I love interpreting body language and have found it very useful ever since I discovered it years ago. For those of you who watched the now famous Matt Lauer interview with Bush yesterday, check out this review by the Wash Post. Eye blinking or touching your nose generally indicates that someone is telling a lie or is very uncomfortable with the answer that they are providing, unsure of how it will be received by the listener. Hmmm, what does it all mean?
Bush blinks twice. He touches his tongue to his lips. He blinks twice more. He starts to answer, but he stops himself.
The president was a blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts. Bush has always been an active man, but standing with Lauer and the serene, steady first lady, he had the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.
The fidgeting clearly corresponded to the questioning.
When the questioning turned to Miers, Bush blinked 37 times in a single answer -- along with a lick of the lips, three weight shifts and some serious foot jiggling.
