Harvard student takes on Rep Frank

[qigong1001]

The "student' is Joel Pollack who worked for A. Dershowitz in 2006, which is when he "enrolled" at Harvard in 2006. Prior to this he worked for Tony Leon (2002) in S. Africa who was trying to hand over the country to corporate interests under the guise of "helping the poor". Joel is currently running for congress. He even touts this contrived encounter on his website as the reason for his running.

[SamFreedom]

@mrfbishop pollack wasnt schooled. barney filibusters n throws in all kinds if extra words and unsupported accusations because it fools people like you. Joel was not attacking him, but Frank was defensive and sounding like a juvenile. Mr harvard outshined him as the adult one.

[bosshadowrock]

Frank is so liberal that I'm actually surprised that he conceded that a Republican student should be granted freedom of speech.

[lehighmark]

anyone that defensive.... is lying or guilty of something

[cameraman502]

This student ran for congress in my district. A shame he didn't win. Machine politics for you.

[MrFbishop]

"Takes On" Barney Frank? Uh, what video were you watching?! From my vantage point, Mr. Harvard got schooled.

[ImNeilPatrickHarris]

what is barney frank saying???? youtube i need subtitles!

[light00128]

Wait, so he is saying there was no vote... isn't that unconstitutional? Whole point of House was to vote on country's fiscal budget, they just gave it to Bernarke because he told them to? What im understanding is that they used the tax payer's money like its their money.

[indiapaleal]

I guess I'm supposed to be impressed with Pollak, the guy who 'took down' Rep Frank. I'm nonplussed...I like how people forget that subprime began when Bush was in power, as did the first handouts to the banks! I've seen Pollak on the one hand argue for more freedom and then in several instances say that we need better accountability. Sorry, the GOP is just not the party of regulation. Eh, he's still probably better than Schakowsky.

[49carol]

Bernie Freaky is a moron. He's doing everything he can to turn it around & make the student look bad when it actually Barney that's the idiot.

[john51880]

Please vote for Sean Bielat!

[heavymetalsoldier]

Joel Pollack- ISREAL'S REVENGE AGAINST THE DEMS

[unholychunk]

Shhhhhhhhh b weary weary quite, is wabbit season

[bulmer13]

as I recall, Frank and his associates were the ones forcing banks to give mortgages to people who couldn't afford to pay them back....'nuff said.

[sssssjjjj1]

Yeah, everybody clap for the man who ran a male sex parlor from his apartment. Oh yes, his smartass excuse was that his roomate did that. The young man that he hired as a house boy and paid 20 something thousand to do the "chores" around his apartment.

[SmashTheRight38]

@sssssjjjj1

"

Yeah, everybody clap for the man who ran a male sex parlor from his apartment"

Total red herring all the way

[heavymetalsoldier]

@sssssjjjj1

Oh yeah, Barney Frank did do that. SO forgot about that

[brians2000]

Will the media check out Barneys or this guys story. We are blind when we allow the media to hide the facts. Who really knows what happened. The media which includes NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, BBC all should be held accountable for not telling the truth. Turn them off an let that type of media die because it is just making the US gullible.

[EMPERORMIKI]

This clip is so disgusting ... why does that kid wear that sickening hat ..

BARF.

[dikkevetteshit]

Jew-hating SOAB!

[TROYNDEX]

Joel Pollak came to my school!! GO NILES NORTH VIKINGS!!!

[therealcaptobvious]

Barney Frank's HR 4173 is permanent TARP.

The only difference between Barney Frank and Phil Gramm is that Frank is already out of the closet. They're both bending over for Lloyd Blankfein.

[1MattDamon]

America ! do you not see when we the America people put these idiots in a corner , they're reaction is only anger especially this asshole barney fag, ..People power..

[jeddedia]

OMG this clown keeps interrupting the student with no point being made! Why is Barney even allowed to talk?

[Bemuzed]

Where is the entire speech? Why didn't Joel Pollak answer Representative Barney Frank's question? He is clearly lacking the facts to uphold his argument. His question on concerning TARP makes that very clear. In terms of debate, he should have asked a different question if he didn't get the answer that he wanted and he should have been able to answer Rep. Barney's question -- "what do you think I should have done?"

[rwcbanzai]

mORE GOBBLETY GOoP RUSHdISiFORMATION GIVEN TO AN IGNORANT R/W/nUT WHICH bARNEY PROVES. THAT YOUNG R/W/NUT NEEDS TO DO MORE HARVARD RESEARCH & GET THE CORRECT FACTS & SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO BARNEY FORE BEING MISLED BY GOBBLETY GOoP! rADvOICE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

HARVARD STUDENT GET'S AN F!

[ratzamatatza]

Fag is a cigarette. Gay means happy. I have heard tell that Barney Frank is a homosexual and homosexual is what he sould be called, also he should be called a socialist. Smug SOB is also appropriate.

[ratzamatatza]

Disingenuous Barney? That describes you to a "D-socialist". Answer the question, stop spinning in circles, like Nixon you go on and on without really saying anything.

[ratzamatatza]

Rude Bawney, Rude. You interupt to avoid answering the question. Answer the question instead of trying to belittle the questioner and use misdirection. Barney and the Democrat Socialists passed legislation that caused the financial mess when clinton was president.

[TROYNDEX]

Democrats caused this? Fuck that shit. The economy went down hill because of fucking Bush. His old ass caused all the problems with money. I was born in '92, so I don't know waht Clinton did. What I do know, is Bush fucked up our economy, and Obama has to clean up his mess.

[burkee112]

Please look into your history. Check out what clinton actually did. He opened the gates for everyone to receive mortgages that they clearly could not afford. Bush warned the banks about a crisis in 01. Then congress was taken over by democrats in 07. The rest is history. Once the mid term elections in Nov. 2010 the Republicans will be the majority and clean up the mess democrats have done. What a mess they have made!

[SmashTheRight38]

@burkee112

What a bunch of GOP spin. Please cite the specific Democratic legislation

passed when Dems took over that claim scewed up? Republicans

clean up this mess? Give me a break. Republicans along with DLC

dems have been pusing deregulation that has been the root cause

for all of this. Oh and spare me the GOP fannie and freddie talking

points. That was relatively small part of the problem. If F&F did not

exist we still would have the financial crisis

[jmspivak]

@TROYNDEX Being born in 92 you should read a book before you comment about things beyond your comprehension How, as a 10 year old, do you think you understand what was going on in the housing/lending market? You were still playing with Pogs and Legos... You are probably just regurgitating what your liberal, public high school teacher told you...

[nationaleventphoto]

Can we invest in some teeth fro Barney Franks Mouth

[farmjob21]

yea hes also a fag! Barney Fag! i cant stand the way he talks

[mmmjan08]

Hate speech "fag" is considered illegal in

Canada ( 2ND DEGREE ASSAULT) with

sentencing penalty enhancements. These cases are prosecuted without exception by

Crown prosecutors. I wouldn't want to try my luck at Canadian customs and Immigration if I were you.

[kigger622]

i love canada

[grkarlin2009]

Am I glad that we live in the US where we can call him what he is, faggot, sodomite, queer, queen.

[TROYNDEX]

Do you have a problem with homosexuals? All these terms are politically incorrect. So why don't you just shut your mouth and leave him alone! So what if he a homosexual?? BIG FUCKING DEAL!!! I thought Americans were pass this fear of homosexuals. You got a problem with them makes me sick. So just shut up.

[dkipson]

Or to write on Youtube apparently. He should have asked Barney the liar why he was lauding Fannie and Freddie's stability, while simultaneously takeing campaign contributions from them under the table just before they crashed. Also why he bowed to left-wing Slick Willy Clinton pressure to loosen lending regulations and push banks to make mortgage loans to poor people who couldn't afford them. Barney is a twisted crook who wouldn't last five minutes under a polygraph and he'll soon be out,

[judedelux]

The guy asking the question had such a poor understanding of the situation and was so inarticulate that Fox Newsless is considering him for a spot on their infotainment channels like Fox Business. The kid also proved that you really dont have to be that sharp to attend Harvard.

[oscarmacaroni]

judedelux; you obviously do not care about the issues or the usa. you are a moron with nothing to say, that is why only shit comes out of your mouth. b. frank is a crooked politician and should be voted out of office as soon as possible.

[judedelux]

oscarmacaroni:

You must be the proud father of the stupid student and a loyal Fox Newsless/Rush the Sleaze zombie. Turd for brains says what?

[judedelux]

oscarmacaroni: You obviously are devoid of any common sense, logic, have limited education and will dive into a pool of turds if ordered. You and others like you are turing this country into a third world country.

[miajailbreak]

yep.. he took him on and got shot down by Frank the killer

[SuperBravoOne]

Paraphrase Q&A:

Q: how much responsibility....

A: this is what I did. What else could I have done? I tried to pass a bill to stop subprime. therefore I have no responsibility for subprime crisis.

Q2: Why didnt you stop TARP money (not related)

A2: 1. TARP money didnt cause crisis. 2. TARP money to be paid to banks was not regulated by congress. Fed gave money to give to banks on their own. Then asked for blessing to give more. Again, nothing to do with the actual cause of the crisis.

[SuperBravoOne]

he totally answered the question! do you guys have low comprehension?

[oscarmacaroni]

b. frank is an obnoxious little crook... you liberals refused to regulate....

[SmashTheRight38]

@oscarmacaroni

'you liberals refused to regulate.... "

LOL!! SO liberals are the one to refuse to regulate? Regulate what

specifically and when did we specifically refues to regulate?

[oscarmacaroni]

he answered nothing!! what a smug SOB b. frank is.

[GiantsOLB53]

Frank is such a lobbyist him and Dodd hold the majority of responsibility for the sub prime crisis because they drew up the bill that allowed looser regulations on home-owning requirements which congress passed during the Clinton administration. Now the current bank crisis is due to home owners not being able to pay their mortgages because families were given loans larger than what they could afford. But this fag will never admit to that. Instead he just states his record and wont answer.

[tasteface]

Wow you'd think a Harvard student would be able to figure out the basic facts of our current economic crisis.

[herodotall]

+1 Harvard Student

Frank sure can dance around a question with the best of them.

[doxyonr]

How in the hell did this man get into office? What a asshole.

[MEpianist]

how did this start?

[putittogether]

Socialist Fascism is the answer. Barney Franks is right. Screw these nut bag liberty and freedom people.

Obama Forever!

[snappa52]

sub prime crisis my lilly white ass. we could have paid off 90% of the mortgages with all of the money that they gave to wall street. there is no left/right opposition, its diversionary and barney demonstrates this. if you say something in opposition to either party they label you. dems call you right wing, G.O.P. calls you liberal. i'm tired of it, anyone else?

[ObamaFx]

Frank just sounds stupid. Any smart person knows he is defensive to the question and replys with comments that make him look stupid.

[Soepy76]

It's interesting how different people watch the same clip but come to totally different conclusions. It's either "The kid got PWNED!" or "Answer the question!"

[obie1963]

People hear what they want to hear.

[evelynjoyce]

The "young conservative" in typical Fox "fair and balanced" questioning is not interested in the answer or the facts, only in making Frank appear guilty. The truth is, Phil Gramm (a staunch Republican who after the crash called American victims of the crash whiners) pushed for and achieved the deregulation of the finance industry. Both Republicans and Dems are implicated but Repugs wholeheartedly supported this deregulation and continue to do so.

[Kapan60]

Incompetence shouldn't be seen as a "right" or a "left" issue. The fact is both parties screwed up and poltiicans and the CEOS we bailed out need to held accountable for their mistakes.

I've seen Barney Frank in another interview clearly state their was nothing wrong with Freedie Mac before the crash. So he's ethier lying now or he was then. Ethier way he doesn't want to admit he did anything wrong.

[bulabula1]

This man Barney Frank is a perfect example of how corrupt the U.S. congress has become, instead of answering the questions he only attacks & name calls and he's just not responsible for anything! This is our government today from Jefferson, Washington, Madison & Adams to good old Barney Frank why our countryman expect so little from our public officials I will never understand!

[jchappelle007]

Can someone explain to me why asking a question is an attack? The guy was just asking a question that never got answered.

[PaulSebert]

Wow... Barney Frank gave that young Repubican a factual beatdown. Poor kid didn't know what he was talking about.

[joshua1281]

He answered, and answered with facts. Unfortunately for the student, the timeline of the crisis does not support the narrative that he is trying to push. You'd think the student would have known that.

[jplumads]

You young liberals are such filth. Politics is a game to you guys, isn't it?

[ovresmot]

Its pretty obvious the "question" the kid is asking is presenting a false premise, (as it comes from Sean Hannity's mouth) so you can't just say yes or no to a trick question like that. That kid is quite a douche, he needs to shut off Limbaugh and grow his brain back.

[SOAPBOXSAMBO]

Barney Boy should be run out of Washington on a rail. How the people of his state keep electing this baboon escapes me. I use to know a guy that cheated on his wife and when asked how he could keep getting away with it, he replied "Deny, Deny, Deny, sooner or later she'll start thinking she was wrong!" SAME THING WITH BARNEY BOY AND HIS ANSWERS. He a liar extraordinaire!

[baremu]

Schooled

[jplumads]

He's not 'answering' -- he's trying to humiliate him into silence -- that's what liberals do.

[Applemask]

No. He clearly and obviously isn't.

[jplumads]

Disgusting treatment by liberal filth leadership and supporters. They're just bullies, even to our young people. Thanks for posting.

[MidNightRider2001]

A hard question is a vast right wing conspiracy, lmfao. .

[Applemask]

Good faith, look it up.

[Jcabartlett]

Great Video