Colbert tells Luntz ‘climate change’ is ‘brilliant,’ not ‘manipulative’

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By Andrew Jones

Stephen Colbert knows that the art of persuasion is important in politics. And what better way of emphasizing that than to interview Frank Luntz.

The Comedy Central host chatted with the Republican pollster on Monday, focusing on Luntz’s political messaging philosophy, including his slogan of “It’s not what you say, but what you hear.”

Colbert also paid special attention in on Luntz’s preference to rephrase things, such as “energy exploration” instead of “oil drilling.” Based on that analogy, Colbert decided to come up with his own phrasing to apparently stump Luntz.

“Climate change, not global warming,” Colbert said, followed by a “Yes” from the political consultant. Colbert replied, “I think that is brilliant, not manipulative.”

The segment was inspired by President Obama happily claiming the right wing phrase “Obamacare” for health care insurance reform in his town hall event earlier in the week. “He broke up the word ‘Obamacare’ into ‘Obama care’, that’s not where that word came from,” Colbert said. “The etymology of ‘Obamacare’ is actually ‘O-bam-a-care! This indicates that the program is like a Buick that hits you at a crosswalk, who drags you into a government doctor, and replaces your lungs with a muffler.”

Watch the video, which first aired on Comedy Central on August 16, below

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/colbert-tells-luntz-climate-change-is-brilliant-not-manipulative/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Luntzfail!

[Bandit]

2. Luntz is the Republican's word wizard and Colbert had him befuddled

"Brilliant, not Manipulative" was perfect......

[bananas]

7. Colbert hired Luntz and will have more from him in coming weeks

Don't know if they showed it in the clip at rawstory, but it was on his tv show.

[theophilus]

3. I prefer "climate change" to "global warming", too. I just usually include

"catastrophic" as the first word. Using "global warming" just prompts teh stupid in the winter if anyone gets snow or colder than recent temps. I guess Luntz prefers "climate change" because it doesn't necessarily put the onus on us humans.

[Raschel]

4. I hear people talk about how intellectual Jon Stewart is, but I think Colbert has him beat!

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. The Progressive Party should hire Colbert to be their word wizard!

They should pay him BIG BUCKS to do for the Progressives what Luntz does for the Teabagger/Rethug Party. He would be worth every cent.

[DainBramaged]

6. I hope there is a special room in hell for Luntz

He has enabled this Republispeak for way too long.


Fucking whore.

http://www.theworddoctors.com/

You would think his website wasn't so shitty.

[truebrit71]

8. Amen to that...

...and yes Frank, we know that's a rug....get over it..