What's In The Water There? Piss, Shit, Hormones, Industrial Effluvia, Meat-Packing Residue, White Lightnin' Run-Off

Armstrong Williams, one-time Bush Administration media whore (this time whoring in The NYT) pretends that Shoutin' Rep. Joe Wilson is

... a self-effacing, humble man, like many in his district. He’s not prone to such antics, which is why I was shocked to discover listening to the president’s speech that his was the voice that screamed those words.

"Shocked," was he? Has Strongarm not seen the C-SPAN footage we noted earlier, for which the Kossacks still refuse to provide embedding?

Mr. Williams' love-letter to the South approaches Stockholm Syndrome, though we wonder what a "gentrified southerner" is. A rebuilt neighborhood filled w/ Yuppie couples that's located in one of those astounding Southern Republican comb-over/"dry look" hair-don'ts?

He’ll be regarded as a hero in some circles; not for his disrespect, these are, after all, gentrified southerners. But rather, Joe Wilson will be viewed for doing the right thing — for calling out the falsehoods of the Obama message machine, there and then. No dawdling, no delay.

It may have taken Joe an errant syllable or two last night with his syrupy drawl, but he was going to make his point, all else be damned.

The remainder of The NYT contributors stick closer to reality (facts, even) than Williams did w/ his reading of Wilson's mind & kissing of his gentrified southern ass.

In the same vein, but mercifully shorter, is this from THE DEMOCRATIC strategist. Read the comment too. (Or don't. We don't want to sound fascist, or even authoritarian.)

Here, we'll split the difference. The commeter's conclusion:

Thanks to the religious right, this sense of a common minority status isn't simply racial, but broadly cultural as well. Obama isn't simply to be distrusted because he's black, but because he's a bundle of everything white South Carolinians have always seen as alien and threatening. He is, metaphorically if not literally, the AntiChrist, and anything he says is to be dismissed out of hand.

In conclusion, I'd suggest that it's possible that South Carolina is in the vanguard in this regard; something similar seems to be going on in the rural upland South from West Virginia across Tennessee and Arkansas to Oklahoma--even while the expanding urban South, with its more sophisticated economy, is heading in a different direction.