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TOM KLUDT JANUARY 6, 2014, 8:02 AM EST
Republican messaging maven Frank Luntz wants to get into the movie business, but nobody in Hollywood seems willing to give him his big break.
At the end of a long piece in The Atlantic that details Luntz's self-loathing and despair with the American electorate, it's revealed that the man behind some of the GOP's favorite catch phrases aspires to work in "Hollywood as a consultant, but he can't get his calls returned."
Luntz' dream job, it turns out, is to serve as a consultant on "The Newsroom," Aaron Sorkin's HBO drama that depicts a sort of liberal fantasy of the press.
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FarPoint
(12,209 posts)This is the 2 and time he has been on in a week! I know because I findLutz iinfuriating and flip the station.
CTyankee
(63,771 posts)I think I'd RATHER throw up than talk to Luntz...
elfin
(6,262 posts)Marching orders from 60 minutes to contine right tilt?
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)You approve of "asshole free zones", don't you? All of our focus groups said they liked that.
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Typical Republican blame shifting. It is never about them. Oh no.
JHB
(37,133 posts)Ask yourself that.
Your name isn't a draw, you're vying for a gig where others have better contacts, and maybe -- just maybe -- you're not all that good a match for what they need, politics or not.