Barney Frank on Arguing With Dining Room Tables

Congressman Barney Frank | Democrat

At a townhall meeting this past week, Rep. Barney Frank, had a revealing exchange with a woman in the crowd. The woman, representative of the kind of far right-wing craziness we've been subjected to recently, asked a question when called upon.

Woman in crowd, carrying a picture of President Obama defaced to make him look like Hitler:

Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has expressly  supported this policy, why are you supporting it?

Barney Frank responds thusly:

On what planet do you spend most of your time? As you stand there with a picture of the President defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase healthcare 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.

Madam, 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.

View the video of the incident.

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Quotation transcribed by Political Talk directly from the video.