Barney Frank Mae have to find new friends
By Howie Carr | Thursday, May 26, 2011 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Please, try not to let what I’m about to tell you destroy your faith in the integrity of Rep. Barney Frank (D-Newton).
It appears that back in 1991, Barney went to the mat in obtaining a six-figure hack job for his then-boyfriend, Herbie Moses, at, of all places, Fannie Mae.
You know, that same Fannie Mae that in the summer of 2007 Barney said publicly would be fine “going forward.” This was a couple of months before Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac almost brought down the entire world economy with the subprime mortgage policies they’d developed under the leadership of another Democrat hack who managed Fritz Mondale’s doomed 1984 campaign.
Granted, you’re reading this in the Boston Herald, which Barney dismissed on election night last November as having “complete political irrelevance.”
He continued, “There is no limit to the bias and vitriol they unleashed.”
OK. But Barney’s problem with this latest “bias and vitriol” is that it doesn’t come from the Herald. It comes from a New York Times reporter, Gretchen Morgenson — a Pulitzer Prize winner — in a new book, “Reckless Endangerment.”
Morgenson accused Barney of getting a job for his boyfriend on a show a couple of days ago on, of all places, National Public Radio.
Another bastion of anti-gay bias and vitriol.
Can anyone dispute that the New York Times/Boston Globe protects and venerates Barney Frank? And yet here is what the Times’ Pulitzer Prize winner says:
“Frank actually called up the company (Fannie Mae) and asked them to hire his companion, who had just gotten an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business (at Dartmouth). . . . Of course the company was happy to provide a job for his companion and rolled out the red carpet in a series of interviews with a variety of executives, and it ultimately did hire the man.”
Another nationwide search!
“And he stayed there for, I believe, seven years.”
Longer than that would be my vitriolic and bias-filled guess.
Remember, this is the same Barney Frank who used to consort with a criminal male prostitute named Hot Bottom, and who wrote letters on Mr. Bottom’s behalf to the cops. And more recently, Barney was present at a drug raid in York County, Maine, where he claimed he didn’t even know what a marijuana plant looked like.
As liberal blogger Mickey Kaus said of Barney yesterday, “If he were straight and a lousy interview, he’d be in trouble, no?”
The Pulitzer Prize winner from the Times interviewed Barney about his Significant Other, and Mr. Hot Bottom assured her he never, ever went to bat for his boyfriend’s employer at congressional hearings. Not true, says the NYT reporter.
“The record shows that he was very aggressive and really tough on those who were testifying in Congress about reining in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”
True love is what it was. Later on, Barney had an epiphany about Fannie Mae’s corruption. But as Morgenson puts it, “He had been a vocal supporter for so long that it was sort of an odd turnabout.”
But Barney is one of the Beautiful People. So it’s all . . . irrelevant.
One last question: When do you think El Globo will report this story?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1340677
Far be it for the Fourth District voters to actually vote for someone else for a change. He defeated Sean Bielat last November by a fairly big margin.
Ad for Bielat, The Barney Shuffle. “Yah, I’m for welfare,
you’re not? A bubble...On what planet do you spend most of your time?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QbNGnvBR7k
Later