Wilson forced to apologize in 2003 for smearing Thurmond's biracial daughter.

[Barack_America]

Blatantly racist much?

Flashback: Rep. Wilson Also Had To Apologize After Attacking Strom Thurmond's Illegitimate Daughter

Last night, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) issued an apology -- "I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President's remarks" -- and called the White House after heckling Obama during his nationally televised health care speech.

That's the first time most Americans heard of Congressman Wilson, but it's not, it turns out, the first time Wilson's emotions got the best of him and he was forced to apologize.

Flashback to mid-December 2003, when Essie Mae Washington-Williams came forward with the bombshell that she was the illegitimate daughter of the recently-deceased patriarch of South Carolina politics, Sen. Strom Thurmond.

Rep. Wilson, a former page of Thurmond's, immediately told The State newspaper that he didn't believe Williams. He deemed the revelation "unseemly." And he added that even if she was telling the truth, she should have kept the inconvenient facts to herself:

"It's a smear on the image that has as a person of high integrity who has been so loyal to the people of South Carolina," Wilson said...

More:
http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/you-lie-not-the-first-time-rep-wilsons-emotions-got-the-best-of-him.php

[Ilsa]

1. It's past time for the GOP to bring out the duck tape. nt

[tekisui]

2. Haha! He brought this all on himself.

Take this opening and take him down!

[Barack_America]

4. Wilson thinks blacks are liars who should keep their mouths shut.

That seems to be the common theme here.

[Enrique]

3. I like the photo for the story

"You lie!"

[Eyerish]

5. Stay Classy Joe...

[liberal N proud]

6. IMO: Racism seethed past common sense last night

I think the man is so racist that he couldn't help himself.

[Barack_America]

7. Agreed. And this seems to be a recurring theme with him.

Is this what SC wants representing them?

Hopefully not.

[Raschel]

8. What does Thurmond's loyalty to the people of So. Carolina have to do with

his Black daughter? Did Wilson mean being with a Black woman would make him a traitor?

Wilson reveals himself here.