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Okay, I don’t make a habit of suggesting people listen to clips of shows I’ve been on. But I think this 90 second exchange I had today with Frank Luntz on the Al Franken Show is worth sparing a moment for. As noted earlier, here Luntz explains why reporters who use the term “private accounts” are showing objective evidence of bias against the president even though this was the president’s own favored phrase until a few weeks ago.

There’s one part that isn’t perfectly audible. That’s when I for the second time ask how there can be anything wrong with reporters using this phrase when the president himself has repeatedly used it. Luntz responds “used it”, placing a hard emphasis on the final “d”, thus signifying that the president has stopped using the term and that therefore reporters should too.

Apparently, the New York Times finds this argument compelling. But I have to confess the logic escapes me.

Give it a listen.

You can also find the commentary about it at the Al Franken Show website.

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