Rapid eye blinking is a sign that you're lying

[CatWoman]

:grr:

[XemaSab]

1. Either that

or really bright TV cameras are shining in your eyes.

[CatWoman]

4. the fucker is LYING!!!!

Now he's stuttering.

[Fenris]

2. Is your name also Jeff Gannon?

Because that's a sign too.

[neuvocat]

3. What about batting eyelashes?

Does that mean she's not really interested when she says she is?

[Dookus]

5. nah

he's just batting his eyelids at Anderson.

[CatWoman]

8. he can't even keep his lies straight

however, there is merit in your words, wise one!! :hi:

[cloud75]

6. he is way to choppy in his answers n/a.

[MSgt213]

7. Cooper looks like he's going bust out laughing any second now

[CatWoman]

11. just because I have a past doesn't mean I can't have a future

:P

[KharmaTrain]

9. I Just Posted This

Plus he's shifting off-camera a lot...checking for someone's reaction.

Whomever in the regime gave the ok to let this guy go on has gotta be changing underware right now.

[devilgrrl]

10. This is a job for Desmond Morris

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517558149/qid=1108773824/sr=1-10/ref=sr_1_10/104-1280005-2029502?v=glance&s=books

[Lisa]

12. let this be a lesson -- don't let George W. be your acting coach!

http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g43.htm

"In the second debate Bush was blinking his eyes at a furious rate. Rapid eye blinking has been associated in the medical literature <15> with mental tasks such as memory use and speech, as well as with clinical states such as dry eyes, tardive dyskinesia, Tourette syndrome, schizophrenia, autism, and combined depression and sleep deprivation <10>. (More generally, eye blinking has been described as a useful clinical sign of central dopaminergic activity <15>.) Eye blinking can also increase when a person is lying or when in uncomfortable or unpleasant situations <14>. (For further examples, see Richard Nixon and George H. W. Bush.) Eye blink "storms," which Bush certainly had, have been described as "the mind's way of shutting out unpleasant stimuli" <14>."

[CatWoman]

13. good job, Lisa!!

good find!!!

:hi:

[justiceischeap]

14. He also looked up and to the left

That's a sign of lying as well or trying to remember a prepared answer, I can't remember which. I think it's lying though.

[RubyCat]

15. He's using the audio prompter that bush uses.

Rove has got to be in the dressing room feeding him words to say. That's not natural speech -- listen to how stilted it was!

[CatWoman]

16. yes

see Lisa's post above

[susu369]

17. Hell, he was panting like crazy

I thought he was going to hyperventilate. Poor thing.

:nopity:

[icehenge]

18. He looked like he'd pass out some times /nt

[DrWeird]

19. There's this bizarre medical condition...

It's a form of brain damage caused, I believe, by blunt trauma. I don't remember all of the details, but one of the stranger symptoms is they know exactly when somebody is lying, based on body language. They can even do it over the TV. Anyway, there was this ward of these patients back in the 80's, and everytime Ronald Reagan came on the TV and started talking, they'd all break up laughing.

[sojourner]

20. Posted this elsewhere........but

observe also his dodgy eye movements and strange speaking cadence (which matched his blinking). I think he's monitoring a "prompter" with live feed.

Watch how his speech changes according to how complex his answer needs to be. If a simple "yes" or "no"...he seems free to elaborate on answer at will, with more fluent speech pattern.

If not, he seems to wait for prompts that come in fairly short bursts or "phrases". Eyes moving around looks like he's paying attention to what he's hearing, possibly trying to recall a point he needed to get in.

His anxiety (his first times asking questions in the press gallery are also accompanied by signs of anxiety - darting eyes to left and right to see if anyone is observing him) is surely a factor in his behavior but I don't really see it explaining all of it.

I really think it's a live feed.

[Digit]

21. I've watched enough Judge Judy to know he was lying.

Can you imagine Judge Judy interviewing people like him. It would be a hoot!