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Barney Frank gets a high-altitude haranguing on health care
Boston.com ^ | 12 April 2010 | Mark Shanahan

Posted on 04/12/2010 4:21:58 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

Barney Frank has enemies, even 30,000 feet in the air.

Flying back to Boston from LA yesterday, the congressman was assailed by a pair of ophthalmologists upset about the health care reform bill. An argument ensued that prompted some passengers to wonder if the plane might be forced to land.

"No one was calming things down and people were standing up shouting," said Brooke Sexton, who was seated seven rows behind Barney.

Accustomed as he is to being conservatives's favorite bad guy, Frank mostly ignored the doctors's taunts, Sexton said, but the congressman's partner, Jim Ready, did not.

The problem started soon after the ophthalmologists - two sisters on their way to a conference in Boston - boarded the Virgin flight. When they discovered that Frank was sitting nearby, the women loudly dissed the landmark health care bill as an "Obamanation." (Frank was returning from LA, where he'd received an award from the Greenlining Institute, an economic development group for minorities, and appeared on Jay Leno's show.)

"They wanted to talk to me, but I apologized and said I like to read and watch on planes," Frank told us todday. "They began to talk louder and that's when Jimmy (Ready) said, 'If you're trying to be bitchy, you're doing a good job."

Needless to say, the women didn't appreciate the remark, and things got heated. (Attempts to locate or ID the women were unsuccessful.) Sexton, who's an HR director for the UK-based retailer All Saints Spitalfields, said flight attendants weren't working hard enough to diffuse the situation, so she got involved.

"The women had been drinking, and they were crying and shouting," Sexton said. "They were clearly the antagonizers, and Mr. Frank was kind of minding his own business."

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To: bray

“This dirtball should be harangued every place he goes. He almost single handedly destroyed our economoy himself”

That is the way I see it. The scumbag usually hides but needs to hear the wrath of the voters.


41 posted on 04/12/2010 4:51:39 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Fractal Trader

Good for the two sisters...the real sisters that is.


42 posted on 04/12/2010 4:52:12 PM PDT by FTJM
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To: Balding_Eagle

I agree with you.


43 posted on 04/12/2010 4:52:22 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: El Cid
Drunk, or not, I’m on the ‘haranguers’ side

How do we even know the ladies were drunk?
Heck, these ladies were doctors for crying out loud, not some strippers from some local bar. I'll take their word against the word of a homosexual pervert like Barney Frank, or the word of some groceries peddling Englishman any day.

44 posted on 04/12/2010 4:53:39 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Gee I don’t know. Obama did say we should get in their faces....


45 posted on 04/12/2010 4:54:00 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: DouglasKC

These Dims should really be careful in taking such a politically hostile attitude towards physicians. Although a case might be made that the ophthalmologists behaved a little rudely, Franks and the Dims imposition of 0bamacare on physicians, patients and the nation is far more destructive.
It is true that many of the uber rich and pols will avoid the ravages of 0bamacare by receiving care in private clinics and overseas clinics but, they will be unable to escape emergency care. Sometime in the future, one of these evil Dim pols will get their just deserts in an ER staffed by a poorly trained, unintelligible physician. Now that will be social justice we can believe in.
When Stalin was dying of a stroke, the physician in attendance was afraid to even touch him.


46 posted on 04/12/2010 4:55:52 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est)
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To: Fractal Trader

While airborne, Barney enjoys reading, watching, and doing The French Mistake.


47 posted on 04/12/2010 4:59:20 PM PDT by Argus
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To: SmokingJoe
...The women had been drinking, and they were crying and shouting...

Ok - fair to call for a correction. Let me rephrase my earlier comment: '
Even IF they were drunk, I'm on the haranguers side...'

The point being - I don't care if they were soused to the gills, or stone sober. I'm on their side. Frank received a mild dose of what he and his friends have merited...

48 posted on 04/12/2010 4:59:39 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: I still care
Oh, the ladies were a touch rude

OH PLEASE!! All the passengers should have chimed in - non stop!! And made his ride a living hell and then, he still got off easy!

they know he screwed them. He knows it too.

He screwed America!! Why do you seem so unaffected by this. These ladies were not only doing it for themselves but for America.
49 posted on 04/12/2010 4:59:59 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( Repeal ZeroCare!)
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To: Fractal Trader
The women had been drinking, and they were crying and shouting,

I bet that's a lie. And I will never be on Frank's side. The man is instrumental in HRC, housing debacle, letting gay prostitutes stay in his house, etc. It is pure insanity that such a person is still in the Congress.

50 posted on 04/12/2010 5:08:05 PM PDT by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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To: Clock King

I bet it’s a lie, also. The crying comment is where they overplayed their hand. But that cr*p works because the sheep just believe what is written.


51 posted on 04/12/2010 5:10:16 PM PDT by presently no screen name ( Repeal ZeroCare!)
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To: El Cid
Totally agree.
I am not even sure I can be very civil if I came across this POS. He is personally one of the biggest causes of the financial disaster we had in September 2008.
And this was after his bf had run a prostituting racket from the premises of the House, and he had been left off with a slap on the wrist.
What crime did this country ever commit to deserve such filth serving in our congress?
52 posted on 04/12/2010 5:14:54 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Fractal Trader

I thought fairies could fly all by themselves.


53 posted on 04/12/2010 5:45:11 PM PDT by AdaGray
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To: AdaGray

Boston.com owned by the BOSTON GLOBE....A RAT Paper!


54 posted on 04/12/2010 5:54:51 PM PDT by outhousepatrol
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To: Fractal Trader

Sorry but I cannot join you in that sentiment. To my mind, Frank is just lucky they weren’t drunk enough (or perhaps not sober enough) to open the main hatch and chuck him and his loathsome little catamite out.


55 posted on 04/12/2010 5:58:44 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: Fractal Trader

If they were that mean to Barney maybe he better borrow Pelosis plane so he doesn’t have to hear from the little people.


56 posted on 04/12/2010 6:04:04 PM PDT by linn37 ( "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Are nuts?

These traitors should be hounded everywhere they go.

They should be shouted at in the street, the groceries stores, the gas stations, everywhere.

They should be hounded until they drop dead., and then their graves should be pissed on.

Wow

Next time don’t be shy tell us how you really feel.

BTW

I agree with you.

Gay whorehouse loving arrogant chubby jerk needs to be shouted at where ever he goes ....... and his limp wristed boyfriend too. (wonder who paid for his ticket?)


57 posted on 04/12/2010 6:21:33 PM PDT by DontTreadOnMe2009 (So stop treading on me already!)
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To: Fractal Trader

ping


58 posted on 04/12/2010 6:27:58 PM PDT by phockthis
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To: Fractal Trader

Evidence?


59 posted on 04/12/2010 6:54:18 PM PDT by EBFrogger
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To: Libloather

Mmmmm.........love it........ musta done serious damage to this slob’s massive ego.


60 posted on 04/12/2010 7:16:45 PM PDT by Liz (If teens can procreate in a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2000 acres? JD Hayworth)
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