Liar for Hire

Republicans have a problem in being against everything Obama favors: It's hard to oppose financial reform in a year of populist outrage against Wall Street.

To the rescue: Republican strategist Frank Luntz, the same man enlisted to call health care a government takeover. Talking point No. 1 for Luntz: The banking bill creates a permanent bailout fund for Wall Street, paid for by taxpayers... Essentially recycling some previously well tested and detested phrases; none of which are true.

To call him a master manipulator doesn't do him justice...
He has a doctorate.

Audio: NPR's All Things Considered 4/15/10 Reporter: David Welna.

Hear Luntz at length in an episode of Fresh Air from 2007.



Or as he presents himself:



Frank Luntz website: The Word Doctors.