Jordan Fabian over at The Hill wrote a hilarious hit piece on Rep. Joe Wilson (the guy who yelled liar! at the president). It’s hilarious both because it’s so bad and because it’s obviously a hit piece.
Titled, “Wilson took caffeine pills in 2007”, the article talks about Wilson’s use of the caffeine supplement NoDoz throughout 2007.
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who shouted "you lie!" at President Obama during his Wednesday night address to Congress, admitted to regularly consuming caffeine pills in 2007.
It is unclear if Wilson still takes NoDoz, a brand of pill that contains 200 milligrams of caffeine a pop. By comparison, a seven ounce cup of drip coffee contains 115 to 175 milligrams of caffeine.
A source told The Hill in 2007 that the congressman ingested the tablets “like candy," but Wilson insisted he was not addicted despite the fact that he had been taking them since high school.
"I love coffee, but I don’t have time to drink it and I don’t have access to it," Wilson said at the time.
The article goes on to say Wilson did inform his doctor of his NoDoz use and was assured it was okay as long as he didn’t get addicted.
I’m not exactly sure what Joe Wilson’s caffeine consumption has to do with President Obama being a liar, but I’m hoping it will come to me at some point today.
That said, it’s worth noting that President Obama indulged in cocaine and marijuana use while in college.
From Obama’s 1995 book, Dreams From My Father: (hat tip Liberal Utopia)
I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.
Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn’t been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory. I had discovered that it didn’t make any difference whether you smoked reefer in the white classmate’s sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you’d met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids who had dropped out of school and now spent most of their time looking for an excuse to brawl.
No word yet on whether Obama’s doctor at the time was aware of his drug abuse, but I’ll keep digging.
If you would like to support Joe Wilson for standing up to the president’s lies you can do that HERE.
-Chris Jones
