Bill Clinton: Narcissist with a Martyr Complex
Patterico blog
By now you've surely heard about Peter Jennings's interview with Bill Clinton:
The former president, a Democrat, said he would go to his grave at peace that, while he had personal failings, he never lied to the American people about his job as president.
Clinton added that he did not care about what his detractors thought about him. Jennings said it seemed to him that Clinton did care.
The former president then rounded on the media, saying: "You don’t want to go here, Peter. You don’t want to go here. Not after what you people did and the way you, your network, what you did with Kenneth Starr. The way your people repeated every, little sleazy thing he leaked. No-one has any idea what that’s like."
I don't understand why people are surprised by this. It's the same damn thing Clinton did when confronted about Monica Lewinsky by a BBC interviewer:
One of the reasons he [Kenneth Starr] got away with it is because people like you only ask people like me the questions. You gave him a complete free ride. Any abuse they wanted to do, they indicted all these little people from Arkansas, what did you care about them, they’re not famous, who cares that their lives were trampled. Who cares if their children were humiliated?
I watched that entire BBC interview recently when I flew to England, and I came to the conclusion that Clinton is a pathological narcissist, to the point of having a martyr complex. It's all about him: he is the saint who has been put upon for his entire life, as he simply tries to make life better for others. The clips I have heard of the Jennings interview merely confirm this opinion. |
