{"id":180067,"date":"2017-07-25T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/25\/i-see-what-is-going-on-here\/"},"modified":"2017-07-25T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T22:59:00","slug":"i-see-what-is-going-on-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/25\/i-see-what-is-going-on-here\/","title":{"rendered":"I See What is Going On Here\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6O1ow8r.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6O1ow8r.png\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>I have previously noted that Trump&#8217;s new Communications Director Anthony &#8220;Mooch&#8221; Scaramucci bears a scary reselblance to the Boneitis guy from <i>Futurama<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the good folks at <i>The Daily Show<\/i> noticed something else, that Scaramucci&#8217;s body language Parallels are rather striking: (The whole video is worth a watch, but the specific clip starts at 9:12)<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: black; width: 520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:468b496e-7cde-4233-b0f5-96a3d737fb08\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At first, I found it profoundly creepy, and then I realized what it was, an exercise in sucking up to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>He almost certainly practiced in front of a mirror, as a way to make &#8220;The Donald&#8221; feel comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually found myself doing something similar occasionally, when I am dealing with Asian professionals.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to mimic their body language that they use to show that I am listening attentively.<\/p>\n<p>Mooch has simply taking it to an outrageous level, and he has almost certainly done so in a far more conscious and practiced way.<\/p>\n<p>What it reveals is that Mr. Scaramucci is a remarkably accomplished and devoted suck up.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s perfect for the Trump administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have previously noted that Trump&#8217;s new Communications Director Anthony &#8220;Mooch&#8221; Scaramucci bears a scary reselblance to the Boneitis guy from Futurama. Well, the good folks at The Daily Show noticed something else, that Scaramucci&#8217;s body language Parallels are rather striking: (The whole video is worth a watch, but the specific clip starts at 9:12) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,654,403,454],"class_list":["post-180067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-propaganda","tag-wanker","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}