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Exposure Of Fox Pollster Betrays Media Slant Against Ron Paul
Congressman's supporters confront Frank Luntz

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, Jan 07, 2008


Frank Luntz, a political pollster who regularly appears on Fox news' presidential race analysis and has been heavily criticized for his manipulative methods and slanted coverage, has finally been exposed for the fraud he is after it emerged that his "randomly selected" and "undecided" focus groups, that constitute the figures for his news features, are being populated by the same people months apart from each other.

Watch the following video for the evidence:





The same man appeared twice, four months apart, as part of Luntz's and Fox's post-GOP debate "random" focus group!

Luntz describes his profession as "testing language and finding words that will help his clients sell their product or turn public opinion on an issue or a candidate."

He has won hundreds of polls for private corporations and lobbying groups but is better known for his work with Republican politicians.

In a January 9, 2007, interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Luntz redefined the term "Orwellian" in a positive sense, saying that if one reads Orwell's Essay On Language, "To be 'Orwellian' is to speak with absolute clarity, to be succinct, to explain what the event is, to talk about what triggers something happening…and to do so without any pejorative whatsoever."

He attracted a great deal of attention after the Penn and Teller piece, featured in the video above, further exposed his manipulative methods of "getting the right answers".


Luntz has been accused of skewing research results to reflect more favorably on specific clients. In 1997, he was reprimanded by the American Association for Public Opinion Research and in 2000 he was censured by the National Council on Public Polls.

Given that the Luntz's plant is first seen to be endorsing McCain and then four months later Romney, it cannot necessarily be said that Luntz is attempting to sway public opinion toward one particular GOP candidate. However, he and Fox News are undoubtedly concerned with shifting the focus away from one candidate. Ron Paul.

Between Fox ejecting Paul from the debate in New Hampshire just two evenings before perhaps his strongest chance of a result, and Luntz's "random" focus group singing the praises of Mitt Romney, these two artisans of fairness and balance have done a sterling job in shifting some of the focus away from a snowballing Ron Paul revolution.

Luntz previously attracted the attention of Ron Paul supporters after it was reported that he spent the entirety of one 'focus' group ridiculing the Congressman in front of the 29 people in attendance.

Last night Luntz was confronted by Paulites outside the Merrimack Restaurant, the site of his focus group, on the main street of Manchester, across the street from the Radisson Hotel where protesters also confronted Sean Hannity last night.

The supporter who filmed the confrontation also claims he managed to infiltrate Luntz's focus group and secretly taped the whole show. Chris Brunner blasted Luntz for again allegedly making negative remarks against Ron Paul during the meeting, and has vowed to publish the video on his website.

Paul's supporters had been yelling in the window and formed a constant flow of signs parading back and forth, to which Luntz responded by calling them "mean."

"We're mad because the Fourth Estate has been taken away from us," a voice yelled out to Luntz.

"You are ignoring America's savior!" shouted another.

As Luntz walked away he shouted "I don't owe you guys anything."

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We Are Change group ask arch-elitist why he admits to working to destroy America in his own book... Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, May 29, 2007 As part of a blitz of recent activism in which Al Gore, Rudy Giuliani and the CFR were all confronted, Infowars reporter Luke Rudkowski and the rest of the We Are Change crew went face to face with evil when they paid a visit to arch-elitist David Rockefeller at his own home in New York.
The group scouted out Rockefeller's address and waited for him to exit, watched closely by security guards, before informing him of the fact that a citizen's grand jury was seeking his indictment for his involvement in 9/11. Rockefeller, stooped and shuffling like some evil hunchback cartoon character, did his best to ignore the group and enter a waiting car while his security pushed away the activists. Rudkowski made it clear to Rockefeller that "We know about your New World Order, we won't be silenced about it - national sovereignty will prevail - you guys will never have a New World Order." The group were then threatened by security and told to "Take your story some place else."
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"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it," Rockefeller writes on page 405. The WeAreChange.org group have been on a blitz of activism in recent weeks, confronting Al Gore, Rudy Giuliani, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Council on Foreign Relations as well as Larry Silverstein, during which one of Silverstein's security thugs called in a hoax bomb threat to try and get the group arrested and was later fired.

Ron Paul Is my Hero...

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Ron Paul Goes On The Offensive In Austin Slams rival candidates as establishment shills, attacks GOP factions who tried to bar him from debates, exposes New World Order and military-industrial complex. Paul Joseph Watson & Aaron Dykes Prison Planet Monday, May 21, 2007 During a campaign stop in Austin Texas this weekend, Presidential candidate Ron Paul called for bringing home U.S. troops and an end to a welfare state that benefits only big business at the expense of the poor and the middle class, while attacking his rival candidates as establishment shills who are out of touch with the sentiment of the American people. The Texas Congressman also slammed the New World Order, the North American Union and the move towards global government which is being implemented partly by the erosion of U.S. sovereignty and the Bush administration's suicidal immigration policy. "I think even our first President Bush said that the New World Order was in tune and that's what they were working for. The U.N. is part of that government. They're working right now very significantly for a North American Union - that's why there are a lot of people in Washington right now who don't care too much about our borders. They have a philosophic belief that national sovereignty is not important. It's also the reason that I have made very strong suggestion that we need not be in the United Nations for our national security," Congressman Paul said. During the event, Paul called for the troops to be brought home and chastised the Democrats for failing to offer any alternatives for the catastrophe in Iraq. "As a physician, I was always taught, if you give the wrong diagnosis, the wrong treatment, just doing more of the same does nothing to help the patient," Paul said. The Congressman cited the legacy of the founding fathers in warning against becoming involved in foreign entanglements. "The founders were absolutely right on this issue-- that if you talk with people and make friends with people and trade with people, we're much better off than trying to impose our will on them," said Paul. "This actually did not start with this administration nor the previous administration. This has been smoldering for about 100 years. It was Woodrow Wilson that said 'We as Americans will make the world safe for democracy.' And look what's happened since World War I," added the Congressman.
The presidential candidate also laughed off the suggestion from Neo-Cons that he should have run as a Democrat, citing his record as the most conservative member of the House as an example of how warped the partisan political spectrum had become. The Congressman found it telling that some factions of the GOP were trying to bar the most Constitutional-orientated candidate from even taking part in future televised debates. This followed a move which was later dropped on behalf of the Michigan branch of the Republican Party to bar Paul from future events. "Isn't it interesting that the establishment figures that the one who most defends the Constitution has to be eliminated from the debates - what's going on in this country?" asked Paul. Elaborating, Paul attacked his rival candidates for being establishment shills with policies sympathetic only to the elite and contrary to the sentiment of the majority of American citizens, adding that they had only "dug themselves into a hole" by refusing to acknowledge the fact that 70% oppose the war. The Congressman also sounded off on the welfare state, stating that while some welfare, mostly crumbs, goes to the poor, most welfare actually goes to "the military industrial complex and to bankers," a problem he would address as President. Prison Planet.tv subscribers will be able to watch the entire Ron Paul campaign event in high quality later today. Not a member? Please consider the great benefits of subscribing by clicking here. We have also just launched our Community Forum, which is proving immensely popular amongst subscribers in that it allows them to network with other like-minded folks and organize activist projects with people in their area.
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Feb. 25, 2007 - Let’s look at using the Creative Process for those who feel they are overweight and who want to lose weight. The first thing to know is that if you focus on losing weight, you will attract back having to lose more weight, so get “having to lose weight” out of your mind. It’s the very reason why diets don’t work. Because you are focused on losing weight, you must attract back continually having to lose weight. The second thing to know is that the condition of being overweight was created through your thought to it. To put it in the most basic terms, if someone is overweight, it came from thinking “fat thoughts,” whether that person was aware of it or not. A person cannot think “thin thoughts” and be fat. It completely defies the law of attraction. Whether people have been told they have a slow thyroid, a slow metabolism, or their body size is hereditary, these are all disguises for thinking “fat thoughts.” If you accept any of those conditions as applicable to you, and you believe it, it must become your experience, and you will continue to attract being overweight. After I had my two daughters I was overweight, and I know it came from listening to and reading the messages that it is hard to lose weight after having a baby, and even harder after the second baby. I summoned exactly that to me with those “fat thoughts,” and it became my experience. I really “beefed up,” and the more I noticed how I had “beefed up,” the more “beefing up” I attracted. With a small frame, I became a hefty 143 pounds, all because I was thinking “fat thoughts.” The most common thought that people hold, and I held it too, is that food was responsible for my weight gain. That is a belief that does not serve you, and in my mind now it is complete balderdash! Food is not responsible for putting on weight. It is your thought that food is responsible for putting on weight that actually has food put on weight. Remember, thoughts are primary cause of everything, and the rest is effects from those thoughts. Think perfect thoughts and the result must be perfect weight. Let go of all those limiting thoughts. Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can. The definition of the perfect weight is the weight that feels good for you. No one else’s opinion counts. It is the weight that feels good for you. You most likely know of someone who is thin and eats like a horse, and they proudly declare, “I can eat whatever I want and I am always the perfect weight.” And so the Genie of the Universe says, “Your wish is my command!” To attract your perfect weight and body using the Creative Process, follow these steps: Step 1: Ask Get clear on the weight you want to be. Have a picture in your mind of what you will look like when you have become that perfect weight. Get pictures of yourself at your perfect weight, if you have them, and look at them often. If not, get pictures of the body you would like to have and look at those often. Step 2: Believe You must believe you will receive and that the perfect weight is yours already. You must imagine, pretend, act as if, make-believe, that the perfect weight is yours. You must see yourself as receiving that perfect weight. Write out your perfect weight and place it over the readout of your scale, or don’t weigh yourself at all. Do not contradict what you have asked for with your thoughts, words, and actions. Don’t buy clothes at your current weight. Have faith and focus on the clothes you are going to buy. Attracting the perfect weight is the same as placing an order with the catalogue of the Universe. You look through the catalogue, choose the perfect weight, place your order, and then it is delivered to you. Make it your intention to look for, admire, and inwardly praise people with your idea of perfect-weight bodies. Seek them out and as you admire them and feel the feelings of that-you are summoning it to you. If you see people who are overweight, do not observe them, but immediately switch your mind to the picture of you in your perfect body and feel it. Step 3: Receive You must feel good. You must feel good about You. This is important, because you cannot attract your perfect weight if you feel bad about your body now. If you feel bad about your body, that is a powerful feeling, and you will continue to attract feeling bad about your body. You will never change your body if you are critical of it and find fault with it, and in fact you will attract more weight to you. Praise and bless every square inch of your body. Think about all the perfect things about You. As you think perfect thoughts, as you feel good about You, you are on the frequency of your perfect weight, and you are summoning perfection. Wallace Wattles shares a wonderful tip about eating in one of his books. He recommends that when you eat, make sure you are entirely focused on the experience of chewing the food. Keep your mind present and experience the sensation of eating food, and do not allow your mind to drift to other things. Be present in your body and enjoy all the sensations of chewing the food in your mouth and swallowing it. Try it the next time you are eating. When you are completely present as you eat, the flavor of the food is so intense and magnificent; when you let your mind drift, the flavor virtually disappears. I am convinced that if we can eat our food in the present, entirely focused on the pleasurable experience of eating, the food is assimilated into our bodies perfectly, and the result in our bodies must be perfection. The end of the story about my own weight is that I now maintain my perfect weight of 116 pounds and I can eat whatever I want. So, focus on your perfect weight. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17317691/site/newsweek/?GT1=9951
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11 Truth Movement as guests on the show. O'Donnell had met with 9/11 truth crusader and World Trade Center hero William Rodriguez before she went public with her comments on The View questioning the suspicious collapse of Building 7. Pictured above is Rosie holding the famous key that Rodriguez used in the twin towers during the rescue efforts. Rodriguez was instrumental in arranging the appearance of 9/11 first responders on The View which is set to air Friday. Rosie has attempted to get William Rodriguez on the show as a guest on numerous occasions over the last few weeks but was rebuffed by program directors every time due to Rodriguez's vocal stance that 9/11 was an inside job. O'Donnell again attempted to simply mention Rodriguez's today but was shouted down. Rosie was told almost from day one that she could not mention U.S. troop casualty figures in Iraq and the cover-up of the real death count, despite the fact that Neo-Con panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck was given free reign and allowed to say what she liked, including referring to the Iraqi people as "animals." The fact that O'Donnell was blocked from talking about dead U.S. troops feeds into the same censorship that bars the media from filming coffins of returning soldiers at Dover AFB and other locations.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet leader in activist media - Prison Planet.tv. Thousands of special reports, videos, MP3's, interviews, conferences, speeches, events, documentary films, books and more - all for just 15 cents a day! Click here to subscribe! Find out the true story behind government sponsored terror, 7/7, Gladio and 9/11, get Terror Storm! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the primary reasons why O'Donnell rejected ABC's contract offer was because the show's Neo-Con producer, Bill Geddie, was continually editing her statements and censoring what could be broadcast. The View is normally pre-taped and aired the next day but occasionally on Tuesdays or Thursdays the broadcast goes out live. Sources tell us that O'Donnell would choose the live show to make statements about 9/11, but that after the initial furore, Geddie even resorted to inserting a delay between the recording and the transmission so that he could live edit controversial statements he didn't like. Barbara Walters also told People Magazine that even outside of the show, Rosie was discouraged from blogging because ABC were fearful of the content on her website. Following her decision to reject ABC's offer of a new three year contract under the proviso that Rosie accept censorship of her comments, Fox News and other Neo-Con hacks are claiming that O'Donnell was fired from The View, a total lie designed to chill free speech and scare other prominent individuals into keeping quiet. Much to the chagrin of those that tried to have Rosie kicked off the air altogether, according to reports O'Donnell plans to launch her own TV show next year absent the censorship she has had to endure at the hands of ABC.
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Hypocrite O'Reilly Milks Rosie "Feud" To Rescue Failing Show Abandons rhetoric of ignoring "lunacy" to exploit brief ratings surge Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, April 3, 2007 Despite calling for the whole issue to be marginalized little over a week ago, hypocrite Bill O'Reilly has decided to throw his weight behind creating a feud with Rosie O'Donnell in a desperate attempt to boost ratings for his failing Fox News show. During a radio interview with billionaire Mark Cuban on the Friday March 23 broadcast of O'Reilly's Radio Factor show, O'Reilly argued that the 9/11 truth movement should be marginalized and that "lunacy shouldn't be given legitimacy" by affording it any attention. Yet since that broadcast, O'Reilly has given Rosie O'Donnell's 9/11 stance prime coverage on no less than three more occasions alone on his TV show and also discussed it further on his radio show. If this is how O'Reilly defines not giving something attention, then we have to wonder what he would have done had he really pushed the issue! Renamed his show the O'Donnell Factor? The pathetic truth of the matter is that Bill O'Reilly is attempting to manufacture a feud with Rosie O'Donnell because he knows O'Donnell has viewers and he doesn't. ABC's The View averages over twice as many viewers as O'Reilly's show, reaching a total of around 30 million viewers throughout the course of the entire show. O'Donnell has introduced 600,000 new viewers since she took the helm in September 2006. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet leader in activist media - Prison Planet.tv. Thousands of special reports, videos, MP3's, interviews, conferences, speeches, events, documentary films, books and more - all for just 15 cents a day! Click here to subscribe! Find out the true story behind government sponsored terror, 7/7, Gladio and 9/11, get Terror Storm! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly's viewership has been in freefall since his October 2004 sex scandal, dropping from a height of around 3.1 million to just over 2 million in October 2006 and leveling of at that rate to the present day. O'Reilly has lost over a third of his audience in two years, but since he began his feverish coverage of O'Donnell's comments nearly two weeks ago, his ratings have experienced a brief spike. Bill O'Reilly may be a thug and a bully but he's a calculating one at that, deciding to abandon his rhetoric of "marginalizing cranks" by ignoring them and going hell for leather to exploit Rosie O'Donnell's popularity in an attempt to rescue his failing television career. O'Donnell's feud with Donald Trump was a ratings boon for both of them and O'Reilly fully recognizes the opportunity to stick his foot in the door on this one. O'Reilly went out all guns blazing yesterday in his continued attempts to attack O'Donnell for her public stance on 9/11, devoting two segments of his own show to the story and appearing on another Fox News show later in the evening to hype the feud. We would encourage Rosie O'Donnell to continue simply asking the questions that need to be asked about 9/11, while avoiding becoming embroiled in a spat with attention seeking loser O'Reilly, whose only agenda is to claim O'Donnell's potential dismissal as a feather in his cap while briefly rejuvenating his declining TV crapfest.
Will Iran War Start On Friday? Russian Intelligence claims widely reported by media Steve Watson Infowars.net Monday, April 2, 2007
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Last weekend saw widespread reports in the mainstream media that the United States will be ready to launch a missile attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as soon as early this month, perhaps "from 4 a.m. until 4 p.m. on April 6."
An AP report printed in the Jerusalem Post, amongst others, stated on Sunday that Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported that Russian intelligence sources say the US has devised a plan to attack several targets in Iran, and an assault could be carried out by launching missiles from fighter jets and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf.
Those who work in and frequently read the alternative media will recognise that the mainstream has finally picked up on a report from a Russian journalist, written weeks ago, which was first exposed in the US and the UK by sites such as Rense.com, Infowars and What Really Happened.
Andrei Uglanov, in the Moscow weekly "Argumenty Nedeli", wrote that an attack is slated to last for twelve hours from 4 AM until 4 PM local time. Friday is a holiday in Iran. In the course of the attack, code named Operation Bite, about 20 targets are marked for bombing; the list includes uranium enrichment facilities, research centers, and laboratories.
Citing Russian military experts close to the Russian General Staff, Uganov stated that the first reactor at the Bushehr nuclear plant, where Russian engineers are working, is supposed to be spared from destruction. The US attack plan reportedly calls for the Iranian air defense system to be degraded, for numerous Iranian warships to be sunk in the Persian Gulf, and the for the most important headquarters of the Iranian armed forces to be wiped out.
Uglanov's article was re-issued by Russian outlet RIA-Novosti, who sought verification from retired Russian Colonel General, Leonid Ivashov.
Ivashov confirmed its essential features in a March 21 interview, stating "I have no doubt that there will be an operation, or more precisely a violent action against Iran...We have drawn the unmistakable conclusion that this operation will take place... Most probably there will be no ground attack, but rather massive air attacks with the goal of annihilating Iran's capacity for military resistance, the centers of administration, the key economic assets, and quite possibly the Iranian political leadership, or at least part of it,"
Ivashov is now the Vice President of the Moscow Academy for Geopolitical Sciences.
The AP and the Jerusalem Post, however, failed to mention the retired General's comments, instead simply stating "The Russian Defense Ministry rejected the claims of an imminent attack as myths."
Other reports also released last weekend suggest that the attack is going ahead but not until the Summer. Israel's military intelligence chief, Major-General Amos Yadlin also told the Israeli cabinet Sunday that Iran is making defensive preparations for what it fears will be a U.S. military attack this summer.
Whether it be this Friday or this Summer, both Russian and Israeli intelligence sources agree that there is going to be an attack.
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The situation grows increasingly tense as Iran still holds the fifteen British soldiers that allegedly trespassed into Iranian waters. Iranian state television said on Monday it had detected a shift in British policy that could help to resolve the crisis, but did not give specific details. New footage was shown on Sunday night of two of the Britons pointing to a map to show where they were seized and saying they were picked up in Iranian territory. In a commentary accompanying the images, the television report said: "It seems that Britain has shifted a little bit from its stance in the last one or two days over the undeniable facts and from some of its clamor. Meanwhile an article on the capture, written by former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, was published in the Mail on Sunday. Murray slammed the spin and rhetoric Tony Blair has cased the crisis in: " It is the burial of this truth by No 10 spin doctors, and Tony Blair's remark that he is 'utterly certain' the incident took place within Iraqi territorial limits, that has escalated this from an incident to a crisis. Blair is being fatuous. How can you be certain which side of a boundary you are when that boundary has never been drawn?" The US waded into the situation on Saturday with President Bush issuing a statement a full support for the British Government: "The British hostage issue is serious because the Iranians took these people out of Iraqi water. It's inexcusable behavior. I strongly support the Blair government's attempts to resolve this peacefully," he said, referring to British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Meanwhile covert operations inside Iran continue. Last Thursday Iranian officials at the consulate in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra claimed that they had been surrounded and attacked by British troops. “Following British forces’ movements and shootout around the Iranian consulate in Basra the foreign ministry submitted a note of protest to the British embassy in Tehran” on March 30, the Iranian ministry said. The British military denied any such incident occurred, saying its soldiers had come under fire during a routine patrol near the consulate but did not leave their vehicles. It has also been reported today that US warplanes have violated Iranian airspace in the southwestern oil province of Khuzestan. The Arabic language channel of Iranian state television quoted a local military chief as saying on Sunday that "Two US aircraft trespassed into Iranian airspace northwest of (the port city of) Abadan before flying southwest into Iraq." A US military spokesman told AFP that he had investigated the Iranian military's claim and found no evidence to support it. Such skirmishes and incursions seem to be increasing as tensions rise, even TIME magazine is now reporting that fighting, albeit on a small scale is already breaking out between US and Iranian troops on the Iraqi/Iranian border.
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