The battle of the body language experts…
It was dueling body language experts tonight. First O’Reilly had his weekly body language expert segment and they analyzed Andrea Mitchell’s body language from last week’s Factor segment. Then later on during Scarborough Country, Scarborough had a body language expert on to analyze O’Reilly, though he called his expert a Psychoanalyst. And so it goes…
And people say Scarborough doesn’t think for himself anymore.
MSNBC’s new motto: “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!”
Comment by ImNotBlue — January 9, 2007 @ 11:19 pm
As much as I like both these two gentlemen, it’s ridiculous to have these so-called experts on body language foist their quackery on us. It’s like having astrologers on the networks and predicting our fates tomorrow.
The sooner they vanish, the better it is for the rest of us. They actually make me yawn and snooze.
Comment by RGL — January 10, 2007 @ 12:27 am
Body Language - what a crock.
The girl on Bill’s show made the profound statement that Sadam looked “nervous” as he was standing on the gallows and
that Rosie and Donald don’t like each other!!
Wow! No kidding?
Now Bill may be starting with a hand writing expert.
I am really a fan, but this is hocus-pocus. Enough already.
Comment by cella — January 10, 2007 @ 11:00 am
I’ve seen the body language expert on O’Reilly several times. Last night may not have been her most revealing, but the other times have been very good. And I have actually learned something! And she doesn’t just read people; she tells you why she comes to her conclusions.
I would have been happy if last night’s was spread over two segments. And I wish they cold have gotten rid of the lower third on Andrea Mitchell; a close up of the face, with even the shoulders completely covered up, doesn’t make for the best segment.
Both O’Reilly and Scarborough are trying to play gotcha. At least O’Reilly’s body language expert never lets that happen. I wish I had seen Scarborough’s “psychoanalyst.” Does anyone have a link to it?
Comment by erljr — January 10, 2007 @ 11:20 am
These segments just tick me off. In the first place, I think any normal human can read body language and most importantly I don’t think it is fair to try to read a person’s body language and tell your “opinions” to the whole world. To make blanket statements about someone and they can’t be there to explain or deny her conclusions is just unfair. How about if she decides someone is lying and gives that opinion and it damages that person in some way, is that fair? It just gives BO a chance to get his perceived enemies analyzed by this woman and tweak them a little bit. I will be glad when this phase is over. And …. poor Joe Scarborough - can he not come up with anything original? They are obsessed with Fox!
Comment by sophia — January 10, 2007 @ 11:53 am
I think this is a step down or BO. I turn the channel each time one of these segments comes on. I think it is a farce and was really disappointed with BOR that he sunk to this Maury Povich moment.
Comment by jerziegrl — January 10, 2007 @ 3:47 pm
It is funny when these guys talk about Rosie and Donald’s feud.
Comment by ladyone — January 10, 2007 @ 3:50 pm
I think they’re kinda cool! Just kinda useless info, but entertaining all the same.
Comment by Olivia — January 11, 2007 @ 4:11 pm