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RUSH: Now, I\u2019ve told you about Jason Mattera, big fan of this program, sent me a letter with his book, Obama Zombies, saying that I had played an instrumental role in inspiring him and motivating him to seek his own niche in the media as a career. And he\u2019s done it. He\u2019s tracking people down and asking them questions that if they were a Republican, they would be asked daily. This is in March, this happened last month on Capitol Hill while walking in the hallway. We have a montage of an exchange here between the author and journalist Jason Mattera and Barney Frank.<\/p>\n

MATTERA: With the bad economy and all do you think you can give me advice on how to start my own brothel? Well, you have experience in these matters. Maybe I can make some extra cash on the side? <\/p>\n

Frank: No because you\u2019re really too silly to talk to. I have never&hellip;<\/p>\n

MATTERA: Too silly? <\/p>\n

FRANK: …a brothel. <\/p>\n

MATTERA: Well you had one running out of your apartment. <\/p>\n

FRANK: The house Ethics Committee… <\/p>\n

MATTERA: I know your buddies on the House cleared you but you didn\u2019t — you didn\u2019t think something was up? I mean, your house didn\u2019t like smell a little funny at night when you returned? <\/p>\n

FRANK: No because it was not in my house, it was in…<\/p>\n

MATTERA: Your apartment, yeah. <\/p>\n

FRANK: No it wasn\u2019t in my apartment. And there was no prostitution activity going on in the basement apartment that I lived in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No prostitution activity in the basement apartment I lived in. Now, we\u2019ve had Steve Gobie, who was Barney\u2019s significant other at the time, on this program saying the opposite, and Gobie, of course, got his parking tickets fixed by Barney. It continued.<\/p>\n

MATTERA: I wanted to know, you know, how can we expect change from someone like you when you turned a blind eye towards Fannie Mae\u2019s corruption. <\/p>\n

FRANK: Well that\u2019s not true.<\/p>\n

MATTERA: …because they were like stuffing your campaign coffers and you were having sexual relations with one of their executives! <\/line> <\/line> FRANK: No. In the first place he was – the man I was living with was not an executive. He had an entry level job beginning in 1990.<\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: So you\u2019re telling me Fannie Mae\u2019s…<\/line> <\/line> FRANK: I\u2019m saying that you\u2019re…<\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: …insolvency…<\/line> <\/line> FRANK: …interrupting me and not listening to me. <\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: You\u2019re saying Fannie Mae\u2019s insolvency wasn\u2019t…<\/line> <\/line> FRANK: I\u2019m saying that what, excuse me.<\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: …wasn\u2019t pillow talk at night?<\/line> <\/line> FRANK: No. And I\u2019m telling you that your refusal to listen doesn\u2019t speak well to your interest in having change.<\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: I\u2019m — I\u2019m interested…<\/line> <\/line> FRANK: No you\u2019re not. You keep interrupting me.<\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: No, I\u2019m not, you said… <\/line><\/a><\/line> FRANK: Yes. You keep interrupting me.<\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: You said you wanted to roll the dice on Fannie Mae…<\/line> <\/line> FRANK: You wanna…<\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: …and now my generation…<\/line> <\/line> FRANK: …let me talk…<\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: …is stuck with the debt you guys are instituting.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: Now, if Barney Frank were a Republican, I mean, this is the kind of stuff he\u2019d be peppered with each and every day. This is Jason Mattera, journalist-author. And the final portion of the exchange is next.<\/line> <\/line> MATTERA: And you didn\u2019t talk about subsidized housing with him or rolling the dice, ever?<\/line> <\/line> FRANK: Oh I did — not rolling the dice — I did talk about my skepticism about the policy of both Clinton and Bush of getting low income people into ownership. My view was always that that was a mistake. That, in fact, they should be helped to rent housing. And I was very critical of both Clinton and Bush\u2019s policy of pushing low income people into buying housing that they couldn\u2019t afford.<\/line> <\/line> RUSH: What? He was critical of Clinton and Bush for getting people into housing when they should have been renting? Bush? Bush is who tried to stop this. It was Barney Frank and Chris Dodd who conceived the — well, it was actually conceived by Carter, and it was given life by Clinton, and then Barney Frank and Chris Dodd expanded on the program. Now, here Barney is out there saying — and I\u2019m sure Jason was stunned, which is why he was rendered silent when Barney was saying, ‘No, no, I was trying to stop this, I was trying to make sure that these people were not lent money to be able to buy houses.\u2019 Jason Mattera, you\u2019ll be hearing a lot about him.<\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: If Barney Frank were a Republican, ladies and gentlemen, he would have experienced Mark Foley\u2019s fate. He would have been gone, and the housing market might well have survived if Barney Frank had gone. It could be argued that Barney Frank actually did far worse than Mark Foley. Foley didn\u2019t run a prostitution ring out of his apartment or townhouse or whatever. As for interns, I assume Democrats don\u2019t want to talk about interns, given their hero, Bill Clinton and all. Whatever happened to him? Oh, yeah! Bill Clinton went on to be a famous Internet citizen after the Monica Lewinsky sexcapade. If any of these guys had been Democrats it would have been all over for them, and who knows the damage this country would have been spared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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