The American Pundit

A few thoughts after the video and transcript.

Would you please act your age back there? Stop playing with that sign. If you have no greater powers of concentration, leave the room. We’re trying to have a serious discussion, which will include, you understand, a lot of criticism. We really need people to grow up. …

You, who stood up, who has the sign up … The next one that holds a sign up — it is distracting to people. I understand that there are some people for whom rational discussion is not an appropriate means of expressing themselves. You are entitled to do that in general, but not in a way that interrupts those of us who are trying to have rational discussions. So the next one who holds a sign will be ejected. Uh, I do not know how you think you advance any cause to which you might be attached by this kind of silliness.

Okay. First of all, I don’t recall Code Pink being silly or irrational during the Bush Administration. Perhaps I missed it, but I doubt Mr. Frank treated them the same way.

Second of all, who exactly is Barney Frank to talk about having rational discussions and rejecting stupidity? He just finished calling Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a “homophobe” over his opinion in Lawrence v. Texas. As Ed Morrissey says:

Gee, I don’t know, Mr. Frank. How do you advance your cause through namecalling and demagoguing? It seems to me that Code Pink learns from example.

Of course, that’s not to say that I particularly mind Code Pink being called out. Even if the person calling them out is a hypocrite.