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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2009-08-20 09:21 am

STOP THE PRESSES: Politician Talks Sense


Here's a slice of transcript from a town hall meeting held by Representative Barney Frank the other day on the proposed healthcare reforms:

QUESTIONER (holding a picture of Obama with a Hitler moustache): Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama expressly has supported this policy? Why are you supporting it?

FRANK: When you ask me that question I am going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question. On what planet do you spend most of your time?

You want me to answer your question? As you stand there, with a picture of the President defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis, my answer to you is, as I said before, it is a tribute to the first amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated. Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.


Apparently the response of the audience was to cheer. As was mine, on reading this passage. It is surely past time that the supposedly rational members of our political institutions and our media stopped treating the craziest accusations and lies with deference and started describing them as what they actually are.



[identity profile] upstart-crow.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude! I just made a post about the exact same thing :O

[identity profile] daisytells.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
His outspokenness, his Barney "Frank"ness is why we keep on electing and re-electing him.
Somebody has to tell it like it is! Barney is not known for being deferential to anyone.
He came out as gay 21 years ago ("I have not had secrets for 21 years") when it was definitely a riksy move for a person in public service.
There ought to be more like him.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2009-08-20 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, good for him. May he flourish.

[identity profile] intertribal.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 02:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes!! I saw this on the news yesterday and it made my night! Now if only more senators would follow his example.
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[identity profile] al-zorra.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 05:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh, but NPR etc., go all "O no! Couldn't he have expressed it all so much better, so much nicer, so that both sides could have a real dialog?"

These enablers need to acknowledge THEIR wholly owning corporate overlords and stop this bs about being 'public.'

Love, C.

[identity profile] martianmooncrab.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
you notice the person couldnt answer what planet, must not have been in her practiced scripts ...

[identity profile] desperance.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, thanks for posting this - I've only seen the YouTube clip on other people's posts, and there's no sound on this computer. I've been itching to know what he said...

[identity profile] melindadansky.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It was awesome. I liked the part where he said "Did I put someone down? Oh. Right. I said the woman who called me a Nazi was out of her mind."

[identity profile] hutch0.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Senator Frank just became my hero.

[identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com 2009-08-20 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I found it refreshing to see the worm finally turn. Frank, at his best, lives up to his name (both names, he's not afraid of a bit of a barney).

you clearly heard that wrong

[identity profile] drieuxster.livejournal.com 2009-08-21 12:55 am (UTC)(link)

This is just more of the same horror of the AntiDiningRoomTablePerKin that we have come to expect from the Red Hordes of the Obamanites.

You clearly need more da, da, da



that should adjust your earWorm to help you hear the true traditional family values dadaism...