Barney Frank's encounter with a woman holding a photo of Obama with a Hitler-style mustache at a town hall meeting yesterday has been getting a lot of attention.
Who is this woman?
She's a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat.
CNN doesn't think its audience needs to know that.
Video.
From John McCormack, The Weekly Standard:
CNN's Larry King showed the above video of Barney Frank laying the smack down on a woman at a townhall meeting who compared Obama to Hitler. CNN left out the fact that this woman is a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat.
In the full video (via Allahpundit), the woman says, "This policy is already on the way out. It already has been defeated by LaRouche." She also underscores her crazy LaRouchite beliefs by claiming that the U.S. has "30% real unemployment". No one disputes that LaRouchites are on the fringe -- but it's indisputable that they are fringe Democrats. They oppose Obamacare because they want a single-payer plan.
While Nancy Pelosi and liberal talk-show host Bill Press have been smearing protesters as fascists and Nazis, left-wing bloggers have been attacking protesters for comparing Obama to Hitler. It seems townhall attendees just can't win.
Just as it would be unfair to assume that all Think Progress readers are idiots who call conservatives Nazis just because a few commenters do, it's a cheap trick to pretend that the few people who show up with Obama as Hitler signs are representative of the protesters (especially when many of those people are Lyndon LaRouche Democrats).
What's especially disturbing in this case is that the woman's political affiliation is clear.
Why not be clear and inform the audience that this woman is a Lyndon LaRouche Democrat?
Perhaps that wouldn't fit CNN's agenda.
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