Comments on: Luntz gets it and doesn’t get it

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:55:06 +0000

I’ve been spelunking around looking for old photgraphs of Frank Luntz. I’m not finding any images which show a receding hair line or a bald spot. Either he’s been wearing a toupée for forty years or that’s his actual hair. His default setting is ‘fat slob’.
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Having a look at the “Talk” at Wikipedia, one does get the impression that there’s a crew of sorosphere operatives whose business is trashing the reputations of others by offering supposed personal accounts of having been acquainted with them at one time or another. Luntz is a pollster and social research maven who works for Republican candidates. He’s not someone an ordinary person is likely to have a strong opinion about one way or another. What’s interesting in his case is that there is so much hostility toward him while at the same time what notice he gets in starboard publications tend to regard him somewhat skeptically.
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The man’s never married and has no children. There isn’t any dirt on him in that vein or minions of the gay lobby would have published it. He has long seemed like someone held together with psychotropics.

By: Turtler

Turtler — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:24:32 +0000

@Cappy

Ask Bauxite. He said he smelled Kool Aid around here. But considering this was before he began going into a vicious spiel of hunting the Orange Whale and insulting our host I suspect he smelled himself.

By: Cappy

Cappy — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:30:38 +0000

If we’re a cult, where’s the Kool-Aid?

By: Marlene

Marlene — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:34:13 +0000

“Trump won 2016 because many were disgusted with Hillary and her “evil white man” campaign. We expected things would get worse with her in control.”
Well, I’m surprised you didn’t mention Obama! Many of us hated the idea of getting more Obama policy, via Hillary.
And certainly, Hillary had no chance of being a better POTUS. IMO.
I’ll never forget her Benghazi failure tragedy!
And her nonchalent
“hands off” mess up that allowed a Russian group (or associate?) to get a chunk of America’s uranium!

By: Gringo

Gringo — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:20:43 +0000

Luntz:
The institutions rejected by Trump voters are also those that traditionally held the American president to account. “

The press held Biden to account? The press held Hilary to account? The press held Obama to account? Tell me another one.

More like the press acted as water carriers for the above.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:46:59 +0000

“Prominent pollster blasts colleagues for skewing Trump’s 100 Days approval”—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/hold-prominent-pollster-blasts-colleagues-skewing-trumps-100-day-numbers

+ Bonus:

“DAY 98”—
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/day-98.php
Opening quote:

Fox News reports,

“ABC, NBC and CBS slap Trump with 92% negative coverage as 100th day of second term approaches, study finds.”…

By the way, did we mention that the Media has this most puzzling need to lie ALL THE TIME ABOUT EVERYTHING?….

File under: Stressing the apparently-not-so-obvious obvious…

By: Mitchell Strand

Mitchell Strand — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:23:50 +0000

I don’t want to devolve into personal attacks, only a bit of analysis.

A man who wears a toupee that obvious is attempting to lie to the world about having a full head of hair. And he feels better about himself when he fools the world into thinking he has a full head of hair.

I can’t possibly believe the poll numbers or survey results of such a man. He is inherently dishonest. His vanity makes me incapable of believing a word he says about Trump or politics.

By: Steve (retired/recovering lawyer)

Steve (retired/recovering lawyer) — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:14:54 +0000

In many ways, Trump is to electoral politics what Rush Limbaugh was to political discourse. By which I mean that both men are accused of “leading” some kind of radical, retrograde, reactionary movement, whereas in truth, they are merely the spokesmen for the millions of “normal” people who share the same philosophy but lack the public podium from which to express it, except by supporting the singular person who has that podium. Opposition to both men was/is loud, incessant, irrational and led by malign forces seeking to suppress popular sentiment and attain global hegemony.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:08:28 +0000

Thanks for reading Luntz, so l don’t have to.
Your list of issues and Trump – MAGA solutions to the problems was excellent. Trump haters seldom compare the Trump solution to the Dem solution, since it’s so often so obviously better.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:52:42 +0000

Luntz tries to sound authoritative–it’s science don’t ya know, look at all of those graphs, and trend lines moving up and down–but, he’s just a Bozo with a bad toupee.

P.S. From what I can see, Polls can be made to say pretty much what you want them to say–carefully pick the group of people to be polled, carefully set up the exact wording and the particular sequence of the questions asked, then, highlight and interpret the particular answer your set up was designed to elicit (some of the major polls have ten, twenty, even thirty pages of questions and answers, you just pick the particular answer you want, and ignore the others), and voila!