The Political-Messaging Huckster Behind Roger Goodell's Awful Presser (Frank Luntz)

Deadspin ^ | September 22, 2014 | Dave McKenna

[C19fan]

Roger Goodell was talking, but the words weren't his alone. "That speech was all Frank," says an associate of pollster Frank Luntz, lord of the dark arts of political messaging, who frequently works with Goodell and the NFL. "As soon as I heard Goodell's intro, I was laughing."

The part that got him giggling was the line "We will get our house in order first." The NFL commissioner used that same phrase minutes later, in response to a question from a New York Post reporter about whether he would resign.

"That's textbook stuff that Frank uses all the time," says the source.

[molson209]

Coconut Fiber Hat Guy ?

[gusty]

I can just picture it. Luntz took Goodall in front of a room full of mongos to try out his presentation. The mongos all clapped, and Luntz threw common sense out the window, and said lets roll.

[rhinohunter]

I wonder if that crazy black woman with the yellow hair who’s always in Luntz’s carefully selected focus groups was in the group that gave Goodell their stamp of approval?
LOL !

[alloysteel]

Frank Luntz is a huckster? Who knew?

Popularity contests, entertaining though they may be, are not a real basis for serious discussions in the marketplace, as they tend to concentrate on the superficial, and miss the deeper implications of a given course of action altogether.

Democracy turned into a mobocracy. Circuses for everybody.

[hinckley buzzard]

Goodell sounded like a captive hostage making a confession of spying against the enemy. He could not possibly have meant a word of that wooze.

[hinckley buzzard]

Frank Luntz is a huckster? Who knew?

Well he has to do something to make a living between campaign seasons.

[Eroteme]

Well that explains why Goodell was more pathetic than usual.

This article is worth clicking on and reading in its entirety. Lots more about the Lumpster. Listen to this howler: FoxSports had Luntz on as their “expert” to critique Goodell’s comments. Luntz was starry-eyed, calling it “language perfection.”

Fox News needs to get an earful about dumping this charlatan and his traveling medicine show.

[Amagi]

Libtard Goodell under assault from the libtard elites.
ROFLMAO.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Worst. Speech. Ever. At least the worst not given by a person named Obama.

I listened to it live and remarked at the time that Goodell took half an hour to say absolutely nothing.

[luvie]

You listened to it and lived?

Oh...you said you listened to it LIVE.

I’m surprised that you did live! :)