My lovely and brilliant wife pointed this out to me this morning after watching video of President Obama's address on health care reform. She heard the shouted "you lie!" from the Republican "peanut gallery" without knowing anything else about the incident. We don't watch a lot of network news because it's so abysmally bad, but it was worth sitting through the usual "meat-puppet misinterpretation" for this.
Know what my wife said?
My wife heard Joe Wilson's shouted insult. She immediately said, "I'll bet that's a Southern white guy talking down to that uppity 'boy' in the White House. You wouldn't be hearing that if the President was another white guy."
Bingo.
Joe Wilson, in his no-class, mouth-breather fashion, has demonstrated once again the fundamentally racist nature of today's regional rump of a Republican party. It doesn't matter what Obama says, what he proposes, what he writes. The corrupt Republicans will be viscerally opposed to every single thing he attempts...because he's a 'boy' who doesn't know his place. No matter his incredible accomplishment in reaching the highest office in the land in the face of ferocious opposition from the Clinton machine and Karl Rove's winged monkeys. They will always have contempt for him because he is black.
People of America, I give you: your modern Republican party.