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Here’s a short YouTube video that mixes Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie!” outburst with Kanye West’s interruption during the MTV Video Music Awards. President Obama reportedly called West a “jackass” in an off-the-record comment this week.
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This is important ‘news’?
The WE is pathetic.
What would O’BAMA call Kanye West the Democratic Mascot?
(chortles)
What is the point of this?
West was a jackass – he virtually admitted as much.
The class act in all the VMA uproar was Beyonce, for asking Swift to come out and get her props.
Next thread.
Last night Kayne said on Leno that he was deeply sorry, and was going to take some time off. Wilson should take some (long) time off.
Joe Wilson is not only a jackass, he’s proud of being a jackass. Maybe he should be put out to pasture.
“President Obama reportedly called West a ‘jackass’ in an off-the-record comment this week.”
Finally something the President is right about.
This is simply work of small minds, and small of those that even consider it worthy of placing on the blog.
The Eagle should be ashamed of you Brownlee.
Sorry but that’s a fact.
Joe Wilson may have been rude but he was honest, and his offense was nowhere as grievous as Kanye West’s from a disruption and time aspect. Wilson was simply, admitedly rudely, expressing what many in that room and the rest of the country were thinking, saying under their breath, and maybe it is necessary to have someone vocalize it openly.
What West did was low but you have to remember this young man has been through alot in the past few years incuding losing his mother. He said himself that he needs to take a little time off and I agree. He is stressed to the breaking point obviously. He has apologized and I think he was very sincere on Jay Leno. Let’s show him some support and forgiveness.
Perhaps the people that sponsor MTV Video Music Awards need to censure Kanye West, call him a racist and put in thousands of news articles about his deplorable behavior in the media. Perhaps one apology isn’t enough? Maybe he needs to grovel a bit more upon the national stage?
Wait, never mind – Congress has taken care of that with the Joe Wilson thing.
Kanye is a racist thug with no manners or sense of respect.
“Let’s show him some support and forgiveness.” (with respect to Kanye West)
Exactly like should be done with Joe Wilson you mean????
Kayne West is now reviled in the music industry. So should Wilson be reviled in the Congress.
Obviously, Philip, most here have never heard of humor. I thought it was just plain funny.
I thought it was just plain funny.
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I thought watching the plastic crinkle in Pelosi’s face after the words were spoken was very funny.
oh yeah…k west…the genius who was the lib’s darling for a while when he proclaimed george bush hates black people.
The libs loved him then. fickle group, aren’t they? West is showing his true class—or rather lack thereof. and yet…the libs loved him a few years ago.
strange heros those libs have….
Looks like the resolution passed with a fair amount of repubs voting for it. Say it ain’t so, Joe!
Sorry to say, West has shown more class than Wilson.
LIB TALKING POINTS: FULL COURT PRESS ON RACIST LIAR STATEMENT
Gosh WE, two topics in one day on this non-issue?
Really, are there no more pressing issues out there?
You think Obama was the first President heckled during an address to Congress?
Wrong.
http://www.slate.com/id/2227966/
It depends on what you mean by heckle. Members of Congress frequently express their disapproval audibly during a presidential speech. When Bill Clinton outlined his health care plan in 1993, for example, some Republicans snickered, shook their heads, made faces, and even shouted “no.” And when George W. Bush claimed in his 2005 State of the Union that Social Security will be “exhausted and bankrupt by 2042,” Democrats responded with boos. (At the time, several political talk-show hosts, including Ted Koppel of ABC, claimed such booing was unprecedented.) But last night may be the first time a congressman went beyond communal muttering—and interrupted the president with a loud and denigrating retort.
In the United Kingdom, prime ministers expect less decorum from representatives. Every Wednesday while the House of Commons is in session, the prime minister spends half an hour answering questions—and enduring boos and snide remarks—from Members of Parliament. Harold Wilson, Labour’s prime minister from 1964 to ‘70, and again from ‘74 to ‘76, is remembered as a particularly able heckler-handler. During a speech on public expenditure, a rowdy MP shouted, “What about Vietnam?” The following back-and-forth ensued:
“The government has no plans to increase public expenditure in Vietnam.”
“Rubbish!”
“I’ll come to your special interest in a minute, sir.”
Even a raucous British MP, however, would think twice before accusing the prime minister, or another parliamentarian, of lying. Traditionally, members are expected to avoid insulting or abusive language, specifically charges of lying or being drunk. Over the years, speakers (their Nancy Pelosis) have objected to the words blackguard, coward, git, guttersnipe, stoolpigeon, and traitor, among others. If a speaker deems a word or phrase “unparliamentary,” he will ask the member to formally withdraw it. (For more information on etiquette in the House of Commons, see this factsheet [PDF].)
Although Americans now expect the president to address Congress in person, not all commanders-in-chief have done so. George Washington and John Adams both delivered spoken State of the Union addresses, but Thomas Jefferson found the practice too monarchic and decided to write his instead. For the next 112 years, his successors followed suit. Woodrow Wilson rebooted the practice of spoken addresses to Congress in 1913.
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Can’t the woosie Democrats handle it? Are they all a bunch of pu ss ies?
Obama not the first president to be heckled in Congress (Ironically, this involved another WILSON)
But history suggests this probably won’t turn out to be the most significant example of presidential heckling on Capitol Hill — including one silent, but very pivotal protest directed at President Woodrow Wilson.
Senate Historian Donald Ritchie tells Oval colleague Kathy Kiely:
The most famous disruption of a presidential address in the House chamber occurred on Dec. 5, 1916, when woman protesters unfurled a yellow and black banner over the railing in the House galleries that read, “President Wilson, What Will You Do For Woman Suffrage?”
Although the women sat silently, their banner heckled the president. The president kept on reading his speech, but the banner diverted public attention and captured the headlines. The banner was eventually pulled down by a pageboy sitting on a staff member’s shoulders.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/09/68498986/1