Tucker on why you probably don't recognize the Republican party

good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight happy friday a lot going on but some big trends too and you think about them you often wonder what is going on and for quite some time now we've wondered what's going on with congressional republicans a lot of nice people in the republican party but the point of a political party is not to be nice it's to represent the interests of its voters that's the only reason political parties exist in the first place there's no other reason to have them except to represent their own voters yet year after year on issue after issue the leadership of the republican party fails to represent its voters and we're not guessing about that we know what republican voters care about they tell pollsters all the time and since they kept getting ignored in 2016 they elected donald trump just to make it incredibly clear what they cared about that wasn't a wake-up call nothing would be and nothing really changed it remains true as of right now that the priorities of the people who run the republican party are very different in some cases completely different from the priorities of the people who vote republican why is that well there are a lot of reasons for it probably but frank luntz is definitely one of those reasons once dr frank i lunz as he is often called at his request is the republican party's longest serving message man for decades frank luntz has told elected republicans what to say and precisely how to say it luntz massages language for politicians he does it now just this week in fact the national republican congressional committee the nrcc invited once to florida for its so-called policy summit where he was asked to weigh in on the hot topics once his job was to tell republicans office holders people with power how to think about the most important issues of the day now we didn't hear the presentation but there's no doubt it was compelling frank luntz is a smooth salesman that's why he's been around for a while the problem with frank lunz is that his views his personal views are very different from those of your average republican voter frank luntz is a conventional liberal his main clients are left-wing corporations like google when frank luntz gives advice to congressional republicans he's got google's perspective in mind that's a huge problem we wanted to talk to once about all of this on the show tonight nothing personal but it's interesting and it's important so we texted him in the invitation this morning but he did not respond that's odd since we've known him well for a long time in 2019 for example he tweeted us this greeting which tells you a lot about the kind of person frank luntz is quote this thanksgiving let's give thanks to the men and women of the fbi the cia and the intel services that's literally what the message said it's on the screen even on thanksgiving frank luntz takes time to bow before the powerful so why does frank luntz remain a fixture in republican politics at a time when the companies he works for are opposed to the republican party explicitly so well in part because he is particularly close to the house minority leader kevin mccarthy of california and has been since mccarthy entered politics in an interview earlier this year lunch described kevin mccarthy as a personal friend and that relationship gives frank lund's outsized influence over the republican party's policy positions the big ones take the border crisis frank luntz's view of immigration is very much like google's view of immigration america needs a lot more immigration right away and anyone who disagrees with that is racist now rather than simply say that out loud rather than make the case for his own opinions franklin slyly dresses up his own personal opinions as social science he'll conduct something called a focus group that's a moderated conversation between several people that has in fact no actual relevance to anything it's just random people yammering your 90-second exchange with the ups guy this morning meant more than a frank lund's focus group and yet purely on the basis of that irrelevant conversation luntz manages to make pronouncements about the country and how the republican party should respond to it most of those pronouncements as you can imagine tend to comport perfectly with his own views as well as with the views of google executives axios recently reported on luns's findings about immigration so what did frank lunt supposedly find out about immigration well it turns out according to frank luntz that republican voters in fact are dying to give amnesty to as many foreign nationals as they possibly can they're demanding it right away it's a top priority for them watch they believe in immigrants in immigration they are pro-immigration and i honestly i was a little surprised because of what i see report in the media trump voters support the dream act they support the ability of these people who are brought here to no fault of their own the ability to earn a path to citizenship we need these people we actually have an economy that's expanding that's growing i was a little surprised to find out that deep down republican voters agree with me and google we were not surprised we're all the children of immigrants he told us we need these people now that may be entirely true or maybe it's not true we can debate it but lutz doesn't want to debate it probably didn't come on tonight he wants instead to pretend that his personal opinions are established fact and that the republican party had better listened to them and obey open borders activists immediately seized upon once's research to justify what they were already doing keeping the borders open the national immigration forum tweeted out a link right away daca has bipartisan support the group wrote pointing to frank luntz's opinions posing his research as evidence of that passing the dream act is an opportunity to make real meaningful progress you see amnesty has broad bipartisan support there's a national consensus in favor of opening the border so republicans had better get on board because frank luntz's research proves they desperately want it this is pretty close to fraud actually who is served by it that's always the question in washington well frank lunz's corporate clients are served by it of course but also the democratic party is served by it a party whose priorities frank luntz appears to support here he is back in 2012 telling the rest of us that according to his highly scientific surveys of a dozen people in some shopping mall somewhere most americans actually really want the government to take their guns away the public wants guns out of the schools not in the schools and they're not asking for a security official or someone else i don't think the nra is listening i don't think that they understand most americans would protect the second amendment rights and yet agree with the idea that not every human being should own a gun not every gun should be available at any time anywhere for anyone yeah most people agree notice the language there did you listen carefully that you can protect the second amendment even as you gut it it's just common sense gun control most americans are for that who does that sound like it sounds a lot like joe biden a man frank luntz has been friends with for a long time check out the note from frank luntz to hunter biden on hunter's laptop what you just heard in that clip were democratic party talking points but if you'd like more there's this this is an interview from last summer in which frank luntz explains that the phrase law and order is somehow offensive to most americans keep in mind that at the very moment frank luntz was saying this american cities were on fire people were dying why because there was no law and no order well i was critical that he used the words law and order he is assuming that we have the same politics as 1968. donald trump doesn't realize that you can govern in a strong stable successful way and still use language that is warm and kind and empathetic stopping riots isn't warm and kind and empathetic doesn't help equity if that sounds a lot like something a corporate hr executive might say you should not be surprised by that as we told you a minute ago luntz's main business is not helping the republican party you know his main business is working for left-wing companies that despise the republican party are horrified by republican voters and everything they believe frank lentz's long list of corporate clients include jeff bezos's amazon facebook nike coca-cola disney delta airlines the chamber of commerce these are the people who pay frank luntz's bills in his spare time frank lunds tells kevin mccarthy how to run the republican party now you can do one you can't do both you can see the conflict here and you wonder how has this been allowed to continue in case you think we are overstating frank luntz's allegiance to corporate power take a look at his twitter feed sometime if you're ever bored quote delta employees made them the top-rated airline he wrote last january in what sounded very much like a press release that's something only good workers can do not shareholders then not long ago when donald trump called for boycotting coca-cola and delta airlines after they interfered in a very shocking way right in the middle of georgia's political system once came to the defense of them of course they're his clients this left-wing canceled culture was out of control he wrote mockingly you gotta wonder if coca-cola and delta airlines sent him a bonus for that we don't know they should have either way toting for big corporations clearly pays well here's frank lund showing off the replica of the oval office he had built in his home what what is where are you uh i was very kind of donald trump to give me his office and uh i'm very fortunate this is real this is this is a chair this is not a photograph this is actually my home in uh california this is a 78 replica of the oval office and over here as i turn this around this is the lincoln bedroom so i'm the only person who has an oval office that you can actually sleep in and you don't have to be a presidential intern and this is a genuine resolute desk i'm going to put it there behind me so you can see including the buck stops here wow uh we've got the humidor from bill clinton let's see if i can get that in the shot there you go these are couches from bill clinton this is the whole thing so obviously you could be pretty meat about mean about that i mean it's pretty weird but the point of this is not to attack frank luntz personally nice enough guy the question is ask what's really going on here would you take medical advice for example from frank luntz should you have to well if you've listened to him recently he very much wants you to take the vaccine vaccines are great only a crazy person wouldn't get the shot frank luntz hasn't said a lot however about his longtime work for pfizer huh that's weird nor does he brag about his work for purdue pharma remember that company purdue pharma those are the people that got rural america addicted to opioids kind of wrecked the center of the country in 2003 as the opioid epidemic devastated the entire regions of the united states franklin's encouraged people to take more oxycontin are we making this up no we're not quote i'm a proponent of the pharmaceutical industry frank luntz told pbs i'm a supporter of a very famous medication right now oxycontin because i think that this is a miracle drug which allows people to get through the day now some people frank launched acknowledged quote want to see oxycontin take taken off the market but not frank luntz he was taking money from purdue pharma quote i believe that there are things worth fighting for yeah apparently a lawsuit filed against purdue pharma by the state of massachusetts in 2019 includes multiple references to frank luntz according to that suit luntz and his company helped purdue pharma devise ways of quote deflecting blame from purdue's addictive drugs by stigmatizing people who become addictive the state of vermont filed a similar lawsuit against purdue pharma and it also mentioned frank luntz according to those lawsuits lunds proposed that purdue pharma adopt a strategy of emphasizing some quote key messages that work by those words were spelled in all caps for emphasis one of those messages and we're quoting it's not addiction it's abuse it's about personal responsibility right so your 19 year old just died of a drug od after purdue pharma flooded your town with addictive narcotics but stop complaining it's her fault she died it's about personal responsibility this is the guy republican leaders just went to this week for quote messaging guidance on hot topics and you wonder why you no longer recognize the party that you vote for pedro gonzalez is a senior

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Length: 13min 38sec (818 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021