“ an extraordinary outburst by Joe “You Lie” Wilson in 2002, berating his a Democratic colleague, Rep. Bob Filner of California, as an anti-American traitor. […] Wilson claimed Filner was lying, saying that Iraq had purchased chemical weapons from the “former Soviet Union,” ignoring the fact that the Iran-Iraq War ended in 1988, while the USSR still existed, and, more importantly, that the U.S. had in fact made such sales (as documented above). After falsely accusing Filner of lying, Wilson went into overdrive, launching his tirade squarely into Michele Bachmann territory, accusing Filner of harboring a secret “hatred of America.
