Wilson's Counterparts

[tongodeon]

Last week, right after the Joe Wilson "you lie" outburst, I had dinner with a few people. One of them mentioned that Wilson's outburst was not as unprecedented as everyone made it out to be. "Take a look at video how Congress treated George Bush. That happened all the time

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[random_girl]

This article seems to answer your question:

http://www.slate.com/id/2227966/

[tongodeon]

Aha. This is actually pretty close to what I'm looking for. Thanks.

then there was the cane fight on

[drieuxster]

Did you follow greenwald's take : http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/12/conservatives/index.html

So we are looking at changes.

There is the case of the democrat who attacked a republican senator in the well of the senate - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks - which may be a part of what folks are talking about when they talk about the horrors of democratic attacks on republicans.

[jaylake]

One of my conservative blog commentors was convinced of the same thing, btw. Without evidence of any sort other than "everybody knows."

[flwyd]

Of the audiences in Bush's speeches I mostly remember the obligatory shot of Ted Kennedy looking unimpressed. Oh, and the dorky way Laura Bush claps.

FWIW, I usually enjoy the clips of British parliament addresses with their more vocal audiences. On the other hand, I'm glad we don't do things the way they do in the Russian Duma.

[haineux]

This may come in handy:

but, uh...

[drieuxster]

So if K was hammering down the Evil UN, then doesn't that mean he was really supporting the TrueAmerican opposition to the Evil UN?

[itsacountry]

It used to be worse.