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

[Repairman Jack]

When does she turn 18?

;)

[CaptSkip]

Now don't go off on me, I'm posting this because my GrandMa suffered from this, due to meds, before she passed.

"Tardive dyskinesias (TDs) are involuntary movements of the tongue, lips, face, trunk, and extremities that occur in patients treated with long-term dopaminergic antagonist medications. Although associated with the use of neuroleptics, TDs apparently existed before the development of neuroleptics. People with schizophrenia appear especially vulnerable to developing TDs after exposure to neuroleptics, toxins, and other agents. TDs are most commonly seen in patients with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder who have been treated with antipsychotic medication for long periods, but TDs are occasionally seen in other patients as well."

http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic362.htm

[CaptSkip]

frog you are bad! bad i say! LOL

[camle]

and he never heard of chapstik?

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

He's the man "Behind Blue Eyes"....

"No one knows what it's like, to be a flip flop"

[camle]

i'm not too sure that he's even human... reptilian maybe tho...

[Elephino]

That's the way Johnny Edwards likes it.

[BunnySlippers]

They used it effectively in one of the official Bush campaign slams at Kerry. They need to keep using it.

[Just mythoughts]

"No one knows what it's like, to be a flip flop"

lol guess he is not too secure in his own eye color, guess he has polling data that he sells better with "blue" eyes.

[spectre]

Great Post, HLL. It would be funny if it weren't true!

sw

[ride the whirlwind]

Reminded me of this:

A Palestinian woman in east Jerusalem's Old
City celebrates after hearing the news of a
terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in
New York. (AP Photo/str)

[Polyxene]

Those pictures are incentive enough to re-elect President Bush!! No one wants to look at THAT face for the next four years!!

[crushelits]

INDESICIVE. EFFET. FRENCH & GAY

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

He did the tongue flick thing during his Senate Hearings in the 70s, so I don't think it's medication, I think it's because he's a freak!

[crushelits]

He was hung over.

The night of that President Bush accepted the nomination, at Republican Covention he made that midnight speech I some say he was a little drunk.

I think he needs a few drinks to let go.

In other words, he doesn't have any cojones.

[Helms]

"Tardive Dyskinesia"

Don't forget Navane and that whole class of 1st and 2nd generation nueroleptics. He does it as a form of distraction and because he is good at it. What a cunning linguist as we used to say. Perhaps that is what Tereeza finds seductive about him.

[Serb5150]

I had a friend that had a cat that wasn't weaned properly. The cat would come crawling up your leg and try to suck on your socks. It would also suck on fingers, blankets, and cotton tshirts.

Kerry's tongue reminds me of that cat. Like his momma abandoned him too soon, and now he's stuck in some sort of oral fixation phase.

[crushelits]

It's not working.

[MayflowerMadam]

You have a stronger stomach than I have; I can't even watch Kerry long enough to notice this. Low gag threshhold. My remote almost automatically switches channels. Will have to force myself to watch during the debates.

[DocRock]

Martha Stewart's lawyer does this tongue thing, too. I made a graphic of him after she was found guilty. I'll see if I can dig it up.