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Rep. Joe Wilson Screws Up Completely

Here’s Republican Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, posting a press release on his website which, unfortunately, is actually a mocking press release sent out earlier by his Democratic opponent, Rob Miller. It has been on the front page for many hours, highlighted by the following first paragraph: “Today, incumbent Congressman Joe Wilson began his election-year bus tour for the status quo. Wilson, who has proudly voted with the Bush administration over 95% of the time, is trying to convince voters that the country is on the right track and simply needs more of the same policies and ideas.” Maybe this is a new sort of double secret irony to which we are not attuned? OH SHIT, he literally just took it down. [Joe Wilson For Congress via Crack The Bell]


4:09 PM on Mon August 18 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. Mo MoDo says at 4:12 pm, August 18th, 2008

    Sounds like he’s plagiarizing McCain campaign literature to me.

  2. apocalypsethen says at 4:12 pm, August 18th, 2008

    it’s irony so hearty, you can eat it with a spork.

  3. nietzscheprojectile says at 4:12 pm, August 18th, 2008

    Then maybe we should just put him on double secret probation…

  4. user-of-owls says at 4:18 pm, August 18th, 2008

    Somebody send that U.S. American a map, such as.

  5. AngryBlakGuy says at 4:19 pm, August 18th, 2008

    …is it me or has EVERY Republican voted with “W” 95% of the time?! Secondly, which bills constitute the 5% of bills they didn’t vote with him for? Knowing these douch-bags is was the “free milk for babies bill” or the “don’t beat puppies with ball pean hammers bill”!

  6. gurukalehuru says at 4:19 pm, August 18th, 2008

    Status Quo, he thought they meant the band.

  7. grendel says at 4:21 pm, August 18th, 2008

    He needs Ted Stevens to explain the series of tubes to him

  8. Oscar Folsom Cleveland says at 4:25 pm, August 18th, 2008

    Does Valerie Plame know this? Or Robert Novak?? [Is Novak dead yet?]
    Most importantly, will Wilson’s tour for the status quo (Italian for “states’ rights) be sideswiped by the Str8 Tlk Xpres???
    http://wonkette.com/401745/straight-talk-express-demolishes-minivan-in-florida

  9. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 4:28 pm, August 18th, 2008

    Joe Wilson is that guy who fucked a volleyball named Mr. Voit, which is not the kind of tourism we want in South Carolina.

  10. CorkPopper says at 4:34 pm, August 18th, 2008

    I’m trying to figure out why Republican is underlined. Is it some secret coded message about buttseks?

  11. Gopherit v2.0 says at 4:34 pm, August 18th, 2008

    You never know…..that kind of publicity might play well in S.C.

  12. 4tehlulz says at 4:38 pm, August 18th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: Actually it was the “Don’t Beat Babies with Ball Pean Hammers Act of 2008″.

  13. grendel says at 4:39 pm, August 18th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy: The only one was the “Let’s all document our illegal maids and gardeners and make them pay taxes act”

  14. shortsshortsshorts says at 4:44 pm, August 18th, 2008

    Who is this “status quo?” Where does this “status quo” live? Can I take this “status quo” on a date and screw it in the back of my dad’s car?

  15. Hey, it’s his party and he’ll say what he wants to.

  16. ReelectTilden says at 4:58 pm, August 18th, 2008

    It must have been librul haxx0rs.

  17. 4tehlulz: Maybe some of them voted against the Lott-Specter bill to legalize recreational whale torture?

  18. CivicHoliday says at 5:19 pm, August 18th, 2008

    Since when do Republicans campaign by telling the truth about their voting records and platforms?

  19. See, these policies and ideas take longer than eight years to work. They take more like sixteen or a hundred years. Just give them a chance! Also, stock up on canned food, water, and guns.
    WAKE UP PEOPLE!

  20. WonkaBee says at 6:20 pm, August 18th, 2008

    gurukalehuru: Mmmmm Pictures of Matchstick Men …. awesome

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