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SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 11/07/2005 : 04:04:26
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First we have Bill Frist making medical diagnosis by viewing a vidio tape, and now Tom Coburn can dectect lies by watching body language.
I can't decide whether to laugh or go break out my tinfoil hat. Scroll down a bit and you will find these quotes that I've shamelessly mined from Tim Russert's show:
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MR. RUSSERT: Let me ask about something else, and this intrigued me when I watched you during the John Roberts confirmation hearing when you were explaining how you came to make a decision and you used your skills as a doctor. Let's watch.
(Videotape, September 14, 2005):
SEN. COBURN: I've tried to use my medical skills of observation of body language to ascertain your uncomfortableness and ill at ease with questions and responses. I will tell you that I am very pleased both in my observational capabilities as a physician to know that your answers have been honest and forthright as I watch the rest of your body respond to the stress that you're under.
(End videotape)
MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe as a physician you can tell whether a candidate for the Supreme Court is telling the truth?
SEN. COBURN: I think you can certainly tell when they're ill at ease with a subject and sometimes telling the truth or not. I think you can do that. I think you can do that--anybody can be trained to do that--by body language, respiratory avoidance responses. Yeah, I think you can.
MR. RUSSERT: And have you used those skills to make judgments like that?
SEN. COBURN: Mm-hm, I certainly have.
MR. RUSSERT: Has any--have you ever detected someone lying?
SEN. COBURN: Uh-huh, lots of times.
MR. RUSSERT: In your hearings.
SEN. COBURN: Sure.
MR. RUSSERT: Such as?
SEN. COBURN: Well , I'm not going to say that. You know, I'm--in lots of hearings that I've had on federal financial management where we're looking at the $100 billion that we found wasted far this year from 2004, I found lots of times when people were not truthful. Absolutely.
MR. RUSSERT: Based on your skills as a physician.
SEN. COBURN: Yeah. And then what you do is you go then look it up and see where the problem is and all of a sudden you find, wait, this isn't truthful.
What is it with these physians in politics? Do they take leave of their senses as soon as they get to Washington? How does Doctor/Senator Coburn tell the difference between someone twiching and sweating whilst lying, or twiching and sweating due to a lack of Preparation H?
Lest I be accused (again) of non-objectivity, I found the whole transcript of interest.
I was going to go deer hunting today, but got lazy. After reading the above, I think I should have gone hunting... 
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