{"id":10511,"date":"2014-01-06T17:43:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-06T17:43:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:43:39","slug":"frank_luntz_is_depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/01\/06\/frank_luntz_is_depressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Luntz is Depressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/55103\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">RUSH: You know Frank Luntz, the pollster, Frank Luntz? There\u2019s a story here at Mediaite. I just got this. We\u2019ll get to the Obama soap opera just a second, \u2019cause it\u2019s classic. It\u2019s already begun. I\u2019ll set the plot line for you here in just a mere moment. Apparently, it\u2019s a profile of Frank Luntz who, as you know, does political focus groups on Fox. He assembles a bunch of people that are said to be a cross-section of America, and he gives \u2019em little electronic devices, and they register their opinion and other reactions as they\u2019re listening to things.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Then after what it is they\u2019re watching is over, Luntz goes in there and interviews them and has a group discussion with the focus group. Now, the profile of Luntz in The Atlantic says that Luntz sunk into a depression following the 2012 election after Obama won. &#8220;Luntz described himself as &#8216;less healthy now than [he has] ever been in [his] life,\u2019 sleeping two or three hours at a time and fretting over the future of his career in political consulting. The Atlantic\u2019s Molly Ball wrote: &#8216;The crisis began, he says, after last year\u2019s presidential election, when Luntz became profoundly depressed.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_85565\" class=\"aligncenter\" align=\"middle\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/FrankLuntzPIX.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">&#8220;For more than a month, he tried to stay occupied, but nothing could keep his attention. Finally, six weeks after the election, during a meeting of his consulting company in Las Vegas, he fell apart. Leaving his employees behind, he flew back to his mansion in Los Angeles, where he stayed for three weeks, barely going outside or talking to anyone.'&#8221; Well, if that\u2019s the definition of depressed count me in, \u2019cause that\u2019s me. Sequestered and not talking? That, to me, is freedom.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">But for Luntz, it was the definition of depression. He said, &#8220;&#8216;I just gave up,\u2019 the pollster said. After the election, he seemingly realized Americans want to &#8216;impose their opinions rather than express them,'&#8221; that\u2019s a quote, &#8220;and that a divided country will find it harder to warmly receive his conservative sales pitches. &#8216;I\u2019m not good enough,\u2019 he said. &#8216;And I hate that. I have come to the extent of my capabilities. And this is not false modesty. I think I\u2019m pretty good. But not good enough.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">&#8220;&#8216;The old Frank Luntz was sure he could invent slogans to sell the righteous conservative path of personal responsibility and free markets to anyone &#8230; The new Frank Luntz fears that is no longer the case, and it\u2019s driving him crazy.\u2019 According to the profile, Luntz is considering breaking into Hollywood as a consultant, as he no longer works any existing political contracts and has apparently submitted many pitches to studios.&#8221;<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\"><img xhtml:id=\"eZObject_85569\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/LuntzFpx_large.jpg\"\/>So he can\u2019t do it, can\u2019t persuade. I didn\u2019t know that\u2019s what he was doing. Snerdley, did you know that\u2019s what he was doing? Folks, honestly now. I\u2019m, again, not trying to be provocative. I had no idea Luntz was trying to persuade people. I thought what Luntz was doing was focus groups and learning what people thought about things and going on TV with it. I didn\u2019t know that Luntz was trying to win anything. I didn\u2019t know Luntz was trying to come up with slogans to help beat Obama.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">I had no idea that\u2019s what Luntz was trying to do. His focus groups were an attempt to persuade people of conservatism? Get this from the piece. &#8220;Luntz mostly all says he wishes we would stop yelling at one another. He dreams of drafting some of the rich CEOs that he\u2019s friends with to come up with a plan for saving America from its elected officials.&#8221; Well, the No Labels bunch? I\u2019m just telling you, I\u2019m honestly surprised here. I did not&#8230; Look, if Luntz was trying to affect the outcome of elections, he coulda done those focus groups in an entirely different way.<\/p>\n<paragraph xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Anyway, so Luntz is now gonna try to work for Hollywood, these rich CEOs, and get them to run and so forth. Depressed for three weeks? (interruption) What? I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know if he was Perot\u2019s pollster or not. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know. But he\u2019s lived in Hollywood for a long time. This is not new. But, I mean, he\u2019s been trying to get in his consulting firm with people in Hollywood. That isn\u2019t really new. I guess it is to The Atlantic. I\u2019m literally surprised to learn that Luntz was trying to persuade people. That doesn\u2019t make sense with what I saw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: You know Frank Luntz, the pollster, Frank Luntz? There\u2019s a story here at Mediaite. I just got this. We\u2019ll get to the Obama soap opera just a second, \u2019cause it\u2019s classic. It\u2019s already begun. I\u2019ll set the plot line for you here in just a mere moment. 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