Barack Obama Narcissist in Chief! (Part ONE of TWO)

Narcissistic

Rage in the

White House

By James Lewis

___October 28th, 2009

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The term “narcissistic rage”

gets 26,000 citations in Google

Scholar.

It is a common feature of extreme

or pathological narcissism.

While psychiatrists often say they

can’t do long-distance diagnosis,

it really isn’t that hard if you have

a lot of information about a person

and can watch how he operates

from day to day.

Intelligence agencies around the

world have psychiatric staffs for

exactly that purpose.

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While most people are

pretty hard to predict,

extreme narcissists are

comparatively simple.

They constantly hunger

for ego gratification,

they are immature,

constantly need to demonstrate

their own superiority,

often need endless sexual

conquests (like Bill Clinton),

are manipulative,

constant liars,

are completely cold about the

human beings they harm

(like John Edwards),

and they deal with frustration

by uncontrollable fits of rage.

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I think that’s what we saw last

week with the White House

lashing out at Fox News.

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According to the

New York Times,

“Speaking privately at the

White House on Monday

with a group of columnists

and commentators,

including Rachel S. Maddow

and Keith Olbermann of

MSNBC and Maureen Dowd,

Frank Rich and Bob Herbert

of The New York Times,

President Obama himself

gave vent to sentiments

about the (Fox) network,

according to people briefed

on the conversation… “

So Obama didn’t even keep

this thing on background.

He allowed himself to be

quoted in his favorite rag,

the New York Times.

Dowd, Maddow, Herbert,

and Rich did their part by

going into attack-dog mode

against conservatives.

They know exactly what

Obama needs and wants,

and to keep in good stead

with this White House,

they feed that hungry ego

with the most outrageous

flattery and imitation.

It is a perfect symbiosis.

Obama is easy to manipulate,

and liberal commentators are

used to demonizing the opposition.

They’ve all been raised

on Rules for Radicals.

Obama’s thin skin is

shared by his coterie.

US News and World Report

wrote:

Team Obama was pushed

over the brink by a growing

list of what it considered outrageous anti-Obama

conduct by Fox that showed

no sign of stopping.

Obama’s advisers say that

they seethed while Fox commentators used their

shows to encourage protests

against Obama’s healthcare proposals last summer.

Team Obama fumed as

Fox personalities tried

to pressure some

controversial Obama

advisers to resign.

White House officials

say that Fox has

continued to stir the pot

against Obama in a

regular pattern —

raising a criticism,

having Republican

congressional leaders

comment on it,

and then using those

comments to keep

the criticism alive.

A break point came

when Fox tried to create

the impression that

angry anti-Obama

protesters at congressional

town hall meetings last

summer signaled that

Obama’s healthcare

proposals were dying,

a story line that other

news organizations

picked up.

White House officials

say this was untrue,

that those proposals

were not dying at all.

Another break point

came when Fox

commentator Chris

Wallace called White

House officials

“crybabies.”

A senior Obama adviser

tells U.S. News that

White House staffers

developed

“a growing realization”

that the president would

never get a fair shake

from Fox.