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IssuesClaiming "I'm not making any comparison here," O'Reilly asserted that like Pelosi, Hitler also "practiced for hours before making a speech"
During a
"body language" segment on the September 30 broadcast of Fox
News' The O'Reilly Factor, host
Bill O'Reilly and guest Tonya Reiman discussed House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi's (D-CA) body language during her speech before the September 29
vote on the proposed $700 billion financial bailout bill. During the
discussion, Reiman said: "I think that what happens is she [Pelosi]
practices the speech too much and wants to come across as forceful and powerful
and uses gestures that she might think are forceful." After
O'Reilly stated, "So she's practicing," Reiman
reiterated, "I think she does practice." O'Reilly replied:
"You know who used to do that, who practiced for hours before making a
speech? And I'm not making any comparison here. So, don't -- you crazy
left-wing websites out there, it's not a comparison. Adolf Hitler. Adolf
Hitler practiced for hours, all of his ... gestures and everything
else before he went out there. So if you practice your gestures, and then you
get out there and you screw them up, you just -- you should just be
natural."
As Media Matters
for America has documented, O'Reilly frequently attacks those with
whom he disagrees -- such as the Daily Kos and Huffington Post -- by
comparing them to the Nazis.
From the September 30 broadcast of The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: "Body Language"
segment tonight: Three interesting situations beginning with Speaker Pelosi's
unbelievable monologue yesterday before the bailout vote.
PELOSI [video clip]: Seven hundred billion dollars -- a
staggering number but only a part of the cost of the failed Bush economic
policies to our country. ... Now, eight years later, the foundation of that
fiscal irresponsibility, combined with an anything-goes economic
policy, has taken us to where we are today.
O'REILLY: Which is chaos. With
us now, the doyenne of body language, the queen of physical motion, Tonya
Reiman. Now, when we last left Nancy Pelosi, you were saying that her hand
gestures don't match --
REIMAN: Her verbal --
O'REILLY: --
what she's saying.
REIMAN: Yeah.
O'REILLY: It's the same thing here?
REIMAN: I constantly see that. And
one of the interesting things I saw tonight was, as she's pointing, it's like
her fingers are stuttering. So, watch as she points.
O'REILLY: The fingers are
stuttering.
REIMAN: It's almost as if there's a
verbal exclamation point that she's trying to make as she makes a point. Watch.
O'REILLY: There it is. There it
goes.
REIMAN: Ba-ba-boom. You see it? Ba-ba-boom.
And she does this in this entire speech. I saw this consistently. And I always
feel like her gestures are just too rehearsed.
O'REILLY: Is it maybe she's just not
coordinated?
REIMAN: It's possible. That's
absolutely possible.
O'REILLY: You know?
You know who Joe Cocker is? The singer, the rock singer -- Joe Cocker, OK?
REIMAN: Yes.
O'REILLY: He gets out there, and
he's doing all this, and he's just not coordinated, you know?
REIMAN: Right. But your gestures
should be more natural. As we're talking, you know, there's certain gestures
that are automatic.
O'REILLY: Do you think that Nancy
Pelosi, while she's giving a stem-winder speech like that, knows what her hands
are doing?
REIMAN: No. I think that what
happens is she practices the speech too much and wants to come across as
forceful and powerful, and uses gestures that she might think are forceful and
powerful --
O'REILLY: OK.
REIMAN: For instance, she started
off with the rigid point.
O'REILLY: So, she's practicing.
REIMAN: I think she does practice,
yes.
O'REILLY: You know who used to do
that, who practiced for hours before making a speech? And I'm not making any
comparison here. So, don't -- you crazy left-wing websites out there,
it's not a comparison. Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler practiced for hours,
all of his --
REIMAN: Well, he was a nonverbal --
yeah.
O'REILLY: -- all of his gestures and
everything else before he went out there. So, if you practice your gestures,
and then you get out there and you screw them up, you just -- you should just
be natural.
REIMAN: Well, his nonverbals were
quite different. I mean, he had powerful --
O'REILLY: But let's get back to
Pelosi.
REIMAN: Yes -- right, yeah.
O'REILLY: She's not natural.
REIMAN: No, they don't come across
as natural.
O'REILLY: It's
stilted.
Published: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:18:42 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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