Smear Job or Satire? Rep. Joe Wilson Took Drugs in 2007… uh, Over-the-Counter Caffeine Pills
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on September 10, 2009
Rep. Joe Wilson may be a drug addict... to caffeine | Photo credit: Scott Liddell
Not sure if this next piece from The Hill is meant to be satire, poking fun at the boiling faux outrage of Democrats (who have no problem with former Pres. Bush being booed by congressmen or being affiliated with Hitler or Al Qaeda), or if this is a weak-kneed Pollyanna attempt at a smear job against Rep. Joe Wilson.
Either way, this story from The Hill is lame. And weird. And desperate.
You be the judge. Laugh or groan as you deem fit.
From The Hill:
Wilson took caffeine pills in 2007
By Jordan Fabian
September 10, 2009
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who shouted “you lie!” at President Obama during his Wednesday night address to Congress, admitted to regularly consuming caffeine pills in 2007.
It is unclear if Wilson still takes NoDoz, a brand of pill that contains 200 milligrams of caffeine a pop. By comparison, a seven ounce cup of drip coffee contains 115 to 175 milligrams of caffeine.
A source told The Hill in 2007 that the congressman ingested the tablets “like candy,” but Wilson insisted he was not addicted despite the fact that he had been taking them since high school.
“I love coffee, but I don’t have time to drink it and I don’t have access to it,” Wilson said at the time.
The fifth-term Republican said he shared his NoDoz use with his doctor, who Wilson said assured him that the over-the-counter pills are not dangerous unless you get addicted…
Congressman Joe Wilson is being attacked by liberals on anything imaginable, including his taking of perfectly legal caffeine pills
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NoDoz ???
Why is Byrd D WV still in congress ? no, no I watched Byrd on CSPAN Asleep !
They woke him up to VOTE !!!!!!!
He’s the next thing to a cadaver.
He is still casting votes!
Nuff said.
Rangel, Dodd, Frank,Pelosi, Reid, Obama, H.Clinton, Schumer, Waxman, McCain, Kerry, Kennedy.
Corrupt to the core all. No conservative agenda here, only socialist.
Your blog is exposing the hypocrisy of the left’s attempt to divert our attention away from what is happening in this country, a revolution of American Spirit.
This is fun!
Maybe Rahm can slip Byrd some of that devil’s drug, NO-DOZ!