Frank Luntz’s “Most Onerous Focus Group” Ever Debates Obama’s Speech
Pollster Frank Luntz loves his real-time dial panels, and he regularly hosts them as part of Sean Hannity‘s Fox News show.
He found a feisty group last night in Southern California, and the decidedly fair and balanced segment highlighted the deep divide among the left and right.
After the first two panelist knocked Pres. Barack Obama‘s oil disaster speech, the third panelist said, “I totally disagree, I think he did an excellent job.”
There was a lot of arguing, but when Luntz cut through to give a recap, he came to one conclusion.
I think, for most of you, we’ve now reached the point where we’ve become so divided that we’re not even listening to what our leaders are saying if we disagree with them.
Luntz said this was “the most onerous group I have ever had” – definitely different from his ‘who loves Sean Hannity‘ panel last month. Kevin Madden, Republican strategist, said on Twitter last night, “Luntz focus group on Fox is WILD.”
Toward the end, after Hannity got a nearly unanimous consensus regarding the way to clean up the mess, one panelist addressed the host directly: “Sean are you an expert at this kind of stuff? Do you understand the logistics of all this? Or were you fed this on a teleprompter?”
Luntz warned if Hannity were to visit Southern California, “make sure you bring a Flak jacket.” People criticize Hannity’s program as the most hard-lined Republican on Fox News – O’Reilly is more surprising, Beck is more libertarian. But this panel gave some strong voices from the other side a chance to be heard (and shouted down by their fellow panelists).
Check it out (via J$):
