Krauthammer's Take [NRO Staff]
From last night's Fox News All-Stars.
On the House resolution censuring Joe Wilson:
Well, he was out of order. It was a lack of decorum. He shouldn't have done it.
I suspect if it had been a different Joe Wilson, the husband of the outed CIA agent [Valerie Plame] who was a liberal hero and martyr in the previous administration — if he had been in the House and he'd yelled "You liar!" to President Bush, the liberals would have carried him on their shoulders out of the hall as a hero speaking truth to power.
Nonetheless, even besides the hypocrisy, he [Wilson] shouldn't have done it. He apologized.
This is obviously a Democratic stunt as a way to take attention away from the health-care debate they are losing. And every day that they don't have to speak about the specifics of a plan — and the more it is examined, the more it loses support — is a good day for the Democrats. So this was a good afternoon for the Democrats.
On the Left charging critics of Obama with racism:
You know, the accusation of racism is a sign of desperation by people who know they are losing the national debate, and they want to hurl the ultimate charge in American politics.
This is dealing from the bottom of the deck, and I agree that it is a disgusting tactic. It's done as a way to end debate. The minute you call somebody a racist, the debate is over. You don't continue….
Accusations of racism are the last refuge of the liberal scoundrel.
As for Maureen Dowd, imagining a word ["boy"] that wasn't said: Well, in my previous profession, I saw a lot of people who heard words that weren't said. They were called patients. Many of them were actually helped with medication.
The reason she won't be — and others who are hurling the [racism] accusation — is because it is a deliberate attempt to change the subject and discredit the opposition with an unprovable — and unproven — ad hominem.
The Corner on National Review Online (16 September 2009)
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