Only On Fox: Busy Attacking Barney Frank, Napolitano Omits Voter's Hitler Reference
August 19, 2009 6:47 pm ET by Oliver Willis
If you were to take Fox News host Andrew Napolitano's word for it, Rep. Barney Frank was just being rude to his constitutents when he had a heated exchange with a voter last night.
But if you were to look beyond the edited moment presented by Fox and Napolitano, you would learn something else:
"On what planet do you spend most of your time?" Frank retorted when a woman in the crowd compared President Obama's push for health-care reform to the policies of Nazi Germany while holding up a pamphlet depicting the president with a Hitler mustache, a LaRouche anti-Obama health reform campaign image.
"This policy is actually already on its way out. It already has been defeated by LaRouche. My question to you is, why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?" the woman had asked.
"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," Frank, who is Jewish, blasted back.
"Trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table," he continued. "... I have no interest in doing it."
Oh, so the woman held up a sign of President Obama with a Hitler mustache then asked Rep. Frank why he supported Nazi policies. I can't imagine why Rep. Frank might be upset about that. For the record, here's the exchange you wouldn't have seen if you were watching Napolitano's presentation on Fox:
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It takes some missing brain cells to call the President of the country you purport to love a Nazi.
In other words, they edited out all the Hitler baiting that prompted Frank's response.
According to the post, the misleading clip was fixed later.
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"All this time I thought Barney Frank just yelled and got nasty with me...
"Frank doesn't only pull this act on me, he pulls it on his own constituents...They're taxpayers. He just doesn't care."
Not once Does Cavuto reference the Obama-Hitler comparison. He does, however, feel kinship with such people.
And this "interview archive" from Sean Hannity is also attacks Frank's behavior without mentioning the Hitler-baiting questioner.
With a few exceptions at MSNBC and one or maybe two at CNN... I have no use for them!
As for Fox-Noise... I don't give a damn about them or what some people may think about my feelings about this propagation machine...
But I for one would not lose sleep if everyone at Fox suddenly were fired and Fox closed its doors permanently ... the damage done to this country that they have been part and parcel too since its inception is unforgivable!
I'm strictly talking about media... not political parties, which is its own separate post/thread