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Rep. Joe Wilson accuses Democrats of "playing politics" by continuing to discuss his heckling of President Obama. Whenever you hear a politicians accuse another politician of "playing politics" about an inherently political matter, this is how you know that they're full of shit. This is like accusing a poker player of "playing poker," or a baseball player of "playing baseball." What else would you have them do?
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I think you’re willfully ignoring his meaning, which uses the word “politics” in the way that people use it when referring to “office politics”: Back-stabbing, playing others off each other for personal gain, and other such nasty sociopathic behaviors.
Of course, I mostly agree with the Democrats in their criticism.
I just don’t buy it. This sort of complaint is common among politicians—just browse through some related results on Google—and it almost always means “in the game of politics—the game that I choose to play—I am losing.” On rare occasions I’ll see it used in a manner that’s convincing, such as when a non-political issue affecting or run by non-political people is suddenly subject to political whims. This is not one of those occasions.
Who would have thought that Joe Wilson and Kanye West would be so closely linked together.