Maureen Dowd (some of you can stop reading now) is in full race bait mode today.
The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind.
Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t.
But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!
Here Mo Dowd puts on her Carnac turban ( a little too tightly if you ask me) and attempts to read Joe Wilson's mind, without the benefit of having one of her own!
Now he’s at the center of a period of racial turbulence sparked by his ascension. Even if he and the coterie of white male advisers around him don’t choose to openly acknowledge it, this president is the ultimate civil rights figure — a black man whose legitimacy is constantly challenged by a loco fringe.
Sez you, Mo! Obama, who is as much white as he is black, is 100% far left wing. The "turbulence" stirred up around this president is caused by his attempt to steer the country hard left and leave us with a crippling debt. Race has nothing to do with it!
Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber.
Again, Mo Nonsense has no actual evidence of any racial animus here, merely the projection of the darkness of her own soul.
And let's examine the word "rebuke" she uses. Obama had been in full, figurative finger wagging: "I did not have sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinski" mode, when he accused his opponents of lying about his health "reform" measures, when it has been proven, apart from a few "meaning of the word 'is' is" moments, that Obama was lying, or at least misrepresenting his position and his opponents were telling the truth.
The remarks directly preceding the outburst:
Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple.
There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.
He accused others, even "prominent politicians" of "bogus claims" and lying. Then, he told one himself. Perhaps Joe Wilson thought that Obama may have been talking about him personally with the "prominent politicians" crack. I don't know. Unlike Mo Dowd, I do not let my speculations run away with me in absence of facts. If Wilson had taken it as a personal affront or insult, one could understand where passions might grow hot.
The decorum of the moment aside, I do not believe this was premeditated on Wilson's part. The lies or misrepresentations were premeditated on Obama's part. But, the passions revolve around the government's take over of the finest health care delivery system on the planet, not the race of the individuals involved.
Some people, Maureen Dowd included, will go out of their way to smear their opponents with the race card. It's a sure sign that they are losing all of the other arguments.
Cross posted at Say Anything
Update: Not even the White House will drink Mo Dowd’s Kool Aid®!
H/T LBH
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