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...heckle heard round the world - or at least all over cable news. As President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on health-care reform on Wednesday, Sept. 9, Representative Joe Wilson broke the chamber's strict etiquette by yelling "You lie!" after the President (accurately) noted that his proposed health-care benefits would not extend to illegal immigrants. With those two words, the South Carolina Republican was transformed into a national political figure (if only briefly), loathed by Democrats and rebuked by fellow Republicans for defying tradition. At the GOP leadership's behest, Wilson called the White House...
...Born Addison Graves Wilson on July 31, 1947, in Charleston...
...Married to Roxanne Wilson and has four sons, all of them Eagle Scouts who also served in the military. His oldest son, a prosecutor, recently announced plans to run for South Carolina attorney general...
...solid Republican, Wilson has earned 100% ratings from the Family Research Council, a conservative advocacy group. Supported a constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman and vocally supported President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's management of the war in Iraq. A display case in his office contains pieces of Saddam Hussein's dismantled missiles from the first Gulf...
...thought the governor [Mark Sanford] had embarrassed us enough, but Mr. Wilson has gone even lower." - Representative Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat (the State, Sept...