Joe Wilson shouts "YOU LIE!" to Obama during his address on Health Care Reform

From Newsweek:

How nasty has the political discourse in Washington gotten? During his speech to Congress tonight, President Obama defended his health care plan, saying that he had never proposed providing coverage to illegal immigrants. You lie! shouted Rep. Joe Wilson, a Republican from South Carolina, prompting Obama to briefly pause in the delivery of his speech and eye his heckler. No doubt emotions are often heated during these joint sessions with the president and members of Congress, but decorum typically rules—except for tonight, apparently. In an interview with CNN afterwards, Sen. John McCain trashed Wilsons heckling and urged him to apologize. Totally disrespectful, McCain said. So far, no comment from Wilson or his congressional office.

One thing is for sure: Wilsons outburst didnt do the GOP any favors tonight, particularly against a backdrop of a speech in which Obama went after his critics to either put up or shut up on health care reform. It completely overshadowed the official Republican response to Obamas speech. Rep. Charles Boustany, a cardiothoracic surgeon from Louisiana, urged Obama to scrap the current bill and start anew with true bipartisan negotiations. We agree much needs to be done to lower the cost of health care for all Americans. On that goal, Republicans are ready — and we've been ready — to work with the President for common-sense reforms that our nation can afford, he said.

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[boomer100001]

Sounds like high school!

[GrayyScaleMassacre]

love that everyone went OOOOOOOOOOO like obama was about to go beat him up or something

[mropinionful]

@1337Pwn4g3 who ever would have thought this douchebag your all about is a college professor. no wonder hes liberal... ur a fool. HEs a linguistic professor not an economics pro. so whyy should I listen to his liberal bullshit? might as well be true hollywood stories or the dixie chicks if I wanna hear someone who knows nothing about economics runnin their mouth as they do. your a small minded little liberal.

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@1337Pwn4g3 sweden is nothing. to compare it to the Unided states is an insult to countries that contribute to the world. we lead medical. we lead technology. ud be a fucking nazi if not for the US you fuck shut your ignorance up. people get cancer.. they come here for treatment not fucking sweden.

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@1337Pwn4g3 every socialist state has failed. your an idiot you cant be helped. capitolism is the envy of the world the line to get into sweden isnt that long. people don go to sweden from every country in the world. The US is tgoing broke cause of idiot liberals. as I said do research and take chomskys dick outta your mouth, hes not the end all and be all. Wise men seek the advice of many. learn to think for urself and quit being the load your mother should have swallowed.

[1337Pwn4g3]

@mropinionful ha so because socialist is in the name they must be socialist! Too funny child...and how is Noam Chomsky an "idiot" this guy has made more contributions to knowledge than you could ever understand...you're very simplistic with your black and white views its like im talking to a 4 year old...btw socialism would work much better than capitlism and thats a fact theres a reason sweden has the best quality of life in all the world and the us in turning into a third world country

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@1337Pwn4g3 He is an idiot. the Unided soviet SOCIALIST republic was lead by the communist party. Its a matter of historical fact and anything contrary to historical fact is wrong. period. google search USSR then get a goddam encyclopedia and confirm what you read on google. then cross check both sources with a third. fuck what one man says i don operate like that im a skeptic. be diligent and soon you will be able to tell the diff in real and make believe.

[msmithstud]

he should have yelled that at Nancy Pelosi

[1337Pwn4g3]

@mropinionful hmm ok so leading scholars like noam chomsky say what the soviet union practiced is not communism, but you have the balls to say that just cuz you read a few books you know better...i guess noam chomsky watches true hollywood stories then geeze you are a joke

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@1337Pwn4g3 Marxism made its debut in the USSR you need not listen to communist propaganda attempting to say otherwise. I have my history down as I collect books...An I assure you they are not dusty. A wise man seeks the council of many...I have studied many different sources, my facts are correct. I suggest you forsake whoever told you that bullshit and do the same. Im curious..Did you hear that on true hollywood stories? An I dont mean that as an insult

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@1337Pwn4g3 the USSR was ruled by the communist party from 1922-1990. I do apoligize for the insult, however to say the soviets were not marxist is not even remotely accurate. Google search Vladimir Lenin and ul see he was a Russian marxist revolutionary. his philosophic contributions led to Marxism-Leninism, the russian application of marxism. Heres a fact...If I ever become 1 of the richest 400 in the US I will not apoligize. Im not jealous, I want to achieve the same.

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@1337Pwn4g3 Na never and National socalism was never practiced in germany... Another attempt to rewrite history... Marxism was spread throughut the world through Soviet conquest in WW2. Korea and vietnam were both fought because why? Marxism in the North and capitolism in the south. If The soviets were not marxist(folowing the theories of karl marx) what would you call it? Ur just wrong. USSR means Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics. The name identifies it as marxist.