O'Reilly: “Hillary just looks like a zombie” during SOTU


On the January 30 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, during the weekly “Body Language” segment with Fox News body language expert Tonya Reiman, host Bill O'Reilly stated that "[Sen.] Hillary [Rodham Clinton (D-NY)] just look[ed] like a zombie" during part of President Bush's State of the Union address. Reiman then analyzed Clinton's body language during a January 28 speech in Davenport, Iowa, in which Clinton responded to a question by asking: “What, in my background, equips me to deal with evil and bad men?” While watching video of Clinton making the joke, Reiman said: “Watch how she sways back and forth. It's almost childlike, the way she moves back and forth.” Reiman then claimed that Clinton was in a “little-girl posture.” O'Reilly responded: “Right. 'I'm bad, I'm bad.' ”

From the January 30 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

O'REILLY: But he's [Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)] not looking at the president, he's looking down.

REIMAN: He doesn't need to be.

O'REILLY: No?

REIMAN: He's going through -- the thought process is there. He's not literally holding his head up, which would be boredom. He's thinking about what's being said.

O'REILLY: Now, Hillary just looks like a zombie right there, right?

REIMAN: Yes, she does.

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REIMAN: You know, she starts off with this movement of her upper body, which indicates that she was nervous when she first starts talking. Watch how she sways back and forth. It's almost childlike, the way she moves back and forth.

And then when she tries to make the first point, you could see her mouth and her head jut forward. She's making her point. And I believe it was Osama bin Laden when she said this. And then see that. That's the point she's trying to emphasize.

Now, as she goes further, she does a couple little things. First, she makes that little smirk as she's talking. It's almost as if she's thinking about whether or not she's really about to say the next sentence. I don't think that this sentence was scripted --

O'REILLY: No.

REIMAN: -- because this seems like there's the little-girl posture.

O'REILLY: Right. “I'm bad, I'm bad.”

REIMAN: She's got that whole little-girl posture.