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The Daily Caller reports: Republican South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson reintroduced the National Right to Work Act (NRTWA) on Monday to prevent private-sector workers from being required to pay dues to unions they do not support. The NRTWA allows individual workers to choose whether to join workplace labor organizations or refrain from such activities. It would amend sections of the …

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 late Wednesday, just hours after he delivered a speech on the House floor. “Earlier this evening I learned that I have tested positive for COVID-19,” Wilson said in a statement. “Thankfully I feel fine and do not have any symptoms,” he said, adding that he …

CNN reports: Sarah Palin, Alabama politician Roy Moore and former congressman Joe Walsh are among those who have lashed out at Cohen in advance, essentially turning themselves into ambassadors for Showtime’s marketing department. The piece de resistance, though, comes during the closing third, as Cohen masquerades as an Israeli gun enthusiast, convincing gun-rights advocates and Republican politicians to endorse his …

NBC News reports: An angry crowd in South Carolina chanted “you lie” to Rep. Joe Wilson at a town hall Monday, using the Republican Congressman’s own infamous line against him. Wilson was rebuked after shouting those words at former President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress in 2009, after the president said the health reforms he was proposing would …

A company called Herobuilders has rushed out a Joe Wilson action figure. Other figures in the line include Sarah Palin, Joe The Plumber, and Obama The Joker. HuffPo rants: Look who got an action figure! South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson, that’s who! Thanks to the good people at HeroBuilder.com, if you are looking to part with a cool $39.95 on …

“I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American. I live in the South, and I’ve seen the South come a long way, and I’ve seen the rest of the country that shared the South’s attitude toward minority groups at …

Barney Frank voted “present” on the Wilson rebuking because he thinks “it’s a bad precedent to put us in charge of deciding when people act like jerks.” Maddow goes on to list the various merchandising that has sprung up with “You Lie!” slogans.

The House of Representatives voted 240-179 (pretty much right along party lines) to formally rebuke Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) for his outburst during President Obama’s speech on health care reform. Whereas on September 9, 2009, during the joint session of Congress convened pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 179, the President of the United States, speaking at the invitation of the …

Top Democrats are calling for an official censure of Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) after his unprecedented heckling of President Obama during a nationally televised speech to the joint chambers of Congress. Joe Wilson’s flat refusal to apologize to the entire House for heckling President Barack Obama rekindled a push by some top Democrats to introduce a censure resolution — despite …

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) who famously texted throughout Obama’s health care speech, knowing the camera was on him, came to the defense of Rep. Joe Wilson as teabaggers screamed their new battle-cry, “Obama lies!” In this clip, “head of the teabaggers” Mark Wilson claims Obama “knows that any ban on federal health benefits for illegal immigrants would never stand up …

Another classic rant from the king of these things.

In less that 12 hours since SC GOP Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst, his 2010 Democratic opponent, a young former Marine named Rob Miller, saw over $100,000 flood into his Act Blue donations account. About half of that money came from Daily Kos readers alone. UPDATE: Holy crap! The donations have soared to $375,000!

Rep. Joe Wilson is the most unpopular guy on both sides of the aisle right now, judging by this story in South Carolina’s The State. Democrats and Republicans alike are denouncing Rep. Joe Wilson for shouting “You lie” at President Barack Obama during his speech to Congress, an extraordinary breach of decorum for which the South Carolina Republican swiftly apologized. …

Seriously. Fantastic speech. But we need to put a WORLD of hurt on GOP South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson for screaming “YOU LIE!” at the President of the United States during a nationally televised speech before Congress. That has never happened, to my memory. Not even when Dubya was announcing the invasion of Iraq. Rep. Joe Wilson 803-939-0041 UPDATE: Sen. …