I have spent a lot of time around people. Out of a general sense of curiosity, I watched the Scott Pelley interview with NYT journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who, by professional obligation and sense of career enhancement, stepped into the role of codependent enabler in order to advance a professional narrative that is very disturbing to witness.
In this short video segment below, less than a minute long, what we see is a glimpse into the world of deeply disturbed and mentally unstable people; very likely narcissists, with intensely overstated internal senses of grandiosity and self-importance.
That sense of identity is certainly why these trait carriers need to cloister together in groups, tribal media, in order to receive the affirmation needed to retain their worldview without challenge. These are deeply intolerant, and emotionally unstable people.
What you see below is not emotionally mature or mentally stable behavior. What is witnessed in this video is a psychological pathology and a codependent enabler of that pathology, under the mistaken premise of sensitivity.
This is the opposite of intellectual. This is a disturbed child in an adult physiology. It is alarming to witness outside a clinical or institutional setting. WATCH:
♦ Take it or leave it advice. If you ever encounter this personality trait in a person or group, professionally or personally, I would strongly advise exiting the proximity as quickly and carefully as possible.
Find a way to get away. Do not engage. Do not attempt to talk, discuss, frame counterpoints, debate or engage this mindset with any challenge. Just politely disappear in the least controversial way possible.
There’s no benefit to engaging with unstable people—protect your own peace by avoiding contact. This applies both online and in person. In either case, politely excuse yourself or leave safely.
Be cautious while doing so; it might feel like you’re holding your breath until you’re away, but the main goal is creating distance. Excuse yourself however necessary and find a safe way to leave quietly and without drawing attention but do so with urgency.
The full interview is below. I caution anyone who might be tempted to watch this interview, there is a particular horror in knowing there are people carrying these traits in positions of influence. Jim Jones was less to fear.
It is best to leave management of this psychology to the experts in the field.
There are a lot of people like this in Washington DC, in various stages of this mindset, particularly in the White House correspondents’ media pool.
Having navigated a life of specific control, Scott Pelley represents the apex level of this psychological disorder. When left unchecked for this long, there is no recovery possible. Mr. Pelley will never be wrong in anything, ever.
From the position of his shoes in the closet, to the fold of his towels and the shape of his eggs in the morning, to the acceptable sounds he will tolerate walking through a park; everything is viewed through the prism of self.
Behind that self is a deeply disturbed loathing.
Keep distance. Preserve your peace.
He disowns a particular description: “You become a journalist because you love the 1st Amendment. You become a journalist because you love the country.” Interesting.
FYI Mr Pelley – Presidents with no military service include
John Adams
Martin Van Buren
Grover Cleveland
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Donald Trump
President Trump wasn’t in the U.S. military but he did attend (for 5 years from age 13) and graduated from New York Military academy.
Not to mention his decades of firsthand combat experience on the battlefield of NYC real estate, bank financing, and government regulations at every turn. I think he did pretty well: lost some battles but won the war.
In my book, John Adams gets a pass…he was busy, elsewhere…
Really? Adams basically wanted a king. He was totally the precursor to the modern, centralized power gathering northeastern liberal. That’s why Jefferson lived at odds with him.
He was discussed by a couple of evening broadcasters on Newsmax. Sundance confirms what was said about Pelley.
Thank you, Sundance.
And pray for his awakening.
“When left unchecked for this long, there is no recovery possible. Mr. Pelley will never be wrong in anything, ever.”
Nauseating
“I’ve been shot at.” So was Hillary.🤣
So was Trump, a few times.
Never heard of the kid until he got the axe.
Me Niether.
Fun fact. I used to work out in the same tiny gym as Pelley. He was the one standing in front of the wall mirror, looking at himself, doing curls with 5 lbs barbells.
LOL.. Yes, that explains the PP (Pelly Personality)
He followed the Barack Obama exercise guide, did he?
Uhhh…
Yes, but fair play to him it is hard to do while combing your hair.😎
No twelve ounce curls?
Too much weight.
Kicked the marxstream medianiks out of my living room way back in 1980, when they made it obvious they were lying about Candidate Reagan, calling him a stupid warmonger who’d start WW III with the soviets, and falsely claiming the Second Amendment only ‘gave’ police and military permission to carry guns on orders from superior officers.
Relying on any of the marxstream medianiks for credible information is no different from daily drinking turpentine for good health.
In a foxhole filling up with water in the desert. He should’ve thanked God and filled up his canteen.
It was filling up with his urine and tears
I can’t stand these entitled, corrupt, over bearing, sanctimonious jackasses.
Yikes! Thanks for there heads up
I’ve noticed many AI-generated “rage bait” and fake outrage replies are entirely real, and they flood social media platforms daily. (Thankfully not here on LR) These automated or semi-automated bots are programmed to spark emotional reactions, intentionally hijacking comment sections to drive up engagement and platform algorithms. Also cause high blood pressure and acid reflux.
Rage bots.
This guy is from Texas? I would have never guessed. Born San Antonio, Raised Lubbock, early news career in Dallas. No info on his family, a ghost.
Did he go to school with Dan Rather?
It’s truly amazing, Sundance explains this bastard and his ilk perfectly 👌.
Gosh golly, what will we do without this stalwart protector of the First Amendment?
Oh, I forgot, the media is full of Scott Pelleys that will bring us THEIR version of the truth no matter where it takes them. The bench is deep. Next gestating journalist or non-gestating journalist up.
Scott probably doesn’t know a soul, who in their late 50’s, was shown the door after 30 years of service. Happens to many. He can’t see the forest for the trees. His arrogance does him no favors.
Scott can’t see the forest because his mirror is too big
Lulu Garcia-Navarro works for the “NY “CRIMES”!” not hard to believe that. The NO HOPE for either!
pelley is a control freak and attention dependent to the extreme.
his fear of not being in control of “his” tv program
has brought about a mental apocalypse.
our host is absolutely correct in his assessment.
the fold of his towels (longways or crossways, scott?)
and which way his shoes face in his closet (toes in or toes out, mr. pelley?)
is VERY important to him – he must be master of his own universe to receive
continuing validation which enables him to expand that role to the rest of the known world.
short of a complete psychotic break, unlikely he will ever change.
“do not engage” is excellent advice,
but psychopaths can be crafty.
they will lure you into their orbit by appearing studied and mature.
pelley, no doubt, has cultivated a “seasoned journalist” persona
to mask his true dysfunctional self.
but anyway you look at it, run –
run fast, run far, and don’t look back.
best clue for detection from the post:
“Mr. Pelley will never be wrong in anything, ever.”
He’s been exposed to the truth about himself.
He can’t handle it.
Big difference between “in combat” and observing combat.
Only a small man in search of stature would attempt to equate the two.
He gave the commencement address at my alma mater, Wake Forest University, spring 2025. If you want to see this malignant narcissist in full bloom, (which I don’t), see if you can stomach this. Imagine parents paying upwards of $250 grand for a degree and having to stomach this rot!
I had to listen to a feminist for undergrad graduation…
Anita Hill….12/79.
Get my violin!
Psychology experts? I am trying not to laugh. I had not even cleared this link that I used on the Presidential thread but for a different reason/number….
39-Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
https://1776history.com/2022/05/31/communisms-45-goals-for-america/
Would ‘co-dependency’ fit in with the idea of being in “a domestically abusive relationship” with our government?
All y’all know the symptoms…being isolated from friends, control of finances, stalking and surveillance, bullying,
Asking for “We the People”….
Car works, brakes work, still healthy, not suicidal…
But prayers needed, I finally got a ‘government doctor’, LOL…prayers for the doctor that is…LOL.
Scott Pelley is a complete jackass. I cannot remember with whom he was talking but it was a conversation about political bias in the press. The person asked him how he knew what happened to Hillary Clinton (after she collapsed on 9/11, I think). He smiled smugly and said, “the campaign told us.” And the person shot back would you believe that from the Trump campaign. The fleeting look of realization on his face was priceless. I’m trying to find the clip now but I can’t.
Can you imagine being in a setting with him and have a gun. Maybe out by yourself with this sack of puss.
You gotta know he sits in a dimly lit room listening to his recorded voice every night marveling at his mastery of speech and pomp.
This guy is what it means to “have your head up your own a—.“
A BSer for sure. I’ve been everywhere, I’ve seen everything, I’ve done it all.
Only in his tiny mind.
I wonder if he practices his talks before going on camera? He should be interviewed by someone who would call him out on it all.
Dont know who he is but a crying sissy is never a good look for a man.
Excellent piece, Sundance. I disagree on only one point:
The sad fact is that the ‘experts’ in psychology are almost all (all?) as infected with the woke virus as is Pelley and the rest of the DC/elite. Hence, trusting anything to them is folly. Perhaps an exorcist?
Yes, truth!!!
I don’t think I’ve seen ’60 Minutes’ since the ’80s, when my young son used to shout “The Clock! The Clock!” when it came on. Don’t remember ever seeing Scott Pelley on air. Not surprisingly, he is full of himself and a drama queen. But we should have a little sympathy for a guy who was unceremoniously fired from the position that fueled his self-important image for years.
Of course the importance was in his own mind. Did any of his viewers ever hang on his words, value his thoughts? I watched about half of the interview (with the sycophantic NYT news babe), and found myself remembering Rush Limbaugh telling us of the many times he had been fired. Happens all the time in the radio world. Rush never took his celebrity for granted; he was always humble and grateful for the adoration of his fans—who did hang on his every word. We still miss Rush.
I don’t expect many, outside of Pelley’s ’60 Minutes’ staff, will miss him.
He has been shot for this country took a chunk out of his ear shot at a couple of times. Yes, these people are sick. DC is full of them.
Rush was right … liberalism is a mental disorder.
This is nothing a throat punch won’t cure. He’s never been spanked or been in a fight. Spoiled from the start.
“Journalists” (which is now considered to be an earthy four-letter word) who love the country don’t use the 1st amendment to lie to and gaslight fellow citizens, in order to forward their own personal political preferences. Instead, they accurately report the unvarnished facts, so that those aforementioned citizens can make up their own minds.
Besides, many of Clinton’s associates were shot at and few lived to tell the tale. Many of LBJ’s rivals were said to have been “disappeared,” too. So, that doesn’t make you special, eh? And, who does most of the politically motivated shooting in this country, the radical Marxist Democrats, of course!
Didn’t watch the video, but as described this seems to be a variant of Main Character Syndrome, where people think everything is about THEM. Journalists who think THEY are the story are one variant. This is a problem encouraged by journalists who come J-school and think their credentials make them the story.
Bawaaawaa…Trump took a bullet for this country, you blowhard! And multiple other attempts on his life.
Time for Pelley to fade away.
People can preserve their peace until people like Pelley control the levers of society. Then he will make sure “your peace” is anything but.
Perhaps in a society where you aren’t in control, the best thing is to try to live your best life and pretend the toxicity around you isn’t there. But then your “best life” is amputated to Pelley’s view of society itself. It’s not a “best life” but “survival”.
But in a society where you are in control or you have a “fighting” chance, the best thing is to mock, deride, and call out the mental illness that it is. Specifically and to their face. Not by debating or arguing, but simply calling the mental illness they have and vocally calling out their retarded world view. Their pathetic selves need to be called out and paraded for all to see. Mocked. Laughed at.
That’s my opinion.
Can’t help but wonder how such delusional individuals manage to achieve such lofty positions in life. I guess their psychopathy helps propel them.
Who Fired him? He’s mad at the President because Bari canned him? Lol. He couldn’t change his fan belt to save his ass. He will at some point understand that he is just a man when death comes knocking at his door. He will be terrified eye on the other hand, have no fear as I know that Jesus has already did the work filled his blood to cover my sins and all my brother, and who simply believe mayor heaven on the last day, you’re here on earth or at least in the flesh God bless you all .
In his rage, “smelly” Pelley conveniently ignores the lack of military service or “action” for these “Presidents”:
Joe Potato
Barack “insane in the membrane” Obama (Barry Sotero)
Bill Clinton
President Service
Fake CNN Gulf War Report
I’ve seen horrors. Horrors that you have seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer, you have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that. But you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with special forces, it seems 1,000 centuries ago. We went into a camp to innoculate the children. We left the camp after we innoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us, he was crying, he couldn’t see. We went back there and they had come back and they had hacked off every innoculated arm. There they were, in a pile, a pile of little arms, and I remember I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out I didn’t know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it, I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized like I was shot, like I was shot with a diamond. A diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought of the genius of that the genius of that, the genius. The will to do that. Perfect genuine, complete crystalline. Pure. TheI realized that they could stand it, these were not monsters, the mes were trained cadres. The men who fought with their hearts who had families with children who had families who were filled with love, but they had the strength, the strength to do that. If I had 10 divisions of those men, then our troubles would be over here very quickly. You have to have men who are moral, and at the same time who are able to utilize their primortal instincts to kill without judgement without judgement without judgement. Because it’s judgement that defeats us.”
…..Okay Mr. Pelley….I’m just going to set my drink here while I make a run to the little boy’s room. Don’t go anywhere. I’m very interested in hearing more !!😵💫
Having not ever watched Mr. Pelley perform, I very much appreciate Sundances very pointed article and observations.
The short video segment seems like a dramatic performance by an actor auditioning for a part in a movie.
Nothing about it seemed genuine. Weird.
(cue Twilight Zone’s theme song in the background)
Shoot your mouth off at the new boss.
Lose your job.
Who knew the would happen?
I live in Williamstown, Mass.
This town is so narcissistic and very wealthy.
Half the people in this small town are part time residents who are from New York City or LA. Many of these people are millionaires and the kids who attend the college here are mostly from wealthy families.
The other day david letterman was shopping at my sister small boutique.
So many of these people here are such narcissistic brats.
Could we, uh… talk to Colonel Kurtz (Pelley)?
Photojournalist: Hey, man, you don’t talk to Pelley. You listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he’ll… uh… well, you’ll say “hello” to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you. He won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say, “Do you know that ‘if’ is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you”… I mean I’m… no, I can’t… I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s… he’s a great man! “I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas.”
was he with Hillary when she was dodging sniper fire?
Sundance is correct. And deep within this is a type, when given the means, that can conjure up boxcars and rehabilitation zones and cheer their implementation.