It’s More Than a War of Words {article re: luntz & disaffected voters}

[xchrom]

http://inthesetimes.com/article/12564/its_more_than_a_war_of_words

You may recall, during the Bush reign, pollster and focus-group maven Frank Luntz invented “climate change,” the linguistically neutered–and for the oil industry the politically preferable–term for “global warming.”

Luntz is a smoke vendor. In Marxist jargon he is in the business of generating “false consciousness.” His mission: Obscure the fault lines in American society, and distract attention from the structures of wealth and power.

Conservatives rely on focus-group-tested talking points because they know that only a deceived and distracted populace–an infantilized 99%–will ever tolerate their regressive agenda.

The Right fears that if facts begin to matter, the obfuscations of focus-group-driven pollsters will be exposed for what they are: lies–or “misstatements of fact,” as President Ronald Reagan’s handlers called his prevarications during the Iran-Contra Scandal.

[MADem]

1. Luntz is a smoke vendor.

Heh heh, given Luntz's propensity for using those little "words that work," I have to figure that "smoke vendor" is a euphemism for "bullshit artist!"