Posted on 12/31/2007 5:58:01 PM PST by street_lawyer
Tonya Reiman, a certified Hypnotist appears on the O’Reilly Factor. On one occasion evaluating Fred Thompson she states that because he licks his lips he is not comfortable. She tells us everything we need to know about a person who a lifts a brow, straightens the spine, leans forward, tilts a head, and moves a finger. Enough already with the body language segment - At first it was mildly amusing. Then after a while when almost every voluntary and involuntary motion is scrutinized and we hear how “congruent” Rosy O’Donnell is, how she so believes everything she says, it becomes to sound like a snake oil salesman. Who cares if Ellen DeGeneres is telling the truth about a dog or just crying crocodile tears?
This did not appear on the Factor:
Tonya: Notice how uncomfortable the speaker is. When he leans to the right and lifts the left side of his hip off the chair, this is a sign that he feels like releasing something that is bothering him.
O’Reilly: I think I know what’s going on here. I’m getting pretty good at this aren’t I Tonya.
Tonya: no reaction.
O’Reilly: So before I tell you what’s going on, let our viewers in on it.
Tonya: Leaning to the right and lifting opposite leg off the chair is almost always a sign that there is something pressing or bothering him. Sometimes there is an expression of relief at the same time.
O’Reilly: Relief? What do you mean?
Tonya: Relief in the sense that something that was bothering is now out of the body. A smell or a muffled noise is also evidence that the speaker has released something that was bothering him.
Enough Bill with the Hypnotist, I think I’m coming out of the trance and I have a headache.
I have not seen his show in at least 3 years. He is not worth the time.
I usually like what he has to say (unless it’s anti- FreeRepublic), but his obvious self absorbed, egotistical personality is a major turn off so I don’t watch. The body language girl is the least of it.
And yet you are unable to pass by this thread.
Geez, and to think, I have to work for a living.
Could you send me a video so I can ask Tonya what you mean.
ROFLMAO!
I got some body language for her to decipher! :)
“certified Hypnotist”
Same thing as a certified chiropractor only more BS and friends you don’t really want to have around.
Funny. Good post.
I’d rather see Joe Navarro doing the “body language” segments. He’s a retired FBI counterintelligence guy who’s paid big bucks to teach poker players to read and understand “tells” (body language) of other players.
And yeah, Rosy’s “congruent” all right. Most crazy people are.
Reading body language is a valid activity and its even more valuable in specific circumstances: interview and interrogation, jury selection, intelligence analysis, etc.
But Tanya R. just really isn’t very good. She should just admit 2/3rds of the time that it is impossible for her to give any kind of meaningful interpretation based on 10 seconds of video while viewing a subject she has never seen before.
Also, if she is a hypnotist then she is probably also doing other stuff which is somewhere close to made up. I know this is hard for a lot of people to digest, but hypotism doesn’t exist. There literally is no such thing. There is nothing happening. There is no way to prove that anything at all is taking place therefore it is a totally imagined event. It is literally just one person talking to another in an authoritative way. No trances, no seances, no special powers.
Its simply talking - kinda like when Hillary was ‘talking’ to Eleanor Roosevelt back in 1993. Any possible gains are from positive suggestion which results from the subjects own willingness to believe it. (IE, its all in ones own mind).
If somebody is putting ‘hypnotist’ on their card or resume’, they might as well put ‘con artist’ or ‘faith healer’ as well.
Tonya is HOT!!!!!
Full disclosure: I watch the Factor occasionally, but I’m not an O’Reilly fan and Tonya is just a joke, as Bill gushes all over her like she is some kind of sage. Or maybe she just has good ratings?.
I guess I just have this need to show that my perception of people is superior to most :0
Happy New Year!!
I wonder what Tonya would surmise if she could see all the TV viewers sneering and rolling their eyes or shaking their heads, then reaching for the remote.
Of course she does, Rosy the moronic carpet muncher is as ignorant as she is ugly --- and that's a LOT of ugly..
at one point, I helped pick juries for my clients. I was more proficient than the lawyers I was working for but not anywhere near the level of competency as Jo Ellen Demetrius. Worked with her on one big case and it was quite an eye opening experience.
If O’Reilly put Jo Ellen on once, it would be obvious who the pro really is and who is a poser.
I don't know how you can say you were more proficient than the lawyer would have been, since it's a one shot deal. As for Jo Ellen, was she the one who helped pick the OJ jury? I didn't pay much attention to that case, but I assume that the prosecutors in LA are so politically correct that they are afraid of being called raciest for challenging a juror, and they got what all liberals get - the consequences of their moronic liberal philosophy.
-PJ
O’reilly and Dickie Morris seem to communicate well. O’Reilly freely demonstrates his smugness and Dickie demonstrates his cleverness...and he looks like he’s had a few facials...since I saw him last.
Actually, the one of the attorneys I worked for actually determined that I was more valuable picking the jury than he was. He didn’t see a lot of juries in his practice. Mostly it was a case of figuring out the demographics who would be more or less favorable to your case. And it helped a lot that I could watch the jurors while they answered the questions I wrote which the atty was asking them. I could pay attention to how they were actually responding instead of just listening to their answers.
Jo Ellen was the smart one who decided to pick black people instead of picking women. In the OJ case, there were literally jury experts who volunteered to work for the prosecution but they didn’t take the help. And they made the fatal decision that gender trumped race in Los Angeles. For any of us in the biz, this was just a sign of retardation by the DAs office.
But by the time Gil Garcetti cut a deal with the Urban League to move the trial from Santa Monica to downtown LA, it was mostly over. The Santa Monica jury pool had about 5% blacks and the downtown jury has somewhere closer to 24%.
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