Republican Strategist Frank Luntz Jokes About Killing Obama At Lincoln Day Dinner Party

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Republican Party Strategist Frank Luntz speaks at the annual Kent County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner Monday at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel.

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"I actually have a 'Run, Barack, Run,' bumper-sticker but I put it on the front of my car," he continued.

Luntz then shifted his sights to Clinton.

"Or, that of all the places Hillary Clinton could choose to live, she chose Chappaqua, New York," he said. "Did you know Chappaqua is Indian for 'separate bedrooms?'"

more:
http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/02/luntz_jabs_at_obama_during_san.html


KAPOW! HI-larious. (NOT) Can't you just see the President running from a car? I know Frank Luntz is widely known for not having any appreciation or understanding of the power of words, so it's perfectly logical to assume that the visuals of a white man chasing down our African American President in a car wouldn't bring up any specific memories from our shameful national past.
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[MADem]

1. Have another donut, Frankie. What an idiot. nt

[WI_DEM]

2. the guy is as funny as a tooth ache, though I'm sure his 'jokes' appealed

to the idiots he was talking to. He is a partisan hack and I don't understand why some news networks use him to conduct supposedly independent focus groups.

[Rambis]

3. Respect the office of the president u betcha!

[DCKit]

11. Especially in a time of war, right?

Another four years of Obama and a hefty tax increase are the least they deserve.

[CherokeeDem]

4. I have a vision....

of this pompous ass being interrogated by several highly annoyed Secret Service agents..however. I know that won't happen, because after all, it was just a "joke." (**sarcasm**)

These bastards are dispicable...

[MineralMan]

9. Misogynistic term. No, thanks.

Calling this asshole a misogynistic name for a woman is not appropriate.

[Old and In the Way]

6. Playing to the Base.

They'd be insulted if they had any self-awareness.

[Bigmack]

7. I have another joke...

Luntz falls into a meat grinder and gets turned into several hundred burger patties.

Now that's funny!

[meow2u3]

8. Why isn't Luntz arrested for threats against the President?

Is that because he's a rethug?

[RZM]

13. It's because it's not a threat

It's a stupid joke that predates Obama. You're allowed to joke about the president. This is in poor taste to be sure, but it doesn't constitute a threat. If the WH thought the rolly-pollster was going to harm the president, they would deal with it.

[RevStPatrick]

10. It was a "Run, Hillary, Run" bumpersticker when I first heard that joke.

And I'm sure it's much older than that.
These people are not very funny, and they're not at all original when they are being not funny.

As far as "Luntz Jokes About Killing Obama..." can we stop with the hyperbole please?
It makes us look as idiotic and humorless as they usually are...

[karynnj]

16. The fact that you first heard it as Hillary does not mean that using it against the

first black President does not give it a different darkness than it it had before. In fact, the fact that it was a woman also made it worse than otherwise - and it was never acceptable.

[Ikonoklast]

21. Yeah, a White guy behind the wheel of a car chasing a Black man down the street

just for shits and giggles never ended up with a dead Black man lying in the street.

What a joke ha ha.

[rfranklin]

12. Reminds me of an old racist joke...

the guy with Alabama plates would back up and run over him twice.

[nykym]

14. Uh excuse me Mr Lutz but...

Chappaqua, New York
Various spellings were used for the name they heard Native Americans use for their valley and hillside. It was an Algonquian word, shah-pah-ka, and it meant "the rustling land" or "the rattling land," or a place where nothing is heard but the rustling of the wind in the leaves. The Quakers spelled it Shapiqua, Shapaqua, Shapequa, Shappaqua, and, finally, Chappaqua. Their meeting was often referred to as the Shapequa Meeting as early as 1745.[4]

From Wikipedia;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaqua,_New_York

[karynnj]

17. That joke did not bother me - it was well within what Letterman, Leno, O'Brian, etc could say.

The ONLY thing that does bother me is that he has been used to set u focus groups to monitor the effect of things like general election debates. (The "run" joke is beyond the pale against either Hillary ( because she is a woman) and Obama. It is not acceptable against ANY candidate. Though joking about putting Mitt on the top of the car might not be all that bad - as he still does not think it wrong for a helpless dog.

It is VERY easy to influence a focus group if you are considered "high status" or important. I don't know that he ever has - either by being with them or having someone - think alpha male - planted among these "undecideds".

[tsuki]

18. He did, but his need for recognition pushed him to the side lines.

Everything he now says is dissected and debunked before the 10 o'clock news.

[zbdent]

19. yet you make a joke about a "burning bush" in a bar two days before a pResident named Bush

is to show up ... and you get jail time.

[Brother Buzz]

20. Luntz Global, LLC, determined all the other Words That Work weren't working

[Kwarg]

22. Very old joke... Not funny

And a thumbs down for hyperbolic thread title.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. Luntzfail.