What Addison Graves ''Joe'' Wilson is ALL about...

[Octafish]

...defendin' Dixie and its perverted "traditional" way of life.

[Octafish]

1. Some details on Addison Graves Wilson, Sr's campaign finance...

Watchdog.net

Note the nice kitty from Astra Zeneca

More from Open Secrets, which reveals more than $500,000 from Health Professionals, Big Pharma and Insurance Co.s:

Influence & Lobbying

[Octafish]

2. These words paint a more accurate picture...

FTR, Wilson's a warmonger -- one who sat on the House Armed Services Committee:

Congressman Joe Wilson: He Lies

By Bob Norman Thursday, Sep. 10 2009 @ 7:58AM
New Times

It seems only fitting that the man who tried to turn last night's presidential address into an angry tea-bagging town hall comes from the dead center of South Carolina and learned at the knee of Strom Thurmond.

​What's ironic is that Joe Wilson was lying (to put it in his blunt terms) when he accused President Obama of doing the same. Obama's health-care plan doesn't provide insurance coverage to illegal immigrants.

This isn't the first time Wilson has acted like a total ass while being on the wrong side of an issue. In 2002, when he was thumping for an invasion in Iraq, he claimed that another congressman, Bob Filner, had a "hatred of America" and was "viscerally anti-American." Why? Because Filner told the truth. The California Democrat noted that the U.S. supplied Saddam Hussein with chemical weapons. Filner was right; Wilson was livid.

It's a curious dichotomy: Those who fought hardest to go to war in Iraq are fighting the hardest to keep meaningful health-care reform from happening in the United States. It's like they are addicted to being wrong.

But the Wilson incident, more than anything else, lends credence to the idea that there's more behind some of this anti-Obama hysteria than just policy differences. A couple of commenters here yesterday opined that racism is behind some of the more wild-eyed opposition to Obama. School Board Member Bob Parks said the same thing about the little uproar over Obama's school address. I've resisted that argument, but this episode seems to almost crystallize it.

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http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2009/09/congressman_joe_wilson_obama.php

Addison was really mad when his mentor's "illegitimate" daughter spoke up...

[blm]

5. I had a clip from Wilson's uninformed CSpan rant sent to The State reporter who wrote about it the

next day. Amazing that members of Congress can know NOTHING about their own nation's recent history, and are still in the position to effect the shaping future history.

Not that the fascists of BushInc ever WANTED their numbnut Republican lawmakers/poodles to understand their global fascist agenda.

[Octafish]

7. Compartmentalized Information

Goes back to the days when CIA was new school and old boy Allen Dulles ran the Directorate of Plans. Now THERE was a warmonger who knew Who's Who and Who to Keep Out of the Loop. Today, the War Party issues a few talking points and the Mighty Wurlitzer gets right on it.

We the People know something stinks. It's hard to put a finger on something that can't be seen, though, like the original Office of Policy Coordination.

Worse still: It's really too bad the rat-catchers are the same class as the rats.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. "acted like a total ass"

That's not an act...

[Octafish]

8. Bell's Memoirs say Meese led Reagan White House racism

These jackasses may not be born to hate, but they learn it at an early age:



Source: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19871021&id=l-gOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=R4QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7052,2306899

[Hubert Flottz]

13. As bad as George W was, I still believe Reagan was worse.

The country has gone steadily downhill for working Americans since Reagan was "in charge." Reagan started the mass exportation of American jobs and Reagan started the big time union busting. The GOPers won't be happy until the working class American's standard of living is dragged down to a level that is equal to, or lesser than, that of the working class people's standard of living in Red China and India.

The Republicans love Communists/Socialists when those Communists/Socialists are working for a few pennies on the hour in American owned sweatshops abroad, to make union busting American corporations who fund the GOP political machine more wealth.

Give Reagan credit for hundreds of thousands of lost jobs in the steel mills and the start of the disastrous deregulation of Wall Street. The economic snowball that Reagan started downhill gets bigger and moves faster as I type. Anyone with a halfway functional mind knows, who to blame our sorry state of affairs today on. If the GOPers talk about America's REAL problems they're toast, so they talk about Race, Abortion, Morality and so on. Anything to divert America's attention and divide the people.

[Pool Hall Ace]

3. Maybe it's just the snarky teenager in me, but

when I hear "Addison" and "Graves", I think of diseases first!

[Octafish]

4. That's how it should be -- medicine honors its discoverers.

Naming and defining a condition is the first step. Giving illness a name enables physicians and researchers around the world to share ideas for treatment.

Wilson's outburst may have done a similar favor -- outted the ugly racist warmongers of the War Party who are doing all they can to destroy progress.

Now that sickness of hatred has a name: Addison Graves Wilson's disease.

[Pool Hall Ace]

12. I must be naive. I lived in the south for five years

(Raleigh, NC) but I thought that kind of hatred was long gone. Well, at least among elected officials. But it hasn't. :(

[malaise]

9. Thanks for keeping it real

Octafish

[Octafish]

10. Racist Jokes in Reagan White House Reported in a Book

Everything on Corporate McPravda seems to focus on the censure and not the censuree.



It must be a coincidence that they always seem to miss the big picture.

From Terrel Bell, Reagan Secretary of Education:

Racist Jokes in White House Reported in a Book

By LENA WILLIAMS, Special to the New York Times
Published: Wednesday, October 21, 1987

A book written by President Reagan's first Secretary of Education asserts mid-level Administration officials made racist jokes and sexist remarks in discussions on civil rights at the White House. The President's spokesman today dismissed the allegations.

Terrel H. Bell, who served in Mr. Reagan's Cabinet from 1981 to 1984, said the slurs included references to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as ''Martin Lucifer Coon'' and to Title IX, the Federal law that guarantees equal opportunity for women in education, as the ''Lesbians' bill of rights.''

The allegations appear in Mr. Bell's forthcoming memoirs, ''The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir.'' Mr. Bell does not name those who made the remarks, attributing what he described as ''sick humor and racist cliches'' to ''mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House and at the Office of Management and Budget.''

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http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/21/us/racist-jokes-in-white-house-reported-in-a-book.html

No wonder racists and warmongers worship Reagan: He was like them (at least his followers so believed).

PS: You are most welcome, malaise. And thank you for giving a damn! You have no idea how much you and all good DUers mean to me.

[malaise]

16. I read all your posts Octafish

You're a great DUer. :fistbump:

[Octafish]

11. Chief Justice Roberts is not Michael Jackson's Lover

This isn't ancient history:

John Roberts Is Not Michael Jackson's Lover

— By Nick Baumann | Mon June 29, 2009 8:29 AM PST

Chief Justice John Roberts did not like Michael Jackson. The New York Times' Caucus blog dug up some old memos Roberts wrote while he was working for the White House Counsel's office during the Reagan administration. In a memo criticizing a proposal to invite Michael and his brothers to the White House, Roberts wrote:

I hate to sound like one of Mr. Jackson’s records, constantly repeating the same refrain, but I recommend that we not approve this letter.... In today’s Post there were already reports that some youngsters were turning away from Mr. Jackson in favor of a newcomer who goes by the name "Prince," and is apparently planning a Washington concert. Will he receive a Presidential letter? How will we decide which performers do and which do not?

There's some evidence that Justice Roberts may have been pulling for a different performer. Consider this, from another memo:

Why, for example, was no letter sent to Mr. Bruce Springsteen, whose patriotic tour recently visited the area?

Why, indeed? The music of the future governor of New Jersey was famously embraced by Reagan during the 1984 presidential election campaign. On a related note, President Obama regularly invites musicians to the White House: Stevie Wonder, for example, has already performed there.

SOURCE: http://www.motherjones.com/riff/2009/06/john-roberts-not-michael-jacksons-lover

Going by Rush Limbaugh's arcturial tables, Chief Justice will probably be there for another 30 years or so.

[Sebastian Doyle]

14. Opie thought Reagan would invite Prince to the White House??

Yeah, I could see that happening. :rofl:

[blm]

15. and Republicans never did understand that Springsteen's music was targeting their policies and lies,

and that it was indeed patriotic, but, patriotic in its DISSENT against GOP policies.