Posted on 09/28/2018 9:22:21 PM PDT by budj
According to Mandy O’Brien, a body language analyst who calls herself “Dr. Bombard,” during Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday, her body language indicates she was using her emotional demeanor to influence and manipulate.
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“As far as I can tell, she’s an academic, not a practicing psychologist. She teaches so may not need a license.”
But under California law for her to even use the professional title of “psychologist” she HAS to have a license.
In the link posted above it shows her using the title on her faculty page (before someone changed it).
During her sworn testimony, she introduced herself as a research psychologist which there again is a NO NO under CA law.
The link I’m posting below shows her using the title on campaign contribution listings as well as a letter that was submitted to the DOJ condemning the family separations at the border.
https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/christine-blasey-ford-trump/#comments
I taught university-level classes. Good professors prepare their lecture, not just the words but the presentation. They dress the part they are trying to play. That’s why many professors have a mirror in their office. It is used to practice in front of.
Do I really have to cite the use of rehearsal and coaching of a witness by a legal team? It’s as old as trials by jury. Good legal teams will ALLWAYS prepare their witness. They choose the clothing, coach the witness how to sit and what things to avoid as well as what to say and how to say it. Using a vocabulary that is understandable to the jury. Sentence length. The speed of speaking. Don’t speak in a monotone. Keep answers simple. Provide answers that sound definite but still have wiggle room. All of these are things used by people that train witnesses and public speakers.
This process often includes body language. Don’t sit with your arms crossed over your chest. Don’ lick your lips. Don’t look at the floor or the ceiling. Don’t stare at the jury the judge or other witnesses. Don’t pop your knuckles. Don’t slouch, sit straight but not bolt upright. Depending on what emotion is trying to be conveyed any of probably 2 dozen other things.
Even professions like pastors and school teachers receive training on how to present their material. It is just really basic stuff. In a court it isn’t just what’s said, it is how you say it and how you look when saying it.
The presentation has nothing to do whatsoever with the truth of the material but can make all the difference in the world as to whether the material is believed.
The whole look Ms. Ford presented was probably choreographed, the mommy-glasses, The inexpensive looking dress, and flat pancake makeup with neutral lipstick. They were trying to make Brett Kavanaugh look like an elite, snooty, member of the hated aristocracy and Ms. Ford to look like a poor, abused housewife. The whole event was staged Ms. Ford’s legal team to engender sympathy if not belief.
Lastly, why the anger? I said I don’t believe her.
But, I would not expect her to not show up unprepared. You don’t think that liars practice lying, that pick-pockets don’t hone their skills? It isn’t only the upright that practice.
Anyone who has done any public speaking uses rehearsal, coaching and controlling body language as part of the job and that requires preparation. Coaching her to give the answers that strengthened her case is neither immoral or unethical it is done by all sides all the time.
It would have only been surprising if this hadn’t been done.
For a good discussion on how these techniques are used in a different setting. Especially the 7 ways false teachers (Lawyers overlap this area a great deal)control an audience:
The only book dealing with wittness coaching on Amazon is, unfortunately, in German. But read the English summary. It makes my point that this is common practice.
There are all kinds of psychologists. My husband has a PhD in psychology and is referred to as a psychologist. This is common practice, and it’s not against the law, even in California, to identify yourself as such. There are social psychologists, educational psychologists, industrial-organizational psychologists, developmental psychologists, and many more. Clinical psychologists are psychologists who treat patients - it is against the law to identify yourself as a practitioner when you’re not.
If that gathering even happened, there are many possible reasons, including innocent reasons. Again, if the gathering ever actually happened.
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Channeling her inner obama?
“And she just had that one little drinky-winky of beer.”
One beer and what else? No one remembers the early Eighties? How many ludes?
I got the same impression. Funny how she could switch from "professor" mode when she was explaining memory and the hippocampus and then back to the "terrified" teenager so quickly.
I am sure that she as a professor has lectured and been recorded.....would love to hear a recording from her lectureng
Ms Ford talked like a defensively little girl and it was all fake. She is a hard core leftist that would take your head off in normal conversation.
A most disgusting women she is.
Re “her gulping for air”. Just saw “Creature From the Black Lagoon” and he was doing the same thing. Just saying...!
#19. She looks like an unattractive version of the actress Laura Lynnie.
That’s a woman who has spent a lifetime being manipulative. The way she presented herself, you’d think she’d gotten raped in the anteroom just before the hearing.
She’d also clearly been coached to avoid perjury traps, although ultimately I believe she failed at that objective.
I wonder who usually drove her to and from parties?
If you asked me how I got somewhere the summer of my 15th year, I could easily narrow it down to two friends who had their licenses before me.
She knows who would have driven her, but that person isn’t playing her game so can’t be named.
I said it right from the beginning (and on some threads here on FR): Christine Ballsy FRAUD earned an Academy Award for her incredible performance on Thursday.
The sad thing is that 90% of the world bought it... they believed her. And the vast majority of them were women. You know... those 'white suburban women voters' that are so highly prized these days.
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