Posted on 05/24/2021 2:48:42 PM PDT by RandFan
According to a recent article by the left-wing Salon, multiple former employees of Luntz have come forward to raise ethical questions about Luntz’s business, which focuses on public policy polling and focus groups to inform politicians and political parties as well as Fox News, MSNBC, and CNBC. Accusations range from Luntz’s operation being a “scam” that violates codes of ethics to Luntz’s business being “bullsh^t”.
Salon spoke extensively to Chris Ingram, a former senior vice president at the Luntz Research Company during the late 1990s and early 2000s, who told the publication that “Luntz’s claim to deliver objective data is a ‘total shtick and a scam.'” Ingraham says he observed Luntz attempting to manipulate his famous focus groups.
Ingram said that Luntz’s focus groups used “dial testing,” which Salon explains requires “participants” to “spin a small handheld device, yielding real-time test results in response to questions asked by the presenter.” According to Ingram, “Frank, when he would be hired by clients, whether they would be corporate or political, would sit in that room yelling, ‘Keep turning the dials! Keep turning the dials!'” According to Ingram, Luntz’s primary concern was to offer “compelling” data to “present to the client.” Ingram explicitly denied that Luntz is impartial or honest, “but is better described as a pay-for-play pawn in Washington.” Salon reports that Luntz screens and selects focus group participants “in a manner that Ingram called ‘quite frankly bullsh*t.'”
Ingram claimed that the cable news companies Luntz works for – specifically far left MSNBC – are totally unaware of Luntz’s ethically unsound tactics. “The clowns at MSNBC didn’t have a clue about how the focus groups or panels worked, or what Frank was doing,” Ingram told Salon. “The actions were basically contrived...
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Bush League Republicans love to be told their constituents want amnesty for illegal aliens and a permanent majority for Democrats.
A bad wig with a Leftist pussbag attached to it.
So, this criminal who has been considered a valid pollster has actually been a liberal mole inserted to influence Republican pols to support left-wing ideas. This doesn’t surprise me. The pols may have embraced his fake polls too much, but that does not mitigate this criminal’s evil.
Where’s the news in this? Political polling exists for the purpose of manipulating opinion, not measuring it. Putz just came up with a variation on the theme to help RHINOS cover their tracks.
“‘Keep turning the dials! Keep turning the dials!’”
IOW...Find out what the customer wants for a result and give it to him.
READ later.
Not much difference between those two.
Not much difference between those two.
LOL Said no one ever! I do remember Luntz losing it to the point of rage when Trump won!
Me too!!!
I never did trust Lumpy Rutherford.
Schazzaaaam!! You really nailed that one!
Well it makes sense for Kevin. Everyone knows he’s a wimp. I don’t know how he got into RINO leadership.
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