Narcissism and West Point scandal

Lefty libs continue to beat the drum that PDJT is suffering from a mental illness in particular narcissism.  Some guy - James Cox - is the latest to make a run at PDJT in the local fish wrap.  His letter appears under Lex’s brilliant response:  

After listing all of the characteristics of narcissistic personality disorder from something called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association, James Cox asks, “Does this remind you of anybody in present-day headlines?”

Well, I do recall, as if it were yesterday, a cartoonish figure with jug ears, standing in front of faux Styrofoam Greek columns looking down his nose at us as if he were one of those old-style Soviet soldiers goose-stepping through Red Square on May Day while talking about lowering the sea levels and cooling the Earth.  That narcissist?

I’d have preferred to just say President Obama, but the left has such a low regard for the office of President of the United States these days, I thought it’d be interesting to show the left just how shallow they appear when given a dose of their own medicine.  No doubt it’ll go right over their heads, and they’ll resort to their first, last and only argument for every single issue these days – YOU’RE A RACIST!!

With regard to DSM, it seems to be a self-licking ice cream cone for psychiatry in that everyone appears to manifest some characteristics of at least one of its many disorders.  I guess we are all in need of some kind of psychiatric help.

But the most shocking thing I discovered is that my dog shows characteristics of nearly all of the disorders contained in the DSM.  Talk about a narcissist with delusions of grandeur and list of phobias and quirks that makes the Tony Shalhoub character on the TV series Monk appear normal – that’s ol’ George. I know now, after he is removed from office, he’ll need to get help. 

The Cox letter 

Symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association:

• Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance

• Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it

• Exaggerating achievements and talents

• Being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate

• Believing that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people

• Requiring constant admiration

• Having a sense of entitlement

• Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with your expectations

• Taking advantage of others to get what you want

• Having an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others

• Being envious of others and believing others envy you

• Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner

Does this remind you of anybody in present-day headlines?

James Cox
Van Wert

  

West Point El Supremo responds

In his open letter on the decline of West Point (Lex post several under), LTC Heffington didn’t call the West Point Superintendent (El Supremo) a pathological liar in the mold of Shrillda the Hutt.  El Supremo doesn’t lie about everything. He is just a run-of-the-mill liar in that he, like most of us, lies when it serves his purpose.  In particular Heffington noted:

“Every fall, the Superintendent addresses the staff and faculty and lies.  He repeatedly states that ‘We are going to have winning sports teams without compromising our standards,’ and everyone in Robinson Auditorium knows he is lying because we routinely admit athletes with ACT scores in the mid-teens across the board. I have personally taught cadets who are borderline illiterate and cannot read simple passages from the assigned textbooks. It is disheartening when the institution’s most senior leader openly lies to his own faculty-and they all know it.”

That’s the charge.  El Supremo responds in part with this:

“Like many of you, I have also read Lieutenant Colonel (US Army, Retired) Heffington’s open letter, criticizing the Academy leadership, to include calling us liars, I do not take these allegations lightly and will provide you a response with facts addressing his allegations and then you can judge for yourself whether our graduates are serving our Nation with character imbued with values of Duty, Honor and Country.”

El Supremo, check the English department at the Point, there is a difference between "you" and "us."  Heffington didn’t call us liars.  He called you a liar. 

One of the great tricks when your malfeasance is exposed is to threaten to or engage in dragging the entire institution down with you. El Supremo’s BS is just another indication that he may need another course on leadership. 

Obviously when an avowed Commie slips through the ranks, you have a problem.  Seems to me it’d be easier to admit that one slipped through, promise to tighten the reigns and move on - particularly if there is any element of truth in the other allegations, which, I’ll bet AF Bro’s fancy car that there is.

Somebody is lying. There’s a simple solution.  El Supremo can publish the ACT scores of all West Point athletes with names redacted and scores jumbled so that there is no way to peg a score to a particular athlete.  My guess is that El Supremo will not do that.  Why?  Because it will prove LTC Heffinton to be correct.