See Barney scream

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See Barney scream
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Wed, 08-19-2009 - 4:15pm

Poor Barney Frank, he just doesn't know how to have discuss issues. The video in the link will show Barney screaming at constituents. I guess this rudeness is some of the change we can believe in.

Liberals love to dish this stuff out, but don't seem good at receiving. Hypocrites? Yup! Watch the video, it is amazing.

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/politics/local_politics/Rrep_franks_health_care_town_hall_heats_up_081809

Outbursts at Frank's
Town Hall

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.

He continued by saying her ability to deface an image of the president and express her views "is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated."

Frank, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, sought to assure more than 500 people attending the rowdy meeting that the average taxpayer wouldn't be hurt by plans currently under consideration in Congress.

Some of those attending the meeting organized by the Democratic Town Committee of Dartmouth shouted and booed as Frank and others addressed the crowd.

At one point, Frank asked the crowd: "Which one of you wants to yell next?"

Several people wanted to know how the government would pay for the reforms without worsening a growing federal budget deficit.

At least two dozen protesters gathered in small groups outside, handing out pamphlets and holding signs criticizing the overhaul, Obama and Frank. Some of the posters read: "It's the economy stupid, stop the spending" and "Healthcare reform yes, government takeover, no. Tort Reform Now"

Audrey Steele, 82, from New Bedford, said she does not want the government to get involved with health care because "they just make a mess of everything," referring to the $700 billion bailout of financial institutions that was used to pay for lavish conferences and hefty executive compensation.

Others at Tuesday's meeting were more supportive of reform.

Dr. Sheila Leavitt, a physician from Newton, said she hoped for changes that would support primary care physicians who aren't paid as much as specialists. She said some of the rowdy critics at Tuesday's meeting appeared to be using the same "talking points" as those who showed up at similar meetings around the country.

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Registered: 03-16-2007
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 4:30pm

I applaud Barney for what he did. I don't care what side you're on, those

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Registered: 03-03-2009
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 4:49pm

Screaming? At what point did Frank scream? I viewed the whole link (Toyota advertisement included). He behaved with a surprising degree of restraint considering his audience's "vile contemptible nonsense" (Frank's characterization of some of their antics like the Nazi question or the poster of Obama with a Hitler-style mustache).

His constituents behaved like a mob of yelling and disruptive juveniles at many points. And your own link (beating an old horse, but did you READ it?) characterizes the meeting as "rowdy". Duh!

The video was "amazing", but not in the way you meant.

Nope. It's not liberals or Frank who are being hypocritical. You show me the same amount of hooliganism coming out of liberals. I'll be waiting.

Edited to correct a quote.




Edited 8/19/2009 4:56 pm ET by jabberwocka

Jabberwocka

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Registered: 12-25-2008
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 4:55pm

He didn't scream at anyone.

 


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Registered: 04-21-2004
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 6:02pm

Speaking as someone who is very opposed to Obamacare and shares very little with Barney Frank, I have to say he was right on target on this one. Left wingers

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Registered: 12-25-2008
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 6:35pm

Well put.

 


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Registered: 04-05-2002
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 8:13pm

"There are legitimate arguments to be made, and legitimate concerns to be expressed. But invoking Hitler (especially when speaking to a gay Jew) just eliminates one's credibility."

Well said. I think we need to put away the Hitler/Nazi analogy. It cheapens the real Nazi terror.











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Registered: 01-22-2009
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 9:02pm

Your link doesn't support the claim in your OP title (I'm so shocked ;)

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Registered: 01-22-2009
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 9:07pm

~The video was "amazing", but not in the way you meant. ~


Truly :)


btw, Limbaugh's response to Barney's remark:


"Isn't it an established fact that Barney Frank himself spends most of his time living around Uranus?"


I kid you not.

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Registered: 03-08-2009
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 9:16pm

Poor conservatives have to take things totally out of context in order to make themselves the victim. Go Barney! His response was intelligent, and appropriate. It's about time someone called these loonies on their nonsensical 'talking points' especially as most of them don't actually have any idea what they are actually protesting - just lining up like a bunch of lemmings because faux news tells them to and then reports on it.

Barney Frank is my new hero!

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Registered: 03-03-2009
Wed, 08-19-2009 - 9:21pm
Oh, I believe you. Limbaugh has a fixation. Must be that pilonidal cyst.

Jabberwocka

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