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To: Sedohr Nod who wrote (14867)	1/8/2008 2:44:24 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

Ron Paul Supporters Confront Frank Luntz By: Jane Hamsher Monday January 7, 2008 8:36 am firedoglake.com It's always great when Fox News calls for civility. After excluding Ron Paul (who is, per some polls, in a statistical tie for third in the GOP New Hampshire primary) from the debate last night, Fox's official pollster Frank Luntz's feathers were ruffled because a Paul supporter got into his focus group and taped the proceedings. The man claims that Luntz was slamming Paul to focus group members, and according to Melissa Bailey of the New Haven Independent, threatened to publish the video on his web site: Luntz charged the man with breaking the rules by recording the proceedings. “I’m not part of the media. I have a Web site,” said the Paul supporter, who slipped away before the Independent could ask his name. “You have a Web site,” echoed Luntz. “Yeah, that’s not the media!” said the man. Others chimed in — “The Internet doesn’t count.” Luntz charged the participant with subverting the poll. “Don’t you think you have a responsibility” to answer honestly to the questions? Luntz asked - or tried to, before he got cut off by raging Paulites. Oh that's rich. Last night's Fox event wasn't a debate, it was a public fluffing of John McCain (who taunted Paul the night before on his exclusion). Chris Wallace launched an open, bare knuckles attack on Huckabee, and the chiron ran a quote from Romney praising McCain's immigration plan when McCain was speaking. The GOP doesn't want Ron Paul messing up their private party with an anti-war message that is connecting with its few remaining members so they fixed the show and excluded him. How quaint that Luntz should start lecturing people on what's fair. Why don't they just stick a crown on McCain and be done with it? ---------------- comments: Redshift January 7th, 2008 at 8:41 am 6 Oh, I hope the guy puts the video up and it gets some traction. If it’s on YouTube, I bet Keith would run it. Luntz is such a creep, a “pollster” who was kicked out of the professional society of pollsters. Has a long history of running “focus groups” designed to produce a particular result. replyReply CTBob January 7th, 2008 at 8:41 am 12 Heh. I still get a kick out of John ”I went to the Mall of Baghdad with only ten armored Humvees, dozens of soldiers with rifles, and two Apache attack helicopters, and I swear everything was back to normal again” McCain. replyReply lisadawn82 January 7th, 2008 at 8:45 am 13 Gotta love it when you are screwed by you own rules. The MSM keeps on saying that blogs and individual web sites aren’t media. Ha, ha, ha. replyReply moondancer January 7th, 2008 at 8:46 am .... 219