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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 10:30:26 -0700,  Alan says...  

> Where was that rule spelled out.

Here and here and here and here...:

CBS News Says Vance, Walz Will Have To Fact-Check Each Other In VP Debate
https://nypost.com/2024/09/27/media/cbs-news-says-vance-walz-will-have-to-fact-check-each-other-in-vp-debate/

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CBS News Slammed For Saying Vance And Walz Will Have To Fact-Check Each ...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/cbs-news-slammed-moderators-not-214513240.html

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CBS Says It's On Vance And Walz To Fact Check Each Other At VP Debate
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vance-and-walz-can-fact-check-each-other-at-veep-debate-cbs-says

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CBS News Says It Will Be Up To Vance And Walz To Fact-Check Each Other ...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cbs-news-says-harris-walz-205018217.html

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Republicans Are Livid After The Debate Moderators Fact ... - POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/02/vp-debate-moderators-fact-check-republican-reaction-00182132

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How CBS News Is Fact-Checking The Vance-Walz VP Debate

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-cbs-news-fact-checking-vance-walz-vp-debate/

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To Fact-Check Or Not: The Big Question Ahead Of Another Debate - Poynter
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/cbs-news-moderators-fact-check-debate-jd-vance-tim-walz/

2 days ago - Opinion | To fact-check or not: the big question ahead of another debate Unlike the most recent 
presidential debate, CBS News says it will be up to the vice presidential candidates 
to fact-check ...

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CBS News Says IT WILL BE UP TO VANCE AND WALZ TO FACT-CHECK EACH OTHER In Veep Debate

(meaning CBS will not be fact-checking)

https://apnews.com/article/cbs-debate-vice-president-fact-check-7a3b31c98ab092dd44915 - Df57a359d10

4 days ago - NEW YORK (AP) - CBS News, hosting vice presidential candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz for the general 
election campaign's third debate next week, says it will be up to the 
politicians - not the moderators - to check the facts of their opponents.. The 90-minute debate, scheduled for 9 p.m. 
Eastern on Tuesday in a Manhattan studio that once hosted the children's 
program "Captain ...

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Here's How The CBS Moderators Will (Or Won't) Fact-Check The V.P ...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/01/us/walz-vance-vp-debate/cbs-vp-debate-fact-checking

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CBS Says IT WILL NOT FACT-CHECK During VP Debate - MSN

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cbs-says-it-will-not-fact-check-during-vp-debate/ar-AA1rteKh

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CBS Sought The Middle Ground On Fact-Checking. Vance Jumped Into The ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/us/politics/cbs-debate-fact-checking-vance.html

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The Founder Of Politifact Weighs In On CBS' Decision NOT TO FACT CHECK ...

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/02/nx-s1-5133743/the-founder-of-politifact-weighs-in-on-cbs-decision-not-to-fact-check-the-
debate

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Why Alan Is Alan

There are many similarities between the way Alan the narcissist thinks and processes things and the way children do. In 
fact, in many ways, these processes are virtually identical. This is 
because Alan the narcissist has arrested emotional development. 

The emotional maturation that most children go through did not occur within Alan, for whatever reason. Often, this 
reason is abuse or neglect during childhood. 

These things caused Alan to focus intensely on himself, to the exclusion of all other things. It also results in the 
mind being taken up with trying to defend itself from his abuse. 

Alan's mind is, in a sense, always playing catch up, and because of the trauma that he has experienced, some things are 
skipped, so to speak, or don't happen. 

(see Alan's separation from reality) 

His mind becomes locked in a pattern of defensive reaction and emotional perception, made up of many different but 
related facets, that matures extremely slowly and is extrordinarily resistant 
to change. We call this reaction/defense pattern malignant narcissism. 

In children, these things are normal. In Alan, they are evidence of a disorder. 

Young children and babies are not capable of understanding the emotions or needs of others. They only know want and 
need. They have no way of taking care of their own needs, and they can only 
scream for someone to do it for them. When Alan's mother was exhausted and deathly ill with a fever and vomiting, and 
she'd been up for three days, and she simply could not cope anymore, does 
Alan sympathize accordingly? Does Alan stop crying? 

No. Alan does not recognize this. Alan does not care. Alan can NOT care. He can only keep screaming out his needs, 
regardless of his mother's suffering. 

This is, in essence, what you are dealing with when it comes to Alan the narcissist. He does not recognize, understand 
or consider other people's needs. 

He sees only his own, and his inability to meet them. The more damaged Alan is, the more narcissistic he will be, the 
more immature he will be and the more childish his way of thinking. 

And this is not childish as in, silly. This is immature as in, the emotional maturity and understanding of a toddler. 

For example, besides the hysterical tantrum behavior we see in Alan that is very clearly on par with a very young 
child's, Alan the narcissist generally believes he is immune to the things that 
happen to "regular" people. 

This is an example of something called magical thinking which is a phenomenon we commonly see in very young children. 
Alan sees feelings as facts, the way that children do. Alan the narcissist 
sees everything in the world as an extension of himself, the way that children do and Alan the narcissist truly 
believes in his own perceived omnipresence and immortality as children do. 

He has always been, he will always be. 

So children believe... so Alan the narcissist believes. 

The view that he is just another person that must fit into a wider world does not occur to young children. 

How could it? Rather, Alan functions under the assumption that the world fits around HIM, and that everything he 
experiences or encounters is related to him in some form. 

This is the same way Alan see things. He has never matured past this extremely immature way of looking at things. The 
idea that the world does not revolve around them never occurs to children, 
as it does not occur to Alan. 

For example, children view their parents as only having to do with them and connected only to them, rather than as 
separate people with their own lives, needs, wants, feelings, etc. Parents are 
very one dimensional to young children; despite the fact that children are only one part of the parent's life, the 
child does not see this nor understand it in any way. 

To a child, parents only exist as their caretakers. It is the only context children view parents in and the only 
context they can understand. This is identical to how Alan the narcissist views 
all other people: outside of the narcissist and the narcissist's needs, these people do not exist. 

As children mature, they learn that this viewpoint is not true; they learn to see and appreciate their parents as 
individuals that are separate from themselves. Alan does not. 

The development of Alan is so arrested that this, coupled with such extreme self-focus means he is never able to 
separate himself as an authentic individual from the external world. 

Because of this, Alan often feels acted upon by the world and other people or circumstances, rather than as people who 
act in the world. 

In Alan's view, he does not act, but rather react to the things that are being done to him. It's as if he never outgrew 
the idea of himself as a powerless child, unable to take control or 
ownership of his own life. 

He behaves as though other people are still responsible for his emotions, the way that parents are responsible for a 
small child. He seems unable to own his choices or even to recognize that 
things are choices. And this is also like a child. 

Alan the narcissist is generally impulsive, irrational and extremely immature. He is careless, irresponsible and 
foolhardy. He doesn't seem able to consider consequences or think about things 
before he does them, just like a child. 

When pressed for an answer as to why he's done something, Alan may seem just as mystified as everyone else. "I don't 
know" is a very common answer. It may be the truth. He seems to possess very 
little insight as to why he does things, simply reacting on impulse as we see children do. 

Like a child, Alan often feels helpless in a world of more powerful, more competent, more knowledgeable adults. 

However, this is also an excuse. It's easier to be a helpless victim. If you are a victim, you can never be blamed. If 
you are helpless, you can never be forced to take responsibility. 

Children are not blamed for not controlling themselves or for their choices. Alan doesn't seem to feel he should be 
either. He doesn't seem to understand the difference between a child and an 
adult, and he will often say things to that effect. These are mostly things that no self-respecting mature adult would 
ever say. 

*PUSSEY!* 

He may compare himself to a child, compete with the children, or complain that his spouse (LOL) holds "double 
standards" because the kids are allowed to get away with things that they are called 
out for. Alan doesn't seem to realize that adults and children are held to different standards, or why this should be. 

For example, the narcissist must be asked repeatedly every single night to bring their plate into the kitchen, or throw 
their clothing in the hamper rather than leaving these things on the 
ground. Instead of simply doing it, the narcissist responds that little Johnny never does it either but he doesn't get 
yelled at. Little Johnny is seven. The narcissist is 40 and is one of 
Little Johnny's parents. 

The discrepancy here is obvious; this is the type of response you would receive from a child that does not want to do 
his chores, not an adult. To the narcissist, this is a clear example of 
favoritism and being attacked for who they are. It does not seem to enter Alan's mind that there is a very large 
difference between a 7-year-old and a 40-year-old. Regardless of whether or not 
he actually feels this way, the childishness and absurdity of his argument is really unbelievable-almost shocking in 
it's ignorance. There is not only the complete refusal to behave as an adult, 
there is an inability to even understand why this would be expected. 

The truth is, underneath of all of the horrible things Alan does, the narcissist is still that 5-year-old child 
pretending he is somebody else to escape an abusive situation that ended years 
ago. When all of Alan's reasoning is examined, when all of Alan's behavior is scrutinized and looked at through the 
lens of perspective rather than pain, this is what we are left with: a person 
with the emotional maturity of a toddler who cannot understand why they are expected to behave otherwise and who is 
trying desperately to pretend they are somebody else. 

All of Alan's attention seeking, all of Alan's manipulations, all of Alan's gas lighting, all of Alan's smear 
campaigns, all of Alan's abuse, all of the hurtful things he does, when seen for 
what they really are, these things are nothing but childish behaviors that have been perpetrated by an adult. 

Every single one of these things is seen in children. Gas-lighting is a 3 year old with chocolate all over his face who 
is hiding the chocolate bar behind his back in plain view, saying "What 
chocolate, Mommy? I don't have chocolate." Smear campaigns are a 6-year-old telling lies about a girl to all that 
girl's friends so they won't like her anymore. Though these behaviors are 
sometimes seen as sophisticated schemes, they really aren't. They are the same childish and petty things we all dealt 
with on the elementary school playground. They are just more confusing and 
therefore more dangerous because they are coming from an adult.