Anyone listening to AAR? Who was that annoying memory expert?

npincus

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:20 PM
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Anyone listening to AAR? Who was that annoying memory expert?

Was that a joke? he is supposedly assisting Team Libby's defense re: memory loss. He wasn't funny. I found him incredibly moronic.

Was I duped? Was he for real? Libby's goose is REALLY cooked if he's on board the defense team.

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Webster Green

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:23 PM
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1. I think it's for real....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x539938

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ClassWarrior

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:23 PM
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2. Let's just say Mr. Seder's humor is exceedingly dry.

B-)

16+5=2006

NGU.

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MadMaddie

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:25 PM
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3. I heard him too...

Sometimes you get real smart people that are really funny!!

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sui generis

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:29 PM
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4. oh I thought that was a gag post

"who was that memory expert"

Does anyone remember?

:rofl:

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npincus

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:36 PM
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5. no- I must be a jackass!

but then again.. that IS Libby's defense, I've read, and he does have a 'memory-loss expert', Daniel Schachter, on board the defense team.

So, not familiar with Seder, don't know if this was a way dry gag or for real.

http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2006/02/scooter_libbys_.html#below-fold

Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, has hired a renowned memory-loss expert to assist him with his legal defense. Harvard psychology professor Daniel L. Schacter tells NBC News he has been retained by Libby as a consultant. An official familiar with the Libby defense team confirms the news.

Schacter, who has been at Harvard since 1991 and who has a 29-page resume, is the author of "The Seven Sins of Memory" and "Searching for Memory: The Brain, the Mind and the Past." His books offer explanations for the "vulnerability of memory." Schacter writes that if we are distracted as an event unfolds, "we may later have great difficulty remembering the details of what happened." Time, of course, often weakens our memory. And, he writes, it is easy to "unwittingly create mistaken -- though strongly held -- beliefs about the past."

Libby's lawyers hinted in court filings last week that memory loss will be "central themes" of Libby's defense. Libby's lawyers write: "...any misstatements he made during his FBI interviews or grand jury testimony were not intentional, but rather the result of confusion, mistake or faulty memory."

Libby's lawyers say that, during Libby's hectic days handling sensitive national-security matters, "it is understandable that he may have forgotten or misremembered relatively less significant events. Such relatively less important events include alleged snippets of conversations about Valerie Plame Wilson's employment status."

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ClassWarrior

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:46 PM
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6. It was a gag. Based on Libby's actual defense. It's like when Sam had...

..."Bill Frist's broker" on. Very subtle.

16+5=2006

NGU.

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npincus

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:52 PM
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9. pretty... pretty.... pretty.... clever

I like Seder better than Franken... i wish he'd stay on in this time slot.

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rocktivity

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:50 PM
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7. I forgot that Seder was sitting in for Al today

Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 01:53 PM by rocknation

But I haven't forgotten that he's in the habit of doing these fake interviews with Repub "pundits" who start out sounding fairly normal, then slowy but surely unravel... :) And if it's true that Libby's hired a memory loss expert, that's probably what inspired him.

:headbang:
rocknation

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Beelzebud

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:51 PM
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8. LOL It's called satire, folks!

This is like when The Colbert Report came on and a few ppl were like: "I didn't know Colbert was a right winger!"

:D

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LSK

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Wed Mar-01-06 01:53 PM
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10. i thought it was a joke

They were talking about Scooter not remembering things as his defense.

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