These are deeply disturbed and mentally unstable people; very likely narcissists, with massively overstated internal senses of grandiosity and self-importance.
That sense of identity is certainly why they need to cloister together in groups, tribal media, in order to receive the affirmation needed to retain their worldview without challenge. Deeply intolerant, and emotionally unstable people.
This is not emotionally mature or mentally stable behavior. What is being 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 child in an adult physiology. It is alarming to witness outside a clinical or institutional setting.
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Scott Pelley sobs when he argues he’s just like U.S. troops because both go to war to serve the country and might even be more important because “there is no democracy without journalism”…
“Don’t care about the country? [CRYING] I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country. Please correct me if I’m wrong. You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment. You become a journalist because you love the country. And while all the other descriptions that the President used about me might be applicable, not that one. [CRYING] There is no democracy without journalism. It can’t be done. And that is why I am a journalist.”