Never Trumper Frank Luntz Scam Exposed

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"Former Employees Of Anti-Trump Pollster Frank Luntz – Kevin
McCarthy’s Landlord – Say His Business Is A Scam"

"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 “bullshit”.
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.

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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 bullshit.'”

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: He
screened out anybody that isn’t going to give the viewers the opinion
that Frank, on behalf of his client, is looking for. Somehow, he is
able to bullshit people.”

Salon says a second, unnamed former employee of Luntz asked to remain
anonymous due to “fear of professional retribution” and described
Luntz as a “slimeball.” A third “former high-ranking employee
confirmed to Salon the validity of the two other sources’ remarks.”
Salon says this third source informed them that “Luntz rarely
appeared at his own company’s offices during the workday but often
called employees to abuse them late at night.”

Ingram apparently concluded his thoughts on Luntz’s work by
characterizing it as “regurgitated crap”. Ingram added, per Salon,
“Frank is very difficult to work with,” and “He’s an extremely
intellectually intelligent man. But I like to characterize working
for Frank as like having a boss with a 200 IQ who is five years old.”

Tucker Carlson recently exposed Luntz’s apparent ethical dilemma of
serving as an unofficial lobbyist for left-wing corporations in
Silicon Valley and big pharmaceutical companies while simultaneously
claiming to provide nonpartisan advice to politicians. In the
process, Carlson learned that Luntz currently rents a room to House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the House of
Representatives.

“Over the weekend we got a call from a source who said that in fact,
Frank Luntz and Kevin McCarthy are not simply friends, they’re
roommates,” reported Carlson, before revealing that he later
confirmed the source’s information through McCarthy’s staff. “So
actually the top Republican in the House does live with someone who
lobbies for Google,” Carlson said. “Mystery solved. Not only are they
friends, they’re roommates! So now you know why they listen to Frank
Luntz but they don’t listen to you.”

McCarthy’s staff claimed to Carlson that McCarthy pays a “fair market
rate” for a room in Luntz’s luxurious Washington, D.C. apartment, a
living situation that was supposedly at least partially spurred by
the COVID-19 pandemic, and thus tacitly declared that the living
situation was not in violation of ethics rules for the House of
Representatives. Carlson subsequently learned that McCarthy is paying
only $1,500 per month to live in Luntz’s palatial 7,000 square foot
penthouse apartment."