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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Is there a Mrs Luntz? I think not and that is troubling and concerning. Throw in a little creepy too 🐽💰💥
Why would anyone believe anything coming from Salon? Everything they put out is complete “bullsh^t”...
Frank was the only one who chose the participants.
Frank was a big part of Faux News Debate with Baier,
Me Again Kelly and Wallace.
It was ALL RIGGED AGAINST TRUMP.
What do you know, McCarthy’s boyfriend is a total fraud.
That’s a shame.
Quelle surprise.
He is just a fat queer with roadkill on his head
Yes there is a Mrs. Luntz. Her maiden name is McCarthy. . .
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Luntz has amassed a fortune by advising Mark Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and McCarthy, of course.
The Top Republicans would meet on just a phone call from Luntz.
Where he often warned them not to support Trump.
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He knows Hunter very well, and is known to attend the Raucous parties Hunter threw in Hollywood Hills.
Rush knew this guy was dirty 10 years plus, ago. He always bit his tongue.
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Yes! He said he didn’t care if they were paying him, he would support the people running to support Biden.
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That would explain some of Lindsey Graham’s idiotic positions. Birds of s feather Luntz and Lindsey?
Unfortunately that wouldn't necessarily mean anything in this day and age.
However, it appears McCarthy normally just stayed in his House office and he has been back to staying in his office for some time now - supposedly the time in Luntz' place was due to his office being moved (who knows if that's true). In any event, it has been past tense for some time, so the headline is just sensational to add something "extra" to the story...it appears not the first time for this publication. It really is irrelevant if they've been friends a long time - it is an obvious conflict of interest given Luntz' wide variety of clients. Some articles say the apartment is 1700 square feet and the size of a normal sized house with 3 bedrooms, 3 baths...other articles say as this one it is 7000 square feet with a dozen bedrooms. That's a significant disparity.
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