But not the Joe Wilson you are thinking of. I'm referring to Joseph C. Wilson, whose wife CIA agent Valerie Plame was outed by the White House in retribution for his having outed George W. Bush's yellow belly lies. Make that yellow cake lies.
Both Joe Wilsons think they spoke truth to power. One really did, speaking truth to agregiously abused power. That Joe Wilson called Bush out for starting a war of folly on false pretenses, a war that is costing us over a trillion dollars and thousands more lives than died on 9/11. That truth spoken to power cost his wife her career.
The other Joe Wilson spoke not truth to power, but a lie to power, by shouting, "You lie!" Such irony. That Joe Wilson will end up as a footnote in the Heckler's Hall of Fame. And now Joe the Heckler has replaced Joe the Plumber as the intelligencia of the Republican Party. Fitting, really.