"Now is not the time to be distracted again. Now is the time to organize, and support health care reform. I don't know if we get all that we want. Quite possibly not. But if we let people like Wilson steal our thunder again, we will most certainly not get what we want.
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"Don't let some jerk derail you."
-- Frank at Daily Kos, 2009-09-09
[Context for anyone not yet aware of the reference: Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) called President Obama a liar in an outburst in the middle of Obama's speech last night.]
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thanks for the comment
-simian
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Re: thanks for the comment
For folks just tuning in, the conversation we're talking about is here, and the stepping-stone to it is here, a follow-on to this (which will show up in another QotD entry later, though a bunch of other people are already quoting the soundbite part). The topic at BAblog is a) the media giving crazies too much credibility and b) folks reacting more to what they expected him to say than what he actually wrote; and the topic at SurvivalMachine is health care reform.