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Barney Frank assails town hall critic who compares Obama to Hitler

It’s the Internet video of the moment. It happened at a town hall meeting in Dartmouth, Mass., Tuesday evening. The famously colicky Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, lays into a questioner who is waving a picture of President Obama altered to look like Hitler and asks Mr. Frank why he was supporting a “Nazi” health policy.

“On what planet do you spend most of your time?” Mr. Frank responds.

He did not stop there. Roll, please:

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