Marathon Pundit: Joel Pollak makes the front page of the Boston Globe

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Joel Pollak makes the front page of the Boston Globe

Look who made the front page of the Boston Globe: Joel Pollak, the Republican candidate for Congress in Illinois' 9th District, where I live.

I'm told the Pollak story will be on the front page of the print edition later this morning. The HTML tag says "Page 1" at the end.

Good for the Globe. Great for Pollak. His poltical emergence began last year at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Joel Pollak was there to question US Representative Barney Frank, who had just finished a speech on financial regulatory reform. Pollak's query was provocative, but hardly impolite: "How much responsibility, if any, do you have for the financial crisis?"

Frank, the powerful chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, pushed back hard, lambasting Pollak for asking an "accusatory" question, dismissing his arguments as "totally wrong," and asserting that he was part of a "right-wing attack on liberals."

Almost instantly, the contretemps, in April 2009, made Pollak, at 31, a conservative cult hero. The moment — later dubbed the "Crimson Clash" — became a YouTube sensation and sparked national media coverage.

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1 comment:

Radio Patriot said...: I'm liking him more and more! That's one way to put your name on the map! He gets elected, he'll have to watch his back -- ol' Barney will be out with the knives...; 2:40 AM