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	<itunes:summary>Podcast highlighting public radio coverage of the economy, the recession, employment, the mortgage crisis and health care issues.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Town-Hall Funnies: Dept. of Props</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you took a vacation from thinking about health care over the holiday weekend and missed the latest town-hall stunt to draw the adoring praises of the anti-reform crowd, here it is. You have to watch or fast forward to 1:13 for the money (literally) shot. The congressman is Norm Dicks (D &#8211; natch, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case you took a vacation from thinking about health care over the holiday weekend and missed the latest town-hall stunt to draw the adoring praises of the anti-reform crowd, here it is. You have to watch or fast forward to 1:13 for the money (literally) shot. The congressman is Norm Dicks (D &#8211; natch, WA).</p>
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		<title>A Frank exchange</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supporters of one or other of the current health care reform proposals wending their way through Congress might have gotten a vicarious thrill when a Democrat&#8212;in the person of Barney Frank&#8212;finally gave as good as he got at a town-hall confrontation. WOMAN: &#8220;Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has, expressly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://economybeat.org/files/2009/08/barneyfrank.jpg" width="147" />Supporters of one or other of the current health care reform proposals wending their way through Congress might have gotten a vicarious thrill when a Democrat&#8212;in the person of Barney Frank&#8212;finally <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/08/19/barney.frank.town.hall.cnn">gave as good as he got</a> at a town-hall confrontation.</p>
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WOMAN: &#8220;Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has, expressly supported this policy? Why are you supporting it?&#8221;</p>
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FRANK: &#8220;When you ask me that question, I am gonna revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time? &#8230; As you stand there, with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis, my answer to you is, as I said before, it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this sort of vile contemptable nonsense is so freely propagated. Ma&#8217;am, trying to have a conversation would like be like trying to have an argument with a dining room table &#8212; I have no interest in doing it.&#8221;
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<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2009/08/19/barney.frank.town.hall.cnn"><strong>video of the encounter</strong></a> from CNN.</p>
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<p>Comments the <a href="http://progressivefitchburg.blogspot.com/">Progressive Fitchburg</a> blog: &#8220;Barney Frank is Awesome. He really needs to teach every other Democrat to do this.&#8221;  Fair enough. But a response to a <a href="http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/08/barney-frank-deals-with-the-loonies.html">post about the incident</a> on The Health Care Blog asserts that the woman has ties to perennial presidential candidate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche">Lyndon LaRouche</a>, whom some have called the leader of a cult.</p>
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The young girl pictured on this video and others seems to be a deluded member of the Larouche cult. Larouche is a convicted con man whose cult stole upwards of 34 milion dollars from elderly supporters in the 1980s. For that, he and others were sent to prison. Since running a cult and living off of other people&#8217;s money is the only thing Larouche knows how to do, he has recruited several dozen naive college aged students to drop out and work 18 hour days, 6 1/2 days a week for him in pursuing his lunacies. Larouche calls everyone a Nazi which works fine with the few hundred or so fools who are in the cult who work the streets for him&#8230;
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<p>And lo and behold, a <a href="http://www.necn.com/Boston/NECN-Extra/2009/08/18/Rep-Frank-condemns-those/1250643022.html">video</a> of the full encounter reveals the woman clearly mentioning LaRouche. </p>
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Now lots of <a href="http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/cnn-demonizing-patriotic-americans/">conservative bloggers</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%22barney%20frank%22%20larouche">Twitterers</a> are complaining that CNN failed to report the woman&#8217;s connection to Larouche, and some are calling her a &#8220;Larouche Democrat.&#8221; <a href="http://hotairpundit.blogspot.com/2009/08/woman-asks-barney-frank-why-do-you.html">One blogger</a> raises the possibility that the woman was a &#8220;liberal plant.&#8221; </p>
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On the other hand, here&#8217;s an <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/55581/the-larouche-cult-and-the-health-care-protests">article</a>from the Washington Independent that finds rhetorical similarities in this Michelle Bachmann (R- MN) <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/55581/the-larouche-cult-and-the-health-care-protests">YouTube clip</a> and the arguments of those espousing the Nazi canard. </p>
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<p>If you&#8217;d like to to watch more Obama-Hitler comparisons&#8212;and after all, who doesn&#8217;t?&#8212;here&#8217;s the LaRouche-Pac&#8217;s &#8220;Fight to Stop Obama&#8217;s Nazi Health Care Reform&#8221; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E8A515F77DD03997">channel</a> on YouTube. And for a free-wheeling discussion on health care, Barney Frank, Lyndon LaRouche, and of course, Nazis, here&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/9bxbm/barney_frank_confronts_woman_at_townhall/">giant thread</a> on said topics and more from reditt.com. </p>
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