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.
The last time I watched 60 minutes, it was this episode:
Leslie Stahl drank poop-water (or pretended to), so that you would be willing to
do the same. That was the end of it for me. No, thank you.
They call it, “Television Programming” for a reason.
Such a brave woman! Courageous really. I can’t say anymore…my eyes are leaking!!!
Was she interviewing Bill Gates in that episode or is that where he got one of his greatest “performance art” ideas in years to come?
Reminds me of Rush when he would mock, I believe it was Diane Sawyer, or maybe it was this woman, one of the MSM hags, for her exclamation of “recycling”. I would LOL every time he impersonated her.
RIP Rush.
God Bless Him.
Democrat “President” Joe Biden took the clot shot.
Remember my HS civics teacher, Mr. Helton, talking about the bias of 60 Minutes, which at the time I watched all the time. I wondered, “What the heck is Mr. Helton talking about? 60 Minutes seems legitimate to me, but maybe he knows something I dont?” Decades later, gotta say thank you Mr. Helton for helping to open my eyes.
“Sir! This is 60 Minutes!”
So he was in a hotel and not a foxhole.
He thought he was the boss.
I remember when they said fired coal workers can learn to code.
Scott can do the same.
In years of coding and testing software, I ran into dozens of people (developers and managers) much like Pelley in their childish and arogant self-absorption. Frequently, they had eyes that seemed dead. It was disquieting. Definitely disquieting.
Is it hard to get a signal in a foxhole?
I’ve been a Software Person since 1985. Pelly couldn’t code if his life depended on it!
Hmmm. FORTRAN and COBOL expert. And the youngsters say we don’t know anything about technology.
An oldy but a goody:
Good Lord! What a Drama Queen.
🤣🤣🤣
There are lots of these folks in government. Period.
Way too many for the good of the country!
Surely he is a narcissist. This clown was a war correspondent but is trying to give the impression that his journalism experience is equivalent to having served in the military because he contrasts it with the lack of military service by Trump. How mental can you possibly be.
Hussein Obama and Bilious Clinton did not serve
As for George W Bush–his service was dodgy at best
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_military_service_controversy
IF he had served along with Military units he must have held his moron Tongue, if not he would have surely gotten Fragged!
Does he also note Obama and Biden’s lack of military service?
President Trump is serving his country in the most important and most visible capacity while being shot at, threatened and
putting his life in jeopardy every single day.
All these MSM people are delusional bc they earn millions to lie. Haven’t watched them in decades.
Scott Pelly told it how it is with journalist protecting democracy. He said where would the Soviet Union’s democracy have been without journalist like me printing communist propaganda for Izvestia and Pravda? Without them how could millions of Soviet Citizens been sent to firing squads and labor camps to die. They got to vote yes or no for the preferred candidate, democracy in action. They might have even had competent military leadership at the start of WW2 if journalist like me hadn’t helped purge the military of counter revolutionary Generals before the battles with the Nazis. At least Soviet citizens thanked us for our propaganda for almost eighty years.
And do you know I suffered gunfire for you to bring you Democratic propaganda, I think that makes me a patriot. Sure it might have been in LA, Chicago and Washington DC but I put my life on the line to blame that on the GOP. Wait a minute, the Soviet Union was a dictatorship and those cites are all run by Democrats! Ah, wah, wah.
Yawn. Pretense is strong in this one.
Having now watched the full interview, I can only say,
Scott’s Mad As Hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore!
I graduated from high school with Scott. I didn’t run in his circle but I always thought he was pretty full of himself then.
Interesting. Would you like to share? Just curious.
Yea, they don’t change. They never experience personal growth because that would require that they acknowledge they do not know it all.
He is the Prince Harry of 60 mins.. whine whine.
Around 15:40 Pelley assertsbtheybwould have deserved firing if there had been a “journalistic scandal”.
Well. I submit 60 Minutes’ coverage of Western North Carolina volunteer rescue efforts as “White Supremacist” recruiting fits the definition of a scandal.
Is Leslie Stahl still employed after being the face of that lying farce? Or was she kept on? No more 60 Minutes for me, thank you very much
Ask Matt van Swol of North Carolina what he thinks of 60 Minutes after that hit piece on Samaritan’s Purse, Cajun Navy and the Amish, the good people who showed up to help when FEMA claimed they couldn’t
The Amish are still helping to build homes here in western NC. My church hosted them only a week ago.
God bless those good people. They have done more for Western NC than either of the Dem governors we have to suffer from!
Leslie Stahl is why I quit watching 60 minutes. She had the foremost expert on Putin on who said Trump was handling Putin correctly. Stahl kept trying to get her to say something, anything bad about President Trump the whole hour. It was sickening and disgusting and I have never watch another episode of 60 Minutes since then and never will.
So they are not like anyone else in the working world who can be fired at anytime,they are
special. that doesn;t apply to them? haven’t they ever done story about corporate america before
like this is so unusual that THEY would be fired..
What Scotty wants to say is…. You cant fire me! Do you know how many times I licked Obama and Bidens taints on national TV!
In his mind it comes down to, “You can’t fire me! Do you know who I am?”
Uh, Pelley wasn’t in areas of combat “for his country”; he was there to make money as a journalist.
“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.”
Having lived these many decades with many narcissists close by, I know your words of counsel are what all sane people must heed in order to stay sane.
Narcissists love to stir-up the water, they love to call in the whirlwind, they love to make you cry and then blame you for their evil.
I don’t know what President Trump said about boychild Pelley, but I’m sure whatever the President said about him is correct.
That vicious broad in the Commiefornia governor race is exactly the same.
I am listening to the entire interview and it’s clear that Scott Pelley and his “60 Minute family” have no idea that they are biased or in a bubble. It’s shocking really that they are so insulated in their world view.
SO ACCORDING TO HIM PDJT HAS NO “WAR EXPERIENCE”
WELL NEITHER DID HUSSEIN OBAMA OR BILIOUS CLINTON.
No war experience except for what was left him in Ukraine and the capturing of Maduro from Venezuela and the destruction of Iran’s nuclear bomb making facilities etc. as Commander-in-Chief!!! Fixing other peoples’ (Democrat) messes at that.
Well, Trump went to military High School. That’s more than Pellet’s military experience
Pleas don’t leave out Biden for lack of military service.
Pelly didn’t just dig his own grave, he Jumped in once he said all his disrespectful Nasty comments to his Boss and her Staff.
This is FAFO on STERIODS. Now he’s on the typical Democrap Sympathy VICTIM TOUR!
Bari Weiss did America a BIG favor by firing this narcissistic pile of steaming BS
Scott looks like he needs to self admit to a rehab center specializing in reality checks!
Doubt any self respecting rehab center would take him!
Early in life I worked in operations engineering at a local TV station in the 98th largest TV market. I knew news people and one, or two, other staff like this. Only a few, but they were there. As my life progressed, I worked in a high 40s market and then in a 28th market. As I progressed in market size the number of these types of folks increased exponentially, not just in news, but in all the staff. I finally realized that I couldn’t deal with it and got out before my 30th birthday. I thank the Lord for opening my eyes. I’ve told all my friends and family that you can’t possibly hate the media enough. They are amoral creatures. The average person has no idea the insanity running rampant through the media because it is a totally alien concept to them.
The president didn’t get Scott fired, Scott’s big mouth got him self fired.
In all honesty, the man missed his calling…this is (modern day;) Oscar worthy.
One thing is for sure. He does have a new career opportunity as an actor. I mean it is obvious 60 minutes provided great acting lessons. So I am not sure why he is crying….for crying out loud!
We know what he says when snifting brandies with his friend group, “…and I was fired by a JEW!”
Put him in president Donald J Trump’s shoes and experience what being shot at means. Unhinged is not even close to describing Pelley.
I look at our culture and ask how many people create something? Are they engaged in wealth transfers or wealth creation? President Trump spent his life creating. Who was the last President who entered into politics at an age when most people are collecting social security?
President Trump understands this basic principle of economic vitality that was so aptly summed up by Margerat Thatcher- eventually, you run out of other people’s money- and that in a nutshell is what MAGA us about. To Make America Great, America must MAKE things again, because wealth is a result of creating, not transfers and siphoning and skimming. It is why the Soviet Union collapsed, and it is the trajectory in which America is headed. It is the course correction needed to steer us clear of the iceberg which grows larger and deeper still. We cannot get out of debt, if we don’t create, build and make.
For Pelley to pit his patriotism against that of the president’s is hubris. We need public servants, many of whom go into the field because much of it pays splendidly, but they are not more patriotic than those who choose to go into the private sector. Public servants like to claim the mantle of patriotism, but it is not the case for most- I dare to say most choose it for stability, security, ease, or pay. Those who go to work everyday, provide for their family, and pay the taxes that provide for those on the public payroll- those who pursue the American dream of self-sufficiency-to stand on your own two feet-are truly representative of the American ethos or spirit. How ironic that President “You didn’t build!”that was followed by such a prolific builder.
Journalism, real journalism, is found in places like this, or on youtube with young upstarts. The old media is full of corrupt stupid people like the president pointed out on Sunday. Pelley demonstrates that those remarks were dead on.
Mr. Pelley is a product of the world he grew up in, where he was schooled, and where he worked.
He became a true believer who appears to have “never” questioned what he was taught and what he observed.
There are far too many people like Mr. Pelley (left, right, and in the middle).
I’m not immune to that way of living myself.
That said, after spending my adult life working for GAO, conducting operational, financial, forensic, and accounting and business systems, internal control reviews at all levels of government, I learned one thing….don’t trust any system or the people who operate and use those systems and processes.
Look at the problems Musk and his crew identified during the DOGE reviews.
This is going on at every level of government.
When does a foxhole in the desert ever fill up with water?
And how can you even DIG a foxhole in, say, the Hindu Kush mountains?
And where would these foxholes have been needed? Was there some Middle East version of Guadalcanal or Bastogne that I missed
You only DIG these things to protect against enemy arty barrages not against anything insurgents can throw at you
Honestly, I think it’s possible that he was genuinely offended by the comment, and he thinks that he has proven how much he cares about America through the personal danger he put himself in to defend what he thinks America is. But that’s the problem. The America he cares about is an idea crafted in the chattering class of DC politicians. His America is not the lived experience of your everyday American, whose problems he does not care about despite placing himself in danger, ostensibly in service of the nation. He doesn’t care if the people he struggled to protect are erased from history.
Breitbart Article by Nolte about Pelly. It’s hysterical
“Let’s Hope Pelley Never Stops Talking”
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2026/06/09/nolte-lets-hope-scott-pelley-never-stops-talking/
Stopped watching 60 Minutes years ago when it became “60 LEFTIST Minutes”. Dripping with leftist bias, lies and TDS.
You had me at “foxholes filing up with water in the desert”, Dude … that is to say you had me spewing my beverage all over my cell phone
You spent nights in water filled foxholes in the Hindu Kush mountains? SURE you did, fella
Maybe he became a journalist, as he says, because he loved the 1st Amendment but he twisted its meaning in order to voice his opinion as though it was news. He set out to convince everyone they were wrong. At that point, he stopped being a journalist and became an activist posing as a journalist. Admitting that transition became impossible for him and for 20 some years he believed he was one until someone with authority told him “no”. Sadly, he still believes he is a journalist.
“OK Boomer.”
And I say that as a Boomer.
Scott Adams had the same advice, and many heeded it.
Wow! Comparing his personal inconvenience to that of a soldier. My dad as a young man hid behind a toilet when his troop landed on the beach at Normandy. He was a surveyor in the army. Not the same.