Those who claim they
KNOW Wilson's outburst was racially motivated are no more compelling than those who claim they
KNOW it was not.
Unless you're a mind reader, no one can KNOW what is going on in another man's mind.
That being said, a reasonable person can have strong
suspicions that Wilson's outburst was in fact racialy motivated.
Very little is know about SC Congressman Joe Wilson at this point, but there is enough evidence out there to convince me that racism MAY well have been his motive.
As a piece of information I offer in support of my suspicion I offer a portion of Maureen Dowd's NY Times column in which she writes:
"
The congressman, we learned, belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, led a 2000 campaign to keep the Confederate flag waving above South Carolina’s state Capitol and denounced as a “smear” the true claim of a black woman that she was the daughter of Strom Thurmond, the ’48 segregationist candidate for president. Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber.
ImmigrationProf Blog: Is Joe Wilson a Racist?
Additionally I offer this:
Mary's World: Joe Wilson is the Poster Child for the Racist Right.
Here is a web search...with many more hits.... in response to the question: Is Joe Wilson racist:
joe wilson racist? - Yahoo! Search Results
I offer the above not as
proof of Wilson's racial motivation but as proof that such a charge cannot possibly be simply dismissed out of hand.
In police work, the test of "Probable Cause" is one that an investigator must pass in order to receive an arrest or search warrant from a court of law. I believe (my opinion) the above information would establish enough "PC" to get a search warrant from any magistrate in this country.