PAX’s Lie Detector Show Review

Tuesday night I watched my second episode of Lie Detector which was a re-run of the first episode of the show which aired back in March. I had not seen this episode before. I disagree with two of the results found by polygraph. I concur with one.

Guest #1
The first person on the show was Robert Smitty. He donated a kidney to a psychologist who was legally advertising on the web to find a donor. Donors are not allowed to profit according to U.S. law. The big question at hand is did he profit or intend to profit from the donation of his kidney.

Smitty spoke that he donated a kidney to do good by another person. At first I believed him. He seemed sincere but as Smitty continued to speak, I got two twinges for reasons I am unable explain. They were just pangs of emotion — a lack of trust that welled up inside me, and I started to have my doubts about the guy.

In the end, I suspected Robert Smitty was going to fail the lie detector test for reasons I couldn’t explain– and he did.

After taking the test and being confronted that he failed, Smitty of course denied that he had anything but the truest intentions.

But then he hinted that he had some encounters with people who posed as donor recipients when in fact they were reporters. He said there was some “banter” between them and the reporter was fishing for a story. You are left with the feeling Smitty wasn’t above board in these dealings though nothing ever materialized from them.

As the story goes on, I feel that Smitty wanted the world to believe he donated his kidney to the psychologist because he was a kind man.

I believe Smitty knew that he wasn’t going to profit from the psychologist directly when he agreed to do it, but he didn’t discount the fact that he could profit from it in other ways. At the very end, Smitty reveals he has a ghost writer who is going to write his story.

So, did Smitty get illegal money from the donation — I don’t believe so. That was the point he was trying to make but failed to accurately convey through the lie-detector test.

Will he profit in the end — and was that his ultimate goal? I believe the answer is yes. He is trying to do so in every way he can conceive. The lie detector sniffed him out.

Guest #2
The second guest was Bob Pagani. He worked at Yankee Stadium between 1971 -1979. He worked at the stadium the year a bronze bust of Mickey Mantle was mounted and displayed at the stadium. He also worked at the stadium when that exact bust was stolen.

Oddly, sometimes thereafter these events, Pagani happened to find a bust of Mickey Mantle at a flea market for $75.00, bought it and stashed it away. He states that it “looked like what I saw at Yankee Stadium” but he makes no mention that he ever questioned its authenticity.

Yeah right.

After Mickey Mantle died, Pagani says he decided he was going to sell it. He called around to a Hall-of-Fame dealer and the dealer supposedly told him the bust he described on the phone could be worth some $30,000. Bob seemed happy — $30,000!

I guess it still didn’t dawn on Bob that this might be the stolen bust. Hmm….

Bob then says some guy called him up wanting to buy it. So with that, Bob flies out of town to meet this guy and agrees to take $25,000 cash on the spot. He grabs the cash, leave the bust and tries to run (he used the word “run”) –but the FBI nabbed him and he is now a convicted felon.

He swears he is innocent. He is hoping for a Presidential pardon.

Bob comes on the show because he wants people to know that he was honest. With that I guess that means, he wants us to believe he did not know the bust he had was the one that was stolen. He takes the polygraph and passes.

He passes.

Personally, I don’t believe Bob. I have to wonder if perhaps he studied polygraph machines and manipulated this one. Something isn’t right here. I do not agree with the polygraph finding.

Guest #3
And last guest on the show was Paula Jones, the administrative assistant who accused then Governor Bill Clinton of sexually harassing her back in 1991. Do you remember her?

She says she was working a convention when the Governor’s body guard, a state trooper, tells her that Mr. Clinton would like to see her in his hotel room. She says she was excited to meet the Governor so she happily went up to his room. She says the door was ajar. She walks in, they have small talk, and he pulls his pants down, exposes himself and asks for favors.

She says she left at once and said she told Mr. Clinton she wasn’t that kind of girl. She says when she left Mr. Clinton said , “You’re a smart girl. Let’s leave this between ourselves.”

I believe Mr. Clinton did say she was a smart girl and to keep the situation just between the two of them. That’s true. Very true. I believe that Mr. Clinton did expose himself to her as she says too. She is honest when she says that.

Paula Jones passes the lie detector.

But what I don’t believe is that Paula is telling the whole story. There is more here than she is letting on. She did some other things…things she doesn’t want to discuss. At least, that is my belief. Here is why…

When Paul Jones says after she left the hotel room where Mr. Clinton was, “I proceeded to go out the door and when I walked past Andy Ferguson, he had a smirk on his face and I flew right past him.”

She continues, “I was scared. I thought someone was going to come after me. I thought honestly, maybe I was video-taped in the room or something.”

Huh?

Excuse me? What did you say???

Why would you be AFRAID you were video taped if you were victimized???

Wouldn’t a video camera be the biggest and best proof you could have asked for?? If there was a video recording of the event, wouldn’t it have been relief for her — if she was telling the truth???

I find it so ironic that 14 years later when she is recounting her story, she still talks about her fear of a video camera in Mr. Clinton’s room as she is running out. That concern was very powerful to recount all these years later…because it is the truth.

Want to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, Ms. Jones? While you passed the lie detector that Mr. Clinton did expose himself… I think you know a lot more than you are willing to admit.

I wonder what Paula Jones is hiding… don’t you?? I do not agree with the final results of the lie detector. Because there weren’t enough questions asked, we didn’t get to the true heart of this matter.