ABC's This Week might as well be on Faux. Raddatz, Jon KARL & panel LUNTZ, "our" BRAZILE [View all]

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ON EDIT: Including the video (below) of This Week, with thanks to left-of-center2012!

RADDATZ has recovered from her Afghanistan tantrum now with Ukraine giving her another way to bash us, so there she was looking chipper "reporting" from Ukraine. Then for the domestic bashing, she passed the ball to KARL, who inherited the past ABC Brit HUME wingnut seat with his panel of LUNTZ, BRAZILE, somebody from Politico, and some dude who gave a barely Dem defense never to be heard again.

BRAZILE, who has been failing us since Coup 2000 and years past has bragged? she's footsie with Repuke operatives (ROVE?) and otherwise is just namby pamby useless to us, was in a thespian mood, flailing her arms around in the panoramic curved table and turning all full body around to engage LUNTZ exclusively.

And LUNTZ, in a full albeit short stretched hairpiece, who supposedly had deserted the Repuke party, inflated his past shrinking violet flunky demeanor into being the showstopper of today - first, zinging that "BIDEN ran as TRUMAN, thought he would govern as FDR, and is just CARTER" complete with the "malaise"and the "inflation" words, and then going for the full pitch of "Let's make NEWS - (Repukes) can take both houses."

Well today on This Week LUNTZ sounded like the ultimate Repuke operative again. It was a wingnut batter-fest with BRAZILE playing pillow fight. Time for another of my e-form rants to ABC.

For sure, the current generation of wingnuts don't even know who LUNTZ is and especially don't know the provenance of "DemoCRAT" vs "DemocratIC" except that they are supposed to use it because it is a badge of Wingnuttiness that irritates us, and for the younger DUers who might not know below is a rehash of an email I sent to the local radio wingnut yakshow host:

*******Email:

Wingnut zombies automatically use the noun “DemoCRAT” as an adjective, rather than the adjective “DemocratIC.” Viz., “DemoCRAT Party” instead of DemocratIC Party. The younger wingnuts don’t know the provenance of it, much less why it's supposed to be a slur, only use it as a wingnut meme that they were told irritates Dems, engrained by their Faux Propaganda Network stylebook.

When I mentioned a few years ago that this NOUN “Democrat” (as adjective) is a wingnut meme created by Frank LUNTZ, (local radio wingnut) knee-jerked disputed this, saying that saying “DemoCRAT” (as an adjective) was just normal rural speech that he personally had heard all his life. It never ceases to amaze me how somebody like him (my age) who considers himself a REPORTER (not to mention “raconteur”) somehow doesn’t keep up with run of the mill “news.” I distinctly remember GINGRICH, the Contract *ON* America, LUNTZ, LIMBAUGH launching them. LUNTZ had the gimmick of “focus groups” supposedly to test favorable/unfavorable words and to use the results as political propaganda weapons. So one of his brilliant findings was that people reacted unfavorably when “DemoCRAT” was used instead of “DemocratIC.” Apparently it didn’t occur to him that it SOUNDED BAD to people because it is UNGRAMMATICAL and therefore GRATES on the sensibilities.

So LUNTZ claimed it took his having a stroke to realize what a destructive jerk he has been to society, almost the way Lee ATWATER supposedly (but not really) repented about his evil ways on his deathbed, and he/LUNTZ defected from the Repuke party. He also says being attacked by Tucker CARLSON is also traumatic. But here he is, like real Repukes, calling America “a shit show.” Repukes, who all my life, claimed to be more American, more patriotic, more Christian, more supportive of law enforcement and military.

Yip, I’m thinking the “Civil War” (of 1860) was just Number One, like World War I and World War II, and American Civil War II is really coming.

******QUOTE*******

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/frank-luntz-polls-us-boris-johnson-b2002106.html

‘I want you to see what a s***show America is’: Veteran pollster (LUNTZ) warns UK against embracing US-style politics

.… ...the man (LUNTZ) who ended decades as a top GOP message guru by leaving the party last January… ….

A memorandum he allegedly wrote for Gopac called Language: A Key Mechanism of Control lays out “contrasting words” for Republicans to use when talking about Democrats. ….

The result, he said, was that America’s democracy had “seized up”. ….He lamented how the US political system had experienced a “loss of civility and decency” and was now filled with people unwilling to listen to other points of view. ....

The man who’d helped Newt Gingrich’s rise to power said he would take the blame for what he did to bring such vitriol into American politics two decades ago, but credited himself with realising how much damage it had done. ....

******UNQUOTE*****