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Barney Frank's Opponent Compares Gay People To Short People

Brian Beutler | October 25, 2010, 9:37AM

Barney Frank's Republican House challenger Sean Bielat argued this weekend that gay people should be as accepting of the fact that they can't serve in the military -- since people under 5'2" tall are also prohibited.

"There's no absolute right to serve. Men under the height of 5 feet, 2 inches can't serve -- I don't see anybody protesting," Bielat said, according to the Boston Herald. "Where are the people standing in front of the White House, the short guys standing in front of the White House? You don't see it."

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Bielat Campaign Produces Attack Ad Of Barney Frank As Hip-Swerving Disco Queen (VIDEO)

Brian Beutler | October 22, 2010, 12:01PM

This isn't running on TV, at least not yet. But the below web video, produced by the Sean Bielat (R) campaign is making the rounds anyhow.

You'll see why when you watch it. Bielat's running against Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA). Frank chairs the House Financial Services committee and is the most famous openly gay member of Congress. Bielat combines those two themes in the video to lay the responsibility for the financial crisis at Frank's feet... while portraying him as a hip-swerving disco queen in a rumpled suit.

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Barney Frank's Partner And Opponent Joust After Thursday Debate (VIDEO)

Brian Beutler | October 18, 2010, 2:25PM

Representative Barney Frank (D-MA)

An unusual back and forth between a photographer and a House candidate Thursday culminated in the following exchange.

"It's a free country isn't it?" the cameraman asked.

"It sure is," replied Sean Bielat, who's running against Rep. Barney Frank (D) in Massachusetts' 4th Congressional district. "At least if we can get the Congress back."

"Quit the jokes, dude, you're no[t] funny at all," the photographer responded.

The cameraman in question? James Ready, perhaps better known as Frank's partner. And the whole exchange was caught on camera.

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Barney Frank To Face 'Nazi Policy' Town Hall Questioner In Next Week's Dem Primary

Eric Kleefeld | September 7, 2010, 12:09PM

Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)

This should be fun. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) has a very well-known opponent in next week's Democratic primary, who he's faced before under different circumstances: Rachel Brown, the LaRouche activist who confronted him in a famous town hall exchange in August 2009.

Brown was the one who got up and asked Frank why he was supporting Obama's "Nazi policy" on health care, while she and her compatriots were also name-dropping LaRouche and bearing a picture of Obama with a Hitler mustache. Frank -- who being both gay and a Jew, is a member of at least two groups that the Nazis sent to the death camps -- shot back: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" He also added: "My answer to you is, as I said before, it is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated."

Next week, she'll be facing Frank on the Democratic primary ballot. "I didn't realize at the time that if you had a better idea, you should take their seat," Brown told the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, the 30-year incumbent Frank is taking a particularly dismissive view of his latest challenger. "I regard her as an example of the price you pay for free speech," Frank said. "I don't think she is very rational."

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