Did Barney Make You Cry? Suck it Up.

Former Boston Globe national political correspondent Susan Milligan has a real insider’s take on the mystifying phenomenon of retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) reducing reporters to tears. Her view? Suck it up. She says it sounds like Washington reporters are complaining about someone more like Saddam Hussein — not Frank. And in an ironic twist, she also believes the media has grown increasingly “mean.”