"Trying to hit my mom in the head with a hammer? That was around the same time as the stabbing incident."
Posted on 11/06/2015 5:35:33 AM PST by jimbo123
It was the 1960s. Ben Carson, 14-year-old ninth grader, was growing up rough in Detroit. And, one fateful day, the future neurosurgeon and Republican presidential contender got very, very angry.
The argument, like many among teenagers, was about nothing: what radio station to listen to. Carson's friend Bob dared turn the dial on the transistor radio.
"You call that music?" Bob said.
"It's better than what you like!" Carson yelled back, grabbing for the dial.
That could have been it - good friends have argued about greater things and quickly made up. But Carson found himself consumed by rage.
"In that instant blind anger - pathological anger - took possession of me," he wrote in "Gifted Hands," his 1990 biography. "Grabbing the camping knife I carried in my back pocket, I snapped it open and lunged for the boy who had been my friend. With all the power of my young muscles, I thrust the knife toward his belly. The knife hit his big, heavy ROTC buckle with such force that the blade snapped and dropped to the ground."
His friend - and his own future - saved by a belt buckle, Carson said the incident led him to get his temper under control with the help of god.
"I stared at the broken blade and went weak,†Carson wrote. "I had almost killed him. I had almost killed my friend."
The knife story - along with tales of how Carson punched someone, threw rocks and tried to hit his mother with a hammer - are essential stops on Carson's road to redemption that makes him such an appealing candidate to some. The knife even made its way into a TV movie about Carson. But now CNN, which mounted an investigation of the story, claims it cannot find Carson's purported
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"Trying to hit my mom in the head with a hammer? That was around the same time as the stabbing incident."
It's the Washington Post, so it's "god", not "God".
Truferism 2016?
Obama’s composite ‘girlfriend’ could not be reached for comment.
Don’t be a friendly fire 4$$hole.
Carson expressed a belief about pyramids and their purpose. Stories in the Bible about building storehouses [ either Joseph or Moses or whoever] by Jewish slave labor (Bible doesn’t describe the shape) drove Carson to make those remarks.
You *really* think he’s an idiot? DO you? You may have a different favorite in this race, but please point your derision at those who DESERVE IT.
Let’s focus on beating the DEMOCRATS - godless, globalists, elitists.
SHALL WE?
Black Republicans aren’t givin the fawning media love obama got.
Frank
Glad to see the Post is working as hard at vetting Carson’s violence claims as it did at debunking Hillary’s Benghazi whoppers or Obama’s shadowy past.
And as a side note, isn’t it common practice to capitalize “God” when referring to the Christian diety? Or does that only apply to allah these days?
Muslim Jihadis are flooding the west preparing for war.
Ben Carson is for giving illegals amnesty.
Absolutely he is an idiot.
I find it the height of hypocrisy that the mainstream media investigates the life story of this accomplished Black man running for president while back in 2008 they ignored the very public associations of another Black man (e.g. his “church” pastor) and didn’t do detailed research (if any) into the origns of one Barack Hussein Obama!
Pathetic when “Conservatives†adopt the tactics of the Clinton News Network in an infantile smear attempt.
What Carson said was... No, I am not going to give you there names, if they wish to step forward fine but I am not going to invade their privacy
That is the act of a decent human being not a pandering political hack who doesn’t want to inject the media circus into these people lives without their permission.
Rather then pathetically flail around daily for some loser attack line, why don’t you try making a case FOR you candidate instead for a change?
All over a radio station...
Imagine what would happen with his finger on The Button....
When you are willing to lie because a candidate is “not your guy” you destroy your credibility.
Those are the tactics of the Left, not Conservatives
http://www.ontheissues.org/Ben_Carson.htm#Immigration
Pathetic when “Conservatives†adopt the tactics of the Clinton News Network in an infantile smear attempt.
What Carson said was... No, I am not going to give you there names, if they wish to step forward fine but I am not going to invade their privacy
That is the act of a decent human being not a pandering political hack who doesn’t want to inject the media circus into these people lives without their permission.
Rather then pathetically flail around daily for some loser attack line, why don’t you try making a case FOR you candidate instead for a change?
OVer the last few weeks, we have heard from more people who “knew” Ben Carson, than we have heard from people who knew Obama.
Suddenly, the media cares about the past of a black man who is running for president. Oh wait, he is a successful Republican who has done something in the private sector and isn’t a “community organizer”.
Since Carson has no other personal faults, this is a form of ‘smear-master kung-fu’.
When you can’t smear someone for being more sleazy than he seems, then you can smear him as being even more boring than he claims. “He’s simply too mild and must therefore being bragging about how mean and passionate he once was. He must be a wimpy braggart.”
Very clever, IMO. Sleazy as the day is long.
The MSM will never support a GOP candidate for President. They were apoplectic when Reagan ran and defeated them, and this will not change.
The attacks on Carson will only increase if he actually became the nominee. I’m not sure that he could weather them.
Only in America: Black guy gets dissed by Post for not being violent enough in his youth.
"You did not either, wussy-boy! Tan Man! Oreo!" </off Stump>
Dr. Carson is pathetic about stopping the invasion of the US. So let's not forget he had that disqualifier before nomination season even began. Getting Dr. Carson out of the race is a big part of winning.
So, after the second debate, they pump his poll numbers up and hype them like Carter’s Little Liver Pills and now everybody and their media brother are up to tear him down.
I wouldn’t vote for him because Cruz is my candidate, but seeing their efforts to take out Trump in a week or two didn’t work, they’re off to the races - now with New Rubio ingredient! is frustrating. BUT! They just can’t help themselves. They’re simultaneously pumping him up whilst nipping at his heels. It is either this dichotomy or other intrigue is afoot, with the foot print being Jeb Bush’s campaign and PAC.
It is very illuminating to think back on all the bleating by the left on inclusion, diversity, richness, tolerance and a broad palette of races and religions. A BLACK President who made race-relations all better! A post-racial America!
Yet when their opposition puts forth the most diverse slate of candidates ever assembled (white, black, Asian-Indian decent, Cuban decent, Hispanic decent, female, and even the calorically-challenged - all topped off by a village idiot and a closeted homosexual, the best the left side can offer is an old white woman (who might be a lesbian) and an old white man. Great “money where your double speaking mouth is” guys. Well, they did say this was going to be the most transparent government system ever. Seems to me they think “transparency” is the equivalent of hypocrisy.
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