Over at CNN the wankery just never stops. Check this out
Sure, what the candidates say is important, but body languange can also make an important impression on voters. A body language expert, Jo Ellan Dimitrius, studied all of the candidates throughout the two-hour debate
Maybe it is because i have Asperger's but I've never put much stock in body language. The press seemed obsessed with it in 2000 and 2004. Frankly I'm sick of it. Debates need to be about substance and policy. If this kind of body language analysis accompanied a serious policy discussion then maybe I wouldn't be so angry but it never does. Always superficial. Never substantive.
Debasing our discourse by playing to the LCD with petty style concerns seems to be what the MSM does best. I remember the fun Maureen Dowd had with Wesley Clark. The media takes this approach partly because they are lazy and because they are gossips. Rather than making the candidates more approachable, this practice feeds the inside the beltway consultant driven model that keeps the people at arms length from their politicians and engenders a deep and abiding cynicism in the populace. What to do about it though? Letters to the editor phone calls all these are fine but at the end of the day we need to control the water coolers of America. After a debate like this we need to steer conversations we have with our friends away from these trivial concerns and back to policy. Thanks for reading. Here's some Bill hicks for your trouble.