O'Reilly quizzed body language expert on possible "sexual body language" from Couric during interview with Edwardses
During his weekly "Body Language" segment on the April 3 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly commented that body language expert Tonya Reiman had "surprised me" the previous week "by saying Ms. Couric used some sexual body language." O'Reilly was referring to CBS News anchor Katie Couric's interview with former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) and his wife, Elizabeth, about their decision to continue his presidential campaign after learning that her cancer had recurred. After playing a clip of Couric during that interview, O'Reilly asked about Couric's "little head flip," to which Reiman replied: "Typically, though, when you see that head pull back like that what you're trying to do is show off that you really care about your appearance. And coupled with the smile she gives, it doesn't necessarily have to be sexual, but it was definitely a look of satisfaction, a look of feeling good, so to speak." O'Reilly then prodded: "But in general -- because I know a lot of women who do that with their hair -- that is a sexual gesture?" Reiman added that "[i]t's a gesture that shows, 'I'm trying to impress you. I'm trying to look my best for you. I want you to notice that I take care of myself. You know, I'm pulling my hair back to make you notice me a little bit more.' " She concluded: "Any time you move, what you're doing is asking someone to look at you."
O'Reilly then asked Reiman for two examples of "other sexual gestures," which Reiman proceeded to describe.
From the April 3 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: And body language, the sex edition. Don't miss this one.
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O'REILLY: Right back with my quest to buy an American automobile that gets decent gas mileage. And later, body language, the sex edition. What signals do people send out in this area? Coming up.
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O'REILLY: When we come back, body language designed to sell sex. Can you fake that? And what gestures and mannerisms are sexual signals? Tonya Reiman has the answers. Moments away.
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O'REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I'm Bill O'Reilly.
In the "Body Language" segment tonight, last week Tonya Reiman was analyzing the talk between Katie Couric and Elizabeth and John Edwards. Tonya surprised me by saying Ms. Couric used some sexual body language.
COURIC [video clip]: Your decision to stay in this race has been analyzed and quite frankly judged by a lot of people. And some say what you're doing is courageous. Others say it's callous.
O'REILLY: All right. Now Tonya Reiman joins us. The little head flip, right?
REIMAN: Yes.
O'REILLY: What is that?
REIMAN: You know, you have to put it into context. Typically, though, when you see that head pull back like that what you're trying to do is show off that you really care about your appearance. And coupled with the smile she gives, it doesn't necessarily have to be sexual, but it was definitely a look of satisfaction, a look of feeling good, so to speak.
O'REILLY: Because it didn't have any context. She was asking an important question.
REIMAN: Right.
O'REILLY: But in general -- because I know a lot of women who do that with their hair -- that is a sexual gesture?
REIMAN: It's a gesture that shows, "I'm trying to impress you. I'm trying to look my best for you. I want you to notice that I take care of myself. You know, I'm pulling my hair back to make you notice me a little bit more."
O'REILLY: OK. To make -- notice that I have nice hair, or?
REIMAN: To make notice of me in general. Any time you move, what you're doing is asking someone to look at you. If you're standing straight, you know, people aren't going to notice you. But the head gestures, the swinging around, that's when people take notice.
O'REILLY: In general, what are other sexual gestures? Give me two.
REIMAN: OK. One of the sexual gestures would be to look down and then have my eyes look up at you. Because what I'm trying to do is give you that, like, almost childlike, innocent look when I do that.
O'REILLY: OK. That's for a woman, not for a guy.
REIMAN: That's -- yeah, for women. Another gesture would be if I were to, you know, thrust myself forward to you. What I'm trying to do is say, "Hey, look at me. Here I am."
O'REILLY: OK, so any movement like this?
REIMAN: Right.
O'REILLY: Is that for both sexes?
REIMAN: Especially with the chest. Women, you'll notice -- and we'll see that on the video tonight. Women will kind of push their chest forward to say, "Hey, here I am. I'm a woman. Take a look at me."
O'REILLY: Now, this is all done unconsciously.
REIMAN: Some of it is unconscious, some is conscious. You know, when you talk about that, when we talk about, say, Marilyn Monroe, a lot of that was not necessarily conscious.
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I wonder if someone examined BillO's body language while he was leaving obscene voice-mail messages for Andrea Mackris.
The point is that nobody would be saying such things about Walter Cronkite.
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The point is that nobody would be saying such things about Walter Cronkite.- skye12 / Thursday April 5, 2007 08:16:15 AM EST
Of course not, Walter Cronkite would be investigating the complexities of a news item, political question, or making points relating to the decision of whom should be President, not exploring what "some people say" or what "others say."
Walter Cronkite was a professional journalist, and newsman that served the public with integrity, and honor. He was a reliable source of news!! Couric is a propagandist on the corporate doal, looking for the item that will entertain, not inform!
One is a newsman from an American Democracy with the Fairness Doctrine, the other is a propagandist from an American Fascism with a unregulated corporate media!
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Yeah, like that's what this guy needs...more reasons to say, "She was asking for it."
O'Reilly - always lookin' out for the "folks" and holding the powerful people in this country accountable.......just in case any of us are ever being interviewed by Katie Couric and she throws a sexual advance our way, we are ready.
This is, by far, your best contribution ever to this site. Hilarious.
i have to give you credit for that one
Ewwww, what a revolting thought.
I see this thread as not being relevant at all, I do not like O'Reilly at all but is there not more examples of Conservative lies out there? It seems this is done just to embarass O'Reilly and of course give Olbermann material for his nightly "Worst Person in the World".
I agree that it seems a bit ridiculous, but it does expose the fact that O'Reilly completely lacks any journalistic skills/integrity.
The fact is Couric was disgusting for her questions to the Edwards, they are way out of line.
Agreed...I must have missed the MMFA coverage of that one.
It's relevant because BOR is dissing someone who actually interviews someone to discover their ideas and views, rather than to show how much the interviewer loves their own opinion.
Besides that, lotsa U here think she's a babe, so she gets the spotlight.
To me that "hair flip" or whatever, is not a sexual jesture as much as a flirtatious one.
It seems BOR wants to turn it into a sexual theme to add a little titilation to his show. Yeesh!
who's the 60's throwback again?
So what are you sayin' Bill?
Was Katie hitting on Edwards?
Body language expert? What kind of education do you need for that job?
Does Reiman tell people she has a Master's in body language? Too bad she doesn't have Bill's degrees. He's got one Master's degree in history and another Master's degree in foaming and drooling. I believe he minored in bedwetting too.
Shouldn't be long before BilldO has Ann Coulter on to call Katie Couric a f4990t.
At first, I thought "why is this here, MMfA?". But by the time they reran that little slow motion headflip by Couric for the 3rd time, I couldn't help but notice: I was hotter than I normally get watching O'Reilly. My testosterone was coursing through my veins like a cherry slurpie through a crazy straw. By the 5th slo-mo replay, I began to lose any sense of my surroundings. By the 7th time they showed Katy flipping her luscious golden hair away from the silken alabaster skin of her cheek, there was no holding back my inner animal, a veritable growing tiger straining to be realeased from it's ever tightening bonds. Sweat dripped from my brow and ran down my now heaving chest and my lips gently parted as I gasped for air. The agonizingly slow motion of Katy tossing her hair back provoked a series of images, each becoming permanently etched in my mind. Images of Bill sauntering toward me with a falafel...
Anyway, that body-language garbage O'Reilly is spewing is nonsense. Or maybe Katy wanted a threesome with the Edwards'. I don't know...
Isn't it just a little creepy to suggest that someone who is interviewing a woman about her cancer recurrence, and her devoted husband, is trying to flirt with them? Billo turns my stomach.
hah!
Re: Billo's guest "expert" I visited her website. Websites like that almost always have a link to a bio, resume, curriculum vitae, etc., to show qualifications, degrees, experience. If any of you can find any such links, you're better than I am. Hmmm....I wonder what it means that she is not touting her educational background?
After all of his time in Bangkok I would think Bill would be the expert in sexual body language.
Have you noticed how Reiman is dressing more anad more provacative all the time by the way? Maybe she turns BOR on like a juicy falafel.
"I know a lot of women who do that with their hair"
What are you "unconsciously" trying to tell us, Bill?
Bill-o only has that woman on so he can look at her chest and have perverted thoughts and desires.
It makes you wonder if Billo got any of these "signals" from Andrea Mackris when he started sexually harassing her with loofahs and falafels.
This reminds me that Bill did a whole "Women of Fox" series a while back, where once a week he would have on some alleged 'Fox babe" and proceed to ask obnoxious questions about their looks. I'm sure he thought he was just complimenting them, but during every segment that I saw he would quickly get around to asking the woman how big a part her looks played in her getting the job. One woman took offense and told him that her qualifications got her the job, but Bill was having none of it. He browbeat her into admitting that she was in front of the camera in part because of her looks, and you could see the smug look of victory on his face.
All of these things (the "women of Fox" and the body language silliness) seem to be done to satisfy some personal thing with Bill, whether it's to reinforce his sexist stereotypes or simply to have some "Fox babe" come on and tell him he's right about everything. That's why the line, "I know a lot of women who do that with their hair," is so creepy. It's like he's trying to get the body language expert to confirm to him that all these women secretly want to have sex with.
I've known this woman was a phony ever since she said that Puddinhead George's body language exuded confidence and authority. GMAFB
GMAFB?
George Makes All Females Blush?
Getting More Amorous For Bill?
Gannon's Manhood Aches For Bush?
I'm sorry, I'm not very well-versed in these - what do you kids call them - emoticons? No, no, that's not it. Webonyms?
I picked up on some possible "sexual body language" in the clip from O'Reilly when he was interviewing this "body language expert."
I think you can easily see what I'm talking about.
Looks like O'Reilly and Beck have tied for Worst Person in The World on Olbermann's show. Well, it isn't as if that would be a first.
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He asked what it meant. She said it was somewhat sexual. So what?? Is this Conservative bias???
so what's the problem with him quizzing her? she was the one who brought it up initially.
shouldnt mmfa attack the expert
What kind of "news" show has a weekly body language segment? And what kind of "expert" would say something like this:
Any time you move, what you're doing is asking someone to look at you.
I'll have to keep that in mind. Also, the reason this is on MMFA is because of the context of the alleged body language. God, I get so tired of the "appropriate for MMFA" self-appointed police. If you don't like this site or the posts it contains, go somewhere else, or better yet, start your own.
BillO: "You kow Andrea, the way you type with thse fingers kind of bunched up lie that, its really a sexual come-on. You know that don't you? I kow women, alot of women, an dthey they usually type with curled fingers when they want me to put my fingers in certain sexual places. What say you Ms. mackris? What say you.? The folk wanna know. This really is about the folks. Forget about those SPs during in their BVDs, because I am here to give you the HeBGBs.
Now sit back and let me get the loofah while you type in that sexually explicit way you do."
Eerily accurate, "Mr. White", if that IS your real name.
C'mon, Bill. If you're going to post here without using your real name, at least use a good nic, like TedBaxter2020 or BigGiantHead69.
Actually the name's just my little ode to Resevoir Dogs--probably not an O'Liar favorite. I could write O'Liar /Mackris Harrassment dialogue all day though if I had the time. I find it fascinating. We should get a harrassment expert on to read us different lines from the Mackris complaint and explain the precise perversion it indicates O"liar is into. Like the reference to Loofah means that Bill considers himself really a "Dirty" man that needs cleaning. Or it measn that he thinks of all women as dirty wh@res that require a thorough cleanisng by him. That kind of analysis would be good.
Looked up Tonya Reiman in Metaeureka.com and found this page.
www.answers.com/topic/tonya-reiman. According to this source she has no advanced degrees in either psychology or body language. She must just make an attractive/dynamic speaker even if she is not trained in her subject matter.
This however is only part of a broader media problem. Individuals are brought on as experts. However, their expertiece is often in question. How often, for instance, do you see either Newt Gingrich or Pat Buchanon being trotted out to deal with subjects that they really are clueless about, in comparison to dealing with people who have studied the issues extensively.
Real experts aren't hanging around studio sets trying to get the next appearance fee. They're out learning stuff.
Check this article out. It's very relevant. "How to be a Washington Expert" by Werther: http://www.counterpunch.org/werther02202007.html
I wish we'd see the same level of analysis on say, the Iraq War, poverty, inequality, etc. Instead, Bill is picking apart Katie Couric's body language, almost trying to discredit her in a chauvanistic way by suggesting that she's "boy crazy" and is trying to steal another woman's man. Not that I'm going to defend Katie Couric. I mean, she is a lightweight. In a just world, Amy Goodman would have gotten that gig.
But Amy wouldn't spend her time selling fluff and new cars and party politics to the masses. We need more yuppie-dolls! Sell that war crime, Barbie, sell it!!!
isnt bill being borderline creepy whenever he brings up sex in anyway or form? haha i mean this is a big ugly old guy who thinks he has any idea what the youth of this country does, and then has the guts to go and question how someone interviews a person. shes a woman, hes a guy, and u know what? maybe they were attracted to eachother, maybe she thinks he handsome. she most likely never even knew what she was doing, thats all her subconciousness working, when ur attracted to someone, its gonna show up in someway, bill get back to talking about immigrants again, at least your somewhat in the ballpark of what needs to be done for that
"But Amy wouldn't spend her time selling fluff and new cars and party politics to the masses. We need more yuppie-dolls! Sell that war crime, Barbie, sell it!!!"
You're right. It's all about ratings and who is "marketable". But again, in a just world, the news would just be reporting the truth to the betterment of society, not about making money for a network or maintaining the status quo.
How can this perverted sexual harasser O'Reilly have to nerve to question women doing their job and assume they are using sex when interviewing? This man has some nerve with being accused for sexual harassment. He's nothing but a low life narrow minded bigot, arrogant, sexual harrasser who thinks his crap does not stink. I wish the FBI would put him on the sexual predator list. Finally, someone needs to put him out of his misery.