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Video: Barney Frank on Responsibility and His Lack Thereof

3:53 PM, Apr 8, 2009 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM
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While inexplicably forgetting to deploy the "you are a big fat toad" line of debate on Rep. Barney Frank, this conservative Harvard student gets the congressman satisfyingly riled about his role in the financial crisis and bailout-mania. The well-spoken student is at first snickered at by a room of his classmates who are undoubtedly passionately committed to open debate, but when Frank resorts to blaming right-wing overlords for, well, everything, the student gets an assist from a young lady in the audience who implores Frank to "stop labeling and answer the question."

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