Luntz, predicting he'll get "hit by Media Matters ," claimed
 
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:53:03 -0400


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<p><b>Luntz, predicting he'll get "hit by <em>Media Matters</em>," claimed
Clinton's voice "turns people off" </b></p>
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<p>On the June 20 edition of Fox News&#39; <i>Hannity &amp; Colmes</i>, while discussing Democratic
presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton&#39;s (NY) recent <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200706210009&http://youtube.com/watch?v=9BEPcJlz2wE">campaign video</a>, which parodies the series
finale of HBO&#39;s <i><a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200706210009&http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/">The Sopranos</a></i>,
co-host <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/seanhannity?src=item200706210009">Sean
Hannity</a> said to his guest, Republican pollster Frank Luntz: "I know
this was to soften her image. Her negatives are very high," adding,
"She doesn&#39;t have a likability factor." After Luntz agreed
with both assertions, Hannity aired a video clip of a Clinton
April 2003 speech at a Connecticut fundraising
dinner, which he described as "[v]ery different than the Hollywood, manufactured,
soft, phony smiles on the <i>Sopranos</i>
act." Luntz cited the 2003 speech as evidence that Clinton&#39;s voice "turns people
off" and went on to imitate her voice, saying: "It&#39;s all at
the same level and ... she gets louder and louder, but her voice
doesn&#39;t go up or down." After noting, "[W]e&#39;re gonna
end up getting hit by <i>Media Matters</i>,"
Luntz cited his own "research" to claim that Clinton&#39;s voice
"turns people off because they feel like they&#39;re being
lectured." Luntz did not offer any further details regarding his
purported research.</p>

<p>As <i>Media Matters for
America</i> has documented, media figures regularly attack Clinton for the tone and
volume of her voice: </p>



<ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal">On the May 24 edition of
     MSNBC&#39;s <i>Tucker</i>, commenting
     on Clinton&#39;s
     <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200706210009&http://www.hillaryclinton.com/action/spotlight/?sc=8">decision</a>
     to have the public choose her presidential campaign song, host Tucker
     Carlson <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200705250004?src=item200706210009">said</a>:
     "But this does nothing to make me like her. And it raises the
     question: Could you actually live in this country for eight years having
     to listen to her voice?" When former New York Gov. George Pataki (R)
     responded that "of course" he could live in the United States with Clinton as president, Carlson responded:
     "You&#39;re a man of steel."</li></ul>



<ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal">On the March 15 broadcast of
     his radio show, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/glennbeck?src=item200706210009">Glenn Beck</a>
     <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200703150011?src=item200706210009">asserted</a> that
     "Clinton
     cannot be elected president because ... there&#39;s something about her vocal
     range." He went on to say, "There&#39;s something about her voice
     that just drives me -- it&#39;s not what she says, it&#39;s how she says it,"
     adding, "[S]he&#39;s
     the stereotypical bitch, you know what I mean?" Beck also asked:
     "[A]fter four years, don&#39;t you think every man in America will go insane?"
     </li></ul>



<ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal">On the March 29 edition of his
     CNN Headline News show, Beck <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200703300005?src=item200706210009">said</a> that Clinton&#39;s voice "makes
     angels cry" and suggested that men in particular find Clinton&#39;s
     voice to be "grating." </li></ul>



<ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal">On March 24, Time.com
     Washington editor Ana Marie Cox <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200706210009&http://time-blog.com/swampland/2007/03/nevada_health_care_forum_clint.html">wrote</a>
     on Time.com&#39;s political weblog, Swampland, that Clinton was "eerily
     LOUD" and summarized Clinton&#39;s position as: "YOU CAN TELL I CARE
     ABOUT HEALTH CARE BECAUSE I AM SHOUTING ALL THE TIME."</li></ul>



<ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal">In her March 7 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200706210009&http://www.postwritersgroup.com/archives/park0307.htm">column</a>
     about Clinton&#39;s speech marking a Selma, Alabama,
     civil rights march, Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist with the
     Washington Post Writers Group, wrote that "Clinton&#39;s voice sends mannequins into a
     fetal curl."</li></ul>



<ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal">On February 2, the <i>National Journal</i>&#39;s Hotline On Call <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?src=item200706210009&http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/02/post_167.html">review</a>
     of Clinton&#39;s speech at the Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting
     suggested that her "[v]oice climbed into a yell five times," without noting
     any other candidates&#39; yelling. </li></ul>



<ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal">On the August 10, 2006, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200608110002?src=item200706210009">edition</a> of CNN Headline News&#39; <i>Glenn Beck</i>, radio host Roe Conn said
     of Clinton&#39;s voice: "See,
     there&#39;s the thing about that sound -- there&#39;s sort of that shrill kind of
     thing," adding, "I don&#39;t think that America is ready for six or
     eight months of that on the campaign trail. ... [S]he&#39;s constantly yelling
     at us like we&#39;re 4-year-olds."</li></ul>



<ul style="margin-top: 0in"><li class="MsoNormal">On the February 10, 2006, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200602140012?src=item200706210009">edition</a> of MSNBC&#39;s <i>Hardball</i>, <i>Scarborough Country</i> host Joe Scarborough asserted that
     "there is a shrillness in Hillary that comes out on TV whenever she
     gets excited about something." Referring to a speech Clinton
     gave a "year ago," Scarborough
     added: "[E]very time her voice goes up, she gets very shrill."</li></ul>

<p>Further, during an appearance on the June 21 edition of Fox
News&#39; <i>Fox &amp; Friends</i>,
Luntz was identified only as a "pollster." His political
affiliation was not discussed during the segment. </p>

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<p><i>Media Matters</i> has noted
other media outlets&#39; <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200702160004?src=item200706210009">repeated</a> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200411010007?src=item200706210009">failure</a> to
disclose Luntz&#39;s Republican ties.</p>

<p>From the June 20 edition of Fox News&#39; <i>Hannity &amp; Colmes</i>:</p><blockquote>

<p>HANNITY: <b>I know this was to soften her image. Her negatives are very high.</b>
</p>

<p>LUNTZ: Correct. </p>

<p>HANNITY: <b>She doesn&#39;t have a likability factor.</b> </p>

<p>LUNTZ: Correct. </p>

<p>HANNITY: Let&#39;s show the real
Hillary with this tape. </p>

<p>CLINTON [video clip]: And I am sick and
tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this
administration, somehow you&#39;re not patriotic. And we should stand up and
say, "We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with
any administration."</p>

<p>HANNITY: Very different than the Hollywood, manufactured,
soft, phony smiles on the <i>Sopranos</i>
act. </p>

<p>LUNTZ: <b>But listen to the way she --
now, forget the words. Listen to the way she communicated. It&#39;s all at
the same level and I don&#39;t want to make your control room go nuts --</b> </p>

<p>HANNITY: Angry.</p>

<p>LUNTZ: -- <b>but she gets louder and louder, but her voice doesn&#39;t go up or
down. The most powerful communication -- Ronald Reagan -- could get loud and he
could get soft. Sometimes he&#39;d be up here --</b></p>

<p>HANNITY: Right.</p>

<p>LUNTZ: -- <b>and sometimes he&#39;d be down here.</b> </p>

<p>HANNITY: <b>That&#39;s a good point.</b> </p>

<p>LUNTZ: <b>Her voice is -- and we&#39;re gonna end up getting hit by <i>Media Matters</i> -- but it&#39;s true. And the research that I have done</b>
-- </p>

<p>HANNITY: <b>What is that?</b> </p>

<p>LUNTZ: <b>Her voice -- <i>Media Matters</i>
--</b></p>

<p>HANNITY: Well, <b>go ahead. Come on, make your point.</b></p>

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LUNTZ: <b>Her voice turns people off because they feel like they&#39;re being
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