{"id":2282,"date":"2010-01-25T08:18:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2010-01-25T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T13:18:08","slug":"the-word-doctor-wants-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"The Word Doctor Wants to Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/cruise-cancellation/">Buy Xanax Online Without Prescription</a> That wily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworddoctors.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Luntz<\/a>. What&#8217;s he up to? Last week, the Republican pollster <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN21137517\" target=\"_blank\">advised<\/a> enviros on how to sell the congressional climate bill. (Don&#8217;t mention polar bears or cap and trade, the bill&#8217;s centerpiece. Instead, talk about energy security and jobs.) That&#8217;s quite a turnaround from the guy who, in 2002, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/node\/8684\" target=\"_blank\">counseled<\/a> the Bush Administration on how to avoid taking action on global warming (by, among other things, calling it climate change and playing up the scientific uncertainties).<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/private-label-services/"></a> The only problem with Luntz&#8217;s latest climate messaging advice is that Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/epw.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Majority.PressReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=0c00344c-802a-23ad-4f4d-edb0c9408d2e\" target=\"_blank\">already figured it out<\/a>. They tried that script before moving on to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/business-a-lobbying\/66415-senators-search-for-compromise-on-climate-bill\" target=\"_blank\">plan b<\/a>. No telling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/the-vine\/climate-bill-talks-still-chugging-along-where-are-they-leading\" target=\"_blank\">yet<\/a> whether the gang of three will have better luck working from it.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/resources/">https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/resources/</a> Still, it&#8217;s an interesting parlor game to divine Luntz&#8217;s motives. Is he a mercenary or a saboteur? Daniel Weiss over at Climate Progress probably could care less but in a guest post he <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/01\/22\/gop-dem-polls-show-climate-and-clean-energy-jobs-legislation-has-strong-bipartisan-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">obviously welcomes<\/a> Luntz&#8217;s polling results. CP readers, however, are suspicious (see <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/01\/22\/gop-dem-polls-show-climate-and-clean-energy-jobs-legislation-has-strong-bipartisan-support\/#comment-258285\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/01\/22\/gop-dem-polls-show-climate-and-clean-energy-jobs-legislation-has-strong-bipartisan-support\/#comment-258304\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), as is <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/oshagraydavidson\/2010\/01\/22\/word-dr-frank-luntz-kills-patient-reporters-cheer-successful-outcome\/\" target=\"_blank\">Osha Gray Davidson<\/a>, who smells something rotten. While Davidson is mighty suspicous of Luntz&#8217;s data and methodology, he doesn&#8217;t offer any theories on why Luntz would be echoing what many democrats still see as the climate bill&#8217;s strongest selling points&#8211;jobs and national security. Does Davidson think that Luntz secretly believes this is a losing strategy? Because it&#8217;s not clear to me why Davidson is so frothy over Luntz. Is it just a bad taste he can&#8217;t shake, or does he think Luntz is somehow outfoxing the democrats on the climate bill?<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/facilitationoverview/"></a> I thought some clues might be discerned at the roster of anti-environmental bloggers that specialize in mocking any morsel of good news that climate advocates might put to good use. But slim pickings there.\u00a0 Hardly any mentioned Luntz&#8217;s findings or his curious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poten.com\/NewsDetails.aspx?id=10316296\" target=\"_blank\">joint appearance<\/a> with EDF President Fred Krupp at the National Press Club. Notably, there was no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morano<\/a> link, and no sarcastic jab over at <a href=\"http:\/\/planetgore.nationalreview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Planet Gore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/terms/">https://forgive123.com/terms/</a> So either Morano&#8217;s circle is in on the con (unlikely) or they think Luntz is peddling some useful advice, which they&#8217;d prefer not to draw attention to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://www.andrewplimmer.com/business-tools-and-resources/">https://www.andrewplimmer.com/business-tools-and-resources/</a> That wily Frank Luntz. What&#8217;s he up to? Last week, the Republican pollster advised enviros on how to sell the congressional climate bill. (Don&#8217;t mention polar bears or cap and trade, the bill&#8217;s centerpiece. Instead, talk about energy security and jobs.) That&#8217;s quite a turnaround from the guy who, in 2002, counseled the Bush Administration&#8230;<span> <a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/implants/">https://dentalprovidence.com/implants/</a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=2282\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2553,2576],"tags":[835,880,1070],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-communication","tag-climate-change","tag-communication","tag-frank-luntz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}