conditions, period.. and not being able to deny claims, period.. the net gain for insurance companies won’t be all that much, but the psychological stress to 90% of Americans will be MUCH less.
I don’t like the “requirement” to carry insurance, either. That’s why I think we need a square tax on all business and maybe even a tiny increase in income taxes (which I don’t like, either) and put out a single payer system. But Obama knows that that would never fly, so he has to do something. They are also suggesting that if you _really_ can’t afford it, you’ll get assistance (expanded Medicaid, I’d guess).. and this “required” thing is to prevent those that would abuse the system (not carry insurance for decades, not contribute, then when they get sick, pay a little and get huge benefits from it) from being able to..
Again, if so many people weren’t such pieces of shit, we’d not even need laws. As it is, with so many people looking to screw over others for their own gain, we have to put limits and constraints on people or we’ll have chaos (and added expense put on those that _are_ willing to do the right thing and be decent people).
Well said, the NEW golden rule, “do unto others then split”. Gotta love it.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Wilson should apologize, calling his behavior “totally disrespectful.”
During the campaign last year, McCain referred to Mr. Obama as “that one”, as if he couldn’t bring himself to even say his name. So McCain calling out Wilson seems just a tad hypocritical.
Atilla, you may have hit on something with the Happy meals - maybe that’s what’s wrong with America - it’s not the fat in the fast food, it’s the extra helping of stupid!
Wilson had Iraq wrong he has this just as wrong. I need beer googles to keep up with him. I wonder what a day in his life must be like as he skips down main street, kisses Aunt Bea on the forehead, and gives out tulips to the shopkeepers and chortles “Hi ladies!” to the women in Petticoat Junction.
It has no resemblance to big city life for sure. He most def lives in some kind of other world if he trusts big insurance to sort this out. Either that or big insurance is giving him the kind of mind altering meds that most people can only dream of……(sigh).
No Regulation of a God Given ( Insert Spiritual God) Inalienable Right is going to change the discourse. That is if you take the Bill of Rights and US. Constitution seriously. Which, of the last Nine years we haven’t.
On a broader perspective, the political process is broken. Both Houses are brought and paid for with Corporate Money. It basically buys and makes our Laws nowadays. You don’t have to look any further than The Patriot Act, Military Comm. Act and John Warner Defense Act to realize that Perpetual War under a Unilateral Executive plus War Profiteering from our Tax Dollars with a out of control Fed. Reserve equals disaster.
HealthCare, is The Globalists/Elites last bubble. The Pubic Option is their Defeat. And they know it.
The US Gov hasn’t taken the Bill of Rights seriously in way more than 9 years. Try 100, that’s when laws outlawing possession of ‘controlled’ substances (which, since they are illegal, are the most uncontrolled substances in the world).
outlawing = outlawed
/stupid keyboard
The epitome of what “money talks” tinged with a hint of racism comes across from a heckler.
more white trash from the GOP
Just another nail in the coffin of the GOP, as we’ve come to know it. So much potential destroyed by to much anger over not being in charge. Puerile, third grade approach to the Office of the President and to the needed discourse on health care reform. Wish we could convince his sponsors to unload him but that will be left up to his constituents.
How about this for anger?
We voted for change. Obama expanded the bail outs. Tripled the debt.
Foreclosures are still happening in record numbers despite the give away.
Obama has expanded the war in Afghanistan.
We still torture. Still have renditions.
And Obama continued Bush’s infernal habit of signing statements.
I hated it when Bush did this, and I hate it just as much under Obama.
And healthcare? Obama, along with the whole of congress is owned by banking and insurance. I want a bill that Americans can read and understand. Conyers noted it would take 2 lawyers a week to understand a certain bill. We don’t need that. We don’t need/want another healthcare bill that is as screwed up as the Medicare Drug bill. Folks, we have to pay attention. Hold them accountable.
Now that’s what I call “Putting your mouth where your money is”.
How can a republican call himself a Christian?
Why would a Christian follow the satanic ways of the republicans?
Joe Wilson is, sadly, an excellent reason to hate white, southern GOP men.
http://www.xanaduxero.blogspot.com
FYI-California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown declined to comment on calls from consumer advocates that he launch a criminal investigation. Duvall’s “votes on utility issues should be investigated to determine whether they were compromised,” said Doug Heller, executive director of Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica.
Duvall joined other Republicans in voting several times this year against renewable energy measures opposed by Sempra Energy. The measures would require utilities to derive significantly more electricity from solar, wind, geothermal and other renewable energy sources by 2020.
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
I really want to see this clown fry. He should be jailed along with the meat puppets who fucked him for his political favors.
The republicans probably believe their constituents are so dumb that they will think the joe wilson that yelled out liar is the same joe wilson that is married to valerie plame to further confuse the issue. Yes, the are that crazy.
They are that dumb!!!
How sad that the low and middle income people in Wilson’s district keep voting for their own worst enemy time and time, and time again for their own worst enemy.
He (Wilson) should be fined $$240,000.
Please copy this and pass it around. It’s the one site of Mr. Wilson’s that is still operative.
There’s an email form where you can let him know what you think of his remarks.
http://www.joewilsonforcongress.com
Thanks. I just sent him a note: “You f*cking inbred hick.”
with a u instead of a * tho.
I’m sure his staffers will appreciate your intelligent discourse.
Im sure the staffer was impress with your vocabulary.
You know what is the absolute pits?
The left is making this guy famous. I read where he raised a million the day after that outburst.
Miller got a million as well.
Somewhere, someone has to be laughing it’s head off.
Why give this guy press? It’s like free ad campaign.
This is a distraction. Why buy into it?
Why can’t we focus on the issues at hand?
Our nation has a lot of problems. Clinton said our problems were never so big that Americans can’t solve them. I believe that.
All the hate and juvenile name calling solves nothing.
A true demcracy is about the free exchange of ideas. Not everyone who disagrees with you is automatically stupid.
Although it may automatically indicate you are arrogant.
Just a thought.
Joe Wilson has his racist bona fides all in a row:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_ (U.S._politician)
“He was active in South Carolina Republican politics from a young age, participating in his first Republican campaign in 1962. As a teenager he joined the campaign of Congressman Floyd Spence, later working as an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond.”
His shout to Obama was a racist outburst coupled with xenophobic racism. Wilson pumpled the lie that illegals would be given free health insurance under Obama’s plan. It is plain to the eye when reading HR 3200 that granting free health insurance to non-American citizens is expressly prohibited. However, you can’t keep a good racist dixiecrat down! When the lie feels good, shout it!
Man, is RAW story pumping the liberal propaganda or what? 10 articles all on the same subject! How come they aren’t covering any of the anti-war protests or the anti-torture protests, oh I forgot there aren’t any. Being anti-war is now racism and it’s cool to torture and to have secret torture camps. I’m sorry liberals I wasn’t thinking. It’s now acceptable to keep detainees indefinitely even if they are found innocent by the courts. Let me see, is it alright to be for Habeas Corpus now or against it? How about Posse Comitatus? I’m all mixed up. It’s bad if a neo-con does it but good if a neo-lib does it or is it bad if a neo-lib does it and good if a neo-con does it. I’m so confused!! See this is why I don’t play the left/right game. The Dems say the Reps are liars and the Reps say the Dems are liars, I say they are all liars and if you play their sucker game then your a fool. I hate the white ones, black ones, yellow and red ones if they lie, I hate all liars and so does God. Sorry I mean the real God not Obama. Divide & Conquer is still working like a charm.
What an idiot. Try to say something coherent, tangible. Your post reads like graphology. If you don’t like the posts, get the fuck out. You won’t be missed.
i must of hit a nerve about daily cia kos lol you have nt denied it come on what did you do to piss of general markos i spent 2 years training to be cia scumbag moulistsis
and get kicked out
George HW Bush was high up in the CIA.
The only nerve you touched, hillbilly, was the nerve in the gap between your teeth. And I highly doubt that an organization whose middle initial stands for “Intelligence” would hire a swamptard without any.
Dream on, little hillbilly, dream on. Tomorrow, when the moonshine wears off and you wake up with your face pasted to the floor of your double wide, you’ll still be toothless, truthless, and shoeless. You also still won’t have health care, so good luck fixing those fucked up teef.
all of you obama apologist need to go back to the CIA run daily koss or the huffington post which is run by a former so called republican if you like kissing george soros boy obama
Ummmm….forget about Daily Krap, what about a PRESIDENT George HW Bush heading the CIA???
You seem to avoid commenting on that…
Wilson sounds like an ass, but this article is wildly misleading. Health Industry contributions are around 10% of Wilson’s total career contibutions, according to OpenSecrets. http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00024809&type=I
On the health industry recipients list, Wilson doesn’t even appear until the 2rd page - literally hundreds of congressmen have received more money from the health industry. http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=H&cycle=2008&recipdetail=H&sortorder=A&mem=Y&page=1
Criticize the guy, but don’t make the “liar” label true.
Looks like the trolls are out in force. But it isn’t even the first of the month: payday for the partisan hacks.
I wondered if Rep. Wilson apologized, on his own or with urging/instruction, in ‘02. (Or since, for supporting the war. I dream.)
On the former question, I think the WaPo final paragraph adds more to our understanding of current events through the window of the past. I quote:
Wilson wouldn’t get on the phone with us but did send a written statement in which he defended his position that Filner is all wet. But he added: “If I said something in the heat of the debate that was taken as critical of the congressman’s patriotism or commitment to this country, I apologize. As a 28-year member of the Army National Guard, I take these accusations very personally.”
Perhaps less wise to include here since it could feed the fires rather than calm them, I nonetheless found this next quote, from after the C-Span broadcast, also worthy of note, for the flavor of the dialogue:
“Listen, I was one of the first Freedom Riders in Mississippi in the early 1960s,” Filner told us. “I’ve been beaten up and thrown in jail by better people than Joe Wilson.”
For the record on a minor point, you really should have said “then-five-term” Congressman re: Rep. Filner. He also still serves. http://www.bobfilnerforcongress.com/biography.asp
Thanks much for this backgrounder, both the health-care giving history and the Iran/Iraq-earlier-times reminder. Most helpful.
“Whether because of his outspokenness or in spite of it, Wilson is a major recipient of contributions from the health care industry.”
More likely, Wilson’s outspokenness is _because_ of his contributions from the health care industry. Another reliable Republican whore doing the bidding of his corporate masters.
For your amusement, go to this link, hit to update about every half hour to see the contributions go through the roof for Wilson’s 2010 opponent. I cannot afford to, but if you can, contributions to his 2010 opponent would send a message.
http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/19079
What better way is there to highlight the devolution of constructive discourse amongst politicians, than for an asshole like Joe Wilson to interrupt the President during a speech, in front of the whole nation, to display such bleating childish behavior.
If this dude can’t get a grip on his emotions, he’s not qualified for the job.
In front of the whole WORLD…not just the nation. Showing the world the backwards south. Let them secede RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is misleading, Raw story. You make it seem as if the health care industry is in this guy’s back pocket. He’s gotten about 400 K his entire career?
What about the fact that Obama received about 60 million dollars from all the related health care industries in just his campaign last year?
Now who looks like they’re benefiting more from these industries with those unbalanced numbers?
Jlewd–
Do you think you’re William f—ing Safire?
You seem to have only one weapon: ad hominem attacks on other posters, which you wrap up in snarky insults about grammar and spelling. Oh, that and demanding that the “meat puppets” fry. Really trenchant analysis there, fella.
cuthred, ah, kettle, meet pot … what’s the going rate for your brand of ad hominem attacks?
Well said. Also, the guy that was banging the meat puppet lobbyists should fry. He was violating ALL ethics. He sold his constituents down the river. If the ethics commitee doesn’t fry him, then the voters will. He’ll not ever be able to walk the streets again without bodyguards.
Joe Wilson is taking a lot of money from the same insurance company that is denying treatment for your child’s leukemia.
if you disagree with my profit motives, you’re a liar and an america hater!
Real contribution on your part, cuthred. Call the kettle black. And I saw you at the porn store the other day as well.
Did you READ any of the comments made by the buffoon who can’t spell? I challenge you to make any sense out of this idiot’s comments and attacks. Better yet, I challenge you to STFU.
If you knew anything, you’d know that the reference I made was to another posters’ reference to a CA State Rep for OC — an ignoramus who bragged openly about screwing two lobbyist prostitutes. Likewise, if you knew anything, you’d know that the “meat puppet” reference is a reference to prostitutes in Wm. Gibsons’ “Snow Crash” — an appropriate allusion for anyone with a shred of intelligence. Lastly, you’d know that what these morons did was grossly felonious, and for that, they SHOULD fry. They’ve defrauded the people of CA who entrusted them with the mantle of good governance. Add to the fact that this hypocrite is a “family values Repug” and engages in the illegal act of prostitution, also was involved in the passage of Prop H8 based on protecting marriage (all the while being more of a threat to the institution than any gay person) and maybe you’ll understand.
But I doubt it.
Instead, go back to reading your comics and fuck off.
P.S. — Nice reference to “ad hominem.” Probably spent an hour trying to figure out how to spell out on Wikipedia.
Buying Obama’s favors only cost my firm a cool million and we got a 12 billion dollar bailout to pay out bonuses in return. He even comes over and polishes my gold plated door knob, if you can believe it!
That Wilson slore is way overpriced … you health care suckers need to troll for some real tail …. LB out
Joe the yeller?
Just love these “journalists” who think they made a major discovery.
Sue Sturgis calls Joe WIlson a “health industry darling”, saying:
“In fact, over his entire congressional career, health professionals represent Wilson’s top industry contributors, ”
Look at Rep. Henry Waxman’s (CA) list of contributers on the same website; his top contributer? Health professionals.
Same with probably half of Congress.
Sheesh, whatever happened to real investigative journalism?
using the very same site the story uses for this source I see the following(all totals are since 1989, same critera as Joe Wilson):
Nancy Pelosi
Health Professionals - $555,750
Insurance - $313,750
Pharmaceuticals - $176,450
Hillary Clinton
Health Professionals - $5,450,092
Insurance - $1,881,165
Barrack Obama
Health Professionals - $12,075,383
Hospitals/Nursing Homes $3,478,069
If $244,196 makes Joe Wilson a “Health Industry Darling” what does that make the three Prominent Dems listed above?