Happy Halloween from Barney Frank.

Barking at you is like barking at a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

Barking at you is like barking at a dining room table. I have no interest in doing it.

And from Pirate Party Barrrrrrrrrrney Frank.

Barkin' at you be like barkin' at a peg legged table. I have no interest in doin' it. Arrrrrrrr.

Trick? Or Treat?

The Barneys

The Barneys

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Summary: Featuring guests Ben Tribbett, Executive Director of Accountability Now! PAC, Dr. Reginald Coopwood, CEO of the Nashville Hospital Authority, and Karl Frisch of Media Matters for America.

Part 1 Mary prepares to unleash (ha!) the congressman Barney Frank on Halloween households all across America and if you think that’s scary, what until you hear what Republican State Senator Ron Ramsey wants to do to fair elections in Tennessee. Plus, Mary and Freddie try to understand just what, exactly, Ben Trippett and Accountability Now PAC have uncovered about Coop. [22.62MB download mp3]

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Part 2 Reginald Coopwood, M.D., CEO of the Nashville Hospital Authority tells us about their health facilities, the best-kept secret in Nashville, and Karl Frisch does his best Elbert Ventura impression in the next generation of the Media Matters for America Smackdown. Plus, President Obama’s foreign policy has all but isolated Iran from the world community. So why is the right-wing still calling him a surrender monkey? [22.62MB download mp3]

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They both have superpowers:

Congressman Barney Frank and his beams at full power.

The Congressman and his beams at full power.


The Congressman’s namesake and his wee little beams.
The puppeh and his wee little beams.[/caption]

Shout out to Eclexia and Aunt B.

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Summary: A Liberadio(!) Healthcare Reform Virtual Town Hall and guest Elbert Ventura and the Media Matters for America Smackdown.

Healthcare Reform Virtual Town Hall – Part 1 The “to do” list (Tennessee town halls with Davis, Gordon, Tanner), an O’Connell Factor on why our system of healthcare is a nearly guaranteed system of oppression for unhealthy Americans, where are the Christians on healthcare reform, your calls (including a shout-out to Governor Bredesen’s Cover TN), and tales (tails?) of Barney Frank. [25MB download mp3]

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Healthcare Reform Virtual Town Hall – Part 2 More of your calls, emails and stories about healthcare and healthcare reform, including the expertise of registered nurse and healthcare reform activist Michael Chapman. Plus, the insurance companies are spending a lot of dollars on opposition to reform and Media Matters research fellow Elbert Ventura tells us that it really, really, really, really, really matters that our mainstream media chooses to report on controversy instead of what really matters – public policy. [23MB download mp3]

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My Barney Frank is Cuter

But I’m not sure which one is more sassy.

Is it this one:

Or this one:

I live with the fuzzy Barney Frank and he is plenty sassy. And I’m sure if he could speak he’d be calling some mouthy neighborhood pooch a “dining room table.” But with his performance, the elder, human Frank may have won today’s battle of “the sassy Franks.”

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