Oh Barney

[athenaltena]

Rep. Barney Frank lashes out at protester for Nazi remark

Rep. Barney Frank lashed out at protester who held a poster depicting President Barack Obama with a Hitler-style mustache during a heated town hall meeting on federal health care reform.

"On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank asked the woman, who had stepped up to the podium at a southeastern Massachusetts senior center to ask why Frank supports what she called a Nazi policy.

"Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it," Frank replied.

Barney Frank, by the way, is gay and Jewish, so the Nazi accusation is 10 times stupider. I pretty much agree with him that that woman was not there to have a conversation, and he seems to have my policy of a conversation being worth one's time while a yelling match is not.

Barney also aptly demonstrates why I probably wouldn't do too well in politics since I'm far too likely to speak my mind and call people on their shit. Barney Frank can get away with it because he's Barney Frank, everyone else, not so much.

Comments

[ques-nova.livejournal.com]

I watched a video of that particular exchange and I gotta tell you, the look on that woman's face when he asked her what planet she spends most her time on was priceless.

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

I've actually met Barney in person and I can say that he's hysterically funny, albeit grumpy. Plus you just don't expect him to say something like that.

[ques-nova.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone in front of the cameras finally did. There are so many of these nutjobs getting press coverage, raving about Nazis and socialism (most of which apparently haven't so much as skimmed the bill, much less read it) it's a surprise they haven't been told off like this earlier.

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

That's the great thing about Barney, so I'm glad this is getting press coverage for the reason you mentioned. Grumpy as he may be he's usually right, and he has a zero bullshit tolerance.