Reply #181: Are you not understanding any of this?

[WildEyedLiberal]

You acknowledged that Dean's comment was ill-advised. Barney Frank merely expressed his opinion thus. Therefore, everyone attacks FRANK for DARING to express his belief that maybe Dean said something dumb. It's just an example of being willing to dump on a good liberal Democrat because OMG, he said something that wasn't 100% positive about Dean.

If he'd given a whole speech trashing Dean, then the outrage would be justified. But he didn't. He said Dean made a dumb comment - which was true. So this whole "OMG SCREW BARNEY FRANK!!!1" business is really, really pitiful. If you don't see that "cicular firing squad" applies to the massive pile-on on Frank and not to his random criticism of Dean's dumb comment, then I really don't know what to tell you.