The Kerry Tongue Flick - Complete with photos

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[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Roll Over Gene Simmons

Are we the only ones to have noticed how often John Kerry pushes his tongue out of his mouth when he speaks? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

We were watching a recording of Kerry's appearance on Letterman and actually found ourselves distracted by the constant flicking and probing of the senator's red yahzik.

We eventually decided to take a few screenshots and post them up. Trying to take screenshots at first was like a game of whack-a-mole. But after a while there was a certain zen to it all -- we could feel when it was going to appear.

We were busy. Ninety-four times it popped out! And that's not counting the rebound-wags, tooth-probes, lip-diggers, half-rollers, split-flips, or even any biting-curls! An animated gif would have been too big, so we put together this instead... (Don't get confused! That actually is his tongue, not his bottom lip.)

posted by The Recycler at 6:31 AM

[DocRock]

Here it is...

[Psycho_Bunny]

Wow....he has Michael Jordan Syndrome.

Too bad he can't dunk.

[hg23]

I remember reading that Kerry's eyes are blue-gray. It is not always easy to tell someones eye color on tv. I remember Gore's eyes often appeared brown except in close-up shots.

[Jim Hill]

Good call, Mel, on Tardive Dyskinesia. TD is apparently one of the more common side effects of a wide range of psychotropic drugs and is characterized by darting, twisting, and protruding movements of the tongue; chewing and lateral jaw movements; lip puckering; lip smacking; facial tortions and grimacing; finger tapping and hand clenching.

Or . . . . . he could be a lizard.

[Palladin]

Flipper, or Flicka?

[Just mythoughts]

Well if that is the case then when he went on Fox with Carl Cameron, right after he won the Iowa primary while in Houston, earlier this spring his eyes were black/brown.

One of the few times I have seen him where there were close up shots of him on tv.

It was very striking to see close up shots of him with black/brown eyes when his campaign ads show him with blue to green eyes.

[Ann Archy]

YUCK! I noticed his tongue flicking also, but I had NO idea it was so often!!

[blake6900]

MEMO TO JOHN KERRY: Botox calling.

[Ann Archy]

Come on...those pictures are FAKED....right?

[sitetest]

Disgusting.

I hope I don't have to put up with that tongue for the next four years.

[PROUDAMREP]

I have long since quit watching this revolting man due to many reasons, but especially because his constant tongue flicking gets on my nerves! Suppose I'll have to watch him on the debates, but wish I could just block out the screen where he is.

[gathersnomoss]

Cotton mouth. Probably would like a bag of Frito's too.

[tiki]

The next to last one should be put on a poster, it's priceless.

[cyborg]

Imagine how Theresa feels.

[DocRock]

"Come on...those pictures are FAKED....right?"

Freaky, huh? I do have the video which I took the screen shots from. I always have a TV on at work, usually FOX news and one of my employees said, "what's up with this lawyer? He keeps sticking his tongue out!" So, naturally, I fired up the capture card and posted it!

[sitetest]

cyborg,

LOL.

Maybe that's why she always pushes him away when he tries to kiss her.

That dude is pw'ed something awful.


sitetest

[TASMANIANRED]

Now you know what Ta Ray Sa bought.

His tongue moves more than when I rub peanut butter on my Lab's teeth.

[RepublicanHippy]

He thinks he's being sexy. yuk.

[Pharmboy]

Yes indeed, many pharmaceutics (including antipsychotics and antidepressants) cause dry mouth--a state that may lead to lip-smacking/tongue thrusting. However, as we all know, anxiety/extreme stress/fear can also cause dry mouth.

So, if JFK'04 were on any important psychoactive drug, it likely wouldn't be one of the older generation that caused dry mouth (for those of you keeping score at home, pharmacologists would call it the anticholinergic effect). He would be on a more modern one--one that caused little in the way of dry mouth.

So, I would guess that his lip-smacking (and I can't really tell what it is without a video) is due to anxiety (and he sure has a lot to be anxious about!) and not through prescription drugs..

My diagnosis, FWIW.

[cobaltblu]

BTTT