Funny how some Congressman can play the race card and get a free ride. Read the transcript.


Rachel Brown: I think the Administration is missing something in these town hall meetings, which is, that it's not just one group. The economy is collapsing. We have 30% real unemployment. Forty-eight states cannot balance their budgets and they are cutting programs to the bone. This is the context under which the Obama Administration says we need health-care reform—

Barney Frank: Well, I'll tell ya—

Brown: I'm not done. The reason why, is because they say we need to limit Medicare expenditures in order to do that, in order to reduce the deficit. That's the origin of this policy. This is the T4 policy, the Hitler policy in 1939, when he said certain lives are not worth living; certain people, we should not spend the money to keep them alive. Which is exactly what Ezekiel Emanuel has said.

So, my question to you is, one, since this policy is already on its way out—it already has been defeated by LaRouche—my question to you is: Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has expressly supported this policy? Why are you supporting it?

Frank: When you ask me that question, I am going to revert to my ethnic heritage, and answer your question with a question: On what planet do you spend most of your time?

Brown: [Inaudible; apparently asks Frank to answer the question.]

Frank: You want me to answer the question? [visibly and audibly enraged; lisp more pronounced:] Yes, you stand there with a picture of the President defaced to look like Hitler, and compare the effort to increase health care to the Nazis. 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.

Brown: [Inaudible.]

Frank: Ma'am, trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to have a conversation with a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

Is he lisping or something? I've not heard him speak like that before.

>> ^campionidelmondo:
It doesn't really matter anyways. Whether they choose the lisp or not is totally moot. It is part of who they are so you should accept it as that. Some black people speak in ebonics, that doesn't mean you should scrutinize them for "insisting" to speak in that way.


Or how Christians utter phrases like Goshdarnit and Oh my gosh. I don't not agree with their ideological tendencies... but for Christ's sake, what about those of us who find no fault in blasphemy?

Have a hard time listening to him because of his extreme lisp. That's not to say his lack of speaking ability detracts from his points, but it's very hard to finish a talk like this in one sitting.
Unfair? Yes, but so is me being a good speaker but poor thinker.

I find it hilarious how long it took him to notice the lisp

uh uh, girlfriend pleathse.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
I wouldn't treat a gay guy any differently than anyone else. Do I agree with homosexuality? No. But I don't hate people or treat them any differently because they like penis over vagina. They are people, too.
Just because I find voluntary lisps annoying doesn't mean I would treat them any different.

You can't agree or disagree with homosexuality. It's part of nature and nature is neither right nor wrong, it just is. Since gay people don't choose to be gay I could imagine that their lisps are also completely involuntary and that society pushes them into suppressing it until they are also openly comfortable with their sexuality.

It doesn't really matter anyways. Whether they choose the lisp or not is totally moot. It is part of who they are so you should accept it as that. Some black people speak in ebonics, that doesn't mean you should scrutinize them for "insisting" to speak in that way.

I wouldn't treat a gay guy any differently than anyone else. Do I agree with homosexuality? No. But I don't hate people or treat them any differently because they like penis over vagina. They are people, too.

Just because I find voluntary lisps annoying doesn't mean I would treat them any different.

They get the lisp almost involuntarily. Like when you spend a lot of time in an area with a strong accent and you start talking like they do. I personally think it's unfortunate because it's too much like a speech impediment. Maybe it'll go out of fashion someday.

If you're going to be gay, fine. But why the fuck do people insist on talking with that fucking lisp?

sorry but i cannot stand the narrator's odd lisp

Oh man, what a gigantic......... lisp! :-)

Poor audio (and he has a lisp), but he's saying:

"Hello, this is Flex-Folder(?).

If one person wants to sit, if four people want to sit, if eight people want to sit, if ten people want to sit.

Many people can sit here.

S-shape, U-shape.."

other than some mild stereotyping what is in bad taste about this? the only thing (other than their predilection for furniture) that identifies these men as gay is their relationship to one another. no one is lisping, shrieking, drag-queen-style effeminate, rampantly bitchy, or any of the myriad other gay stereotypes out there. is showing gays on television in bad taste? is it that ikea is identifying them as a separate market? given when this ad is from, it was admirably forward-thinking of ikea to run an ad like this.

What's up with homeboy's lisp?