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Why would Tavis Smiley hire an extremist republican hack like Frank Luntz?

I can't leave for Washington DC until I address the Frank Luntz uproar.

If you have not been following the latest (in a littany of) outrage in the lefty blogosphere, PBS had announced that tonight's Presidential Forum with Tavis Smiley was going to have as the sole broadcast commentator the infamous Frank Luntz. This is the notorious "pollster" of the GOP who publishes a "rule book" for republican candidates that teaches them how to attack their opponents as angry liberals.

Jeffrey Feldman --who ought to be the DNC's top communications strategist-- has this to say about Luntz :

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