[JayGalt]

I believe we should search out the truth and defend that. Defending candidates on general principles is very dangerous. Sometimes you wind up holding a bag with something rotten.
That said holding fire until you have all the facts and taking everything in the media with 10000 grains of salt is also good policy before defending or attacking.

[driftless2]

But here is the LIBERAL MEDIA once again giving us the half truth. Yes, Carson was not offered an OFFICIAL scholarship. But he was sort of promised one by Westmoreland. If the top general in the army said he'd get you into West Point, wouldn't you see how you could take that as being offered a scholarship/appointment?

That, of course, was never explained by the media. That is what they do to conservatives. Either not tell the story or only give the half of it.