Barney Frank’s Wacky Town Hall Circus: Says He’ll Vote the Way HE Thinks Is Best on ObamaCare, Will Likely Ignore Majority of Voters (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 19, 2009
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Debate and American protest is growing stronger at the ObamaCare town hall meetings… and it’s getting wackier, wilder, and woolier.
In the first video below, at Rep. Barney Frank’s (D-MA) town hall meeting in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, a constituent holding a doctored Obama/Hitler photo asks the congressman, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?”
Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her approach “vile, contemptible nonsense.”
He closes by saying: “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table.” Classy, Barney.
But, notice, while Massachusetts “elected public servant” Frank insults this woman from the podium several times, he never does answer her question nor addresses or disproves the socialist/fascist similarities between the Democrat government-run plan and the one implemented during Hitler’s reign… deflect, deflect, deflect!
Bear in mind that this woman may be an Astro-turf Obama-bot plant bussed in to the Dartmouth town hall meeting… I’ve not known any legitimate conservative grassroots protesters to use photos with Obama and Hitler, but there’s always a first time.
UPDATE, later on AUGUST 19, 2009: OOPS! Too funny… with some good old-fashioned fact digging (not from the mainstream media journalists, though), it’s now been revealed that the woman IS a Democrat plant!!
Read about it: The Weekly Standard, The Blog: CNN Fails to Report Woman Comparing Obama to Hitler is a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat
UPDATE from Michelle Malkin on SEIU “purple-shirted thuggery brigade”: SEIU Watch: Obama to rouse Purple Army in special conference call
Barney Frank Confronts Woman (Now Discovered to Be a Democrat Plant!) at Townhall Who Compares ObamaCare to Nazi Policies | August 18, 2009
In this next video clip, Frank is asked by a town hall attendee if he will vote for ObamaCare if a majority of his constituents do not want it.
Frank’s response was clear: he’ll do what HE thinks is best public policy… so, no, Massachusetts. Rep. Frank isn’t listening to any of you protesters, and that’s just tough beans.
News Update on Frank’s Dartmouth Town Hall Meeting on Health Care
In this clip, Frank starts losing his cool with Massachusetts voters: “I don’t understand your mentality” and “Medicare isn’t technically bankrupt” are some of his responses. Later, he cuts off reporter Griff Jenkins’ questions with, “I don’t negotiate with people who don’t have votes.”
Greta Van Susteren, FOX: Barney Frank to Griff Jenkins: “I Don’t Negotiate with People Who Don’t Have Votes”
Memory Lane: Remember when Frank thug-attacked a Harvard law student in April for asking an unflattering question during an open Q&A forum? If not: Video: Rep. Barney Frank ‘Thug Attacks’ Conservative Harvard Law Student for Financial Crisis Question
Additional reading on ObamaCare, town hall protests, and previous highlights of Barney Frank:
Michelle Malkin: Inconvenient links of the week: Obama and the LaRouche poster and Barney Frank has a snit fit and Audio clip of the day and Will an MSM reporter ask this question? and Barney Frank protests (and sputters and bullies) too much and Axelrod’s profits: Uh, who’s on the take from the drug lobby again?!?! and Death panels? What death panels? Oh, those death panels and Time to ration health care for illegal aliens and Democrat Rep. Betsy Markey, etiquette czarina and Profile in congressional cowardice and White House public option ploy: A trial balloon, not a white flag and Another Democrat takes refuge at a union headquarters and Congressional Fugitive Watch: Has your lawmaker absconded today? and Pretty sneaky, Congresswoman Bean and Winds of change in San Francisco and Wild Misrepresentation Watch: Obama lies about AARP endorsement
RA Blogs Worth Reading: Uranus. Get it?
Spitfire Murphy: Barney Frank Faces A Tough Crowd In Massachusetts
Mark Epstein: Click, Click, then BOOM!
Greg Gutfeld, Big Hollywood: Daily Gut: Barney Frank’s Heroic Stand Against Tyranny
GayPatriot: If Barney Frank finds its wrong to compare Obama to Hitler, then surely he took issue with his ideological allies who comparied Obama’s Republican predecessor to the Nazi and Barney Can Dish it Out, but he Just Can’t Take It and Why the Left Loves Barney Frank and The Best Thing Barney Frank Could Do For Gay People… and Rep. Massa To His Constituents: Drop Dead and Ma’am Boxer has time for a book signing, but “nothing scheduled” on health care reform
QandO: Skeptical Americans Continue To Say No To Democratic Health Care Plan
FOX News: Rep. Frank, Critics Face Off at Town Hall Event
Neoavatara: Health Care: Let The War Begin
DaTechguy’s Blog: Barney Frank isn’t worried…
American Elephant: Obamacare Preview 2: Canadian System Cuts Thousands of Surgeries Due to Underfunding
The Vancouver Sun: Thousands of surgeries may be cut in Metro Vancouver due to government underfunding, leaked paper
Sister Toldjah: The mob rule starts (UPDATED)
Coastal Post Online: Libertarians Respond To Obama Healthcare Press Conference
Matters of Truth: The Strange Case Of Dr. ObamaCare and Mr. HydeTheTruth
Nice Deb: OUT: Public Option IN: Health Care Co-ops (With Updates)
American Thinker: Orthopedic Surgeons respond to Obama on amputation comment
Pink Elephant Pundit: Skeptic Joins the Town Hall Train: Providing a Backbone for the Good Guys
American Spectator: Support For Health Care Bill Drops Even Further Without Gov’t Plan and Gallup Finds Independents Sympathize With Protesters
Confederate Yankee: Obama Administration Distances Itself, From Itself, On Health Care ” Public Option”
Ztower: Congressman Frank Kratovil Escapes Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Finding Refuge In The Calmer, Cooler Middle East.
Breitbart.TV: ‘This Interview is Over’: Barney Frank Walks Off Live CNBC Interview on Executive Pay
The American Pundit: The Hypocritical Incompetence of Congress
Pirates! Man Your Women: Cowards
Hot Air: Democrat: I don’t care what my constituents think, I’m voting for single-payer and Rasmussen: 54% would prefer no bill to current ObamaCare proposals and Cornyn to Obama: Shut down Snitch Central and Blue on blue: Helen Thomas hammers Gibbs on Obama’s phony town hall and Obama: Government health care will be like, um, the post office and Video: Frank’s strawman snit
Delaware Online: Lawmakers opt out of shouting matches
Moe Lane: Rep. Bishop, Boswell having health care meetings allllll the way over *there*
Legal Insurrection: Now The Left Doesn’t Know Obama and Our Leaders Versus the Un-Americans
Mofo Politics: Video: Mark Levin: “We demand the same respect that Obama gives the terrorists”
El Campeador’s Weblog: Reader Report from San Francisco Rally Against Obamacare…LOOK! More “uncivil” MOBSTERS Madame’s Boxer and Pelosi. Madame’s meant in the most “uncivil” way….
Gateway Pundit: Liberals “Tired of Compromise” …Ready to Ram Obamacare Down America’s Throat
WinkyDog: Barney Frank Goes Menopausal On CNBC
Fire Andrea Mitchell!: Barney Frank loses it on CNBC
RBO: Lou Dobbs: Reps Michele Bachmann and Barney Frank face off over ACORN’s federal funds
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Barney Frank, Blustering & Hostile Again: CNBC’s Mark Haines Dares to Ask Question about Executive Compensation (video) and The New Ledger: If You Thought the Bobs Were Bad, Here Come Tim and Barney and The TARP “Gravy Trough”…Barney Frank Wants to Funnel $1 Billion from TARP to Homeless and Coming Soon to a Socialist Theater Near You: ‘Bye-Bye Free Market, Say Hello to Wage & Salary Czar’ and White House Sneer from ‘Thug’ Barney Frank: Who Cares AIG Families’ Lives Are Threatened? and “You Can Bet Our Astro-Turf…” San Francisco Tea Party Against Health Care (video) and San Francisco’s Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer Refuse to Host ObamaCare Town Hall Meetings… Citizens Will Hold Their Own Mock Town Hall Meeting and Candle Vigil (UPDATE: Boxer’s Book Tour) and Dr. Obama’s in the House: I’m Not a Doctor, but I Play One on TV (video)
Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: Institutions Buying ‘Toxic Assets’ will be ‘EXEMPT’ from Bonus/Compensation Oversight: Proposal from Barney Frank’s Committee
Rantings of mine: Frank, Dodd, Congress…The Ultimate in Arrogance and Incompetence
RedState: Whoops… Entitlement Programs Collapsing Faster than Expected
Autographed Letter Signed: Barney Frank, Bilk
Right Wing News: An Interview With Mark Levin
Hot Air: Barney Frank: Republicans have a “psychological disorder” or something
Pronk Palisades: Barney Frank–Hang Him High–Just Kidding–Put Barney Frank In Jail for 30 Years For Malfeasance–Fair Enough!
Latest Technology News: NBC’s Vieira Refuses to Challenge Barney Frank on Wasteful Earmarks
Rantings of mine: Frank, Dodd, Congress…The Ultimate in Arrogance and Incompetence
Peace and Freedom Global Future: Freddie Mac Official Kills Self; Pelosi, Barney Frank Move On
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So far, there is nothing from Obama that is remotely as fascist as “The Patriot Act”.
Personally, I think both sides should stop with the Nazi comparisons. It’s pretty clear that is one of the points that causes both sides to lose perspective.
I was always offended by caricatures of Bush even though I did not vote for his reelection.
Lets take the high road and show the rest of the world how things are done.
Lets be an example to the rest of the world and not an embarrasement to ourselves.
With all due respect, I do not agree with you on your comments about the absence of fascism in this White House.
I grabbed this paragraph from Wikipedia (yes, I’m under deadline, so I went to that Obama-bot written site for this… my bad): Tell me that there is absolutely nothing remotely at all going on in the White House that falls under any of these examples.
Fascists believe that nations and/or races are in perpetual conflict whereby only the strong can survive by being healthy, vital, and by asserting themselves in conflict against the weak. Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state. Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement. Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalist liberal democracies for its creation and communists for exploiting the concept. In the economic sphere, many fascist leaders have claimed to support a “Third Way” in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state communism. This was to be achieved by establishing significant government control over business and labour (Mussolini called his nation’s system “the corporate state”). No common and concise definition exists for fascism and historians and political scientists disagree on what should be in any concise definition.
I agree with you on some points in your post, but as was pointed out, a number of pro-Obama folks are posing as conservatives at many of these ralleys with the offensive Hitler comparisons.
At this point, taking “the high road” is desireable, but NOT letting this atrocious health care bill be passed is of greater priority. Since the White House is advertising for its own protesters (LA Times has a story on it, and I’ve written about it), paying someone $10 – $15 an hour to pretend to be a health care supporter is far more vile to me, as it is deliberately trying to persuade opinion through lies and straw man arguments. Those wouldn’t be so offensive by themselves, but they actually are convincing people who are sitting on the fence about health care.
It’s like being offended by an arsonist who is cursing at you and is lying about setting your house on fire. Which is more offensive, alarming, and damaging: the angry profanities and lies he spews, or the fact that he has set your house ON FIRE? I vote for the latter.
Focus on the forest, not an isolated tree is what I’m trying to say. Don’t be distracted and offended by the obligatory Hitler comparisons… heck, last week, I received two death threats from two sicko puppies for what I’ve written on this blog. I’ve had threats made against me, comparing me to a whore, a bimbo, a hippie (LOL – I used to be one before I wised up).
Concerned? Naturally. Distracted by the vicious name calling? No way.
Focus, focus, people. ObamaCare defeat is more important than a few transparent insults.
And, if anyone were to EVER call Bush a Nazi, a murderer, a BusHitler, a fascist, a dictator, Satan… oh, yeah, they already did. The Patriot Act, as uncomfortable as it made me, had to be done. Remember, 9/11 had devastated our nation and many terrorists were (and are) in our midst, plotting more attacks. The targetting of terrorists in emails/wire-tapping is NOTHING like what Obama has wanted to do with his “report your neighbor’s fishy opinions on ObamaCare” on regular Americans. The wiretapping is still being conducted by the Obama administration, BTW.
Sherry. read the Constitution and get back to U.S.
BTW, how many czars is Obama up to now ?
Are they constitutional ?
The last two statements in your comment are indicative of your age. You must be very young.
We have been an example to the world for 200+ years. That’s why people want to come here ! To escape tyranny and socialism and obtain freedom.
Embarrassment to ourselves ?
If your embarrassed, move,…maybe you’ll feel better.
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