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Twit tweet (from Republican pig- pollster/ "word doctor" Frank Luntz, PolitiFact's "2010 Liar of the Year" for promoting the phrase "government takeover of healthcare" in lieu of "healthcare reform"):

I’m at the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, Austria.  Almost 200 rooms… But the elevator has been broken for 3 days.

Please don’t bring European-style socialism to America. 🚯 pic.twitter.com/axeygJSoBi

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) June 18, 2019

Thwap:

Jesus, it’s Marriott pic.twitter.com/FqfqRRvJy4

— Dusty Giebel (@DustinGiebel) June 18, 2019

Did the hotel physically prevent you from taking your business elsewhere when you checked in and they told you the elevator wasn't working? No.

Did you make the decision to stay there without government coercion? Yes.

100% not socialism, bud. 100% your decision.

— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) June 18, 2019

In a country that was governed by the far right until two weeks ago (after a corruption scandal).

— Curate's Egg 🍳 (@curates_egg) June 18, 2019

Because, as we all know, elevators never go down for extended periods of time in the United States.

— Avi Bueno (@Avi_Bueno) June 18, 2019

Frank, you are an absolute dumbass.

Use the fucking stairs.

— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) June 18, 2019

And, finally,

the Imperial Vienna is privately held but speaking of socialism, congrats on being publicly owned

— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) June 18, 2019

Washington Post Reporters Observe Clinton "Gaffes" As Provided By Republican Spinmeisters

The once great Washington Post's Bezos Bugle's Clinton hit squad is back on her trail, parsing her comments at the recent Democratic debates and declaring some to be "gaffes."  What did they detect?

First, she and other Democrats on the stage refused to say the words “radical Islam,” another moment immediately seized upon by Republicans.

Horrors!  She failed to use the well- advised Republican incantation words that have worked so well for us since 9/11 and the bungle into Iraq (which the neo- con Bezos Bugle cheered on, of course)!  What other campaign- ending "gaffe" did their news hounding uncover?

Finally, as the debate came to a close, Clinton delivered the made-for-TV sound bite about the ’60s, pegging herself as the opposite of the fresh face that many voters are looking for.

Oh, so she revealed she was alive in the 60's!  We wouldn't have known that otherwise.  Thanks for the tip!  Then, they ask Republican and Koch brothers re-branding stooge Frank "Dunce" Luntz (born 1962) his valuable opinion:

By Sunday morning, conservative Web sites had assembled multiple competing videos of the 1960s remark, their only disagreement coming over whether to add a clip from “Back to the Future” or a lava lamp. “I can guarantee that this will appear in some ad at some point,” said pollster Frank Luntz. “Nobody, Republican or Democrat, wants to vote for a candidate from the 1960s when we’re well into the 21st century."

We wonder if Luntz delivered his talking points to the reporters verbally or in crayon.

Well, if all a voter is looking for is a "fresh face," the Republicans have lots of those:  Dr. "Mental Ben" Carson, business visionary "Snarly" Carly Fiorina, Sen. Marco "Glug Glug" Rubio (R-AWOL).  Indeed, those are "fresh faces" with not much behind the faces.  Hey, why vote for a candidate from the 1960's when you can vote for a candidate from the 1860's like any of the Republicans in the clown car bus?

ISIS?  Boots on the ground!

Economic progress?  See post below.

Livable wage?  Job killer!

Climate change?  Doesn't exist.

Women's rights?  It's a man's world!

Evolution?  Satan's work.

Immigration reform?  Deport 15 million people and build a wall.

LGBT rights?  Pray away the gay!

Yes, this is clearly a party looking bravely at the 21st century...  and running away from it as fast as possible.  Thanks for pointing that out, Bezos Bugle Clinton hit squad!  (Oh, wait, you didn't.)

"Liberal media" my ass.

Quote Of The Day: Shaky Legs Frank Luntz (Updated)

Here's Republican pollster and "word doctor" Frank "Dunce" Luntz (described by Donald "Rump" Trump as a "low class slob") after conducting a focus group that Luntz said, "left my legs shaking":

“I want to put the Republican leadership behind this mirror and let them see,” he added. “They need to wake up. They don’t realize how the grassroots have abandoned them. Donald Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn’t listening to their grassroots.”

No,  actually low class slob Frank, Trump is punishment to a Republican elite that wasn't telling the truth to their grassroots for the past, oh, forty years.  It's called "reaping what you sow."

And low class slob, Frank, you can take a lot of credit for pulling the wool over the sheeples' eyes, on Obamacare, climate change, etc.  Whenever there was an opportunity to tell the hard truth, you counseled using weasel words, lies and misdirection to maintain the anger and ignorance of the Republican  "grassroots."  Looks like your methods haven't changed.

BONUS:  Charles P. Pierce notices the same cognitive dissonance:

Luntz is chief among those in what is laughably referred to as a "Republican establishment" who are terrified of The Libidinous Visitor [i.e., Trump] when they should be more terrified of the audience to whom he is appealing, and the very large box of rocks that this now largely vestigial "Republican establishment" has spent almost four decades building.

BONUS II:  Nancy LeTourneau on the dangers of the right wing's "epistemic closure."
 
(Photo: Republican "word doctor" Luntz - physician, heal thyself)

"Democrats Need To Start Out-Luntzing Republicans"

In his "New Rules," Bill Maher suggests that Democrats emulate Republican "truth abuser" "wordsmith" Frank "Dunce" Luntz (via C&L):