Was Barney Frank’s ‘Nazi’ Questioner a LaRouche Cultist?
Update: Yes, the woman was a LaRouche cultist. The full video is here, and I’ve added her full comments. I’m getting a lot of links to this video today, in which Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) verbally eviscerates a woman waving an Obama=Hitler sign and asking him why he supports “this Nazi policy” of health care reform. To be fair, the evidence suggests that the woman is a supporter of fringe political activist Lyndon LaRouche. When Frank criticizes the woman’s sign, she holds it up for him, and another activist holds up the same sign. Recognize the image? Right: It’s from Lyndon LaRouche’s anti-health care reform web site. And here’s what the woman actually said. I think the administration is missing something in these town hall meetings, which is that it’s not just one group. The economy is collapsing. We have 30 percent real unemployment. Forty-eight states cannot balance their budgets. And they are cutting programs to the bone. This is the context under which the Obama administration