--- description: Joe Wilson, the Congressman who shouted "You lie!" to President Barack Obama in 2009, received the same treatment from his own constituents title: Congressman Who Shouted 'You Lie' at Obama in 2009 Gets the Same Treatment image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Congress](/tag/congress/) ## Congress Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # The Congressman Who Shouted 'You Lie' at President Obama in 2009 Got the Same Treatment by [Aric Jenkins](/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 12, 2017 12:45 AM CUT by [Aric Jenkins](/author/aric-jenkins/) ## Aric Jenkins Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 12, 2017 12:45 AM CUT Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), the Congressman who notoriously shouted “You lie!” at [President Barack Obama](http://time.com/4732133/obama-trump-syria-airstrikes/ "undefined") during a joint session of Congress [in 2009](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgce06Yw2ro "undefined"), received the same treatment from his own constituents at a town hall meeting on Monday. Wilson had been addressing the crowd at Aiken Technical College in Graniteville, S.C. for nearly 40 minutes when he fielded a question on Obama’s signature health care law. When he responded by saying that the [Affordable Care Act ](http://time.com/money/4734431/trump-obamacare-cost-sharing-subsidies/ "undefined")was denying coverage to its intended beneficiaries, the crowd began to loudly question the Congressman, eventually drowning out his remarks with a 20-second chant of the same accusation he hurled at the president eight years ago. > [](https://twitter.com/yashar/status/851899916498677762) A spokesperson for Wilson told the [New York _Times_](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/us/politics/joe-wilson-you-lie-obama-town-hall.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&%5Fr=0 "undefined") that the chant stood as “less than a minute of a positive event that lasted nearly two hours where the congressman engaged with his constituents both in a town hall format and one-on-one after the official program ended.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4735587/joe-wilson-barack-obama-you-lie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4735587/joe-wilson-barack-obama-you-lie/"},"headline":"The Congressman Who Shouted 'You Lie' at President Obama in 2009 Got the Same Treatment","datePublished":"2017-04-12T00:45:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:21:05.831Z","description":"The crowd chanted at Rep. Joe Wilson for nearly 20 seconds","url":"https://time.com/4735587/joe-wilson-barack-obama-you-lie/","keywords":["Congress","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Aric Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/aric-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4735587/joe-wilson-barack-obama-you-lie/","name":"The Congressman Who Shouted 'You Lie' at President Obama in 2009 Got the Same Treatment"}}]}] ```