{"id":24600,"date":"2011-12-02T00:23:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T00:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-frank-luntz-is-teaching-republicans-to-talk\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T00:23:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T00:23:02","slug":"how-frank-luntz-is-teaching-republicans-to-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-frank-luntz-is-teaching-republicans-to-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"How Frank Luntz is teaching Republicans to talk about Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/ticket\/republicans-being-taught-talk-occupy-wall-street-133707949.html'>How Frank Luntz is teaching Republicans to talk about Occupy Wall Street <\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/13597789507\">austinkleon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/03\/08\/134366924\/Frank-Luntz-How-To-Win-With-Smart-Messaging\">evil<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/itsallpolitics\/2011\/04\/06\/135184242\/gop-strategist-offers-npr-messaging-advice\">DoubleSpeak<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6761960\">genius<\/a> Frank Luntz is up to his old tricks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>1. Don\u2019t say \u2018capitalism.\u2019<br \/>2. Don\u2019t say that the government \u2018taxes the rich.\u2019 Instead, tell them that the government \u2018takes from the rich.\u2019<br \/>3. Republicans should forget about winning the battle over the \u2018middle class.\u2019 Call them \u2018hardworking taxpayers.\u2019<br \/>4. Don\u2019t talk about \u2018jobs.\u2019 Talk about \u2018careers.\u2019<br \/>5. Don\u2019t say \u2018government spending.\u2019 Call it \u2018waste.\u2019<br \/>6. Don\u2019t ever say you\u2019re willing to \u2018compromise.\u2019<br \/>7. The three most important words you can say to an Occupier: \u2018I get it.\u2019<br \/>8. Out: \u2018Entrepreneur.\u2019 In: \u2018Job creator.\u2019<br \/>9. Don\u2019t ever ask anyone to \u2018sacrifice.\u2019<br \/>10. Always blame Washington.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A must-listen is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6761960\">his interview with Terry Gross<\/a> where he explains how he substituted \u201cenergy exploration\u201d for \u201coil drilling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the fight is <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/tagged\/drew+westen\">Drew Westen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Thx, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alexanderchee\/statuses\/142322212488224769\">@alexanderchee<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Frank Luntz is teaching Republicans to talk about Occupy Wall Street austinkleon: The evil DoubleSpeak genius Frank Luntz is up to his old tricks: 1. Don\u2019t say \u2018capitalism.\u20192. Don\u2019t say that the government \u2018taxes the rich.\u2019 Instead, tell them that the government \u2018takes from the rich.\u20193. Republicans should forget about winning the battle over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6oM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}