This could mean the end of political debates: Congressional candidates in Indiana have been asked to hook themselves up to lie detectors for their Oct. 21 debate.
The idea was proposed by Ninth District Republican Party Chairman Larry Shickles on Wednesday. He wants Democratic Rep. Baron Hill, GOP challenger Mike Sodrel and Libertarian candidate Eric Schansberg to strap themselves to polygraphs for the debate, and Sodrel and Schansberg have agreed. Hill hasn't responded.
But the idea may not fly. The organizers of the debate at Vincennes University say they're moving ahead with plans for a conventional debate, minus the lie detectors. Good thing, too. A politician debate without lies probably wouldn't take more than a minute or two, and that's hardly the engaging theater we've come to expect.
How about hooking them up to a tazer as well. If they lie, then zap!
Of course, since there are some claims that pathological liars can defeat lie detectors, this idea could easily backfire. Maybe we should just stick to good old-fashioned fact-checking.
That would be something to see that needle fly up and down. Lets do it for all politicians.
HA! I love it! I think we should do it for the last presidential debate. Each of the candidates would have a meter over their head on a screen so we can all see who's lying.
Now on the other hand much of what they say is spin so that would be hard to detect.
Of course everyone in here on the left will say McCain would fail if we tried this, and everyone on the right will insist that Obama would fail if we tried this. Isn't it funny how that works?
No Scott,
If Obama came out to be truthful on the lie detector TC would say the left rigged the machine.
I'd be willing to sit down and take one of these with Supervisor Bob Waterston to prove what liars he and Kathy Burrows are in respect to the lie they concocted and promulgated against yours truly.Bob ...you have my e-mail and phone number and I'm available anytime.
Richey-Rich...it's taser and an acronym for the inventor which I believe is Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle.No penalty for your ignorance... I just wanted to add substance to this blog.
You're partially correct, Brian. It is an acronym, but the inventor was actually Jack Cover, and he named his device after a fictional weapon in an early 20th century adventure novel, Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle.
No penalty for your ignorance, though. Everybody is ignorant about something.
Well isn't this funny. I just had to google it after all. I found this:
The original TASER device (the TF-76) was launched in the mid 1970s by a NASA scientist named Jack Cover...
I found it here.
The whole story:
Taser International was founded by two brothers, Patrick and Thomas Smith, and is chaired by their father, Phillips W. Smith. The Smith family owns roughly one-third of the stock of the publicly traded company. Reinventing an Idea from the 1970s
Taser International, Inc. manufactures and markets several styles of stun guns under the brand name Taser. The word "taser" apparently originated in a Tom Swift adventure book, part of a ghostwritten series of books about a boy inventor that ran from 1910 through the 1970s. Taser stands for "Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle." Jack Cover, a NASA scientist, invented and patented the electronic stun gun in 1974, naming it for the invention he recalled from his childhood reading.
I learned something, thanks guys.
So back to the original idea... do you think we could hook them up to a TASER too?
I stand corrected and can only say I got that info of mine from The History Channel.Thanks for not tasing me bro.
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