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  Since When Isn't It OK to Insult the President?

  Posted Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:23 PM | By Rachael Larimore

  Emily, I cringed last night when I saw the clip of Joe Wilson screaming “You lie!” during Obama’s speech. I’m on the record as thinking it was silly for people to pull their kids out of class rather than listen to Obama’s back-to-school speech. But do you really think the vitriol that Obama faces is worse than what President Bush faced? Insulting the president reached national-pastime status not long after Dec. 12, 2000, when President Bush was finally declared the winner of the 2000 election. (Not that it wasn’t a growth industry during the Clinton administration.) ... (Read more in DoubleX)

  Filed under: Barack Obama, joe wilson, obama's health care reform speech

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