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February 1, 2010
Frank Luntz is the Devil

Frank Luntz, the real life Fisher-Price man, has released another memo for Republicans. This one instructs Republicans how to lie about financial regulatory reform.
I, for one, welcome the Republicans and their defense of the big banks and Wall Street. All we need to say in reply is: The Republicans are defending the banks. Game over.
Again, I'm not exactly sure how they can be both "populist" and with the banks. Then again, they're the Republicans. They hate government-run healthcare, while 150 of them are on Medicare. Anything is possible. No contradiction is too ridiculous.
Filed under: Banks || Financial Reform || Frank Luntz || Medicare || Republicans
Posted By Bob Cesca | February 1, 2010 4:08 PM
Comments
Bob-- I think you are underestimating the fact that the media will not police the LIES in the memo, and will even advance them by using the "some say" corporate media BS.
The fact that the teabaggers do not not even realize they got a TAX CUT is case and point. This is a faith based political movement. Facts be damned--the truth is in their gut, and validated by Fox News and talk radio.
Posted by: JG
at February 1, 2010 4:19 PM
Yo Bob, I'mma let you finish, but Sam Stein had the best typo EVAH when he called Luntz a "GOP wordsith."
Posted by: Matt Osborne
at February 1, 2010 4:24 PM
According to the contents of his 17 page memo, he is telling Repubs to associate the bill for reform with the bailouts. They are relying on the American voting public's ignorance of the facts. And it will work because MSM sucks.
Posted by: Irish Girl
at February 1, 2010 4:29 PM
"The Republicans are defending the banks. Game over."
You are wrong, Bob. Remember that you probably thought the same thing about the healthcare debate. If you guys let this get even as far as republicans being allowed to say that Financial Regualtion is just another phrase for Government takeover of banks, it's game over for you.
You need to start writing about the Republican PLOT that's helping Banks take over America. It's as simple as that. Just keep spreading that word, use it over and over and over. Do not let the republicans even breathe without hearing about their PLOT to help Banks TAKE OVER America.
Get it? Spread it.
Posted by: Political Party Pooper
at February 1, 2010 4:37 PM
"No contradiction is too ridiculous"
Aint that the damn truth
Utter incoherence is paramount to being a tea-bagger, so im sure defending wall-street will not be an obstacle on the path of obstruction.
Posted by: J M Ashby
at February 1, 2010 4:47 PM
I am reading Deer Hunting with Jesus and, I gotta say, it helps make sense of it all. People who don't know their interests can't vote them.
Posted by: Radical SAHM
at February 1, 2010 4:55 PM
Again, PPP is right on the money. I love the message that Reps are plotting to help banks take over America. See, that's the kind of messaging the Dems can't seem to get their feeble minds around.
So, PPP, would an independent ever consider working for the Dem party? Just asking is all.
Posted by: camel54
at February 1, 2010 5:02 PM
The Devil doesn't wear a bad wig,
Posted by: sammy1
at February 1, 2010 5:25 PM
Camel,
Only if you let me have a cage match with doughboy Luntz.
Posted by: Political Party Pooper
at February 1, 2010 6:00 PM
There is no reason to insult LEGOS. For generations they have given kids zillions of hours of creative fun.
Luntz on the other hand is a soggy sack of shit who probably drinks baby's blood.
Posted by: emsique
at February 1, 2010 7:52 PM
PPP...sober up. Democrats have controlled Congress since 2008 and the Prez has bailed out the banks not once, but twive.
You guys had all of one year in control and it is a complete fvking mess. A recession has been turned into a depression with this administration's policies. With a majority in both the senate and the house Democrats could not even pass their landmark bill. China is emerging and assuming economic control of global markets and Iran is threatening a nuclera holocaust.
You promised hope but I only see hype.
Posted by: TomatoKing
at February 1, 2010 8:12 PM
Tomatoking, specifically WHICH bailout did the current President pass?
Are you daft? Was it the AIG bailout? Was it the bank bailout? Sorry, junior, both of those were Bush abortions. Try again lambchops.
Posted by: Political Party Pooper
at February 1, 2010 10:33 PM
Bob:
What we need is somebody from a sufficiently high talking post to debunk these memos point by point and publish them on a forum like The Huffington Post every time he comes out with another one.
Each succinct paragraph this worm types up has an agenda. If we can concisely annotate each memo with the agenda it endorses, and get that in a form to begin passing around to our Independent and Republican friends, we MAY be able to begin debunking this cat.
The other prong must be as PPP as outlined: a wrap-up conclusion to the annotated Luntz memoranda painting our own picture of what the Republican underground message-and-image machine is trying to paint, over the awful canvas that they are.
I could do this sort of thing, but I am too Radical Left in my personal ideology and it would need to be toned down. I also ramble, so "concise" is not my forte; "Concise" is Luntz' sharpest sword. I'd be willing to hack a draft quickly to show you what I mean, but I'm just Random Chump #37-B with a platform the size of this comment window.
Posted by: Scarey
at February 2, 2010 1:20 AM
Scarey, is this concise enough for you?
"The republican plot toward Plutocracy, is it real or imagined?"
How's that for a Wolf Blizter headliner?
Posted by: Political Party Pooper
at February 2, 2010 8:26 AM
Also Scarey, you don't ever give your enemies crdibility by addressing their false accusations. Instead, you force them to answer your accusations.
Posted by: Political Party Pooper
at February 2, 2010 8:32 AM



