Barney Frank Died, But the Truth About His Life is Being Whitewashed
Democrat Barney Frank has died. Before we get into this story, you should know… Revolver isn’t here to piss on Barney Frank’s grave. But we are here to tell you the truth about a man whose history has been somewhat whitewashed by the media.
As you likely know, whenever a powerful establishment politician dies, especially one beloved by the media and the left, the press immediately gets into their “polite society” mode. Every headline reads like some cheesy Hallmark card. The deceased is painted as some kind of saintly figure when, in reality, the truth is a lot more complicated.
The AP wasted no time in painting Frank as a saint.
The AP’s post about Frank’s death perfectly captures how the establishment press wants him remembered. Notice what’s included and, more importantly, what’s completely missing.
Instead of reminding readers about the serious scandal that once engulfed Frank’s career, the mainstream media machine immediately went into the usual glowing language about “gay rights,” “financial reform,” and his so-called political legacy. That way, if you knew absolutely nothing about Barney Frank and only read the headlines pouring out, you’d think America had just lost some kind of political hero.
And it’s not just the AP. Look at these headlines.
But here’s a spoiler alert: there’s another side to Barney Frank’s story the media doesn’t want to bring up anymore.
Because Frank was directly tied to a disturbing political scandal in the 1980s. It was a scandal involving a male escort operation run out of his home by a man with deep connections to a bigger network involving underage boys, political protection, and organized exploitation in the Swamp.
That’s what Barney Frank got caught up in.
But unlike conservatives who get politically executed over much less, Barney Frank survived it all… and actually thrived.
The media and the political establishment protected him. And eventually, the disturbing scandal was treated like some “meh” footnote that people never talked about.
Barney Frank’s memory is protected by the media, so history gets rewritten for him.
And for the record, that escort scandal wasn’t a “dark web rumor.” It was very real and investigated by the House Ethics Committee. To this day, it’s still part of Barney Frank’s public record.
The story goes like this: Frank’s former companion Stephen Gobie operated a male escort service out of Frank’s Capitol Hill apartment during the 1980s. Frank later claimed he didn’t know the full extent of what was happening inside the residence until after the fact. Many people don’t believe Barney was in the dark.
The House Ethics Committee ultimately reprimanded Frank for using his congressional office to fix parking tickets and for writing misleading communications related to Gobie.
It was a slap on the wrist.
In 1989 it was discovered that Barney Frank’s boyfriend, Stephen Gobie, whom Frank had once hired as a male prostitute, was running a male-brothel out of the Congressman’s home. Frank claimed he did not know about the prostitution ring in his home, but he did use the power of his office to “fix” 33 tickets for Gobie. And he knowingly wrote a misleading letter to Gobie’s probation officer in Virginia. Frank received a “reprimand” for fixing the tickets. Gobie maintained that Frank knew about the prostitution ring operation in his home.
Even writers who were absolutely untroubled by openly homosexual lawmaker in 1989 thought that Frank should have resigned. Or they at least acknowledged that there was an abuse of his office.
You would think that a juicy sex-scandal, with admitted ethical lapses, that nearly ended a politician’s career would at least merit a reference in these short summaries of his career. Surely most articles about Bill Clinton’s term mention his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Tributes to Mark Sanford’s tenure as South Carolina governor mention his affair.
But the story gets darker when you look deeper into the operation and the names connected to it over the years. And that’s where our media becomes uncomfortable… because once we move beyond “consenting adults,” this whole thing starts getting into organized exploitation networks connected to D.C. power circles.
That’s the kind of stuff that was discussed in David McGowan’s book “Programmed to Kill,” which is about the D.C. callboy scandal and some of the figures allegedly connected to it. The screenshot from the book specifically references Barney Frank in connection to Stephen Gobie and the disturbing network operating at that time.
Here’s a closeup of the images:
Ironically, the same press that gleefully destroys their political enemies over rumors, anonymous allegations, old jokes, edgy comments, or social media posts somehow found an endless amount font of grace and rehabilitation for a Dem congressman with very protruding nipples, as President Trump famously pointed out.
History is supposed to tell the truth about powerful people, not protect them from it.
But if the media wants Barney Frank remembered only as a witty and heroic statesman, then the public deserves to know what they’re leaving out of Mr. Frank’s obituary.
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