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By Graham Young, published 20/6/2014If you want to know how the left in Australia thinks, then check out Twitter. It will also explain the slow degradation of Australian political reporting into gotcha exposes and personal slurs.
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Posted by Leo Lane, Saturday, 28 June 2014 3:01:14 PM
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Dear Poirot,
I think you may find this interesting. It is a grab from Pamela Meyer's TED talk on 'How to spot a liar'. In this part she is talking about the difference between our rehearsed words and our gestures. The example of 'we say yes we shake our heads no' is ex-presidential candidate John Edwards lying to a reporter about fathering a child out of wedlock. http://youtu.be/P_6vDLq64gE?t=11m42s What is instructive is watching Tony Abbott's response to a question on gay marriage from a Q&A audience member. It is so classic one suspects it may well be used in future videos on deception. http://youtu.be/HSWlyhfvWUQ He certainly has had some coaching recently, evidenced by his slowing, more deliberate speech patterns. “Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks 100 words a minute slower in media interviews now than in opposition and is also speaking in a more monotone voice, according to a study of his speech patterns.” http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-becomes-a-slowtalking-pm-20140118-311s7.html#ixzz35ugQtCCG Thus the 'tells' are not quite as flagrant. However I am not sure it matters as his default setting seems to be lying to us great unwashed with gay abandon. Posted by SteeleRedux, Saturday, 28 June 2014 4:59:52 PM
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It is nice that Abbott is improving his verbal presentation. Ehe article to ehich Steele referred us says:”he's far more fluent, he doesn't have what we call disfluencies and fillers, that is the um, ahs and long pauses. In that sense his speech is far less interrupted, “ As against that, his presentation has become more like Gillard:” I think he's now on a par with her wooden presentation style,” At least Abbott's pleasant speaking voice does not sound like Gillard's.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-becomes-a-slowtalking-pm-20140118-311s7.html#ixzz35vDy1AJ4 The TED talk, of course, is just nonsense which would only be acceptable in a delusional world like the one inhabited by Steele. Posted by Leo Lane, Saturday, 28 June 2014 7:28:48 PM
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Thanks for that, SteeleRedux,
I don't think we need to bother too much about the likes of Leo lane. If he was presented with abominations of the calibre of Abbott and Bronnie on the the Labor side, he'd be squealing to the heavens. Posted by Poirot, Sunday, 29 June 2014 12:50:36 AM
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P,
Compared to Juliar and her speaker Slipper, Abbott and Bishop are the models of propriety. And the left whingers can only resort to making things up. Watching Juliar declaring full confidence in the innocence of Thomson and Slipper whilst bailing them out and corruptly shielding them was a complete joke. Posted by Shadow Minister, Sunday, 29 June 2014 11:17:55 AM
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All this ancient history is all the libber camp can come up with.
A boat carrying 153 Tamil asylum seekers including apparently sick children is likely to have run out of oil about 170 nautical miles off Christmas Island in high seas, refugee advocates say. But Immigration Minister Scott Morrison is refusing to confirm the existence of a boat and says there are no significant incidents at sea to report. Opposition immigration spokesman Richard Marles said he had heard the second boat, carrying 50 asylum seekers, had departed from Java Posted by 579, Sunday, 29 June 2014 11:46:29 AM
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They thought that they could break her down because she is a woman, but their bullying has not worked.. She is certainly affected by it, but she has not lost her composure. Labor should die of shame. It has morphed from a political party to a disgusting disease of our democratic system.