Frank Luntz Defends Increasingly Incendiary Right-Wing Rhetoric: “They’re So Afraid”

[Joanne98]

In the wake of some criminal or morally reprehensible behavior by a brown person non-conservative, wingnuts absolutely hate any attempt to examine the psychological state of the culprit.

You saw this last week after the tragedy at Ft. Hood — they were besides themselves that the media reported the allegation that Nidal Hasan had been taunted because of his religion. OMG THE LIBRUL MEDIAS MAKING EXCUSES FOR THE TERRORIST OMG!

So it was amusing to see that pasty butterball Frank Luntz, wearing way too much makeup on “This Week”, telling us we really need to understand that those patriotic teabaggers were waving disgustingly graphic and wildly inappropriate holocaust signs because they’re just fearful for their children’s future. And we should understand that John Voight’s speculation that Obama had been “programmed” to “destroy America” was merely the result of his fear that his grandchildren would inherit a diminished America.

You know you’ve really screwed the pooch when you get put in your place by…Cokie Roberts

http://firedoglake.com/2009/11/08/frank-luntz-defends-increasingly-incendiary-right-wing-rhetoric-theyre-so-afraid/

[emulatorloo]

1. Well what the hell made them "Fearful"? Maybe all those BUZZWORDS that Luntz is so good at creating

[Faygo Kid]

2. Precisely. And their distribution through Fox News, talk radio and "FreedomWorks," et al.

They are all so transparent to any sentient beings, but they count on the teabaggers remaining non-sentient beings.

[flpoljunkie]

4. Buzzwords like 'government takeover of health care' which came directly from Luntz

The watered down version of the public option that passed in the House is likely to be eliminated entirely in the Senate and replaced with Olympia Snowe's 'trigger' option.

To call either of them a 'government take over health care' is truly laughable.

[azmouse]

3. The Republicans have been spewing the same old buzzwords

of "socialism" and Dems will "destroy America" for more than 50 years.
It's proof of how stupid Republicans are that they keep buying into the shit that is sold to them for so long.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Message to the Republicon Homelanders: "Nut up and shut up"

Try to act like real Americans -- you know, people from the land of the free and the home of the BRAVE.

Your fear-driven weaknesses -- and your pathetic chickenhawk 'leaders' and corporate media propaganda pimps -- are no way to run a great nation like the USA. They may work for your imaginary totalitarian Homeland. They definitely do not work for America and Americans.

[jenmito]

6. Last night I heard a few Repubs. in the House repeat some new words for HCR like

"bipartisan" and "solutions" and other words that make it seem like they want to do something about HCR. They're like retarded robots.

[Turbineguy]

7. Well, they are driven by fear.

The problem is they think they have a reason to be afraid. Fox tells them so.

If they turned off their teevee for 2 weeks (and listened to music on their radios instead of RW Hate) this would all go away.