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Ted Cruz Again Displays His 'Audiographic' Memory With a Nearly Perfect Re-enactment of a Scene From 'The Princess Bride' How good is the “audiographic” memory of Republican presidential candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz?Cruz demonstrated his impressive skills during a meeting with voters for the taping of a segment on WMUR-TV in New Hampshire Thursday, acting out a scene from one of his favorite movies, “The Princess Bride.”Image source: YouTubeThe re-enactment happened as Cruz sat down in WMUR’s “Candidate Cafe.”Watch Ted Cruz’s performance and note his impressions of Billy Crystal and Carol Kane.GOP candidate Cruz acts out 'Princess Bride' scene (video)Cruz’s...

Yesterday we discussed gaslighting – a manipulative technique defined by ever increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information and/or providing false information with the intent of making victims doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity.Variations of this technique have been known in the past as  “disinformation” “newspeak” and “agitprop.”Today I would like to discuss a skill that is quite useful in fighting this form of abuse: “audiographic memory” -  a variant of photographic memory in which a person is capable of remembering verbatim everything they’ve ever heard. It is an especially effective skill to have when arguing or debating with...

Ted Cruz's "Audiographic" Memory | "Glenn Beck Radio Program" (Video) On Glenn Beck’s radio show, the pundit recently discussed a little known tidbit about Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). Watch: How to debate like Senator Ted Cruz https://t.co/rIK6SOmQdq pic.twitter.com/0Fl5WAADrg— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 30, 2015 Apparently Cruz, whose famed 2013 marathon filibuster speech over defunding Obamacare jumped across a range of topics, has an uncanny capability to remember things he hears verbatim.Beck claims the Senator possesses the rare ability to mentally lock down any conversation like a recorded audio file, a phenomenon known as "audiographic memory.” According to The...

After Glenn Beck 'revealed Ted Cruz's "audiographic memory," he shared on the radio Thursday how he put the Texas senator to the test during the Republican presidential debate.' In a particularly strong moment, Cruz shot back at the CNBC debate moderators, calling them out on their questioning tactics."The questions that have been asked so far in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media," Cruz said in response to a question regarding his problem-solving ability from CNBC's Carl Quintanilla. "This is not a cage match."Cruz went on to list the ways in which the debate questioners engaged...

Glenn Beck said Wednesday he believes 2016 hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) self-described “audiographic memory” would be a “massive plus” in a president. Beck said Cruz remembers anything as long as it’s been said to him out loud because it “imprints on him an audio file.”“To be able to sit down — if you could just watch all the tapes of Vladimir Putin, nobody is getting around him,” Beck said. “You’re sitting down, ‘Actually, no, that’s not what you said.’ Yes it is. ‘No it’s not.’ … To have someone with a photographic or, in [Cruz’s] case, audiographic memory is...