Barney Frank: Victim of Media Bias?
- Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:14pm by
Meredith Jessup
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As Ed Morrissey points out at Hot Air, Barney Frank won this race yet still spent the majority of his victory speech attacking the media and his defeated opponent, Republican Sean Bielat.
Frank also gets in some jabs at the Supreme Court and complains that his partner was treated unfairly by the media — you know, the guy who grew marijuana and heckled Bielat. Oh, I’m sorry — was that unfair?
The Boston Herald, one of the main targets of Frank’s post-election rant, responded to the congressman Wednesday:
Now, we know one of Barney’s big problems with this newspaper is that reporter Dave Wedge videotaped his partner, James Dude Ready, giving the needle to Sean Bielat after a debate a couple of weeks ago. Wedge rolled tape. In Barney’s world this is bias and vitriol.
See, no one is supposed to say anything about Barney. Certainly the Globe treats him with kid gloves. For example, he’s present at a house in Maine with marijuana plants growing, but he doesn’t know what marijuana looks like. He used to live with a male prostitute named Hot Bottom, but you can’t mention that either, because it’s homophobia. And then there was Barney’s former partner, Herb Moses, who made a six-figure salary at Fannie or Freddie – I can never remember which.
Personally, I thought a defeat yesterday would have been great for Barney. At age 70, it would have given him a chance to do something he hasn’t done since he was 18.
Work at a real job.
No kidding, I’ll bet you thought he’d never had a real job. But this was an added bonus of the Bielat campaign — we learned more about Barney’s briefest of careers in the working world. See, he had to put out a campaign biography in which he claimed he once worked in what was called in the Eisenhower era a “filling station.”
You want to talk irrelevant? How about an over-the-hill back-bencher whose district is just crying out to be eliminated in the upcoming redistricting?
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Comments (151)
unionrockstar
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:42pmJust one more comment; as of today I have officially given up on Mass.
Report Post »Ohhhhh……. Barney and Jim what a beautiful couple
You are absolutely right Barney the right is definitely going to give you Hell. Isn’t that a shame?
Resolved
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:42pmRepublicans ran evil campaigns? Did he even HEAR about Alan Grayson???
Report Post »Ms. Jones
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:08pmNot to mention Jack Conway. Fortunately, Grayson and Conway lost BIG, so maybe next time candidates will think twice before running the stupider negative ads.
Report Post »Johnnyp1958
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:41pmBarney Frank is a horse fly, he annoys you and he eats crap
Report Post »teaputts
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:04pmVomits it back up on you too.
Report Post »Taxpayer550
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:41pmIf this guy wasn’t a congressman, he’d be the crazy old man that lives up the street.
Report Post »jose wasabi
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:34pmHe is the crazy, arrogant, corrupt old man who lives up the street
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:40pmThat freak makes me want to vomit.
Report Post »roseinbloom
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:40pmthat squeaky wheel is used to getting the grease….so he keeps on squeakin’. glad to see one paper has stopped applying the grease.
Report Post »PapaJohannesPatriot
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:38pmPlain and simple – either there was a lot of voter fraud or the majority of voters in his state should be locked away in an institution.
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:15pmBlame it on a gerrymandered-to-hell district, pre-loaded voting machines/ballots in Union basements/backrooms (SEIU thugs are in charge of voting machine maintenance/transportation), and those Mass. voters that have kool-ade instead of blood in their veins.
Report Post »clockwatcher
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:36pmHe is not very gay for someone that is gay.
Report Post »Ms. Jones
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:33pmI can’t for the life of me figure out the people of Massachusetts. From Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy’s 47 year tenure despite all the scandals, to pathetic old queen Barney “You can break any laws you want in my house just don’t ever leave me” Frank, they keep electing people who would have been shunned anywhere else except, perhaps, in California. California re-elected Pete Stark-raving-mad of the holy pee and ladders, Nancy Pelosi and her clown-prop gavel, Jerry “I don‘t know what the hell I’m doing, but vote for me anyway“ Brown and Barbara ”just call me Senator, I worked so hard” Boxer. And then these folks of the progressive ruling class elite have the nerve to call the rest of us the lunaatic fringe!
Report Post »Jamestown
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 4:31amNOT ONE PENNY TO THAT STATE ! Sto. Purchasing. From tem today !
Report Post »Jamestown
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 4:31amNOT ONE PENNY TO THAT STATE ! Stop Purchasing. From tem today !
Report Post »Slevdog1
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:32pmAs usual, Barney’s boys are bending over while Barney sticks it to them……damn, he still doing that now to Washington!
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:31pmThis guy is a jerk who ruined the real estate market and he has the nerve to suggest that the problem is his sexual preferences? What a joke.
Report Post »mcellu
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:31pmMassachusetts is an embarassment. Original colony? They have fallen far.
Report Post »Ken
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:31pmIt’s ok, Bawney Fwank…you’re day is coming, ya dumpy lookin’ hetero-phobe!!!
Report Post »SsgtRock
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:30pmThis shows how disengenous this guy Barney really is. He is masking his displeasure for the Herald behind his acceptance speech…. He is so think. I read somewhere else a comment that indicated Barney was beyond his expiration date…
Report Post »janddjohnson
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:28pmWhat is wrong with you people who voted him back in? He is a crook! Guess you would rather vote party lines than what is good for the country. You all ought to be run out of the country.
Report Post »Devil Dog 7175
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:27pmAll his re-election proves is that there are alot of Dumb a$$e$ in his district.
Report Post »epeel2
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:26pmBarney, we won‘t forget and we’re not done with you yet!
Report Post »unionrockstar
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:26pmCan anyone understand what this guy says?
Report Post »I need someone to enterpret just exactly what he said.
WoodChuck
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:54pmThis guy is loaded, so why can’t he buy some dentures?
Report Post »jb1972
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:03pm3 answers to that
Report Post »Hot bottom
James Dude Ready
Herb Moses,
They all complained…………….
Rational Man
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:41pmHe had his teeth pulled for a reason………….That’s all I have to say to say about that.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:26pmWho is the bigger dope: Barney Frank or the electorate in MA who despite all the evidence against him (most of which came from his own mouth) re-elected him??!!
Report Post »GardenoftheGods
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:47pmI’d have to vote the Peoplle of Massachusetts…they just can’t seem to stop electing dirtbags. Wake up MA! Frank, is a lying, stealing, cheating buttwipe who should be in jail; not Congress! How can you keep this up? Have you no pride? If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were smoking what Barney was growing in that basement….disgusting!
Report Post »seanpatriot
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:25pmSome one PLEASE run this idiot over with a bus
Report Post »drbage
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:26pmYou are too kind!
Report Post »Steve Smith
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:25pmI thought it was because he‘s gay and we’re all homophobes, no?
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:23pmI hope Sean starts now building his war chest to run against this criminal again in 2012! We need to start a re-education program in Massachusetts! Don’tthese voters realize what “Banking committee Barney” has done to our country?
Report Post »OK3Wire
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:39pmOf course they don’t. The lamestream media has beaten home the mantra that it’s a result of the “failed policies of the Bush administration”, remember?
Turn off Fox News for one whole week. No Beck, no Hannity, no O’Reilly, no Greta. Just watch your local network affiliate and the national network news, period. It goes a long way in explaining why so many of our fellow Americans are clueless. Educating any population will be impossible as long as the press is in the progressive camp.
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:01pmOK3WIRE, I know you are right. I pay for my Roosevelt-Democrat mom to get cable so she can hear the truth, but does she watch it? Sadly, no. The good news is; she told me last week that “it’s time to see Pelosi & Reid to go”…don’t know how that slipped in, but happy it did!
Report Post »krjones
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:22pmMass should be ashamed sending this guy back to Washington
Report Post »Born In MA
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 11:07amAshamed, embarrased and totally do not understand the people of MA. Thank you to the rest of the country for voting the republicans in,they well deserved it. And by the way, I could not vote this bum out as I am in the 4th district, would have if I could have tho.
Report Post »cubber
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:20pmBiased my ass. I know he doesn’t like tenor, he would rather have soprano.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 6:41pmFrank… you won… shut your pie hole!!
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:20pmDope.
Report Post »cubber
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:28pmI know he doesn’t like the tenor. I believe he would rather have the soprano.
Report Post »Dirty Harry
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:29pmBF is a disgrace on so many levels — one has to be in amazement at how stupid the Mass. voters are.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:34pmPeople of Mass.,
Report Post »You have to be the biggest morons on the planet. You live in a welfare state. Don’t you have any pride. This is who represents you? Can you grow pot in your basement and get away with it? Run a male prostitution ring in your basement? Screw it- y’all are in on it. Totally complicit. You get what you deserve. For real lessons on cleaning up your state and restoring your dignity- take note of how we teabagging hillbilly ignorant uneducated racists here in Florida take care of business. We dumped grayson on his huge head after one severely painful term. You guys re-elect the bumbling mushmouth to multiple terms. Do us all a favor, never leave Mass. We don’t need anymore stupid voters in our proud states.
HKS
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 4:46pmDH ditto on those mass. voters. Must be brain dead.
Report Post »leftiesaredangerous
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:01pmEven in victory, he is without grace, class, or dignity. He‘s just an angry ol’ man.
Major Infidel
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:04pmI approve of Slaps message.
I’m waiting to see some pics of Barney in drag. You know damn well there are some out there in rainbow land, just lurking in an old photo collection.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:05pmFlorida really got ‘em a good governor. He was CEO of a bunch of hospitals making tons of money – he knew how to keep the books balanced whatever it too. Imagine what he can do to government.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:07pmhehehaa ha ah hahaha……oh stop it…puleeze…..hohohaaah..ahhahehehehe…ha ha..
Report Post »HouseNegro
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:07pmDon’t be so hard on Barney. Do you know how many favors he had to do.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:26pmHe‘s just cranky because he’s not getting “any” until he slaps Sean for talking nasty to his Patsy.
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:41pm@SLAPTHELEFT
Report Post »Congratulations. I would have torn my hair out if I lived under that asshats’ shadow. Luckily Bilirakis is my guy. I was so happy when I read you guys kicked out Shrek. Too bad 38 percent voted for him. Must have been OBT and associated areas….
KingArthurUp
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 5:58pmEveryone upset that Barney has retained power, please… relax. Of course, he is an idiot, and makes the massachusetts voter also appear so, but he is the new face of the HOUSE!
With Nancy gone, Barney becomes a more visable emblem of what the Democrats are. He is in for a lovely next 2 years… smile!
Report Post »justsayin
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 6:31pmI am from Mass, and fully agree with your assessment of Mass voters. I am ashamed to be from a state that sent Barney back to Washington. I am not in his District, but apologize nevertheless.
Signed
Report Post »Embarrassed in Mass (District 10, which also voted stupidly, in favor of freako lefty Keating)
meisterschaft
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:41pmUhg…I just threw up in my mouth a little bit! BARF!
Report Post »BMWmech
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:25pmAll the idiots in Mass, get what they deserve for keeping this slug in office.
Report Post »Big Bob
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:01pmI can’t believe they re-elected this moron I really think there needs to be a recount or at the very least revalidate the voting machines I can’t see how a state can be that depraved.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on November 3, 2010 at 11:22pmBarney fits in well with the liberals, he’s angry.. loves to blame others for his shortcomings .. has low self esteem.. is crude and rude.. and it seems so are those he represents.. and I thought I had problems living when I lived in Chicago..
Report Post »Jamestown
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 4:20amMA SSES OF ASSES
Report Post »TakeBackAmerica
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 3:34pmSLAPTHELEFT
Report Post »Couldn’t have said it any better! What can you expect from the home of Teddy Kennedy?
DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on November 4, 2010 at 6:54pmIts really a toss up on who the dumbest voters are. I mean, California has Boxer, Pelosi and Brown.
Report Post »Nevada re-elected Harry Reid. But yea, re-electing BF says alot about Mass. and none of it is good.