Posted by
Cliff Brotherton on Monday, September 14, 2009 10:15:25 PM
I have listened over the last couple of days how many have tried to label Rep. Joe Wilson as a racist for his shout out during Obama’s address to Congress.
“YOU LIE!” he said.
I have already written about my support for his doing so, so that’s nothing new I need comment on any further.
What concerns me is what I’ve witnessed in the Main Stream media and their attempt to label this man as a racist when in his shout out implied no racial undertone in his brief, yet, poignant statement. What he did imply, was the same thing many Americans were shouting at the televisions across the country. Hell, moments before he said that, I looked over at my wife and told her that Obama was standing there lying too the American people and doing so with such smooth elegance.
What the Main Stream media failed to report, is that what Rep. Joe Wilson shouted out, was the truth. Obama was lying.
Now, you have to believe that the President didn’t know the truth about a piece of legislation that will effect every American in the country, this same legislation that he’s given more than 100 speeches on. You have to believe that since the President seems hell-bent on forcing it through without considering things like TORT reform and other such cost saving measures, he has to know something we do not. The President is insisting that he can add millions more people to the Health Care system without it costing an extra dime from the American people, in spit of the fact that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says otherwise.
Or, you have to believe that the President is looking the American people directly in the eyes, and lying.
Representative Joe Wilson, I applaud you. I know it took true courage to stand up and do the right thing, not because you dislike our President because he’s black, but simply because he was lying. And it has to frightens you, as it does so many other Americans, that he can do so, so easily.
Representative Joe Wilson, I know it has to be hard to represent truth, against a man, an administration and an agenda that finds it so easy to misrepresent.
Stand tall Sir, your place in history will be counted among the hero’s who wore a white hat in its nations time of need, even if others might call you a racist for doing so.
It’s a shame that our nation has fallen so far back in time, that we now believe that hero’s can no longer stand for truth, especially if he who stands for truth is white, and he that continuously lies is black.
I am a proud American who happens to be black and I took no offense to what you did. The media won’t ask the tough questions and our President refuses to allow himself to be interviewed by any who might, so in order to get honest answers, somebody has call him out when the opportunity presents itself.
That shout out, I believe, was just that simple.