A Professional Hypnotist Examines the Tactics of Media Manipulator Frank Luntz

This is a follow up article to “A Professional Hypnotist Provides Analysis of the Media & Ron Paul Critics”. The first article exposed how the old media brainwashes and deceives the American public. Today we will examine a man who personifies the corruption of today’s media. Frank Luntz is a political “pollster” who is given authority by the unfair and corrupt FOX news. He has been censured repeatedly for his questionable polling tactics, and in 1997 was formally reprimanded by the American Association for Public Opinion Research. Luntz shows no shame in how he operates.

As a professional hypnotist, I will admit he is a master of language and phrasing. Luntz knows how to frame ideas to influence and sway his handpicked “focus groups”. In some of the later Fox debates of 2007 into 2008, a group of smart Ron Paul supporters discovered that Luntz used the same “undecided voters” at different post debate focus groups. Hence, we have the same man who was an undecided voter in one state now miraculously undecided in another state. The repeat focus group attendees coincidently love the same candidate Fox is shilling at the time (creating multiple early primary winners, thus opening the door for Giuliani’s Feb 5th late sweep plan). Another patriotic Ron Paul supporter infiltrated a Luntz Focus group (no doubt having to act like an ignorant neocon to fool Luntz), and audio recorded the proceedings. He taped Luntz steering the non-actors of the group to support the Fox chosen golden candidate of the moment, and belittled Ron Paul to the group. Along with the plants who obey the Fox and Luntz agenda, there is no doubt Luntz hand selects who he adds to the group. This is similar to a stage hypnotist, who invites people to come on stage, but then pulls out the people who are not Somnambulists (the hyper-suggestible). Somnambulists go into trance faster than most people. As children, they had a tendency to walk and talk in their sleep, and also may have experienced sleep paralysis (waking up in the middle of a dream, a state of being awake but unable to move the body). Somnambulists do not necessarily have a low IQ, they are just hyper-suggestible (although there are many low IQ somnambulists as well). That is why we all know seemingly smart people who support establishment candidates like Giuliani and Clinton, as they have been conditioned by the media to believe that terrorists hate us for our freedom, they have been conditioned to LOVE big government. So along with these natural somnambulists, you also have the larger group of society created somnambulists. These people were not born hyper-suggestible, but the pace of our modern OVERLOAD SOUNDBITE SOCIETY has created a population of hyper-suggestible people. The rest of society who support the establishment are either apathetic, ignorant, or mentally challenged.

Those of us who support Ron Paul’s message of liberty and peace are awake, and can see through the deception.

So Luntz stacks his focus group with plants and somnambulists, apathetic and ignorant people, and those with a low IQ (having watched the focus groups, it seems that some of those people are all of the above!). He then uses this forum to sway the general public watching the debates on television. As I pointed out in my previous article, the television is the greatest mass brainwashing tool ever created. “Programs” and “television programming” take on a more sinister meaning once you understand how deep television can affect your view of reality. Those of us who are awake are still in the minority, so we have to educate the rest of the population. The good news is that somnambulists can be swayed to the truth- the challenge is that the powers that be and the old media they control don’t want us to know the truth.

Frank Luntz is a media tool who shapes the perceptions of the somnambulists, the ignorant, the apathetic, and those with a low IQ. But who is Frank “FU” Luntz (FU Frank coined by the great Penn and Teller, who exposed Luntz in their “Bullshit!” video series). In the video piece, Luntz revealed his goal is “to ask a question in a way that you get the right answer”. He came to fame for his work on the Republican Party’s “Contract with America”. Since then Luntz has worked for MSNBC (dropped from that job because of a letter sent by Media Matters outlining Luntz’s GOP ties and corrupt practices). He has worked for the GOP including Giuliani, and most recently Fox news. Some of his devious abuse of language includes “energy exploration” (for oil drilling) and the “Healthy Forests Initiative” for policies that benefited the lumber industry (cutting down more trees). in 2007 Luntz stated, “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.” In observing Luntz, it seems that he has been trained in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). NLP is a powerful self improvement technology created by Bandler and Grinder, who studied the great therapists of the time, in hopes to discover what made these therapists so successful. One of the therapists they studied was master hypnotist Dr. Milton Erickson. NLP aims to increase behavioral choice by the manipulation of personal state, belief and internal representation. Body language reading and modeling is one of the components of NLP as well. Motivational speaker Anthony Robbins brought NLP to the masses, and it is an effective tool for self improvement, and can also be used for the manipulation that Luntz is famous for.

What can us Ron Paul supporters do to counter the smears, manipulation, and blacklisting of the establishment media? The somnambulists can wake up and the establishment media knows this, so they try to minimize, ignore, ridicule, and smear Ron Paul and his supporters. However, we have the power of the internet. It is the great equalizer. Frank Luntz has been exposed on youtube. Like minded enlightened people have joined the Ron Paul Revolution. We are growing in numbers. Our message needs to spread, using these principles of influence-

1. DISTRIBUTION- spread the message, keep it positive.

2. REPETITION- the media knows this well. We have to not only spread the message, but it needs to be repeated. Repetition creates influence.

3. ASSOCIATION- we need to continue to associate Dr. Paul with his powerful message of freedom, peace, and a strong economy. The media has tried to associate him with negativity, we must spread the TRUTH.

4. POWER WORDS- In spreading the message use POWER WORDS- positive words like FREEDOM, PRINCIPLED, PATRIOTIC, HONEST, all true descriptions of Dr. Paul and our movement.

5. BELIEVE- we create our reality. The reality is, Dr Paul has created a movement, and we are moving FORWARD. We are a group of patriotic Americans who are now a united, peaceful force for good.

6. EDUCATE OURSELVES- great teachers from Ron Paul to Mises can release people from their narrow view of the world. Learn how food (man made processed foods) can affect mood and health. Study personal empowerment systems like NLP and meditation. Keep your mind and body STRONG.

No matter what the old media and corrupt men like Frank Luntz try to do to sway the American public, Dr. Paul and the Revolution have TRUTH on their side. Let us remember to spread the truth with the same conviction and bravery as Ron Paul.