# Barney Frank is awesome **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960 "2009-08-19T15:27:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/61 "2009-08-20T22:11:08Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > This shoe doesn’t fit on the other foot as you propose, because the shoe fits only a clown, just like a glass slipper. Point of order: Clowns don’t wear glass slippers. Also, stupid question = obvious answer. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/62 "2009-08-20T23:41:55Z")
I am very disappointed in Frank. He coulda answered as such: “What’s you name, Miss?” “Pamela Pilger.” (Frank writes down her name. Calls an aide over and hands him the slip of papaer and whispers something in his ear.) “OK, next question.” “Wait a minute, what was that all about?” “What?” “That, with my name and the paper.” “Nothing of your concern. Next question.” “I demand to know.” “Mrs. Pilger if you must know that is for the list of names we are creating for when we finally insitute our Gay Socialist Nazi agenda. Next question.” ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/63 "2009-08-21T03:55:12Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > ## Barney Frank? The Gay Jew? Exactly the kind of people who supported Hitler! > > Love the US, so many lovable loonies. Well, we’ve got ourselves a black Muslim Nazi president, so, you know, anything’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![Camus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ba8739/32.png) [@Camus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Camus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/64 "2009-08-21T11:51:02Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > So someone gets up and makes a statement. She feels passionate about what she is saying. Barney Frank responds with some of the rudest bullshit I’ve ever heard. “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” and “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table” is some of the rudest bullshit you’ve ever heard?? Given that there isn’t even any profanity in any of Frank’s statements and you just used some, I call bullshit to your ridiculous assertion. When you use over-the-top hyperbole, you lose all of your credibility. > [@](#): > > If the woman had been liberal and Frank conservative and had responded in the same way, you liberals would be screaming for his public flogging. If a Bush protester compared Bush to Hitler just because of a health care plan (one which does not involve “death boards” or any of the other lies that are being actively circulated and propagated), and some Republican called her on her ridiculous and indefensible assertions, why would anyone defend her? This victim mentality can only go so far. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/65 "2009-08-21T12:28:04Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > Well, we’ve got ourselves a black Muslim Nazi president, so, you know, anything’s possible. But I thought he was a black Muslim socialist racist Marxist communist nazi president. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/66 "2009-08-21T12:32:22Z")
Barney Frank’s a fag. For R.L. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/67 "2009-08-21T12:40:59Z")
If that woman had been a helpless kitten and Frank a rabid pitbull, you liberals would be demanding he be put down for chewing her up like a furry meat Chiclet. Therefore: Hitler! ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/68 "2009-08-21T12:43:28Z")
Why wasn’t she arrested or threatened with arrest or physically removed? > [@](#): > > In 2005, three people were ejected by police from a Bush town hall meeting in Denver after they arrived in a car with a bumper sticker that read, “No More Blood for Oil.” (“Politicians Are Stifling Dissent, Critics Say,” Knight-Ridder [via Common Dreams], February 4, 2006) > > In October 2004, three school teachers in Medford, Oregon, were threatened with arrest by police and thrown out of a political rally featuring President Bush after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the slogan, “Protect Our Civil Liberties.” (“Teachers’ T-Shirts Bring Bush Speech Ouster,” NewsChannel 8, Portland [via Common Dreams], October 15, 2004) > > In July 2004, a Wisconsin county supervisor wearing a blue-denim shirt over a T-shirt that said “Kerry for President” was ejected from a Bush campaign speech after the Secret Service reportedly took his driver’s license, social security number, and phone number. (" County Supervisor Booted from Bush Event for Wearing Hidden Kerry T-Shirt," The Progressive, July 22, 2004) [Link](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090819082340AAdI3gN) > [@](#): > > Jeff and Nicole Rank, of Corpus Christi, Texas had stood quietly in the crowd, wearing hand-drawn T-Shirts with Bush’s name on the front and the international “No” symbol. They didn’t yell, they didn’t cause a fuss. Yet they were forcibly removed from the event by a phalanx of law enforcement officials at the behest of Bush operatives. [Link](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-katovsky/the-80000-antibush-tshirt_b_61086.html) These were not isolated incidents. If anyone had DARED to treat this woman like the Republicans treated anyone who disagreed with GWB, Fox News would have had the mother of all orgasms. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/69 "2009-08-21T16:28:45Z")
> [@legalsnugs](#): > > Why wasn’t she arrested or threatened with arrest or physically removed? > [Link](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090819082340AAdI3gN) > [Link](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-katovsky/the-80000-antibush-tshirt_b_61086.html) > > These were not isolated incidents. If anyone had DARED to treat this woman like the Republicans treated anyone who disagreed with GWB, Fox News would have had the mother of all orgasms. Geez, it’s obvious. Those folks hated America. This woman lurves America. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/70 "2009-08-21T16:32:44Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Barney Frank’s a fag. For R.L. As pointed out by former House Republican Leader Dick Armey. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/71 "2009-08-21T17:51:22Z")
When did Socialism replace the Communists/Taliban/Joos are EVUL mentality? What have socialists ever done to us? I do have a test today, that wasn’t bullshit. It’s on European socialism. I mean, really, what’s the point? I’m not European. I don’t plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they’re socialists? They could be fascist anarchists, it still doesn’t change the fact that I don’t own a car. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960/72 "2009-08-22T07:45:26Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > So someone gets up and makes a statement. She feels passionate about what she is saying. Barney Frank responds with some of the rudest bullshit I’ve ever heard. > > If the woman had been liberal and Frank conservative and had responded in the same way, you liberals would be screaming for his public flogging. Rudeness is rudeness, regardless of who it comes from. Was she right in comparing Obama to Hitler? No. Was Frank right in ridiculing her? No. > > Are you right in singing his praises? No. Bullshit. Her depiction of Obama as Hitler was way beyond rudeness . . . especially considering the fact that Frank is Jewish and gay, two groups that suffered greatly under Hitler. His response to her was 100% appropriate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barney-frank-is-awesome/506960.md?page=3)