Barney Frank's Town Hall Meeting Prompts Predictable Reaction from the Right

The Republican campaign of lies continued in Dartmouth, Massachusetts last night in a town hall meeting led by Representative Barney Frank. When a young woman holding a Hitlered-up picture of President Obama asked him, “Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy?”, Rep. Frank responded in his own blunt and inimitable fashion. (First 2.5 minutes, but the rest is a fascinating window into the “shout ‘em down” mentality we’ve been seeing this month.)

While everybody on our side of the debate (myself included) was L-ing OL this morning about Rep. Frank’s response, I couldn’t help but wonder how our opponents on the Right would spin it. This afternoon, I found out.

Rush Limbaugh, recognized and deferred to as the head of the Republican party, got downright homophobic in the matter. He’s always been a little fixated with his butthole and speaks often about grabbing his ankles, but leave it to Rush to find a Uranus joke hilarious.

HAHAHA! Because he’s GAY! HAHAHA! GEDDIT?!?

::sigh::

It would be nice if Rush would treat a gay congressman with a modicum of respect instead of homophobia and junior high jokes, but I suppose we should know better by now.

Meanwhile, the crew at Fox & Friends responded with some good old-fashioned distortion. Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, and Brian Kilmeade talked about the incident several times this morning, even running a clip of the incident. But they specifically edited out the Nazi question and the part where Frank mentioned the woman’s Obama-as-Hitler sign, giving FOX News viewers the tailored impression that Frank flew off the handle at an unseen reasonable question.

Honestly. Come on.