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.
Cringe!
Unfortunately, not much different from some podcasters or substackers I’ve seen around.
Even more unfortunate is that others fuel their egos by following, watching, and repeating what they say or write.
He’s a mediocre actor 😂🤡🤣
Someone posted on another news site that they were doing construction work at PeeWee’s home years ago.
Peewee drove up to the house, came inside in a rush, was preoccupied, grabbed what he needed and left.
A minute later PeeWee came back inside and apologized. Said he was sorry for not acknowledging the worker. Said he didn’t mean to be demeaning. Please forgive my rudeness, blah, blah, blah.
This person said it moved him and he’s never forgotten what a great guy PeeWee was.
This was a NYT’s article from a link on Citizen Free Press. Everyone was fawning over the great Scott Pelley. Libtards!
It sounded contrived the first time I read it and now after seeing that video clip, I realize that narcissist did this on purpose to embellish his curated persona.
Having known several WWII, Iraq, and Afghanistan vets who actually endured true combat, watching Palley turned my stomach in less that 10 seconds. I could not bring myself to watch more.
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I believe it’s called ‘solipsism’, meaning the theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing
An adjective is extreme egocentrism
Pretty sure the cure involves getting your butt kicked soundly repeat as needed.
agreed that would be an excellent ground zero to start from.
Oh my. I grew up in a neighborhood where most of the fathers were in WWII. One thing they never talked about was the war or their service. They truly were the greatest generation. Pelley is a sick person.
I’m telling you, he suffers from a severe psychosis. He thinks he’s Ted Baxter from the old TV show.
hahah, perfect description!
Yeah.
That is embarrassing.
I was married to one of those, the female sun around which the entire solar system revolves.
There is nothing anyone can do for them, outside of professional intervention. But during an investigation of their (is it psychopathy?) an uncanny ability of playing the part of a victim is engaged, often to a very effective degree.
Ive been in a similar situation. The “martyrdom”, the self praising, the self compliments, the constant teaching and lessons. No self awareness.
I avoid mainstream media, and am fortunate to be able to say that I have no idea who this person is.
I did not until he was fired.
I’ve only seen a few minutes of a few segments. He’s insufferable.
how blessed you are lol.
“See BS” and Scott Pelley didn’t learn anything from getting sued by President Trump for $10 Billion for editing Kamala’s 60 Minutes video to hide the fact that she is a total idiot. Apparently CBS agreed to pay President Trump $16 million in order to preclude any further investigation of Scott Pelley’s interview that propped up Joe Biden..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/fears-un-aired-footage-drowsy-biden-led-paramount/
Paramount’s Shari Redstone and her son, Tyler, feared the lawsuit would bring attention to another CBS interview — this one with President Joe Biden. “Ms. Redstone said CBS personnel had told her that in October 2023, when Scott Pelley of ’60 Minutes’ interviewed President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the president had seemed drowsy and had to be prodded to answer. She and Tyler worried that CBS might be accused of editing the interview to conceal Mr. Biden’s failings.”
And then there is this:
Fired ’60 Minutes’ host Scott Pelley sparks backlash over combat claims | Fox News
Journalist Scott Pelley faced everything from widespread mockery to stolen valor accusations after insisting he was “in combat” while covering war zones for CBS News….
Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway wrote, “This propaganda clown falsely claimed to have served in combat in multiple theaters because he read TV lines near real soldiers,” calling it, “Low-rent Brian Williams behavior.” (Williams was suspended and demoted from his anchor role at “NBC Nightly News” in 2015 after he falsely claimed to have been in a helicopter in Iraq that was forced to land after being struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.)
I have watched 60 Minutes once in the last 30 years. It was their interview with Indiana University football coach Curt Cignetti when IU won the National Championship.
It was a good interview-a rare gem in a mountain of bovine excrement.
As for Petulant Pelley, things don’t end well for malignant narcissists.
His punishment is coming-perhaps in this life, but most certainly in the next.
Well Trump was actually shot, not shot at.
..who?
I am simply a lay person, never been in the professional world of theologians, but it is my firm opinion that the psychosis we see here, and in most of the media, is driven by deception that is not derived from human thinking. The deception which leads a person like this to devolve into this level of madness is satanic. All of us have engaged in deception at some level – no one of us can say we have never lied or deceived, but in most cases the lying is a mechanism to manipulate and influence others and we know it is wrong. This level of self worship exhibited by Pelley is derived from a deeper deception. It is a deception in which he first and foremost deceives himself. This man truly believes in what he is expressing. He deeply believes that everyone else sees him as a historic martyr. The self pity, the exhibition of spiritual pride is beyond mental illness – it is the same delusion that drives others, perhaps less well known, to commit mass violence and murder. We ignore the spiritual element of this evil at our peril.
Well said.
To say that he’s creepy is an understatement. I’ve met individuals like that before, and as Sundance stated, there is something inherently evil present in them.
Narcissism is not a natural condition, but the product of deep and long-sustained self-hatred/loathing. Those people are rotten internally and work 24/7 to hide the corpse of their humanity, which they themselves murdered.
“It is best to leave management of this psychology to the experts in the field.”
I fear “the Experts” created this psychosis as well as numerous others.
Needless to say, my experiences with mental health experts, while limited, have been resoundingly negative. They seem to encourage, if not create, self absorbed behavior and narcissism.
If they actually cured people then they would be out of business. That is how the “medical” industry works. Sick people are their clients. They need a steady supply of them.
They must be on acid!
“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.”
Sage advice. DO NOT ENGAGE is the standard operating procedure of my life. Peace is the prize.
Wow you nailed it again Sundance. I’ve known quite a few in my forty years of experience and observation. Toxic does not come close to what they are. I’ve come to see they are demonic. That’s one reason I was so disturbed by President Trump’s interview yesterday. I think he sensed it too. These people hate you and want you dead. They feel righteous in feeling that too.
“Keep distance. Preserve your peace.”
I think that’s good advice.
Pelley has ALWAYS struck me as smug, pretentious, condescending, disingenuous and pseudo-intellectually insulting as Barack 0bama and Hillary Clinton.
*Which is another way of saying the Dude’s a flaming asshole.
Before watching this i read SD’s article and thought it was perhaps a little pointed and having a jab ar Pelley. Maybe exaggerating?
Then I watched it….my God. Pelley is a self adoring, drama queen, narcissist full of himself and clearly seething that he was fired and not completely fawned over and praised.
How the hell did anyone work with the self-inflating, douchebag for so many years and not have to shower immediately after being in his presence.
Wow….eye opening.
For those with a
stomach fordeeper interest in Pelley’s mental pathology, here’s the full interview (hope you’ll excuse the Daily Kos version–it gets past the NYT paywall.)https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/7/800051679/community/scott-pelley-interview-with-the-nyt/
Added bonus: Front row view of the left’s tip of the spear NYT arming for battle against the Ellisons’ intrusion into their territory.
to me that thinking has come to the surface since 2012 during the Obama administration I saw a lot of that.
This loser actually thinks that PDJT has not been shot at in service to our nation. PDJT didn’t have to go to a war zone to have people try to assassinate him. He got to stay here right in the USA and be unaware of where the shooters might be and on what day it may happen.
Pelley went near gunfire in the middle of a war and was surrounded by military personnel…a lot of them. He clearly knew where the bad guy shooters were and everyday, knew that he may be shot. He claims that he was in foxholes. Yeah, right. Maybe the dug one for him near his impeccably appointed private tent so he can cosplay “Being in a War”.
PDJT has suffered much much more in service to the USA than Pelley has. He has the gall to tear up and pretend that Donald Trump has not fought for America.
I find Scott Pelley’s mental condition to actually be a far more common condition among democrats than not … from the elite though the brain dead sheep who blindly display Talirico for Senate and BLM on their lawns or Boomers wearing AOC in 2028 Hats … and who start mumbling like lunatics when asked if they have ever heard any of these people actually talk.
The common denominator is not policies or actions but just the blind clueless hatred of Donald Trump … issues we don’t need no stinking issues …. it is the mind set that “elects” the likes of Latitia James to be AG of NY or Bragg as DA in NY city, Manadami as Mayor of NY or other socialists as in MN.
That is why I will always confront them because to do otherwise is to never confront a single opponent of President Trump and the MAGA Movement in general. because the rationale for that opposition is always the same … not issues but a single man trying to improve our common social environment.
“I have spent a lot of time around people. “
I have something in common with you Sundance. I was a tax assessor in one of the largest counties in MN and their policy was that we went door to door without an appointment to gather our data for valuation. I met and spoke with 500-1000 people each year.
You are absolutely correct about walking away when you see certain behavior. In one instance a homeowner with an attitude like Pelley first bragged about themselves and how I didn’t care, then started berating me with false claims that made no sense. I would usually just nod my head, and repeat back to them what they said then ask some questions about their opinion. Many cases this diffused their rage but in this case the owner started screaming.
Time to go. OK, on to the next home and so on. 10 minutes later this person comes storming down the block claiming I broke into their home and other ridiculous claims. I just say I don’t know what they are talking about and I have to get back to work. Then as I was talking with neighbors this person came over and started yelling trying to tell the neighbor they shouldn’t talk to me. I have to leave.
Eventually this person tried to sue us for everything wrong with the world, and lost, because the judge saw the personality problems Sundance describes. Arguing with these types never works and that is a mistake many conservatives make when talking with psychopathic leftists. No amount of information will change these people, so why try.
Always solid and balanced advice from the Professor. These news readers are bonafide navel gazers. The camera and the lights has literally fried their brain. Our politicians are cut from the same cloth. Intelligence community, the same. The root of their narcissism is pride. God hates it. He’s made it perfectly clear. These people will be dealt with ultimately. Sundance, on the other hand writes with humility, Godly wisdom, and discernment. I too no longer have cable. Im also purging sights I visit. The aggregate sites are click bait. Who unknowingly clicks on Axios or The Atlantic? I will always enjoy living the good life with family, friends, & brothers and sisters in Christ away from all the chaos, knowing Jesus is in charge and at the right hand of the Father. Blessings fellow Treepers!
It upsets me to see this level of mental illness in society. This diminishment of our armed services, this “equality in contribution” comparison and diminishment mindset, comes from a deep seeded guilt, embarrassment, shame, or insecurity seeking self-adulation. It’s testimony that his own accomplishments mattered little in his personal mind and he is attention-seeking.
Shoot – I guess I am just as guilty the way I write around here sometimes. Less “me, me” more “God, God!”
I welcome the day when Christ comes back to bring His Heaven to this earth and we will all realize the importance of each individuals’ contributions. We are each unique in the body of Christ – created in God’s Image – not everyone is a hand, a foot, an ear, or a mouth – but we are all needed in God’s Sight for His Service.
Some are warriors. Some are artists. All are needed and beautiful. May the weak-minded find their place in The Lord and have confidence that they were Divinely Created by God’s Hands as written in Psalm 139 and may they turn those talents to be better stewards of this earth and all who dwell within it. In Jesus’s Holy and Saving Name, AMEN