Posted on 01/06/2014 3:56:37 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: You know Frank Luntz, the pollster, Frank Luntz? There's a story here at Mediaite. I just got this. We'll get to the Obama soap opera just a second, 'cause it's classic. It's already begun. I'll set the plot line for you here in just a mere moment. Apparently, it's a profile of Frank Luntz who, as you know, does political focus groups on Fox. He assembles a bunch of people that are said to be a cross-section of America, and he gives 'em little electronic devices, and they register their opinion and other reactions as they're listening to things.
Then after what it is they're watching is over, Luntz goes in there and interviews them and has a group discussion with the focus group. Now, the profile of Luntz in The Atlantic says that Luntz sunk into a depression following the 2012 election after Obama won. "Luntz described himself as 'less healthy now than [he has] ever been in [his] life,' sleeping two or three hours at a time and fretting over the future of his career in political consulting. The Atlantic's Molly Ball wrote: 'The crisis began, he says, after last year's presidential election, when Luntz became profoundly depressed.
"For more than a month, he tried to stay occupied, but nothing could keep his attention. Finally, six weeks after the election, during a meeting of his consulting company in Las Vegas, he fell apart. Leaving his employees behind, he flew back to his mansion in Los Angeles, where he stayed for three weeks, barely going outside or talking to anyone.'" Well, if that's the definition of depressed count me in, 'cause that's me. Sequestered and not talking? That, to me, is freedom.
But for Luntz, it was the definition of depression. He said, "'I just gave up,' the pollster said. After the election, he seemingly realized Americans want to 'impose their opinions rather than express them,'" that's a quote, "and that a divided country will find it harder to warmly receive his conservative sales pitches. 'I'm not good enough,' he said. 'And I hate that. I have come to the extent of my capabilities. And this is not false modesty. I think I'm pretty good. But not good enough.
"'The old Frank Luntz was sure he could invent slogans to sell the righteous conservative path of personal responsibility and free markets to anyone ... The new Frank Luntz fears that is no longer the case, and it's driving him crazy.' According to the profile, Luntz is considering breaking into Hollywood as a consultant, as he no longer works any existing political contracts and has apparently submitted many pitches to studios."
So he can't do it, can't persuade. I didn't know that's what he was doing. Snerdley, did you know that's what he was doing? Folks, honestly now. I'm, again, not trying to be provocative. I had no idea Luntz was trying to persuade people. I thought what Luntz was doing was focus groups and learning what people thought about things and going on TV with it. I didn't know that Luntz was trying to win anything. I didn't know Luntz was trying to come up with slogans to help beat Obama.
I had no idea that's what Luntz was trying to do. His focus groups were an attempt to persuade people of conservatism? Get this from the piece. "Luntz mostly all says he wishes we would stop yelling at one another. He dreams of drafting some of the rich CEOs that he's friends with to come up with a plan for saving America from its elected officials." Well, the No Labels bunch? I'm just telling you, I'm honestly surprised here. I did not... Look, if Luntz was trying to affect the outcome of elections, he coulda done those focus groups in an entirely different way.
Anyway, so Luntz is now gonna try to work for Hollywood, these rich CEOs, and get them to run and so forth. Depressed for three weeks? (interruption) What? I don't know. I don't know if he was Perot's pollster or not. I don't know. I don't know. But he's lived in Hollywood for a long time. This is not new. But, I mean, he's been trying to get in his consulting firm with people in Hollywood. That isn't really new. I guess it is to The Atlantic. I'm literally surprised to learn that Luntz was trying to persuade people. That doesn't make sense with what I saw.
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Hey! Let's see what super slut, Kim Kardashian, is wearing today.
I don’t mind the graphs and focus group questions but the panels with 20 people trying to give their opinion were less than worthless.
Lol...I was just about to remark about his (gosh awful) toupee. You beat me to it :)
You mean like Phil Roberson, Sarah Palin, Pat Sajak, Charleton Heston, Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, Stacey Dash, Clint Eastwood...
Depressed for 3 weeks? I was in shock for 2 weeks and then gave up on the salvation of our country by our “elected” leaders after that. And I’m just a regular schmoe.
But if you recall, virtually EVERY pollster showed Romney winning. IMO, he did win the untarnished vote. However, the election was tarnished enough for Team Obama to prevail. These people know how to go into a few key precincts in key states and pull out a win.
Luntz should take a number...
He wasn't the only one depressed after seeing another election stolen for the democrats by the media and corrupt democrat support groups.
The entire campaign season was depressing. It had looked so very promising in 2010, with all the things like the tea-party emergence, the town-hall protests, the big crowds at Palin’s book tour, etc. But, after the 2010 mid-terms, the GOP-E muscled in, poured cold water on all that kinetic grassroots energy, and did everything it could to pave the way for the Massachusetts liberal, Mitt Romney.
Made the whole 2011-12 campaign season depressing as hell. I loathed every minute of it. The clincher being when the GOP convention outlawed the very words “tea party” from being uttered, and basically told Palin to get lost. Add Romney’s pathetic and cowardly response to a reporter upon being questioned about the Chick-Fil-A protest. Add the neverending presence of Karl Rove babbling on FoxNews.
All in all, it made me pretty much tune out politics for the first time in my adult life. And led me to leave my presidential ballot blank for the first time ever. And left me with an intense distrust for the one and only Party I ever voted for and supported for all my life. A Party that begins with the letter “R.”
That was no mistake, it was deliberate.
I was depressed too. But that was because the re-election of a Marxist Clown was so unexpected. It shocked everybody but he probably stole it. That shouldn’t have surprised anybody.
If the Hollywood thing doesn’t pan out then Luntz
should consider teaming up with Morris to start
an earthquake prediction business.
“Now, the profile of Luntz in The Atlantic says that Luntz sunk into a depression following the 2012 election after Obama won.”
Welcime to the club Frank.
As much as you never cared for Luntz, I have cared even less.
His 15 minutes were over years ago.
Friedrich Schiller, actually.
You’re right, I stand corrected. Always loved that quote.
If romney’d won, socialism via health ‘reform’ would have been hung around OUR necks. No chance of that now.
Me too.
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