He's not just a jerkwad, as if that weren't bad enough.

[netmouse]

Things you might not have known about Joe Wilson

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[coppervale.livejournal.com]

Holy crap.

[nicegeek.livejournal.com]

Some of these points may hold water, but this last one is a blatant attempt to smear by association:

[Joe Wilson] has close ties and a 100% approval rating from the Family Research Council, an evangelical organization headed by Tony Perkins, a former politician who has worked with David Duke of the KKK and spoken before the Council of Conservative Citizens, a major white supremacist organization that battled desegregation.

Okay, so JW's an evangelical, but so are most of his constituents. This is a sentence designed purely for the purpose of associating someone's name with a bunch of evil-sounding words.

Here's an equally bad example from the other side of the political spectrum:

Barack Obama today received an endorsement from the Choson Sinbo, an organization known to have ties to Kim Jong Il, the dictatorial ruler of North Korea, a country known for its brutal repression of its own population and the development and sale of nuclear weapon technology. (June 20, 2008)

Or one could look to the whole Tony Rezko fiasco. IMHO, citing this kind of "evidence" just makes its author seem like a partisan hack.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

He also attacked a California Congressman as an Anti-American who hates America who stated that the US had provided chemical and other weapons to Saddam Hussein during the Reagan/Bush years. When called on it, Wilson claimed he hadn't meant any insult.