Gawker synonyms for "Frank LUNTZ": Lying, corrupt, dishonest, con
LUNTZ was who was said to have coined the "DemoCRAT" (instead of DemocratIC) meme back in the GINGRICH Contract "ON" (not "WITH", see it's easy to play the LUNTZ word game) America days, but a couple of months ago LIMBOsevic was giving himself "credit" for that. Last year there was something about how he was quitting the politics opinion racket to settle in Vegas, seems like another scam because he's back.
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http://gawker.com/frank-luntz-says-this-election-meant-what-he-was-paid-t-1655482531
[font size=5]Frank Luntz Says This Election Meant What He Was Paid to Say it Meant[/font]
.... The last time we saw Frank Luntz, he was appearing on Fox as an analyst to proclaim that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had delivered a speech that was "language perfection." Before going on Fox to analyze the brilliance of Goodell's speech, Luntz had written that speech.
Luntz, that is, has transcended the ordinary political business of lying about facts to carve out a lucrative business of lying about opinions. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]His baseline[/FONT] job [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]is to find words that can be used to turn unpopular everyday concepts[/FONT], such as inherited wealth, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]into[/FONT] things politicians can proudly declare their [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]support[/FONT] of, such as "ending the death tax." [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]But[/FONT] above that basic con job, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]he perpetrates the higher con job of posing as an objective observer, ratifying his own judgments[/FONT]. ....
"In our survey," Frank Luntz writes. Again: Luntz is not a pollster, in the sense of someone who goes out and tries to determine what the public thinks. The top priorities in a Frank Luntz survey are the priorities his company has been paid to get people to support.
Who was paying him this time? The group for which he did his survey, Each American Dream, is a 501(c)4 nonprofit, which is allowed to fund political campaigning and is not required to disclose its donors. Its website declares its purpose: ....
[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]"Punish achievement" is Luntz-speak[/FONT], of course, for "[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]tax the rich[/FONT]." The American people surely resent a government that serves the rich and powerful—but who doesn't want a government that is run by achievers? America should achieve things! ....
Why is the New York Times playing along with this? Perhaps it's a matter of principle: Yes, the newspaper has given a platform to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]one of the most corrupt and dishonest[/FONT] figures in contemporary politics, an avatar of the destruction wrought by limitless secret spending, allowing him to smarmily lament the "broken" political system that it has been his life's work to break and which he is still breaking, as he grows richer and richer in the process. But it did not charge him for the space. Money has no place in politics.
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