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Elizabeth Edwards, lawyer, author, mother, wife

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

As a journalist shivering in the cold Carolina rain before dawn, camera crew in tow, we were under orders from campaign staff NOT to knock for another 15 minutes.

It was 5:45 a.m. mid fall, 2004, and Elizabeth Edwards, a vice presidential candidate’s wife and mother of four, was a television show dream date. As a middle aged supermom with two children under five, she juggled cereal boxes for rebellious Jack and Emma Claire and a legal career turned campaign strategist for husband John. She joked that People magazine had chosen him as a hot-looking guy, but he was married to a wife in perpetual diet mode. She had endured the ultimate parent’s tragedy–losing a son, Wade, when the 16 year old died in a car crash.

Millions of women, and lots of mothers, hung on her every word, lessons life had taught her, and she was sought after by all the talk shows, to share about surviving, relearning how to find joy in life, what really mattered, which mattered to the good as gold Oprah demo. Now she was inviting us in to share herself to millions of ET and The Insider viewers, not only as a way to humanize her family, and by extension, the Kerry Edwards ticket. She said it was a typical school morning Chez Edwards.

“Come on in. I can’t let you all stand in the rain like that,” said Elizabeth, flinging open the door to her elegant, sprawling home outside Chapel Hill. “Want some coffee?” Read the rest of this entry »

By Art Harris and Shelley Kreimer, The Bald Truth, (c) artharris.com, all rights reserved

Even before she began flunking polygraphs and investigators dubbed her the Putnam County Princes of Prevarication, Misty Croslin was giving herself away with what one top body language expert calls “signals of deception.”

“She was lying” from the start, psychologist and body language guru Lillian Glass tells The Bald Truth, after watching Croslin in news clips for over a year, from distraught babysitter who reported Haleigh Cummings missing, to child bride of Ronald Cummings, to accused drug trafficker facing decades in prison, to witness (or unofficial suspect) in the disappearance of his five year old daughter.

“She constantly repeats herself, and bites her lip after she talks about the case,” Glass tells Bald Truth Special Correspondent Shelley Kreimer, in an exclusive interview about tell-tale body lingo criminals and celebrities often unwittingly broadcast as clues they are lying to your face…like inadvertently tensing the jaw, or straying from typical voice patterns.

Lillian Glass Interprets the Body Language of Tiger Wood’s girlfriends

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Gov. Palin Works Georgia for Sen. Saxby Chambliss

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

It was billed as a do-or-die runoff rally for Sen. Saxby Chambliss in a conservative Atlanta suburb, but cheers for GOP rock star Gov. Sarah Palin turned the Gwinnett County civic center into a test of her post-election appeal, as she drew fans from as far away as Alabama and Tennessee, waving –Sarah in 2012″ signs alongside, “Read My Lipstick, Vote Sax” placards.

Among an estimated 5,000 people who turned out on a rainy Monday afternoon –Adrienne Royer, a fiesty red-head staking out the front row of the rope line. She won’t be voting for Saxby in Tuesday’s runoff against Democrat Jim Martin, because she’s from Chattanooga. She drove two hours to see Palin.

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Wishful Thinking: 3 days before the election, Palin Sees Victory

By Art Harris
The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

She packed a wallop whereever she went, firing up crowds, even as she turned others off, and we were along for the amazing ride to report on the rise and fall (and likely rise again) of Sarah Palin, and will be bringing you some tales from the trail and video we shot.

As we saw last week, even as a loser, Palin remained a superstar at the Republican Governor’s convention, a media bashee turned media darling, as the press stood in line for interviews after drawing a bead on her during the campaign. Read the rest of this entry »