Sunday, October 26, 2008

Is Mara Liasson secretly pulling for McCain/Palin?

While watching Fox News Sunday w/ Chris Wallace (10/26/2008), I saw this micro-expression on Mara Liasson:

It lasted about as long as a bulb flash. In the above image, she was saying the 'J' in the word "just". The topic was about McCain's campaign falling short. She said, "He could have run a better campaign as a Reform-Republican. He had all of the parts. They just didn't add up to a whole."

She looks really pissed. She's snarling, her eyes are more closed, her eyebrows have pulled together in the classic angry position and her lips have tightened up. I don't know if she's pulling for McCain/Palin or she hates to see a campaign managed so poorly, but she looks mad and/or frustrated.

As a semi-baseline, the image below shows what she looked like a split-second before the snarl. She's saying the "th" in "they". What a difference. Body-language is so fascinating.







5 comments:

  1. she always looks that way. i watch nothing but fox news, and she purposefully portrays herself as being on the right. But yes, she has a general snarling look, haha.

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  2. She makes the most boring-ass conversation exciting to watch! Love her!
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/40073913@N08/4186176038/

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  3. You are a GENIIUS. As any voice expert will tell you, the human articulators should make the exact same shape to form the "j" and "th" consonants, since those sounds are exactly the same. Right?

    So, one can only logically draw one conclusion from your brilliant analysis: Mara Liasson was "pissed" that McCain lost the election.

    I love the internet, because it allows experts like you to put out valuable "information" like this speculation.

    You should be on Fox News.

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  4. wow, i didn't notice she was a right winger in any of the reporting she does on npr...see? right wingers can be good reporters

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