The Manipulators: Frank Luntz & far-left group wage disinformation campaign for COVID tyranny

by Jordan Schachtel

A shadowy far-left “public health” organization and TV “pollster” Frank Luntz have teamed up to run a full court press COVID-19 disinformation campaign, with the goal of persuading governments on all levels to further mandate tyranny on the masses, while attempting to convince American citizens of the necessity of these orders. Since the beginning of COVID Mania, Luntz and his benefactors have manipulated language to gather support for totalitarian government edicts and further legitimize these radical anti-American ideas in the general population.
 
For almost two years, Luntz and the Big Pharma-tied de Beaumont Foundation have been advocating for a variety of forms of rights restricting COVID-related mandates through suspect “polling” and “studies” funded by the non-profit.
 
Their first task involved manipulating the language in favor of supporting liberty-crushing lockdowns. Now, their current partnership is focused on coercing COVID injections on the entire American population through the force of government.
 
Here’s how Luntz and Brian Castrucci, the far-left activist leader of the de Beaumont Foundation, waged a campaign to defend stealing individual liberties and imposing psuedoscientific lockdowns on the masses.
 



 
In order to show that there will be support for their prescribed agenda, de Beaumont paid Luntz to produce a series of “polls” showing widespread support for their extremist ideas. Nowhere could I find a disclaimer from Luntz stating that the outcomes his “polls” achieved miraculously always supported the demands coming from the organization that funded them. Some early “polls” were used by Luntz to gather data for his language manipulation campaigns, while other “polls” are leveraged to gather support for the government’s trampling of rights on American society.
 
Luntz and Castrucci, the two self-declared “health” advocates — both of whom have visibly, catastrophically failed to meet any semblance of a decent individual health standard — first attempted to sway lawmakers away from using the term lockdown.
 

Frank Luntz, Chelsea Clinton say they both cried getting COVID-19 vaccine https://t.co/QSFUmXrZef pic.twitter.com/rLyfz0t43q

— The Hill (@thehill) May 19, 2021

 
As Influence Watch reported, Luntz and his paymasters published “a report on how to persuade Republican-leaning voters to support aggressive COVID-19 restrictions, notably encouraging renaming ‘lockdowns’ as ‘stay-at-home orders.’”
 

The #COVID19 Conversation:

Words to Use
• Pandemic
• Eliminate/eradicate the virus
• A safe and effective vaccine
• Essential workers
• Stay home

Words to Lose
• Coronavirus
• Defeat/crush the virus
• A vaccine developed quickly
• Frontline workers
• Lockdown pic.twitter.com/EySLUPu5u9

— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) December 2, 2020

 
And while Luntz was busy greasing the skids for COVID tyranny, de Beaumont launched a parallel campaign to pursue its far-left political goals, leveraging the pandemic for an attempted radical transformation of American society.
 
In a February op-ed for Stat News, Castrucci took de Beaumont’s Police State advocacy a step further, describing the right to unalienable rights and normal life as an unnecessary “privilege” that can be stripped by government.
 
 
Castrucci, a self-proclaimed “public health expert,” who holds a public health doctorate degree, added that it was time to to push government enforced “racial equity” programs for “Black and Latinx households.”
 

 
In addition to his racialist equity campaigns, Castrucci and his employees always found time to support Luntz in endorsing government enforced lockdowns, business closures, and mask mandates.
 

Reopening…Partisanship over people…False dichotomies like liberty v. Lockdown…Continued marginalization of public health and public health practitioners…THIS IS NOW MY SPIRIT ANIMAL…Y’all want a fight – let’s give ‘em fight… pic.twitter.com/6txCHWsgy2

— Brian C. Castrucci, DrPH (@BrianCCastrucci) May 10, 2020

 

It is not binary. There is an agreeable path beyond politics. Outside seems okay. Masks should be worn indoors. Indoor dining & gyms should probably remain closed. And let's get people vaccinated. Also, China virus, come on, man.

— Brian C. Castrucci, DrPH (@BrianCCastrucci) March 28, 2021

 

 

No one knows the right answer. This is a novel virus. We have no idea of spread because we don’t have an adequate testing strategy. Our lockdown was less effective because it was at about 50% compared to >90% in other countries.

— Brian C. Castrucci, DrPH (@BrianCCastrucci) August 5, 2020

 
And when the lockdowns and other restrictions failed to contain a virus, Luntz and his fellow travelers claimed that we didn’t lock down hard enough, seemingly arguing that a Police State akin to Australia’s COVID response would have done the job more appropriately.

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