My meeting! My rules! My office! And don’t tell me what to do! Understand? Thus sprach the Hoosier Overman to constituents at a town hall in Bloomington, Indiana. 

The exchange between Indiana “blue dog”Democrat Representative Baron Paul Hill (IN-9th) and a young journalism student has ironically put the arrogant “Red Baron” in the very compromising position his adoptive rules were created to avoid.

The student, who was working on a project, asked Hill why she was being denied her right to film the town hall meeting, and Indiana’s beneficent leader responded with the following:

“Well, this is my town hall meeting. I set the rules, and I’ve had these rules. Now let me repeat that one more time! This is my town hall meeting for you.  And you’re not going to tell me how to run my congressional office.” [emphasis mine]

In essence, Hill told voters, “You work for me, this means you respect me! Got it? Now, let’s move on.”

Following his rebuke, he went on to explain his filming rule:

“Now the reasons why I don’t allow filming is because usually the films that are done end up on YouTube in a compromising position.” [Overman prescience]

And here’s the scene, duly clipped from the news coverage and posted on YouTube! Enjoy:

Bloomington was the Red Baron’s second town hall meeting. After denouncing town hall constituents as “political terrorists,”  he held his first one that he labeled the Jerry Springer town hall meeting, and said that “sitting in a dentist chair would make for a better evening.”

After his initial town hall debacle, he came prepared for the second and reportedly devised a green and purple tee shirt identity system to distinguish the friendly union officials, teachers, and other mindless Obot questioners.

Come November 2010, Hoosiers may help Hill understand that Baron is a given name, not a title.

The Bloomington Herald Times streamed Baron’s entire town hall live online. The exchange with the student begins at the 18:43 mark.