{"id":20960,"date":"2017-04-11T23:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20960"},"modified":"2017-04-11T23:30:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:30:41","slug":"congressman-gets-a-taste-of-retribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20960","title":{"rendered":"Congressman gets a taste of retribution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/joe-wilson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20961\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/joe-wilson-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/joe-wilson-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/joe-wilson.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What in the world do you make of this?<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Joe &#8220;You Lie!&#8221; Wilson went home to his South Carolina congressional district, sought to conduct a town hall meeting with constituents, and was given a healthy dose of the treatment he tossed at then-President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, a Republican, infamously shouted &#8220;You lie!&#8221; at the president during a televised speech to a joint session of Congress. He received a stern look from then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Joe Biden at that heated moment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.motherjones.com\/politics\/2017\/04\/joe-wilson-you-lie-town-hall\">Wilson received bipartisan scolding<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As Mother Jones reported: &#8220;In 2009, Wilson was the subject of bipartisan condemnation after he interrupted Obama&#8217;s address to Congress by calling him a liar when the president said his proposed health care plan wouldn&#8217;t cover undocumented immigrants. The congressman was forced to apologize for violating congressional decorum with the heckling, but he benefited in the end: Shortly after the incident, an aide confirmed Wilson had raised more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/POLITICS\/09\/12\/wilson.fundraising\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">$1 million in campaign contributions<\/span><\/u><\/a> thanks to the outburst.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, he was telling constituents this week about how hard he has worked to deter violence against women. The response from the crowd? A chorus of &#8220;You lie!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wilson stepped away from the microphone as the chants continued, which was something the president couldn&#8217;t do when the congressman shouted the epithet while sitting among his congressional colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Payback can be a bitch. Can&#8217;t it, congressman?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What in the world do you make of this? U.S. Rep. Joe &#8220;You Lie!&#8221; Wilson went home to his South Carolina congressional district, sought to conduct a town hall meeting with constituents, and was given a healthy dose of the treatment he tossed at then-President Barack Obama. Wilson, a Republican, infamously shouted &#8220;You lie!&#8221; at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressman gets a taste of retribution<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[540,7052,3178,7053],"class_list":["post-20960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-joe-wilson","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-you-lie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20962,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960\/revisions\/20962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}