Luntz: "Jimmy Carter was the first female president"
On Fox News' Fox & Friends, while discussing the electability of Sen. Hillary Clinton with a focus group in Ohio, pollster Frank Luntz called Jimmy Carter "the first female president."
During the March 5 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, while discussing the electability of Sen. Hillary Clinton with a focus group of young voters at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, pollster Frank Luntz claimed that "Hillary Clinton would not be the first female president. Jimmy Carter was the first female president."
Media Matters for America has previously highlighted comments Luntz made in front of focus groups he was conducting for Fox. During a March 2 edition of Fox News' America's Election HQ, Luntz falsely asserted to a focus group that Sen. Barack Obama "doesn't have foreign policy experience." On the February 21 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, while discussing a debate between Obama and Clinton, he asked a focus group: "[H]ow many of you want them to make love to each other?"
Luntz also reportedly has a history of reprimand and censure by his peers. In 1997, the American Association for Public Opinion Research reprimanded Luntz for refusing to release documentation in support of comments he made to the media regarding his polling work on the Contract with America, according to a 2000 Salon.com article. Similarly, Washington Post polling director Richard Morin reported in 2000 that the National Council on Public Polls "censured pollster Frank Luntz for allegedly mischaracterizing on MSNBC the results of focus groups he conducted during the [2000] Republican Convention."
From the March 5 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
LUNTZ: You guys -- how many of you saw Saturday Night Live? Did it humanize Hillary Clinton to you, or did it ridicule her?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't think it ridiculed her at all. I think that, you know, she is who she is, and that's, you know, how she stands for, so --
LUNTZ: Do you think she's electable?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think she's very electable. You know, a lot of the hot stuff about Hillary is, you know, people -- since she's a woman running for the highest position in the world, she has to, you know, position herself in a place where she can be electable, and I think that she is. She has come out hard against a lot of issues, and as we just saw in this clip, you know, it's easy to see that she really is sincere in everything that she says.
LUNTZ: Andrew?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, but sound bites and tears or not, there's one person qualified to be the commander in chief, and that's John McCain. You know, the other candidates have this myth of experience, and McCain is the one with real experience.
LUNTZ: And by the way, Hillary Clinton would not be the first female president. Jimmy Carter was the first female president.
ALISYN CAMEROTA (co-host): Hey. All right, we have so much more with all the students from Ohio University. We'll be right back.
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Exactly what was the joke here? I don't get it.
Jokes are supposed to be funny. And what's the reference point that's supposed to tickle the wit? I don't get the female part.
There's that "neutrality" coming out of him.
I'll tell you what, since he seems to believe that Democrats are a bunch of sissies, if Luntz ever sees this, I hereby formally challenge him to a no holds-barred throwdown (even though I'm not technically a Democrat.) And I'm not kidding. I will literally fight this man if I thought he had the balls to take me on.
Of course, Frank here doesn't like to be touched. So I assume he'd just sit back and throw un-witty retorts in my direction.
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Jimmy Carter was a premier nuclear submarine commander considered one of the Navy's top sub commanders before his father died and he had to take over the farm. He traversed the world, navigated under the ice cap, and was to be one of the Navy's up and coming brass.
Jimmy Carter after loosing his gubernatorial race took a year off, in his 50's, to work as a missionary in South Philadelphia in some of the meanest streets in America while Philly was at that time had the most racially ignorant police department in America. He knocked on doors to prosaltize in neighborhoods that Luntz would not be caught dead in.
Jimmy Carter refused to negotiate with terrorists, Ron Reagan traded guns for hostages with a secret deal before his election so he could act tough for the election. He sold drugs to Americans to finance an illegal war and sent Marines into a bloody civil war with little idea what their misson was that cost 241 Marines in Beriut and another 80 in the mountains.
Luntz never served a day in uniform. Luntz has never served anyone that didn't pay through the nose.
Manhood in the Republican eyes is a very confusing thing to be sure!
Happy Thoughts;
Dan Grady
Ronald Raygun was the 1st Alzenheimer's president.
Bush 1 was the 1st Botox president (read my lips!)
And Bush 2 is the 1st chimpanzee president.
There.
And Bush 2 is the 1st chimpanzee president.
Thanks Snoop I almost choked on my coffee laughing ;-)
Richard Nixon was the first "1984 Big Brother" president (attempting to monitor Democrats).
Al Gore was the first "royally screwed" president.
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George W. Bush is also the first Cheerleader Presidnt that I'm aware of.
Go USA! Fight! Fight! Fight! Yaaay...! <leaping into the air enthusiastically>
One more... George W. Bush is the first Crap in His Pants Scared President while the country was under attack.
"Uhhh..how about another chapter of that goat story since we got some timr to kill, class?"
In all seriousness, I believe James Earl Carter, Jr. is the first (and only) U.S. President to be a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland (Bachelor of Science degree in physics in 1946, he was 59th in a Class of 820).
Of further interest is the fact, that Mr. Carter is descended from a Soldier in the Confederate States Army (his great-grandfather, Walker Carter). That may be a first also, a U.S. President descended from a Confederate Soldier... I don't know.
He must be our only President to ever command a submarine in the U.S. Navy. Whether he is the only U.S. President to hold an engineering degree, or even a science degree, I also don't know, but it might be true.
Former President Carter is certainly not the first U.S. President to be a farmer, as that would have to be Gen. Washington, and perhaps several others, back in that time... but Mr. Carter is almost certainly the last (so far) President we have had, to be a farmer.
I'm of the opinion we could use more farmers as Presidents, be they like Gen. Washington or Lieutenant Carter... as a matter of fact, it seems that the rigors of farming and of Military Command are such, as to achieve and excel at either one, requires a certain amount of "potency"... to meet and exceed the rigors and challenges of both farming and Military Command, is rare and found in few men, such as it is found in former Presidents Washington and Carter...
And it seems a strange insult to call Mr. Carter a woman... as strange as it would be to have called Gen. Washington a woman.
I thought of that after I commented, to mention Mr. Carter's religious faith.
It would be ridiculous to have said he was the first religious man to be U.S. President, or the first Christian (the tone of the thread being kicked off by luntz's stupid comment, about what Mr. Carter might have been the "first" of, of our Presidents).
I think this of Mr. Carter's faith: Who can truly fathom the depths of any man's faith? We can't truly know, because we can't go to the place where that faith is found, to see if it is there. But we can see a man's actions in this world, and hear his words, and over time watch those actions and hear those words, and note to what degree they shift or degrade or otherwise undergo something to make us think them insincere, and merely "public professions" of a truly unverifiable faith...
I have not the least doubt as to the sincerity of Mr. Carter's faith, and of his devout Christianity.
There is no word or act of the man I have ever heard or seen, in all the years I have watched the man in his public life, to make me ever think he was less than the best of all Christians: The True Believer.
I don't know about "first" or "only" when it comes to that, in regard to U.S. Presidents.
But it sure seems rare.
Jimmy Carter was the first female president.
Huh? What is that supposed to even mean?
What is that supposed to even mean?
It's a gratuitous remark intended to imply that Carter is a WUSS, a weakling, ...like a woman. Luntz comes out with these kinds of remarks when he gets peeved by statements with which he disagrees. The unidentified male was making some favorable remarks about HRC and he didn't like it. Not knowing what else to say he blurts out schoolyard taunt.
yeah, where's the joke?
I saw Luntz do that in front of those students. They laughed. Is this the new college humor? Give me Rudy Vallee.
And Frank Duntz? Distorts and obscures to promote his reactionary party's agenda.
dont forget impotent.
Newuser
Former Pres. Carter is a statesman. He gives every indication that he is a fine man, an intelligent man, a compassionate man, and it sure seems like he lives and breathes the tenets of his faith.
Maybe it is because Pres. Carter would prefer to confront our problems with speech and understanding rather than weapons and violence, maybe that is why this pollster feels free to insult.
Mr. Luntz's claim to fame is producing words and phrases that "resonate" with his audience, words and phrases that make bad things seem good and good things sound bad. What value is he adding to our nation? None.
And I don't see a US Flag lapel pin there buddy! :)
This is one that most women won’t get. They are subconsciously lashing out and projecting their angst at all the insensitive bullies in school who mocked them for womanlike features like a lack of body hair or a plump buxom body lacking muscle tone. It's much like the phenomenon of any other cycle of childhood abuse. Take it from me, some childhood traumas stays with you a lifetime – and some of the bullies never grow up (Arnold’s “girly man” comments).
Check out his bio on Wiki. He thinks Orwellian is a POSITIVE term:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz
"There was a third President that practiced an engineering related profession, can you name him?"
Yassir Arafat?
Ike?
More sexism touted proudly on the public airwaves of America.
Shame.
"This is one that most women won’t get."
Are you frickin' kidding?
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