Frank Luntz says no one is going to make fun of Giuliani's lisp after 9-11

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200711050001?f=h_top

Without mentioning he worked for Giuliani, WSJ quoted Luntz saying, "{N}o one's going to make fun of {Giuliani's lisp} after 9-11"

A November 3 Wall Street Journal article by June Kronholz on the impact of presidential candidates' voices -- which included the reported assessment by "leading voice experts" that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) "can sound shrill" and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) "can lack forcefulness" -- reported that "{v}oice coaches generally won't say whether they are helping a specific candidate, although none of those commenting in this article are involved in campaigns." The article went on to quote Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who discussed Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's lisp, saying, "It should have hurt him and it doesn't, and no one's going to make fun of him for it after 9/11." But the article made no mention of the fact that, while Luntz is not "involved" in Giuliani's current presidential campaign, he has previously worked for Giuliani, and he has repeatedly heaped praise on Giuliani this year.

As Media Matters for America noted, Luntz worked for Giuliani's three most recent political campaigns: his campaign for New York City mayor in 1993, re-election bid in 1997, and aborted campaign for U.S. Senate in 2000. On the second page of the introduction to his book, Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (Hyperion, January 2007), Luntz describes himself as "{T}he man who worked for Rudy Giuliani, two-time Republican mayor of a city where Democratic voters outnumbered Republicans 5-to-1 (xii)."

[Bluzmann57]

1. Nah, I would never make fun of a lisp

so I will make fun of Luntz instead. Why is this guy even relevant anymore? He is easier to see through than a new window. That's how transparent he is.

[MichaelHarris]

2. that's not a lisp

that's what lies sound like when they slip out.

[Bluebear]

3. Can we make fun of how he bulges his eyes apropos of nothing?

[CatWoman]

4. most of us are too busy making fun of his cross dressing

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

5. Did he focus group that?

He's probably right, anyway. Since 9/11 we've seen so many other reasons to make fun of him.

[JackBeck]

6. Guess they haven't been listening to Stephanie Miller. n/t

[JeffR]

7. "Fun" and "Giuliani" are words that don't belong together, period

Luntz, on the other hand, is a never-ending source of mirth, merriment and mockery.

[Cha]

8. More of the corporatemediawhores shilling

for fascists. frankfurter luntz is one of biggest whores in media..the corpheads must love his act.