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Too Undignified for Barney Frank
The Boston Herald reports on an amusing kerfuffle earlier this week on Capitol Hill:
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank went after “Code Pink” protesters during a congressional hearing [Tuesday], telling the pink-clad activists to “act your age” and “grow up.”
Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, interrupted Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner during his testimony to upbraid the sign-waving lefty protesters, seated just a few rows behind government witnesses.
“Will you please act your age?” snapped Frank, a Newton Democrat. “If you have no greater powers of concentration, then you leave the room. We’re trying to have a serious discussion. . . . We really need people to grow up.”
Frank repeated the performance when Fed chairman Ben Bernanke was testifying, lecturing the protesters: “I do not know how you think you could advance any cause to which you might be attached by this kind of silliness.” Video is here.
The Herald adds, “Yesterday’s confrontation was just the latest scrap between committee members and the ‘Code Pink’ protesters, who describe themselves as female peace and social activists, though one of them was a male yesterday.” That characterization is awfully insensitive to the transgendrified.
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