June 05, 2012 01:53 AM UTC

Miklosi Slams Coffman Over Joe Wilson "You Lie" Love

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• by: Colorado Pols

FOX 31’s Eli Stokols, reporting on a story you saw here first:

A few weeks after a video surfaced of Congressman Mike Coffman questioning President Barack Obama’s “American-ness”, his Democratic opponent is pushing another video of Coffman that was posted by the same person as the first.

The new video shows Coffman speaking at the Elbert County GOP Lincoln Day Dinner back in February and praising Congressman Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, for famously interrupting Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress by yelling “You Lie!”

“…Coffman shows us again that he is more than eager to exploit offensive rhetoric behind closed doors to further his extreme agenda,” Miklosi said in a statement. “And it’s even more clear now that Mike Coffman has little respect for the office he holds or for the office of the Commander in Chief.

“Mike Coffman’s extreme rhetoric and extreme record have no place in Colorado. This kind of behavior is more fitting for right wing talk talk radio than for the halls of Congress. We all know we deserve better.”

We’re frankly surprised it took so long for Joe Miklosi’s campaign to raise the issue of Rep. Mike Coffman’s praise for hotheaded Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina–we weren’t the only ones poring over video posted by a Coffman-friendly Elbert County GOP source in the wake of his “not an American” insult, and we noted the Joe Wilson praise stuff nearly two weeks ago.

We assume they’re just ramping up, but we honestly think accusing Bill Ritter of “rolling out the welcome mat” for terrorists is worse than praising Joe Wilson. No doubt they’ll get to that.

And others that may be lurking…