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syria now. i'm not defending radical jihadists. nor am i naive to their intentions or beliefs. sitting members of congress, people in important positions of power, who are point fingers at individuals working in the government making allegations or spreading innuendo about them without any direct evidence. they're dragging people's names through the mud. these are the five members of congress who we're talking about. michele bachmann, thomas rooney and lynn west moreland. over the weekendhey got a new and powerful ally it seems, newt gingrich. he refers to congresswoman bachmann and ...

>> i am very worried of our relationship with radical islam. it's based on lies, self-deception and state department that has consistently engaged in appeasement. >> this president, for every thug and every radical islamist. he has nothing about apiece zbly he has adopted appeasement strategy. it betrays a lack in america's future. >> sean: and his rebuttal his one national security success. >> osama bin laden and 22 out of 30 top al-qaeda leaders, ask whether then whether i engage in appeasement or whoever is left out there. ask them about that. >> sean: with the upcoming election, they are s...

Appeasement. >> i am very worried of our relationship with radical islam. it's based on lies, self-deception and state department that has consistently engaged in appeasement. >> this president, for every thug and every radical islamist. he has nothing about apiece zbly he has adopted appeasement strategy. it betrays a lack in america's future. >> sean: and his rebuttal his one national security success. >> osama bin laden and 22 out of 30 top al-qaeda leaders, ask whether then whether i engage in appeasement or whoever is left out there. ask them about that. >> sean: with the upcoming electio...

Human life." you say, many people see optimism and self-deception as a defense strategy, to stay sane in a harsh world. you argue that it is a psychological attack mechanism. what does that mean? >> it means that the major function of self-deception is the better to deceive others. so in that sense, it's an aggressive or an offensive strategy. it's not defensive. the psychologists interpret it generally as it's a defensive strategy to keep us happy. and they cite the fact that depressed people do not engage much in self-deflation. so then they argue, if we were all realistic, we wouldn't get o...

The rest of us into thinking you're a better anchor person as you really are. and insofar as you believe your deception or your lies -- >> what if i think i'm terrible? what if i think i'm the worst anchor that ever walked -- what if the self-deception is negative? >> that's a very good people. and there are a minority of people that practice the diminutive side. so we can show that there are some people that regard themselves as uglier than they really are, and that is sometimes traced to a certain kind of parental upbringing, in which they lack a basic kind of self-confidence. so, yes, for a...