Standing up to the wingnuts
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 | 12:14Finally an American politician who isn’t afraid to stand up to the crazies on the right. My heart warmed at the sight of this little video.
Protester: Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has expressly supported this policy, why are you supporting it?
Rep. Barney Frank: When you ask me that question, I am going to revert to my ethnic heritage, and answer your question with a question. On what planet do you spend most of your time? (…) You want me to answer the question? As 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. 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.
So much misinformation has been spewed about the Democrats’ health care reform bill that many Americans now seem to think the government is quite literally out to get them – as in, agents will sneak into your house at night and indoctrinate your children and kill grandpa in his sleep before stealing all your money from under the mattresses. Which is why the town hall meetings being held across the US have become quite frightening: many people literally believe they’re fighting for their lives. Machine guns brought to an ‘open dialogue’ with the president? Death panels choosing whose grandparents to murder? Government-financed health care equated to Nazism? Photographs of Obama doctored to look like Hitler? The worst part is, this is not a mere fringe element occupying the far ends of the political spectrum: this attitude is actually becoming mainstream.
While so many bright minds have come from the United States, nowadays I fear that entire country’s gone batshit insane. And I live right next door.
Assault weapons at town hall meetings
Woman shouts “Heil Hitler” at Jew praising Israel’s health care system
Obamacare’s home intrusion and indoctrination family services
Obama’s ‘death panels’ would kill disabled children
