Posted on 02/04/2015 7:23:02 PM PST by jobim
Washington (AP) - There is a growing trend in the arena of psychological pathology called Conflation Disorder (CD) in which a person conflates one object, or incident, or person, with another.
An NBC anchorman, Brian Williams, recently confessed to conflating being on a helicopter in Iraq which was forced down by enemy fire, with riding a helicopter into that same area under perfectly safe conditions, sipping an Old Fashion and reading Voltaire. A Stanford University Professor, caught in a seedy motel with a coed, had actually conflated the voluptuous 19 year old blond with his 60 year old girthy wife, and the NoTell Motel with his Lake Shore Drive Condominium.
"It's more of a problem than people realize," said Psychologist Sigfreud James, with the Institute of the Mind at Dartmouth University. "What we until recently called a 'bald lie' is now known to stem from this peculiar disorder," James said. He also said that those suffering from CD are almost exclusively Ivy League graduates of high achievement. "This group has had the finest education in the land, and so we began to look for underlying causes of their mismemories," James explained. "Their high ethical standards would preclude simple lying."
"The intensity of their lives, their surpassing moral foundation, place great strain on their psyche, causing this confusion of the real with the imagined," James Said. "We recently examined a partner from a big asbestos litigation law firm recently, who had conflated his bank account with a client of his, an Alzheimer sufferer in his 90s," said James. "Certainly a well-respected attorney would be incapable of such subterfuge without some underlying patholgy," James concluded.
Kinda like watching one president drive the world into chaos and blaming a previous president?
Dr. Gustave Reich Yung concurs fully and says the behavior is unconscious in collectivists such as Williams.
My Grandma called that “fibbing”.
Yeah I had this as a teenager and had real problems with associating which car or girlfriend was mine, lost a lot of friends that way. Now a days it seems to affect all democrats who seem to think everyone elses money and children are theirs.
How is a VANITY in NEWS/ACTIVISM?
It is a parody of a news article, and a very fine one.
Should fake news be put in news? It’s more real than a lot of the real news.
CONFLATION DISORDER is calling a VANITY POST ... NEWS
... LOL ...
More like an occupier of the White House conflating the Office of the President with a caliphate...
The Bureau of Labor has been reporting con-flation statistics for years...
Yea sure, everyone has a disorder. He’s not a lying sack of human waste, it’s not his fault.
Sounds like Jake Blues pleading for his life.
Resign Williams and join Rather as the pariah that you are.
Sorry - I do maybe one vanity a year, and have put them here. Is that a problem? I figured it’s in the news about Williams today.
Ummm ... “fibbing” is calling a “vanity post” ... NEWS ... :-) ...
As humorous as a poster thinking they’re a Mod.
... LOL ...
In a real profession Williams would be fired.
He ought to be out by now.
If there were integrity and professional standards.
PROVIDING_COVER_FOR_LIARS_PING!
Watch an ad or anything on TV including the ‘news’: the media makes it’s money from conflation.
He’s a pro in the right business.
Check with the Admin Moderator ... but just a few days ago, the Admin a Moderator told me (here on Free Republic) that when you put “VANITY” in the title line, that this activates a special choice in the posting choices, made especially for Vanities.
I still remember when it was called lying...
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