Rep. Joe Wilson, Meet Maureen Dowd

Says Maureen Dowd on Mr. "You Lie!": "The congressman . . . belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, led a 2000 campaign to keep the Confederate flag waving above South Carolina's state Capitol and denounced as a 'smear' the true claim of a black woman that she was the daughter of Strom Thurmond, the '48 segregationist candidate for president. Wilson clearly did not liked being lectured and rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber."