Posted on 04/05/2017 3:42:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If she leaked nothing to nobody then she leaked something to somebody. QED.
Perhaps Rice was using Clintonian linguistics. When Hillary was asked about wiping a server, she asked “with a cloth”? Similarly, Susan Rice may have interpreted the word “leaking” to imply urinary incontinence and, of course was taken aback at Andrea Mitchell’s inquiry and thus responded in a non-grammatical fashion.
I’ve read all the stuff she has said but today I watched her, she sure blinked a lot.
I think her phrasing is consciously deliberate. As Scott writes, technically it means that she did mean something to someone. This way she gives the impression that she did not, and yet — by a technicality — she is telling the truth when she admits to having leaked the information.
Seems right to me
I agree with Scott that Rice is not being truthful, for Freudian slips, and her body language. In the PBS interview, every single body movement is shut down, and, she appears to pass responsibility off to the president in her explanation(Zero). And in the second interview, same body language, but right as the camera cuts to a long shot, she laughs and possibly tongue juts. Inappropriate to the question; a chance to disguise/justify a few deep breaths.
This is a technique used to defeat a lie detector. Takes practice and skill, but it works (so I am told).
Can it beat a waterboard?
Depends on who is running the bucket and who is holding the towel.
Rice mostly has that dead pan look. She’s mostly lying.
That would be “I leaked nothing ON nobody”.
Actually it means she leaked something to everybody.
Rice’s use of a double negative was her message to the street that she is going to pull the race card. Its guaranteed.
PING!!!
Article (Scott Adams) and comments
From article:
When I learned to be a hypnotist, my instructor taught the class that some types of verbal slips are actually a message of honesty from the subconscious. Rice’s odd wording leaves open the possibility that she leaked SOMETHING to someone. To a hypnotist, Rice’s choice of words would be regarded as an unintentional confession of leaking.
Thanks, 2ndDivisionVet
Sargeant Schultz tecnique - “I see nothing! I know nothing!”
kinda like “dindu nuffin”
From the movie “Jaws” - she has doll’s eyes, and when bites you the roll around and you see the whites of her eyes..”
I agree. It’s the race card, not a confession via double negative.
So she may have been denying what the FakeNews dossier accused President Trump of paying for? Disgusting in all respects.
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