Does right-wing pollster propaganda-monger Frank Luntz, currently trying his luck in London, even comprehend the damage he has done in his flamboyant and greedy quest for fortune, influence and beltway insiderdom?
From a profile of Luntz in this morning’s Independent :
The man they called George Bush’s polling guru is also upset to be linked to an unpopular leader, and a string of discredited neo-con policies, such as (certain aspects of) the Iraq war, and the US withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.
He adopts a mea culpa approach to the latter, admitting to a degree of regret for having written a famously controversial memo advising Republicans how to rebut the science of global warming.
“Seven years ago there was a real battle over whether the earth was going through global warming,” says Luntz. “Now I don’t believe there is. I’m willing to accept the science as it is. I would not have written that memo today.”
Oh well, that’s all right then.
Luntz – a bloody paid pollster, for god’s sake, elected by no-one and accountable to no-one – by his own admission deliberately discouraged the world’s biggest contributor to global warming from doing anything about it. Now it’s too late.
Mea culpa? That fat fuckwit doesn’t know the meaning of the words. If he were really taking responsibility for what he’s done, he’d be committing public, ritual suicide by drowning himself in melting glacier water, not prancing about London sucking up to that murderer Bibi Netanyahu like some starstruck high-school kid spotting a jock.
“Bibi!” he shouts, rushing from the bar like an excited schoolchild. “I know him! I know that guy! Will you please excuse me a minute? I gotta say hello… Hey… Hey, Bibi!”
Five minutes later, Luntz returns triumphantly to our table. “You should have come,” he declares. “Netanyahu came in, and I said ‘hello’, and we talked. I did some work for him once, and he remembered. You see? I really do know these people!”
I can’t believe anyone in the British press or at the BBC takes this dangerous, self-interested clown seriously and furthermore I think British license-fee payers should be questioning why their hard-earned money is going into the pockets of such a blatant paid neocon-enabler and shill for Bushco.
You can make complaints to the BBC here.
