In the immediate aftermath of Joe Wilson calling a spade a spade, and
amid cries that Wilson should be flogged, two items nestled into my
brainal mass for future use.
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- “Everybody was stunned,” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, said of Wilson’s
eruption. “It was just something that nobody had ever witnessed before.
We all felt embarrassed.” - source
The mind boggles. Maxine Waters is capable of being embarrassed?
- In South Carolina, by the way, The State reports that shortly after the president's speech last night:
The congressman's Web site had crashed, he had taken a
beating on his Twitter page and Democrat Rob Miller had raised
thousands of unexpected dollars online for a possible rematch with
Wilson in next year's midterm elections, according to Lachlan McIntosh,
Miller's campaign manager. - NPR
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After liberal Internet activists turned Miller into a cause celebre in
their effort to extract revenge on Wilson, conservatives joined the
fray. Wilson, who hired GOP web strategist David All, now has ads
running on conservative-leaning web sites such as the Drudge Report. (which is now reporting -
Money or no money, Miller lost to Wilson in 2008 while 110% of SC's
Blacks were voting for Obama. Extrapolate and conjugate that.
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