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Barney Frank: “It is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2009
It is a tribute to the First Amendment that this kind of vile, contemptible nonsense is so freely propagated.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Barney Frank comments on the extreme rhetoric used against him during a town hall meeting.

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