May 19, 2012
— rdbrewer

Liar in Chief
A new term for me. It was in a video, a TED lecture by Pamela Meyer, "How to Spot a Liar." Duping delight is the thrill of getting away with a lie. It's a term coined by Dr. Paul Eckman (pdf).
[It is] the near irresistible thrill some people feel in taking a risk and getting away with it. Sometimes it includes contempt for the target who is being so ruthlessly and successfully exploited. It is hard to contain duping delight; those who feel it want to share their accomplishments with others, seeking admiration for their exploits.
The Pamela Meyer TED lecture is below the fold, followed by video of duping delight examples.
"How to Spot a Liar." The references to duping delight are at 11:45 and 14:55. (I can't do anything about the blank spaces the TED embed adds.)
Examples of duping delight created by what appears to be a blog, Faces in the News.
And poker players.
Anyway. Watch for duping delight on Obama's face. It happens a lot.
Open thread.
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Posted by: Tami at May 19, 2012 01:11 PM (X6akg)
Not always true, but I agree.
Posted by: rdbrewer at May 19, 2012 01:12 PM (Iyg03)
Posted by: rdbrewer at May 19, 2012 01:13 PM (Iyg03)
Wheatie, I have a young 'un in my family who'd sooner lie to you and catch hell for it than tell the truth in the first place, a puzzler for sure, since because of it they lose their cell phone privileges and lots of other things kids don't seem to be able to do without these days.
Posted by: Theresa at May 19, 2012 01:13 PM (Io9iG)
Posted by: Tami at May 19, 2012 05:11 PM (X6akg)
He likes that even better. He knows he's lying. We know he's lying. He knows that we know he's lying. And he still gets away with it, over and over. This is what Barky REALLY loves.
Anyone can tell a good lie to someone who can't figure it out, but only a real dick with total power can tell a transparent lie to someone who knows better and still get away with it with the target demuring from even saying it's a lie. It's a truly severe demonstration of power while forcing total submission by the audience in the process. This is what the sickest and most dangerous individuals do.
I've been saying this about Barky since the primaries. It's bad, bad stuff.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at May 19, 2012 01:15 PM (X3lox)
He'd also order us (CSRs and sales staff) to lie to the customers, and would get really mad when we wouldn't. After a while, all the customers knew they had to ask us to get a straight answer. No one would believe a word he said, and they were openly contemptuous of him.
Needless to say, he's tottering on the brink of bankruptcy now.
Posted by: Josef K. at May 19, 2012 01:17 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: mama winger at May 19, 2012 01:17 PM (P6QsQ)
Posted by: Tami at May 19, 2012 05:11 PM (X6akg)
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Yup. Same thing with mine. ....The thing about Liars is, apparently they are too stupid to realize that there will come a day, when they will need people to believe them...about something.
But they have so thoroughly destroyed their credibility, that no one believes them....even during the rare moment when they are telling the truth.
Posted by: wheatie at May 19, 2012 01:18 PM (dHMPi)
Posted by: wheatie at May 19, 2012 05:18 PM (dHMPi)
Every now and then he'll get my sister to believe him until I point out how ridiculous his lie is.
She's waaay nicer than I am.
Posted by: Tami at May 19, 2012 01:21 PM (X6akg)
Posted by: t-bird at May 19, 2012 01:21 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Theresa at May 19, 2012 05:13 PM (Io9iG)
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These days....the media-entertainment complex has put forth the idea that 'Lying is Cool'. ....So it is especially tough to teach your kids that lying is just wrong.
I think that the old parable of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' is still a good example, though. ....My parents drummed it into us. ....It just didn't 'take' with one of us, the brother who gets a kick out of fooling others.
Posted by: wheatie at May 19, 2012 01:23 PM (dHMPi)
Wait, so Homer Simpson was telling the truth when he said "It takes two to lie, Marge. One to lie, and one to listen." I thought that was a lie, too.
Posted by: Dr. Weevil at May 19, 2012 01:24 PM (e9Jho)
If you watch the duping delight examples video, you see more telltale signs:
Sharon Bialek hides her upper lip and flashes a smile, but if you look closely, you also see she's standing next to Gloria Allred, a dead giveaway of a liar.
Posted by: Z Ryan at May 19, 2012 01:24 PM (tsC/8)
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 19, 2012 05:22 PM (4q5tP)
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Yes. Many times over, now.
Posted by: wheatie at May 19, 2012 01:25 PM (dHMPi)
*****
It's why criminals return to the scene of the crime. It's why they
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 01:28 PM (piMMO)
That is one crappy player. You can't drag the slider to where you want until the video has buffered up.
Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 19, 2012 01:28 PM (jTDjB)
Posted by: rdbrewer at May 19, 2012 05:13 PM (Iyg03)
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Or it you 'love the way they lie'? ....There is a song about that, isn't there.
Posted by: wheatie at May 19, 2012 01:28 PM (dHMPi)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 01:29 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Attack Squad at May 19, 2012 01:29 PM (ur8o6)
Posted by: JSchuler at May 19, 2012 01:30 PM (SmZQt)
Posted by: naturalfake at May 19, 2012 01:30 PM (G9qZk)
Posted by: Barry's Drunk Uncle at May 19, 2012 01:32 PM (c3mby)
Why else does Obama smile so much??
Other than he knows that every day he has "fundamentally changed" America for the worse. And that makes him happy.
Posted by: Boots at May 19, 2012 01:33 PM (neKzn)
Posted by: Palandine at May 19, 2012 01:34 PM (g7D8V)
Posted by: House at May 19, 2012 01:34 PM (yhYn1)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 01:37 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: B. Hussein Obama at May 19, 2012 01:39 PM (Sh42X)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 05:37 PM (piMMO)
YOU LIE!!
Posted by: Ammo Dump at May 19, 2012 01:41 PM (YYyqq)
Posted by: PJ at May 19, 2012 01:41 PM (DQHjw)
I know the SCOAMT has said his ears are off limits.
Has he ever said anything about that huge mole on his face? Or his enormous scalp scar?
God, he's so weird. I can't believe that people feel for him for all this time.
Posted by: Palandine at May 19, 2012 01:41 PM (g7D8V)
Posted by: Vic at May 19, 2012 01:42 PM (YdQQY)
JSchuler, this one? At 2:16. http://tinyurl.com/7nvrmy7
Posted by: rdbrewer at May 19, 2012 01:42 PM (Iyg03)
Posted by: Palerider at May 19, 2012 01:44 PM (vL0Nv)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 19, 2012 01:45 PM (JDIKC)
Same here. I just walk away and make a mental note to avoid any interactions with that person completely in the future.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 19, 2012 01:46 PM (AWrMW)
Posted by: Palerider at May 19, 2012 01:47 PM (vL0Nv)
Posted by: crosspatch at May 19, 2012 01:47 PM (ZbLJZ)
Posted by: Why Obama's Smiling at May 19, 2012 01:48 PM (FcR7P)
Posted by: soothsayer at May 19, 2012 01:56 PM (DlaLh)
WTF does he know about a "strong growth agenda"?
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 01:56 PM (piMMO)
.....Or his enormous scalp scar?
God, he's so weird. I can't believe that people fell for him for all this time.
Posted by: Palandine at May 19, 2012 05:41 PM (g7D8V)
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That enormous scalp scar is weird, isn't it? .....If a Republican president had a big, visable, unexplained scar on their head like that....the leftist media would be talking about it...every. damn. day.
60 Minutes would be doing specials about it. ...."What is the President's Scar From?" ...."Is He Fit To Lead?"
Posted by: wheatie at May 19, 2012 01:57 PM (dHMPi)
I wish I had a just a nickle for every time so joker at the VFW or AVets told me they made a combat jump in Vietnam with the 101st AB. Would have paid my bar bill for a few years.
Posted by: GMB at May 19, 2012 01:59 PM (kPe9l)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 19, 2012 02:00 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: Palandine at May 19, 2012 02:01 PM (g7D8V)
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Just thinking of that can still make me fly into a rage.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 02:02 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 02:04 PM (piMMO)
Same here. I just walk away and make a mental note to avoid any interactions with that person completely in the future. Which is probably why so many people refuse to acknowledge that they ever knew Barky. They've learned their lesson, and aren't willing to invest any more time or energy giving the guy a second thought. Pretty telling, that.....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at May 19, 2012 02:11 PM (0xqzf)
When you're really cool you scratch your face and flip people off on national television.
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How badly does Hillary want the White House in 2016 for her to work for him after that? Party loyalty my ass.
Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 19, 2012 02:12 PM (jTDjB)
*****
If we wait about 5 minutes it will be completely OT anyway.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 02:13 PM (piMMO)
I think it was about $2 but I don't even care. Now I'm giddy about drinking it.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 02:15 PM (piMMO)
My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored
Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby.
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at May 19, 2012 02:19 PM (QTHTd)
Ask'em if they know what a Capewell or PLF is. If they don't, then you know they're full of shit.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 19, 2012 02:21 PM (AWrMW)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 19, 2012 02:22 PM (ebPtk)
Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 19, 2012 02:24 PM (jTDjB)
Michelle: Where have you been Barry.
Barky: I just had a meeting with the new French president and came to an unprecedented understanding regarding our cheese trade.
Michelle: Bitch, please!
"Let me be perfectly clear" is what he says when he wants to rub it in your face.
Posted by: Voluble at May 19, 2012 02:25 PM (c8WV/)
I think it was about $2 but I don't even care. Now I'm giddy about drinking it."
I like how Pepsi is putting real sugar in thier Pepsi and Mt. Dew throwback stuff. It's like someone is giving all the nanny staters a big fuck you.
Posted by: lowandslow at May 19, 2012 02:25 PM (GZitp)
Duuuude, that horse just won by a neck in the last, like, two seconds. What a race.
Posted by: the new, improved arhooley
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I take that back. I think it was the last half-second. Tense.
Posted by: the new, improved arhooley -- now with 10% more cynicism! at May 19, 2012 02:29 PM (jTDjB)
Posted by: Ronster at May 19, 2012 02:30 PM (mHC3R)
I like how Pepsi is putting real sugar in thier Pepsi and Mt. Dew throwback stuff. It's like someone is giving all the nanny staters a big fuck you.
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My guess is that sugar is now less expensive than corn syrup.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 02:30 PM (piMMO)
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there is no baseline.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 02:32 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: JSchuler at May 19, 2012 02:35 PM (SmZQt)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at May 19, 2012 02:41 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: AD at May 19, 2012 02:46 PM (msapW)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's
Yea, well, obvious of course. But I'm going through some vids of his, and it seems he deadens his delivery of things that would cause him to lie.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at May 19, 2012 02:49 PM (ebPtk)
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at May 19, 2012 06:04 PM (piMMO)
I am surprised it can stay on topic. Hell, we can't keep the book thread on topic and everyone can contribute to that.
Posted by: Vic at May 19, 2012 02:52 PM (YdQQY)
77 Look for the "tells"....
Yup. He acts like a punk....and people voted for him anyway.
I've noticed that he raises his eyebrows and tilts his head when he is spewing forth a particularly bold-faced whopper. ....But then, as many have said....he lies about everything all the time, and as you mentioned, NDH....there is no baseline, for determining if he is ever telling the truth.
Posted by: wheatie at May 19, 2012 02:52 PM (dHMPi)
Posted by: Chilling the most at May 19, 2012 02:54 PM (6IV8T)
Posted by: BishopWash at May 19, 2012 02:55 PM (hqKrm)
Posted by: Ronster at May 19, 2012 02:56 PM (mHC3R)
Its pretty close these days. Mexican coca cola has always had real cane sugar in it, and its better.
What always gives me the creeps with President Obama are his dead eyes. There's no life to them, almost no expression whatsoever. I really do think the man is clinically insane. Functional, but insane.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 19, 2012 03:02 PM (r4wIV)
Her lips move....
Come to think of it, much truth with every Democrat I see...
Posted by: Chief Fullovbull at May 19, 2012 03:08 PM (Bxm/r)
Posted by: steevy at May 19, 2012 03:20 PM (7W3wI)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at May 19, 2012 03:23 PM (DGIjM)
Posted by: EROWMER at May 19, 2012 03:37 PM (sIm3i)
Posted by: MathMom at May 19, 2012 03:38 PM (N1hJz)
Posted by: clemenza at May 19, 2012 03:41 PM (Epz9+)
EROWMER,
"OK, before everybody gets their dander up, as a Seabee I served around all branches and respected them all..."
Even the Coast Guard?
Posted by: Ernie McCracken at May 19, 2012 03:41 PM (ZETiK)
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 19, 2012 03:49 PM (AWrMW)
Posted by: DoverPro at May 19, 2012 04:00 PM (wN82N)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 19, 2012 04:02 PM (Rhie+)
Lying for kicks is a cardinal psychopathic trait.
Fortunately, it does not well end for most psychopaths and it will not end well for Obama.
Posted by: JB at May 19, 2012 04:09 PM (xVcWj)
Posted by: Yip in Texas at May 19, 2012 04:27 PM (Mrdk1)
I think it was about $2 but I don't even care. Now I'm giddy about drinking it."
The Home Depot stores here have 12 oz glass bottles in the coolers next to the contractor checkouts with a sign calling it Mexican Coca Cola
...and I'm in Ohio
Posted by: Albie Damned at May 19, 2012 04:35 PM (Yhu4q)
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 19, 2012 04:50 PM (AWrMW)
Posted by: jacke at May 19, 2012 05:00 PM (5Cwv4)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 19, 2012 05:13 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: on deathrow for wrongful thinking at May 19, 2012 05:25 PM (/Axrz)
Meh, its been going on for decades already.
The best propaganda is almost completely true, but with only small elements omitted. In terms of the gross lies the Obama administration has been hawking, some quality propaganda would result in a significant upgrade in truth percentages.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 19, 2012 05:27 PM (AWrMW)
Posted by: andycanuck at May 19, 2012 05:31 PM (FTuxU)
There's some behavioral training techniques that try to get the narcissist to a point where they can recognize a situations where they need to fake empathy and normal response, but they don't actually feel it. Its still all an act.
Posted by: Purp (@PurpAv) at May 19, 2012 05:40 PM (AWrMW)
Posted by: JewishOdysseus at May 19, 2012 05:57 PM (1X/a4)
Posted by: ombdz at May 19, 2012 06:00 PM (2DpoY)
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 19, 2012 06:01 PM (r4wIV)
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at May 19, 2012 07:19 PM (PH+2B)
My little sister, the youngest in our family stayed out of the family troubles, more or less, by flying under the radar screen and being inoffensive and really cute. The few times she got into trouble, she lied and lied and lied and lay down in her room and cried until our folks went in to her and soothed her and made her feel better. She never, ever confessed anything, and she always got away with every transgression. Our parents rewarded her lying by letting her off the hook whenever she was in trouble.
I was the only pretty consistent truth teller in our family, and it never got me anything but grief. We were a very troubled "perfect" family, and I was always in trouble for surfacing one or another of our problems which always had to be denied and covered up at all cost. If I surfaced a problem, I got blamed for "causing" it.
As the years went by, and we grew up, my little sister lied more and more. She would call me on the phone and tell me longwinded stories that I knew could not be, and were not, true.
Sadly, my sister, a heavy drinker, and on several liver-damaging meds for rheumatoid arthritis, began to experience liver problems, and she eventually died at 55 years of age. Many of them seemed focussed on getting back at the kids she grew up with and went through school with, who I guess she thought never treated her right.
Our relationship had deteriorated due to her lying, her drinking, and also her growing, disturbing fascination with evil and obsession with all kinds of sexual behavior. We had not been communicating and I did not know how ill she was since she lived several states away from me.
When she died, her husband and son blamed me for not keeping up with her, and they still do. I did visit her toward the end, but got very little time to spend with her, as her son arrived, and he hates me terribly, so I had to leave.
I don't think her family realizes that so much of what she told them about her past was lies. Or maybe they don't even care. I suspect that she told them a lot of lies about me, too.
There is no way I can ever explain this history to my brother-in-law and nephew. I believe that it would be cruel to try, and so I will not attempt to re-establish our relationship. This is the lasting damage that chronic liars, especially those in troubled families, do. What a mess.
Posted by: elisheba at May 19, 2012 08:49 PM (54sKT)
Posted by: Tami at May 19, 2012 05:11 PM (X6akg)
He likes that even better. He knows he's lying. We know he's lying. He knows that we know he's lying. And he still gets away with it, over and over. This is what Barky REALLY loves.
Anyone can tell a good lie to someone who can't figure it out, but only a real dick with total power can tell a transparent lie to someone who knows better and still get away with it with the target demuring from even saying it's a lie. It's a truly severe demonstration of power while forcing total submission by the audience in the process. This is what the sickest and most dangerous individuals do.
I've been saying this about Barky since the primaries. It's bad, bad stuff.
Right - malignant narcissist - I didn't have the terminology until I read robin of berkeley:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/nzqkxo
Posted by: Amy Shulkusky at May 20, 2012 01:49 AM (jKunv)
@Ace: "It happens a lot"???
Ummm....NO....it happens almost every time he opens his mouth to speak to us...he lies because HE is a lie, everything about him is a lie, everything about his past is a lie, everything about his core beliefs is a lie, everything about barak hussien obama is bullshit, from the day he was born to the present, nothing in this mans world is real, therefore he wouldn't know the truth if were smacking him in the face...from his days in kenya, indonesia, hawaii, chitown, anywhere and everywhere...he's a walking, talking contradiction to truth...and what makes him even more dispicable is that he KNOWS it...its his ONLY defense against whats real in the world, he cannot be a part of the real world, so he's created this elaborate lie to live in order to feel welcome, apart of something he can never be a part of, never imagining he never will be...it is the sign of a compulsive liar, narcicists and sociopaths...he couldn't tell the truth if he had to...as there's simply no truth in or to him....and for the LSM (minitrue) its far too late to call him out without themselves being complicit in the lies he's told, 'if' they didn't want to be lied to, they wouldn't have been, so...(one of my core beliefs is people allow themselves to be treated exactly as they are treated, by everyone in their world) the bigger question now becomes why would they want to be lied to and why would they allow such a pathetic nothing to be the one lying to them, and by extension, us...there's going to come a reckoning, folks, there always is...and when it finally comes out that not only did he bald face lie to every man, woman and child in this country, WITH the medias assistance, there IS going to be hell to pay!
barak hussien obama is not only a narcicist, he's a sociopath...and this narcicistic sociopath has his fingers inches away from the nuclear armaments, when sociopaths are cuaght, they take the 'destroy everything' way out...theres no other option for them, to admit the truth is to reign down hell on your own head, to involve everyone else, for them, at least spreads the misery around and deflects the misery elsewhere!
IF he wins this next election, America as we've known it is through!!! There can be no going back without every person who voted for him admitting they allowed themselves to be lied to....aren't many who can accept that kind of guilt and learn from it, not anymore!
Posted by: House of Kell at May 20, 2012 05:52 AM (9YL5M)
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Posted by: wheatie at May 19, 2012 01:09 PM (dHMPi)