{"id":382,"date":"2009-08-19T19:11:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T02:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2009-08-19T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T02:11:50","slug":"communications-lessons-from-rep-barney-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"Communications lessons from Rep. Barney Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit that I&#8217;ve never been a big Barney Frank fan.\u00a0 It is not that I didn&#8217;t like him.\u00a0 It is just that I never was a big fan.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-383\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" title=\"portsmouth-protesters-thumb-380x311\" src=\"http:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/portsmouth-protesters-thumb-380x311.jpg\" alt=\"portsmouth-protesters-thumb-380x311\" width=\"199\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/portsmouth-protesters-thumb-380x311.jpg 380w, https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/portsmouth-protesters-thumb-380x311-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>If you want a lesson on how to defuse outrageous claims with a combination of simple language, mild put-downs, some humor, and compelling logic, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8&amp;eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicsdaily.com%2F2009%2F08%2F18%2Fvideo-barney-frank-confronts-town-hall-protester%2F&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">watch and listen to how Rep. Barney Frank<\/a><\/strong> dealt with town hall protesters claiming that President Obama was a facist and that health care reform was akin to Nazi policies.<\/p>\n<p>First start with the mild put down that comes in the form of a question.\u00a0 Typically it is something like:\u00a0 &#8220;You can&#8217;t be serious.&#8221;\u00a0 In this case Barney Frank uses a more provocative variation, &#8220;What planet are you from?&#8221;\u00a0 Then, once you&#8217;ve gotten someone to admit that they are truly serious about this outrageous claim, highlight the stupidity of it by applauding the right people to be stupid.\u00a0 In Barney Frank&#8217;s diagnosis, being free to be stupid is what America is all about.\u00a0 Then, when there is persistence the persistence of the screams and rants mount, state the obvious &#8212; that dialogue is useless.\u00a0 Or akin to having a conversation with furniture.<\/p>\n<p>This is superior thinking and communication at its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must admit that I&#8217;ve never been a big Barney Frank fan.\u00a0 It is not that I didn&#8217;t like him.\u00a0 It is just that I never was a big fan. Until now. If you want a lesson on how to defuse outrageous claims with a combination of simple language, mild put-downs, some humor, and compelling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}