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Related: About this forum5 reasons Chris Christie might be lying
Applying the techniques of lie detection to Christie's press conference yields some very interesting resultsAMY PUNT
I am embarrassed and humiliated by the conduct of some of the people on my team, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said during his press conference on Jan. 9 regarding the George Washington Bridge scandal. I am who I am, but I am not a bully. While he worked hard in the nearly two-hour press conference to dispel any rumors of his involvement, many have already noted that Christies speech was more remarkable for the questions it didnt answer than for the ones it did.
Left looming is: How could a man like Christie not know that his deputy chief of staff ordered lane closures on the George Washington Bridge? And how does a former U.S. Attorney, with his eye on a 2016 presidential campaign, not ask follow-up questions when told the closures were a result of a traffic test?
How indeed?
Most people feel its relatively easy to spot a liar, and judging by the media coverage on this scandal, many people feel that Christie is lying, but without a smoking gun, i.e. damning emails or personal testimony from his staff or the Port Authority, its hard to prove.
But his press conference itself may offer some insights. In Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception, author Pamela Meyer asserts that only when we step back from someones words to view the whole picture can we begin to see the combination of indicators that will help us successfully identify a liar. She writes:
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http://www.salon.com/2014/01/11/5_reasons_chris_christie_might_be_lying/
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5 reasons Chris Christie might be lying (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2014
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LongTomH
(8,636 posts)1. Here's the clincher: His lips were moving!
lame54
(35,321 posts)2. or - He's a republican