{"id":2813,"date":"2009-08-19T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/huzzah-to-barney-frank\/"},"modified":"2009-08-19T09:08:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T15:08:04","slug":"huzzah-to-barney-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/huzzah-to-barney-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Huzzah to Barney Frank!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think Progress \u00bb Frank slams protester comparing Obama to Hitler: \u2018On what planet do you spend most of your time?\u2019
http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/19\/frank-woman-hitler\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Last night, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) held a contentious town hall in Dartmouth, MA to discuss health care reform. The crowded hall of more than 500 people had both<\/a> supporters and opponents of health care reform, but the opposing side was \u201cmuch louder and more raucous<\/a>.\u201d At one point, Frank asked the crowd: \u201cWhich one of you wants to yell next<\/a>?\u201d Frank then excoriated a woman who asked a question while holding up a picture of President Obama defaced to look like Hitler:<\/p>\n

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QUESTION: Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy as Obama has expressly supported this policy? Why are you supporting it? […]<\/p>\n

FRANK: On what planet do you spend most of your time?<\/strong> \u2026 You want me to answer the question? Yes. 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Frank concluded: \u201cTrying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Think Progress \u00bb Frank slams protester comparing Obama to Hitler: \u2018On what planet do you spend most of your time?\u2019 http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/19\/frank-woman-hitler\/ Last night, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) held a contentious town hall in Dartmouth, MA to discuss health care reform. The crowded hall of more than 500 people had both supporters and opponents of health … Continue reading Huzzah to Barney Frank!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}