"Bailout Barney" Fantasizes that GOP Should Repudiate LaRouche

September 19 (LPAC)—Appearing Wednesday night on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees" program, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) attacked Republicans and conservatives for not repudiating Lyndon LaRouche, and he even whined that he has been criticized by Fox News "for being rude to a LaRouche advocate holding a picture of the President as Hitler."

Prior to Barney's outburst being provoked by Cooper, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) was accusing "people in the talking head arena" of totally misjudging the reality of the town hall meetings. Rogers pointed out that "these are just average people" who are not angry, but are very concerned about their health care and other matters.

Cooper then played a video clip of Barney's famous encounter with LaRouche PAC's Rachel Brown, to which Barney retorted that the woman who asked that question was "an advocate of Lyndon LaRouche ... who came out of deep lunacy," and he added: "By the way, these are the people who called George Bush Hitler. I ran against one who said that Queen Elizabeth was a drug dealer. My response was that I didn't think she dressed nearly well enough to be a drug dealer."

Barney sputtered on to say that "The mistake I think conservatives have made, and they're paying for it now," is that they were very happy to let the LaRouche people and others attack Democrats, when they should have been repudiating LaRouche.

Lyndon LaRouche's comment on Barney Frank's performance, was that he is obviously paranoid and needs a shrink, and that the idea of the Republicans coming in and putting curbs on LaRouche, is ludicrous.

An spokesman for the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, quoted in the Seattle Times, had a similar complaint, that "the language first propagated by LaRouche backers ... is now entering the mainstream debate." She decried the fact that "What used to be so fringe is making its way onto talk radio, blogs, YouTube and other news sources that people see as legitimate."

The Seattle Times article, which focussed on the charges lodged against Henry Gasparian, who assaulted LaRouche organizers at a literature table in the Seattle suburb of Edmonds, also quoted LaRouche PAC spokeswoman Nancy Spannaus as saying that the Obama/Hitler posters are "an honest emblem of what the Administration policy represents," and charging that "the Obama plan is premised on the idea that some people cost too much to keep alive."