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I now understand why George Bush andLance Armstrong are friends (Original Post) malaise Jan 2013 OP
Sociopaths of a feather... deminks Jan 2013 #1
Yes indeed malaise Jan 2013 #2
Wow - hadn't thought of that blue_heron Jan 2013 #3
I didn't watch it either malaise Jan 2013 #6
Two narcissistic reactionary rich guys who don't understand how much damage they do. Go cycle into leveymg Jan 2013 #4
That would be perfect malaise Jan 2013 #8
Narcissists marions ghost Jan 2013 #5
Yep they fit the bill to a TTTTTTTTTTT! malaise Jan 2013 #7
Both are phony. Octafish Jan 2013 #9
Good question malaise Jan 2013 #10
In addiction, enablers are very, very bad. Octafish Jan 2013 #11
They deserved each other malaise Jan 2013 #12

blue_heron

(223 posts)
3. Wow - hadn't thought of that
Fri Jan 18, 2013, 07:50 AM
Jan 2013

The admission puts a whole lot of other things in new perspective - like all his relationships.

So I didn't watch the whole interview (just parts). Did she ask how he justified putting poisons in his body after surviving cancer? Does he correlate his doping with causing his cancer? Did doping have anything to do with his marriage or other relationships (eg cheryl crow) falling apart?

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
4. Two narcissistic reactionary rich guys who don't understand how much damage they do. Go cycle into
Fri Jan 18, 2013, 08:01 AM
Jan 2013

the desert together and don't come back.

malaise

(268,561 posts)
8. That would be perfect
Fri Jan 18, 2013, 08:38 AM
Jan 2013

but it's not likely. They have lots of gullible followers who think they are victims

marions ghost

(19,841 posts)
5. Narcissists
Fri Jan 18, 2013, 08:03 AM
Jan 2013

lie so easily. That's how they get so far.

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NPD characteristics:

1. Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates accomplishments, talents, skills, contacts, and personality traits to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements);

2. Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion;

3. Firmly convinced that he or she is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions);

4. Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious;

5. Feels entitled. Demands automatic and full compliance with his or her unreasonable expectations for special and favorable priority treatment;

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