"You Lie!"

We have talked in class about how the mood/decorum in Washington has been changing over the recent years and one of the moments that I think about when talking about this change in when Representative Joe Wilson shouted "You Lie!" during a joint address of Congress from President Obama.  This clip is about Alex Isenstadt commenting on the event a week after it happened.

Personally, I find it more interesting what happened after this event and how similar it is to how the public has been responding to the Sex Position Exponent incident (to which I cannot comment about online).  Sure Wilson interrupted a speech.  It may or may not have been a good idea to do so.  But this became a national topic for the next week or two.  It is something that I feel the media inflated and that common American's don't really care too much about.  It is what I like to think of as a bias story, meaning that a news agency chooses to focus on this event just so they can be given some room to analyze and add their own bias to it.  The news should have been "Joe Wilson yelled 'you lie' in the middle of the President's speech" and thats it.  But it wasn't like this at all.  The media kept focusing on it and called on other Representatives to denounce him and demanded him to apologize, which all eventually happened.  When this happened and I watched the media make a small issue into a huge ongoing story, it made me think that they might be getting out of touch with what really matters.  But in the end, news stations need to make money, which is done by viewer numbers, and conflict does bring more people to watch the drama.