The soft-bellied wingnuts simply LOVE making fun of Joe Wilson. They present him as some kind of girlie-man house-husband who got the Niger gig through his wife. They make fun of him because of his too-long full head of 1970's disco hair and his nice suits and his overall hubba-hubba middle-aged hotness (though he DOES look awfully tired these days, doesn't he?).
But Stephen Crockett and Athenae at First Draft remind the 101st Fighting Keyboarders and the rest of the vulgar pigboys that it's a bad idea to mess with this guy, because behind the soft-spoken demeanor and the hair beats the heart of one badass muthafucka:
The freepi and their "grown up" minders aren't just smearing any old political opponent. They're taking on a genuine American hero of the kind they'd be lionizing if he hadn't uncovered a truth that was inconvenient to their worldview. From one of my favorite books, Live From Baghdad:
"Jesus, this place is surreal. This morning Wilson turned up at the briefing wearing a noose around his neck. I told him he was the best dressed man in Baghdad." What prompted Joe to go off the deep end was a note delivered to Western embassies by the Iraqi government reminding diplomats that anyone sheltering foreigners was subject to hanging. Baghdad had also asked for the names of nondiplomats who had sought refuge in the [ambassador's] residence.
There's a reason this has gone as far as it has. Joe Wilson's faced down Saddam Hussein. Compared to THAT, what are the 101st Fighting Keyboarders?
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