STOP THE PRESSES: Politician Talks Sense

[realthog]

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.

Comments

you clearly heard that wrong

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

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...

Re: you clearly heard that wrong

[realthog.livejournal.com]

You mean it's only because of the damn' camera angle that we couldn't tell she actually had four legs and was wearing a table cloth? In that case, too right, how dare Sen. Frank discriminate against those who are made entirely of wood or woodlike substances?

Re: you clearly heard that wrong

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

Come SEE the horrors of the evil repressive Liberal media and it's persecution of White Christian American DiningRoomTablePerKin!!!