Legal Commentary

"You lie."

But Obama kinda did too. And this ? "a lie, plain and simple" ? came before Joe Wilson's "you lie":

Obviously, Obama was the official speaker, and it's rude to yell something at the speaker. But Obama was guilty of disrespecting his critics by labeling their arguments nothing but a lie and ? after getting a standing ovation for it ? moving on.

Wilson's little outburst got a lot of attention, and that has lessened the amount of discussion of the actual content of Obama's speech itself. But I suppose that Obama supporters are using it to try to paint all the critics of the proposed legislation as louts to be dismissed out of hand.

Full post as published by Althouse on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).