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I watched last night's debate on mute. Here's who won
Washington Examiner ^ | 9/27/16 | Beverly Hallberg

Posted on 09/27/2016 9:15:08 AM PDT by sally234

"You shut your mouth when you're talking to me." So goes the line from the classic American film "Wedding Crashers." A line that I took to heart as I watched a good chunk of Monday night's presidential debate on mute.

Why? Not because I couldn't bear to hear what the candidates said. Instead, I wanted to analyze the nonverbals (which go a long way to determining likability) without distraction. Yes, optics matter.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; debate; trump
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To: wastoute

Lester “Ding Dong” Holt was a damn joke!


41 posted on 09/27/2016 9:46:53 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: WKUHilltopper

This appears to have been an op-ed piece, in a generally very good little publication; and the author works for a PR firm.


42 posted on 09/27/2016 9:48:42 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: RedStateRocker

It’s an op-ed piece - like much of what does appear on FR. The author is in PR.


43 posted on 09/27/2016 9:49:30 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

I do believe that media bias is so overwhelming at this point that it is really working against them. No one need waste time pointing it out. Like “Affirmative Action” it damages those whom it would purport to assist. In other words if Hillary is so incompetent she needs Lester’s help then maybe Lester should be on the ballot...


44 posted on 09/27/2016 9:50:46 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: originalbuckeye

I liked it. I want Blue back. The commies should be red.


45 posted on 09/27/2016 9:52:40 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: goldstategop

She looked like Mao in red drag


46 posted on 09/27/2016 9:52:51 AM PDT by clamper1797 (We are getting close to the last "box")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
"Comrade Hillary at your service..."

Nice pic - she looks either deranged or stoned. Or both.

47 posted on 09/27/2016 9:52:51 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: ArtDodger
Was it like this? Or a bone crusher? The latter would have been my choice.


48 posted on 09/27/2016 9:53:45 AM PDT by katana
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To: Jamestown1630

YMMV

I’m darn well going to hold someone using a byline and publishing in a ‘major’ journal to a hell of a lot higher standard than someone on FB, DU or FB, and the world would be a better place, IMHO, if more people did likewise!

YMMV


49 posted on 09/27/2016 9:55:03 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Jeff Head

LOL. CNBC surrendered.


50 posted on 09/27/2016 9:56:35 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Hillary was so annoying with that Cheshire cat grin. She was not her normal self. Was she on some medication???

Are you trying to say that her "normal" self is better?
51 posted on 09/27/2016 9:57:18 AM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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To: sally234

Hillary’s hair was glued into place. She had more make up on than the mother vampire in The Strain. She kept looking at notes. It was blatantly obvious she had memorized answers to particular questions.

Donald’s hair was...well, it was Donald’s hair. He refrained from pursing his lips too much. He didn’t appear to be as well prepared, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

She needed to look healthy and human. She was 1 for 2.

He needed to look presidential and calm. He did that.

Win to Trump by a hair...


52 posted on 09/27/2016 9:57:25 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: wastoute

I caught that. He did later backtrack and shake his hand. But it seemed to be an obvious snub, when it happened.


53 posted on 09/27/2016 9:57:53 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: dragonblustar

Clinton propounds some sort of weird trickle down economic in which the government takes money from Americans and then, after taking a heft management fee for itself, trickles down what is leftover on the people. A bona fide crime against humanity.


54 posted on 09/27/2016 9:58:17 AM PDT by all the best
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To: katana

Ha! Is that W.C.? None better!


55 posted on 09/27/2016 9:59:11 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: RedStateRocker
Idiot. It’s a LECTERN.
Anyone who doesn’t know that is far too stupid and ignorant to opine on any debate.

Thank you for that. I get bugged about the whole podium/lectern thing too.

56 posted on 09/27/2016 10:00:08 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: MNDude

That’s pretty much my take too. Trump hit hard a few times and stumbled badly a few times. Hillary was more polished — probably a little TOO polished. And that phony grin was nausea-inducing.

I doubt anyone changed his vote because of that debate.

And yes, Lester Holt is a biased dolt. But what else did you expect?


57 posted on 09/27/2016 10:00:14 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: RedStateRocker

I think it’s more important to attend to the content of the article, than to jump to calling someone an idiot for the mere misuse of a word.

YMMV


58 posted on 09/27/2016 10:00:45 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: wastoute

They SHOULD lose their broadcast license.
When the enemedia proves their agenda journalism over and over, they are no longer news.
They are propaganda.
And should no longer have access to American airwaves.


59 posted on 09/27/2016 10:02:54 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: all the best

Much like her trickle down charity


60 posted on 09/27/2016 10:02:58 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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