it's narcissistic. that's why they run for office. the question becomes, the celebrity they had when they come in, like ronald reagan and what they use it for. and the adulation. because they're all self-involved. all of them are. how do they use it? do they use it about me? or do they use it about we? i think part of the problem with sarah palin is not all her advisers. and it's not that she's a narcissist, like politicians typically are. what is she using it for? and most politicians, like ronald reagan, use it to advance a cause more than about themselves. and use that celebrity status. just like barack obama, i think. you can criticize his policies. and he has celebrity status. he's trying to -- >> that's what she's saying she's going to do here >> but that's the qstn. she has not demonstrated. and one place she could have demonstrated substantially, which i believe, if she wanted a political future, she could have shown what he e n a. she would have said, i'm going to do my job. if i do my wll, i have a future. but quitting a job

. >> clearly a narcissist.>> the entertainment media promotes this behavior and lifestyle and when somebody fol follows it there are plenty of

particularly being a supernova star such as walter cronkite was in the news, it's an ego centric, narcissisticess. but you rarely, if ever, saw that in walter cronkite. and one reason was his wife, betsy. i've seen her saying, hey, come on, big guy. that sort of thing. and she really kept him on an even keel. that's to take nothing from himself. it is very easy to forget on recognizing that a lot of people in the audience never saw walter cronkite, were not of memory age. but he was the proverbial household name. it's an overworked phrase. he was a living legend and his legend will outlive him by far. he was, again, down home doesn't quite say it but he was regular, walter. i think the audience recognized that. and recognized that he was trying to be as honest, as truthful, as integrity-filled as he possibly could there was another side to him. he loved race cars. race cars when he was a younger man. loved sailing. was an excellent sailor. really did sail a pretty good sized sail boat for a long while. but one of the things that i haven't seen paid attention to much, i'm sure it will be as tim

doctors, you know, we have our own narcissistic liabilities ourselves and we sort of could be he is seusseddy. >> if you're got somebody giving you cash. >> it's not even the money, it's this bigger than life person thinks i'm a good doctor. you could imagine michael jackson or somebody coming and saying you're the best doctor i ever had. only you make me feel good. oh, my goodness, i'm helping this guy. i'm paying you all this money to give me what i need, and you don't give me, i'm going to sell everybody what a horrible doctor you are. >> your reality show, celebrity rehab you treated jeff conaway known for his roles in greece and taxi and i told you as well as our reporter jeff who interviewed him once again that he could get just about anything he asked for. how did you then help him break that habit? >> we do what we do, we get them off the drugs. and in our world, about the vast majority of times the patient come in telling us on a scale of 10 their pain is 20. jeff is a chronic pain patient. just by taking them off the opiate pain medication, two weeks later they will tell us almost w

subject, such hard times is not to write it with any self-pity or anything self-reflecticive or narcissistic but just to say this happened and that happened. when you have the goods you don't need to dress up your writing. and i think it took awhile for frank to understand that neither anger nor self-reflection were the ways into his story. his story was good enough on its own. then once he told it in this beautiful plain language, that brought you to your knees. >> yes, and he once said he wrote it actually in the voice of a young boy and that that had also, i remember, helped him. tell us what he was like as a person. >> he was like a young boy as a person. there was nobody who would make you laugh more than frank, when he smiled he was like a little boy, smiling. and when he would make himself laugh which was unprofessional to be sure in a reading, but still, he would do it. then everybody just roared because we just surrender himself to the helplessness of laughter the way a child does. at the same time as a friend he was the most loyal friend. and you could count on him for anything. he

what went on the new left in the black power movement was, you know, churlish and juvenile and narcissisticyou know, i tell a story in the book about abbie hoffman who was one of the most prominent antiwar activists, part of the yippy movement and i told him how john lindsey had made him sort of an ambassador between the city and the hippie community in the lower east side and part of that he couldn't be arrested. so abbie hoffman would take advantage of that and kind of bait the cops and in one story i tell he actually so baited a cop into arresting him that he smashed the display just because he could and we're talking about that level of childishness, that doesn't make it very easy for us to kind of body-force together as a commonwealth. it's when -- it's when the rage became kind of undifferentiated and against senators who opposed the war like edmond muskie who nixon tried to tie to the radical movement that things got very irresponsible. >> as a politician, do you respect richard nixon? >> he was the best. he wasn't, you know, quite good enough to, you know, bluff his way to two full

all lots of what went on on the new left with the black power movement was juvenile and narcissistic. i tally story of the book about abbie hoffman who was one of the most prominent anti-war activist here come into the use it national party i talk about how john lindsay had made him an ambassador between the city and but at the committee with the lower east side and part of that is he could not be arrested. abbie hoffman would take a vantage and ife the cops. he so they did a cop into arresting him he literally smashed in the display case and the preissing house -- preissing towson just because the good when you talk about that level of joblessness it makes it easy for us to come together as the commonwealth it is when the day -- rage was differentiated when it was directed at senators to oppose the war like muskie who nixon tried to tie to the radical movement that things got very irresponsible. >>host: as a politician to you respect richard nixon? >>guest: he was the best. he was not quite good enough to bluff his way through two full terms but as far as his ability to find a subter

it's an egocentric, narcissistic business, and but you rarely if ever saw that in wter cronkite.ne reason was his wife betsy. saying, hey, come on, big guy, that sort of thing. she would have kept him on an even keel. walter never talked in terms of power. never saw hip as a powerful person. he saw himself as an honest broker of information that he gathered information and walter was one hell of a reporter, he wasn't just an anchor and he knew good reporting, demanded good reporting. >> this is my last broadcast of the "cbs evening news." a plan which nerve are the les one must -- after all a medium like this, i'll miss it. that was dan rather remembering walter cronkite, and we have much more coming up in a bit, including a tribute from our own brian williams. >>> let's head outside to the plaza and get a check of the weather fro from meteorologist karins. >> good morning to you, ladies. we are watching concerns weatherwise this weekend. the worst of it out west. where it will be very hot. we could see temperature, look at that, death valley, 71212 degrees. thankfully no one liv

, he may have started out as a good man but he was definitely afflicted with what i would call narcissisticgrandiosity, in ability to see himself in the role of a person being defeated and losing in a cause and been a failure and i think he carried that right on to his death. the question about his book, a recently saw an interview whether he -- when he was asked whether or not people demanding that the profits in the book go to victims families of people lost to the war and he could not even answer that question clearly, saying he may do so, he may not do so. i feel sad day for the fact that the man may have died very lonely and guilty and was suffering from a psychological pain. but i'm glad that you read the two people and it buys anyone who never read "bright and shining lie close " to read the book. host: thank you for calling. qu two otes. former president book of the world bank rights that he was the greatest president of the world bank. -- is the focus from private to people and to concern about poverty. i always regarded him as a compass for my work. i hope that as an influence on

he really did, he was narcissistic. in a way that is hard to imagine. he saw that his legacy would be hundreds of years into the future. he firmly believed in the historical vision of iraq that the i iranians were in much bigger presence in his mind and we appreciated. the historic animosity between the arab nation and the persians, and he would almost spit when they say that. it was a very potent feeling, but that was his sense of green your. -- that was his sense of grandeur. he saw the other gulf states as lazy, nonproductive, by the accident of birth they had been born on a pot of oil. they did not build anything, they did not -- they were not engineers. he thought there should be a natural -- national allegiance to him as the person who embodied this great iraqi spirit. this is the way his mind worked. this is a derivative of debriefing him over many months. he also did build a lot of good things in iraq, a good educational system, a health system. women did pretty well in iraq under saddam hussein. there were a lot of women professionals. it is od

. -- can be a narcissistic time when you are 16.ecognized that i would enjoy that if i were interviewed and ask questions by people everywhere we went. he gave me homework. it was to be able to name three people i have met and three things that were important simi every yvette. it sounds like it is easy. i covered 26 states by myself a 16. can you imagine that level of trust in a young person? i felt that trust with a heavyweight in a great sense of responsibility and pride. i had the acknowledgement that the teacher would be asking if the home or had been done and i would be held accountable. could not i at least remember three people and three things that were important to them? it got me out of myself. it was a lifelong lesson that i thank him every day for. i can guarantee you, before i leave this room today, i will have met three people and found out three things that were important to each of you, because it is a lifelong lesson that i treasure it from lyndon johnson because he believed a day without learning was a day that wa

now is not the time for political posturing or narcissistic behave yomple we must be representatives of the true sense of the word and act on behalf of the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> madam speaker, i rise in honor of the 150th anniversary of st. ann's roman catholic church in new jersey. it was officially established in 1859 and father claud roland of france was named its first resident pastor. throughout its history, st. ann's has fulfilled its mission while establishing eight other catholic churches in huntington and warren counties. in 2003, the church was designated by new jersey as a site of historical note. today, st. ann's parish is destroy -- is enjoying a period of significant growth under its current pastor. i congratulate st. ann's church for its service of the community and as a pillar of faith. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlem

. >> i think it is the absolute most narcissistic thing i've ever heard about in my life., we became -- you are so -- >> they fly! >> this is so over. this is so over. >> they touch the flowers. >> all right. let's go through this. there's a survey, glamour magazine, and this is a good one and this is going to affect you. they polled 1,000 women, and this is the question. why are you -- >> superhoda's arm just came off. >> what did you do? >> i was trying to see if you could fly solo. but certainly not, you need me. so i'll put you right back in there. sorry, hoda, didn't mean to hurt you. >> glamour magazine polled 1,000 women. here's the question they asked. let me ask you. >> yes. >> how many people do you think pee in the shower? percentage of women? >> all men. >> get rid of the prompter. >> i think probably most. >> 75% of men admit to -- >> i think in their minds, they're thinking hey, it's not a bathtub, you know what i mean? it's going down the drain. that's what you're thinking, right? >> no, not me. >> not me. >> you have never done that? >> never been in the ba