Posted on 01/21/2021 11:43:45 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Shortly after President Joe Biden's call for unity in his inauguration speech, ex-Republican pollster Frank Luntz held a focus group evenly split between Biden and Trump voters to see what connected.
The Zoom session was swiftly derailed by shouting, crosstalk, disputes over basic facts and even deeply personal attacks, such as one panelist mocking another for sharing his mother's death from COVID-19.
"Saying it's tough is an understatement," Luntz said on Fox News Wednesday night before anchor Bret Baier showed clips from the raucous focus group. "I reached a point where I don't want to do this anymore."
Luntz, who has been conducting various focus groups for decades and cut his teeth as Pat Buchanan's pollster in the 1992 presidential race, told Baier the session represented the fervent polarization gripping the rest of the country.
"Bret, I couldn't control them. They just started yelling at each other, and it would take me two minutes to say to them, 'stop' - to put my hand up to the camera like I did right there for them to get control of themselves," Luntz said.
Panelists on the Zoom call may have been able to hear themselves talking, but the level of crosstalk made the conversation inaudible for large stretches.
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Frank Luntz hosts pre-inauguration focus group (26 min video)
Frank, like who cares. . .no one is watching anyway.
Do not wrestle with a pig in the mud. You just get dirty and the pig likes it.
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Poor baby
yes...that is so easy to just "get over"...
never....
Getting along with Democrats is the equivalent of holding a guy’s coat while he rapes your wife.
? Forgive the Republicans for what exactly?
This reminds me of a former roommate, who was borderline psychopath.(She had been abused by a schizophrenic mother.) She had rages and a need for control. At times she was sweet as sugar; suddenly she would make vicious remarks about me. I finally got her out (long story). To this day she blames me, thinks I was mean to her.
While I have tried to forgive her — in her own way she was a victim — I cannot talk to her or be around her. She is scary and strangely childlike; she exudes evilness. A number of people feel the vibes around her. And to this day she lacks insight or remorse over her behavior.
It is for the same reason that I cannot be around radical liberals. They are beyond weird, at this point. They are delusional, and trying to argue sense with them just opens a torrent of rage. I would feel like Alice at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
I totally agree with Frank...I don’t want him to do it any more.
Yet leftists and globalists pretend like we’re supposed to all be part of the same country. Reality is going to be a b!tch for many people. Hoping we end up as Czech-Slovakia but preparing for Yug-o-Slavia.
Just another of what he is....a lefty pretending otherwise
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Luntz absolutely hates Trump.
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We don’t you to do this anymore either Frank.
It's actually a Business Insider article that MSN is passing along. Since it's really BI, I didn't expect it to disparage the Biden people.
The only thing the article details is this exchange:
"That's kind of why I left Trump, because he kind of just blew off COVID. He thought it was a big joke," the panelist, listed as Jim from Michigan, said."It is a joke," Pamela from Texas replied.
"Well it's not a joke, my mother died from it," Jim said.
Another woman shared that her uncle also died from the virus, and Pamela proceeded to mock both of them.
"From complications of it," she said before more crosstalk ensued.
According to Business Insider, suggesting that people who die of "Covid" are actually dying from comorbidities is "mockery," especially if one comes from Texas.
-PJ
Fortune tellers have more accuracy and validity than pollsters, just saying......
Gee, an irrelevant reporter on an almost defunct TV network.
Who cares, Frank. Do us all a favor and just go away. I’m thinking that if you had a real job you would understand why the average working stiff despises Biden and all the DNC stands for.
Indeed — please STFU, Frank.
Crosstalk? How about “Crossfire Hurricane II”?
Sorry Frank. You once had a good idea and show but you blew it last year. Adios and good luck working for the “Tijuana Syphillis News”.
#9 MoochPooch: Any “tea” at Democrat “Alice in Wonderland” party would have cyanide put into it by the Democrat/Marxist red card guards.
You want sugar with that?
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