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What was the purpose of heckling the President?
By Violet · Thursday, September 10th, 2009 ·

I've often wished we had a parliamentary democracy, and I've often wished we had the kind of rowdy name-calling and shouting that goes on in the British House of Commons. But we don't. And so it's shocking when a Congressman screams out in the middle of the President's speech, "You lie!"

What was the purpose of this outburst? The idiot Congressman who did the shouting -- Rep. Joe Wilson (TWIT) of South Carolina -- claims that he couldn't control himself. Bullshit. I think he was making a deliberate play for attention, which is exactly what he got. Immediately after the speech last night the news started filling up with stories not about the speech, but about the heckling.

Almost 24 hours later, that's still the picture. Look at this snapshot of Memeorandum from 6:40 pm today. The top nineteen stories are about the shouting Congressman. Nineteen. Then there are a few stories about the speech itself -- waaaay down the page -- and then it's on to John Stossel.

Of course, anybody could have predicted this. Anybody could have foreseen clearly that a Congressman screaming "You lie!" at the President during a joint session would dominate the news cycle. Anybody.

The result? Joe Wilson gets a ton of free publicity, and nobody pays any attention to what the President said. Except us progressives and healthcare reform advocates, who are quietly drinking ourselves blind.

By the way: my favorite part of the speech? The part where Obama lumped in abortions with death panels and illegal aliens and other crazy-ass shit his healthcare plan would never pay for. Fuck you, Obama. Just fuck you.

This is the best article I've read about how screwed up this latest watered down plan is. How single payer was shoved aside and an expensive, bloated non workable "solution" was put on the table which panders to big pharma and the insurance companies. Even with the "public option" it wasn't great but, even that is watered down to nothing.

The only thing on the table is being required to have insurance that benefits the for profit insurance companies and being fined if you do not. Read this article. It says a lot about where the hell the so called "reform" is going. This pretty much ensures we'll never get real reform that is cheaper and covers everyone. My god. HR676 single payer proponents being jailed for protesting at not being asked to the table...and a watered down pandering bill that is worse nearly than what we have now which is terrible. Sick and Wrong indeed.

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