So Much for Civility
By GAIL COLLINS
Op-Ed Columnist – NYTimes.com
Published: September 9, 2009
Let me go out on a limb and say that it is not a good plan to heckle the president of the United States when he’s making a speech about replacing acrimony with civility.
Most of the Republicans listening to Barack Obama’s health care address Wednesday night followed the normal rule about sitting in stony silence while the president’s party leaps up and down in rapturous applause. But there were a few exceptions, notably Joe Wilson, a member of Congress from South Carolina who loudly called the president a liar.
Op-Ed Columnist – So Much for Civility – NYTimes.com
