Posted on 08/18/2015 9:58:35 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Donald Trumps feud with GOP pollster Frank Luntz escalated Monday with Trump calling on Fox News to fire Luntz from overseeing its post-debate focus groups, and Luntz launching a profanity-laden tirade to describe the real estate showman turned renegade presidential candidate.
In an interview with POLITICO, Luntz said Trump and Democratic presidential insurgent Bernie Sanders are delivering a big f- you to the elites in America.
And that resonates on both sides, Luntz said. But f- you doesnt solve anything. F- you doesnt make life any better. F- you makes you feel good, but it doesnt get you where you need to go. F- you doesnt make America strong. F- you doesnt solve anything.
Trump responded by accusing Luntz of harboring a long-held vendetta because Trump refused to do business with Luntzs polling firm.
I caught him cold, Trump told POLITICO. And frankly, if I was [Fox News President] Roger Ailes, Id fire that guy so fast for what he did that his head would spin.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I seriously doubt that ...Luntz has plenty of money and while Im sure he would always be glad to make more I don’t think he cares about Trumps money enough to jeopardize his business
How does that happen?
How are we played for fools over and over again?
Here's my theory: Luntz and others like him teach our lowlife politicians how to ‘say the right thing’ even if they don't mean it. It's why we keep electing these used car salesmen types... they know the right works. People like Luntz teach there... “here - say this” the yokels fall for it every time.
So we never know the people we're electing because the ‘fake is in’... and these idiots go to DC and start living large on our dime. Which is the only thing they know how to do well... Luntz is part of the disease that eating this country alive.
Frank Luntz jumped the shark with the completely phony focus group after the Republican debate.. Somehow everyone in his focus group loved Trump before the debate but were completely appalled and would never vote for Trump after the debate despite Trump saying the exact same thing in the debate he has been saying for months before..
I think the hottest fire Trump has tapped into is the arrogant, self-important and entitled GOPe and their talking head shills, including Luntz, on Fox and other media outlets. Those folks have steam coming out of their ears and fire coming out of their eyes, and, ... wherever.
HEY LUNTZ, F**K YOU!!!
He's a fraud, and a bad salesman in a suit that is always too small for him. If he sold used cars he'd lower the standards for used car salesmen.
If Lunz was around during the time of our founders we would be under Brittish Rule.
Sorry Mr. Luntz. Unless and until citizens are willing to stand up and tell those who are destroying the nation to go screw themselves, you aren't going to accomplish anything. It is precisely because Trump has said, “Take your ball and go play your game amongst yourselves - I'm not playing your game by your rules anymore” that he has captured the attention of a significant proportion of the American people. You can't put this genie back in the bottle. The ‘Matrix’ the left has created has been outed, and will soon be relegated to a past historic phenomenon. Bank on it. This is what has them scared.
All of you who've built your lives on the current state of American politics are going to have to contend with rapid and dramatic change. Again, bank on it. Even if Trump falls, which he very well may, the genie will not be put back in the bottle. You should probably get used to drinking Andre sparkling wine instead of Cristal, my friend.
Megyn Kelly, Frank Luntz, George Will, SourKraut...Fox is garbage.
Looks like Luntz and Christie were separated at birth.
Yeah... the fact is that most FOX watchers are realizing (even the slow old ones are realizing) that Krauthamer, Will, Luntz, Rove etal are just shills who have no reall knowledge of anything. They are just mouth pieces doing and saying what they are paid to say. They are clueless liars.
I agree with you, I don’t think Luntz created a phony focus group because he lost focus group business from Trump... He created a phony focus group because that was the theme of Fox News that night— take down Trump— from the moderators to Luntz to Krauthammer etc...
Luntz = apple polisher.
Can’t stand the guy.
It is an integral of mass marketing where manufacturers can get an early read on what consumers want. Politicians use focus groups to develop memes and sound bites.
Ut oh....got the popcorn ready..
The Donald is going to completely ruin this guy and his polls...
..can anyone say: ‘it’s over’ frankie.....LMAO
I can’t wait for The Donald to finish the job....
But, but, but Luntz has those dial meters that are never wrong. If politicians said what they thought Frank would be out of a job.
Pray America is waking
This is the same Frank Luntz, mind you, whose claim to fame is the primitive, idiotic, easily-fooled, unscientific Response Meter with its whopping intricate control panel of One Single Knob.
Turn clockwise for good, counterclockwise for bad. That's it. That's the Luntz High Tech approach for which he is lauded - mostly by himself.
Luntz, directly or indirectly, has dumbed down the political discourse by reducing it to a game of Buzzword Bingo. This itself is simplistic and misleading since everyone likes to hear 'nice' words like cooperation, bipartisanship, etc. and nobody likes to hear words like battle, conflict, argument, etc. But avoidance of cognitive dissonance and stating principles are not the same thing. Placating gullible soccer moms and upholding the Constitution are not the same thing, especially now that soccer moms have been convinced that gay marriage exists and that 6 year olds can make intelligent decisions about transitioning from boy to girl or vice versa.
Luntz's shoddy methodology and misleading charts have influenced a generation of GOP consultants and their clients with disastrous results for conservatism and the nation in general.
He believes Trump is a Music Man figure and Luntz should know because Luntz has been doing a reprise of 76 Trombones for years.
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