Lindsey Graham’s town hall meeting today — about which I’ll have more substantive things to say momentarily — only got ugly once, and very briefly. When a gentleman who was seated pretty far from me got up and, after prefacing his question by thanking Sen. Graham for always being courteous to him and answering his calls and letters, started to express his objection to Joe Wilson’s outburst the other day, a guy a few rows behind me yelled out “bullshit!”
This was followed by a murmur of “nos” and boos, and a lady seated near both of us said reproachfully, “It’s not bullshit,” the guy repeated himself. And then sat back looking smug and satisfied with himself.
But nothing happened. No one acted after that like anything happened. The guy himself left early. The lady who had reproached him later asked a question. (She, too, was an Obama supporter. And just to reinforce everyone’s stereotypes, the two Obama-supporting questioners to whom I refer were both black, the yelling guy — like most of the crowd — was white.)
In fact, most people being polite and preferring to ignore grotesque breaches of etiquette, after a few moments I wondered whether I had heard it right: Did it really happen? Did the guy yell “bullshit” in this public forum?
Can anyone who was there back me up on this?
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Sometimes I really missed the stereotype train. I figured the lady who shushed him was some nice white lady from Trinity, who had been brought up properly. [sigh]
I am really struggling now to remember why I was so happy to move back here in 1998. Even when I lived in Chicago from 1984-1991, it just wasn’t this constant barrage of national embarrassment from where I lived (SC was doing pretty well at being embarrassing on the national stage then–Rita Jenrette, Donna Rice, and our Senators, just for a start)
Maybe the Republicans are just working extra hard to catch up with Jenrette, Hart, et al…
When it comes to shaming us all, neither party must let the other outdo it…
Meanwhile, more than 2,000,000 taxpayers were demonstrating in Washington against rampant spending financed by unprecedented borrowing, which is making millionaires out of thousands of corrupt Democrats.
There are a dozen more financial collapses on the near horizon, and Lindsay Graham holds a public meeting years too late. The train has left, Mr. Non-leader.
Lee, you mean this Big WHoppin’ Lie that you and your fellow wingnuts are hobby-horsing, truth be damned?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/sep/14/tea-party-photo-shows-large-crowd-different-event/
I swear, you stupid wingtards will repeat any lie possible, regardless of how simple the truth will be come out form a simple checking of facts…
GayGrayGeek, I appreciate your point of view but you’re trying to keep a squirrel from chattering.
GGG and Karen just demonstrated that they didn’t even follow my link, which is to multiple photos of the 912 crowds.
The misinformation put out by “politifact” can be easily debunked by the photos of the crowds carrying signs about the 9/12 rally.
The photo of the other rallies, demonstration, and Obama inauguration were shown for comparison – the 9/12/2009 patriot rally was much larger than the Obama inauguration crowds. The police said so.
Exactly what gives you the right to post a picture of this guy on your blog? If you ever took a picture of me and posted it online without my permission, you’d be speaking directly with my lawyer minutes after I found out.
Brad, why not do a piece on the 2.1 million who marched on Washington, DC over the weekend? Or are you still in the liberal media mindset and would prefer to ignore it. It’s funny how the “million man march” can draw a tens of thousands and get front page headlines, lead story lines and 2.1 million anti-Obama voters march and the media pretends it never happened.
Everyone can look at the photos on the Internet, and most of us know several people who went to this march protesting socialism, so it becomes painfully obvious just how dishonest “professional journalists” are, and have been for years, in trying to conceal the truth.