BOSTON — House Majority Leader Dick Armey is in hot water again over a remark about openly gay Rep. Barney Frank.
Armey, a Texas Republican who called Frank "Barney Fag" in 1995, made a joke about Frank at a party Wednesday night in Philadelphia at the Republican National Convention.
The comment was made during a conversation with humorist Dave Barry and several reporters. Barry said he jokingly asked Armey: "Are you the real Dick Armey?"
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"He said, 'Yeah, I'm afraid I am' and then he kind of obliquely referred to all the trouble he got into before, and then he made a joke about his name," Barry said Friday.