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Why Carson Scares the Media
American Spectator ^ | 10/12/2015 | David Catron

Posted on 10/12/2015 4:59:47 AM PDT by rootin tootin

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To: Reno89519

Yes, I know!!! That was my point. Get it now?

Trump did not file personal bankruptcy.

There is NO proof that Carson committed malpractice (a suit is not proof of anything at all).

Get it now? Do you? Really?

(And in case you missed it, I am not a Carson supporter).


21 posted on 10/12/2015 6:00:48 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Reno89519

And I do bankruptcies and I totally get the difference between personal liquidation and the reorganizing of a business to restore it to solvency. I am totally understanding of Trump’s efforts to keep business afloat and have no problem with that.

I have an issue with bearing false witness against another person, though (Carson) based upon the same tabloid nonsense that has been used against Trump. Fair is fair.


22 posted on 10/12/2015 6:03:08 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: rootin tootin
Carson is a great surgeon. He should volunteer at a Veterans Hospital or at St Jude's.

I've heard him speak. He gets off on tangents.

Why use Hitler to make some "guess" about gun confiscation when it was a major cause of the Revolutionary War, i.e., the British were coming to disarm the population.

Why get off on Muslims for President when we still have "the vote"?

And then there's his trip to Ferguson, where he said he would have NEVER shot the 300 lb thug.

Where's his wife and family? We haven't even seen them.

23 posted on 10/12/2015 6:13:07 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rootin tootin

Carson is horrible beyond imagination. White Conservatives are so entranced by the Magic Negro Theory and his constant, calculated red meat soundbites that they don’t see it yet. Is he a GOPe robot?


24 posted on 10/12/2015 6:19:33 AM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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To: piasa

This article is about Carson, so it is entirely appropriate for me to comment on Carson. And Reagan had no problem explaining why he was a better candidate than Ford or Bush or whomever.

If you think Carson is actually a qualified, conservative candidate, maybe you should look at who’s the pathetic poster here.


25 posted on 10/12/2015 6:27:25 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: piasa

Oh, look, for all your sanctimony, it appears you’ve called another GOP candidate in this race a “landgrabbing narcissist” just yesterday.


26 posted on 10/12/2015 6:29:41 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: rootin tootin
What really scares the media is that, in hypothetical general election match-ups, Carson consistently beats the probable Democrat nominee—Hillary Clinton.

Well, this is what happens when you teach your base that color is the only qualification that matters - they forget to check for the little (R) after the name. :)

27 posted on 10/12/2015 6:31:48 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: rootin tootin

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to be president...... but if one volunterers, it is wise to accept his offer


28 posted on 10/12/2015 6:33:28 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: Larry Lucido

Filed suit and settled or dismissed, yes, a difference. I’d have to read the articles again, not sure if they offered disposition. Carson has been absolutely silent on this, which I take, my choice, to mean they were settled, which likely means some truth to the claims. Maybe we ask Carson, “Was a sponge left in a patient as a result of one of your surgeries?”


29 posted on 10/12/2015 6:59:36 AM PDT by Reno89519 (American Lives Matter! US Citizen, Veteran, Conservative, Republican. I vote. Trump 2016.)
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To: Reno89519
Carson's getting under the skin of smug liberals who haven't questioned their own PC beliefs in 30 years. For Carson it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Citizens are loving it because we're not married to out of date ideas from times past like members of the liberal establishment.

It's fun watching Carson...Did you see him on Face the Nation when he turns to the idiot liberal and says something like, “you're trying NOT to understand’... Which is how all of us have to start talking to these people - these liberals - who have memorized a mantra - and doctrine - and haven't rethought one position in the last 30 years...

It's almost too easy.

30 posted on 10/12/2015 7:04:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: rootin tootin

Carson is not my top choice, but (1) I have no interest in his handful of malpractice lawsuits, not when that is normal with our out of control medical tort system; (2) I am not particularly worried about his lack of political experience or his occasional unpolished responses.

Carson has run surgical teams and a medical department at Johns Hopkins. He does not have a reputation for micromanaging his anesthesiologists or all of his nurses, just for delegating those responsibilities and paying attention to his part of the job. If elected (which I consider unlikely), I would expect him to handle the White House similarly, delegating a significant part of the job to his cabinet.

I prefer Cruz or Trump, or especially Cruz/Trump, but Carson would be a good president overall. Dr. Ben Carson would be much better than Jeb “Act of Love” Bush, Chris Christie, or Marco “Gang of Eight Amnesty Traitors” Rubio, or Hillary, Sanders, and O’Malley.


31 posted on 10/12/2015 7:42:57 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: rootin tootin

Carson’s a nice guy for sure. And his rags to upper middle class life is real and inspiring. But there’s a ton of nice guys who’ve got great rags to upper middle class stories, but that alone doesn’t qualify them to be President.

I like Carson, but he by no means is Presidential material. And yes, if he wasn’t black, he’d have never been in contention. I really hope that we’ve learned something about picking Presidents primarily based on skin color. It doesn’t really work out too well.


32 posted on 10/12/2015 8:44:15 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Reno89519

It’s not usually the primary surgeon’s job to clean up and close. Someone is responsible for keeping track of everything used to ensure it comes out. Ultimately the primary surgeon will be named but it doesn’t mean it was he who forgot the sponge should it turn out to be true.

As for Trump’s bankruptcy’s, when you listen to him it does sound like they were calculated. Especially when he touts how smart he was getting out of AC and leaving the investors holding the bag. I’m sure if we asked the investors they would say he was selling a rosy picture on the AC properties right up till the time he pulled the plug. He masterfully took advantage of the current rules to HIS benefit.


33 posted on 10/12/2015 9:57:23 AM PDT by Edison (I don't know what irks me more, the lying or the incompetence.)
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To: rootin tootin

I don’t eat my own. I like Trump, Cruz, Jindal, Santorum, and Carson. Anyone of them is fine with me. I found Carson’s press club appearance to be good. I don’t support rinos.


34 posted on 10/12/2015 11:09:34 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: rootin tootin

Ben Carson’s a threat to every lie democrats hold dear...

... and they’ve just figured that out?


35 posted on 10/12/2015 11:13:00 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: Reno89519

Ben Carson’s a threat to every lie democrats hold dear...

... and they’ve just figured that out?

They are soooooo much dumber than we thought.


36 posted on 10/12/2015 11:14:06 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want gun legislation? Fine. Pass a Bill outlawing 'gun free' zones.)
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To: Reno89519
my choice, to mean they were settled, which likely means some truth to the claims.

So anybody who sued Trump ever, and he settled, well, then the claim must have been true. Or "some" truth. Wrong!

Maybe we ask Carson, “Was a sponge left in a patient as a result of one of your surgeries?”

Trump is correct when he tells folks to go the hell for asking stupid questions. Carson would likewise be correct if he told someone to go to hell for this type of question.

Again, I'm not even a Carson supporter. I'm with Cruz and then Trump as another decent choice.

But I stand by what I said. The Enquirer article and its implications are yellow journalism. There are enough legitimate reasons to not make Carson my first choice.

37 posted on 10/12/2015 11:16:46 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: rootin tootin; Reno89519; 9YearLurker; piasa; MNJohnnie; Larry Lucido; Edison
Dr. Carson is by far, the most highly educated man of all the Republican candidates and the Left is out to destroy him. He is the stellar success story of an American black ghetto kid, complete with the single, working Mom.

Just imagine, were Dr Carson to actually rise to the office of President of the United States, too? Oh NO! That can't happen! That's reserved for their Marxist-Moslem and all his faults and far Left policies that have kept blacks on the poverty plantation!

To his credit, Carson is not afraid of the MSM. He answers all of their questions in his soft spoken manner and he answers questions straight forwardly without filters, thinking the idiot journalist/reporter will take his answers at face value like a normal human being, but of course that's rarely, if ever the case.

You'd think by now that MSM would catch-on and realize that Dr.Carson only benefits every time MSM tries to turn his sensible answers into media sensations, but alas! they haven't thus far.

The most recent polls show Carson with the highest approval rating and the lowest negative.

Even Donald Trump has gone from the one attack on Carson to defending him.

If Carson has one flaw in his speaking, it is his habit of saying "you know." I noticed that yesterday while watching a replay of his appearance before the press gathering luncheon in Washington, D.C. televised on C-SPAN. I can't recall the name of that weekly event.


38 posted on 10/12/2015 12:16:07 PM PDT by onyx ( PLEASE HELP COMPLETE THIS FReepathon THIS MONTH!)
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plus, he is sort of lazy........ he likes to walk the stage but once in a while, he just leisurely rests and literally leans against the podium where the teleprompters aren’t

it is the height of nonchalance /s


39 posted on 10/12/2015 12:21:22 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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