Mark Watson

While Helen of Troy’s face may have launched a thousand ships, Joe Wilson’s two words have launched an armada of pundits and elected Democrats on a crusade as ill considered as the Christian Crusades. While the Crusaders carried red cross emblazoned white flags to send their message, today’s crusaders rely on main stream media to proclaim that infidels protesting Obama Care must be silenced.

Like Pope Urban II did in 1095 A.D., today’s crusaders rely on distortions to motivate their believers.

Decorum.

Congressman Hank Johnson, (D-GA), in remarks supporting a resolution of rebuke of Wilson’s outburst said, “I guess we’ll have folks putting on white hoods and robes again and riding through the countryside intimidating people.”

Pundit Maureen Dowd claims she heard “You lie, boy!” when Wilson called out “you lie” when Obama claimed illegal immigrants would not receive medical care under his medical plan.

Even misery index guru Jimmy Carter, who praised “black boy” Obama just before Obama won the Democrat presidential nomination last year, has joined in the fray. In a meeting at his Presidential library, Carter claimed “There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.”

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s congressional lemmings rebuked Wilson in a 240-179 vote. The vote coincided with the passage of censorship for congressional members.

Congressional members are now prohibited from calling a President a liar or a hypocrite nor can he be called intellectually dishonest. No member is allowed to accuse the President of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. No comment or allusion to a President’s personal misconduct, including sexual misconduct, is allowed by any congressional member.

Apparently Pelosi and company are so concerned about presidents’ self esteem that they must be protected from insult.

The country itself must be feeling lowly for it too received protection from harsh words in congressional chambers. Congressional members can not say the government is oppressive. Thankfully such censorship was not in place following the Japanese internment episode, decades long federal compulsive segregation of the races, Joe McCarthy’s persecutions, or the murder at Ruby Ridge.

Democrats repeatedly booed President Bush during his 2004 State of the Union address and heckled him in 2005 when Bush pushed for Social Security reform.

Although Republicans controlled the House during these outbursts there were no calls for censure or speech code enforcement.

Democrats have no class or they are just afraid of criticism.

Wilson’s two words were not profane and merely expressed his opinion. Wilson’s rebuke will not long be remembered, but the censorship it spawned by political opponents will prohibit congressional members in the future from speaking their minds.

Logophobia reigns in the House of Representative. When governmental bodies begin fearing words, censorship is around the corner.

“Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.” Potter Stewart, Supreme Court Justice (1958-1981).

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