Lou Dobb's features biased right wing pollster, Frank Luntz

Lou Dobb's recently featured a right wing pollster named Frank Luntz on his show.  Luntz is not one of the more well respected pollsters in the industry.

Luntz starts rambling about morality, spirituality and life satisfaction that are abstract terms that border on the meaningless. Spiritual people are supposedly happier, but other studies have also shown that Baptists have the highest divorce rate and non-believers have the lowest.

Dobbs and Luntz state that no no one has read the Affordable Health Care Act of 2009, but the Senate bill has yet to be completed.  The House and Senate bills will also need to be reconciled. At this point it will take two more months before the details of the final bill that is worked out in a joint House and Senate committees. There is really nothing to read at this point that accurately defines the shape of the new US health care system. Both Dobbs and Luntz should know this.

Pollsters love to talk about polls but the US is an indirect democracy. The people we elected in 2008 and the holdovers from prior elections will decide the fate of health care in the US, not the Tea Baggers or the vagaries of shifting public opinion.

In 1997, Luntz was reprimanded by the American Association for Public Opinion Research for refusing to release poll data to support his claimed results "because of client confidentiality". Diane Colasanto, who was president of the AAPOR when it reprimanded Luntz, said

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It is simply wanting to know, How many people did you question? What were the questions? We understand the need for confidentiality, but once a pollster makes results public, the information needs to be public. People need to be able to evaluate whether it was sound research.

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In 2000 he was censured by the National Council on Public Polls "for allegedly mischaracterizing on MSNBC the results of focus groups he conducted during the [2000] Republican Convention."

In September 2004, MSNBC dropped Luntz from its planned coverage of that year's presidential debate, following a letter from Media Matters that outlined Luntz's GOP ties and questionable polling methodology. 

 In a video piece, entertainers and libertarians Penn & Teller lambasted Luntz for his comment that the key to survey polling is "to ask a question in the way that you get the right answer". The two also popularized the phrase "F**k you Frank" in reference to the bias of Luntz.

In the wake of the 2008 Presidential election, fellow Republican and prominent pollster Bill McInturff criticized Luntz before journalists at a National Journal Breakfast, insisting that Luntz is "a moron" and lambasting him for mocking Senator McCain's inability to use a Blackberry, which McInturff attributed to the injuries that McCain sustained while a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

See the Lou Dobb's video that features Frank Luntz.


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Kanye West got it right this time

There was an objective news video on the Canadian health system on the Lou Dobb's show. The WHO ranks the Canadian health care system 30th in the world while the US is ranked 37th. When we looked for this video on You Tube, the embedding feature had been disabled.  Ninety two per cent of Canadians are happy with their health care system while are only 83 per cent are happy in the US. Canadians live three years longer than Americans and infant mortality is higher in the US. Here is the Canadian video in case you missed it.



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Lou Dobbs: health care in Mexico

Health care in Mexico   3:19

With the U.S. debating the health care issue, Kitty Pilgrim takes a look at Mexico's health-care system.

Source: CNN | Added September 15, 200

Kitty Pilgirm looks at health care in Mexico.



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Lou Dobb's: Health care in Chile

Kitty Pilgrim narrates a video on Chilean  health care.



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Lou Dobbs: Physician Shortage in US

This problem has been around for at least two decades. The medical schools are not producing enough doctors and the Armed forces had to establish special programs to deal with the doctor shortage. Yet Cuba produces a surplus of doctors and loans their medical expertise to other Latin countries.

Why can't the greatest country in the world according to conservatives produce enough doctors? Some experts say the medical guild in the US likes it that way. It keeps doctor's salaries high.



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Health care professionals debate the new industry legislation

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How do medical health care officials look at the proposed health care legislation? Lisa Sylvester and her guests debate. 



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Debate over 'public option'

Will the "public option" destroy the Obama health care plan? Lisa Sylvester and two panelists debate.
Source: CNN | Added August 27, 2009



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