This post at Kaus Files got me thinking:
Nut Graf! Psychologist Ellen Ladowsky elaborates on her Hillary Bosnia Fantasy Theory at HuffPo. I recommend navigating swiftly to paragraph #20, where she’s buried the nut grafs:
There are two possibilities: Hillary may be a pathological liar. Or, more persuasive to me, Hillary believed what she was saying and her description of her Bosnia trip was a true representation of her psychic reality and not external reality. In her internal world, Hillary may feel as though she’s always being shot at by sniper fire and that she’s heroically managed to stay alive.
This theory makes sense of Hillary’s recklessness. It didn’t feel reckless to Hillary to repeat this lie over and over again, and she paid no heed to those who contradicted her, because in her mind, she was telling the truth. Only when confronted with undeniable evidence of external reality — actual footage from her Bosnia trip – did she admit (possibly to herself as well as the public) that her version of events was not true.
It also explains Hillary’s reaction when exposed. She was angry because she was forced to abandon her psychic reality for external reality. For her, this was tantamount to giving up the truth in exchange for mere facts. …. [snip]
While most of her explanations have made no sense, when Hillary told Leno that she’d had “a lapse”, she was right on. She’d had an actual lapse in mental functioning. [E.A.]
Me: Mickey’s got some thoughts on it. But reading this, what immediately came to mind was how much this reads like caricature of Nixon. I guess the Nixon in a pantsuit thing ain’t so crazy.