OK. Not being an expert at body language myself, I thought it looked stupid. :o)
So what did Savage say about Pres Bush's body language of breaking the handclasp and walking away?
Well, Savage thought the match was over at that point, because Kerry already had power over Bush by then.
I just thought it looked weird too. Or stupid as you said.
But I guess if you look at the meaning behind body language, then there is more to it than meets the eye.
Pinging to another thread, very interesting. Apologies if you have seen it already, but this could certainly explain some of what was going on last night.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1232266/posts
posted by huac
Lehrer's Bias in Presidential Debate- note the novel he wrote on this subject
"What's intersting is a novel that Lehrer wrote a few years back. Here's an excerpt: "Taking journalistic activism to unprecedented new heights, the media figures at the heart of this ingratiating post-Clinton political satire overtly change the course of a presidential election. At Williamsburg, Va., a few weeks before election day, Bible-quoting, media-savvy Republican David Donald Meredith will debate an all-but-defeated Democratic challenger. But newspaperman Michael J. Howley, the debate moderator, and the panel of questioning journalists so fear the consequences of Meredith's impending presidency that they conspire to ruin him by dispensing with the set debate format and ambushing Meredith with damning, unpublished documents in Howley's possession."