Time for Obama to Pitch His Health Care Plan Kanye West-Style
The president really just needs everyone -- everyone -- to shut the hell up for seven days so he can get his point across!
The president really just needs everyone -- everyone -- to shut the hell up for seven days so he can get his point across!
The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
In an appearance on Newsmax TV last Friday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) expressed support for Rep. Joe Wilson in his "outburst" during President O...
Andy Borowitz | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy
Joe Wilson (R-SC), tennis legend Serena Williams and recording artist Kanye West held a press conference in Washington, DC today to kick off the first annual National Outburst Week.
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Thank heaven Joe Wilson voted repeatedly to cut veterans care and save us from modern day Leninism.
Westword | Westword | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home
Joe Wilson is a tool. Not so much because he yelled at the President -- hey, if comics and umpires can take it, so can the leader of the fr...
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Yes, I expect a certain level of rowdiness in the Congressional halls. But Joe Wilson was clearly out of control. Unlike school children and mature adults, he has not learned beans about anger management.
Cindy Handler | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
What do Kanye West, Serena Williams and a formerly obscure congressman from South Carolina have in common?
Michelle Lamar | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living
Joe Wilson and Kanye West need a day or two with my mother-in-law, because she is one of the classiest ladies I've ever met.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 11.14.2009 | Comedy
We all kind of knew Kanye West was a dick, but last night he proved it once and for all. As singer Taylor Swift beat out Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Kelly ...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment
R.E.M. will be releasing Live At The Olympia, a 39-song, two CD set containing "working rehearsals" from 2007. I was lent a track that captures the band's energy and insightful views.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
Osama bin Laden, if that was him (doesn't matter if it was just a garden-variety US-hater), pointed out that the president is vulnerable. What did he mean?
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
A clear line can be drawn from the red-baiting and Muslim-baiting of Obama during the campaign to the birther movement and the accusation that the president was a Nazi to Joe Wilson's behavior.
Dave Hackel | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
I know for sure that Obama's speech on health care was good because Rush Limbaugh thought it was "disgusting, reprehensible, embarrassing, petulant, divisive and crude."
Erik Sean Nelson | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
I think the right to stay alive is as important than the right to free speech, because you can't say many words when you die at age 20 from a pre-existing condition.
New York Times | MAUREEN DOWD | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
I tended to agree with some Obama advisers that Democratic presidents typically have provoked a frothing response from paranoids -- from Father Coughl...
AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Wilson says he called the White House after the speech Wednesday night and apologized. He says the White House accepted the apology and that's good en...
Steven G. Brant | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
President Obama called on America's journalists -- and the media executives for whom they work -- to recommit themselves to the standards of journalism that Walter Cronkite practiced.
Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
"I decided to sue when My communications to humans were ignored by the few whose personal agendas were believed by the many," God said.
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The 9/12 protests are extensions of the 'sore loser' rallies, and they're one hundred percent partisan. That is why their attempts to wrap themselves in the tragedy of 9/11 is so wrong.
John Farr | Posted 11.12.2009 | Entertainment
Wilson is one of those mediocre, small men who have always occupied the fringes of influence but would never have imagined to insult a sitting President in bygone days.
Kate Clinton | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
Republicans treat President Obama as if he were a substitute teacher and they are just waiting for the real deal to come back in the room.
Patt Morrison | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
Shouting and catcalls are part of the culture in the Commons. But rules that go back more than a century-and-a-half enjoin members from making accusations about lying or being drunk.
Capitol Briefing | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
With a political arms race in full force, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) has raised almost $750,000 in less than 48 hours since his shout of "You lie!" to P...
Judith Ellis | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
These are desperate times and lobbyists are employed to undermine health care with the help of The Washington Post.
Brian Ross | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The GOP machine politicos who are organizing them want us to see a country in outrage against our black, liberal, socialist president.
Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media