Posted on 11/13/2015 10:13:49 AM PST by GIdget2004
Carson on Friday made clear to reporters he would not stoop to Trump's level, while subtly condemning his words.
"Now that he's completed his gratuitous attack, why don't we press on and deal with the real issues," Carson told reporters in South Carolina before they could ask questions. "That's what the people of America are concerned about, not so much politics as usual, politics of personal destruction -- that's what the American people are sick and tired of."
Trump has sharpened his criticism of Carson, who he once said he would only attack if provoked, as the retired neurosurgeon rose in the polls. Earlier on Thursday, in an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett, Trump likened Carson's self-admitted "pathological" temper during his childhood to that of a child molester.
Carson also dismissed those comments, saying Trump does not understand the meaning of "pathological"
"It's not the kind of dialogue that I would ever engage in and I'm hopeful that his advisers will help him to understand the word pathological and know that that does not connote incurable," Carson said. "It simply describes something that is highly abnormal and something that fortunately I've been able to be delivered from for half a century now."
Carson has blasted the media during the past week for what he sees as biased attacks, objecting to the scrutiny of his history from various outlets, including CNN.
He also objected to a question saying Trump likened him to a child molester, saying that was media spin.
"I don't believe he called me a child molester," Carson said. "I always find it a little amusing what people in the press like to say. 'You compared this and therefore they're the same,' I don't buy all that."
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95 minute tirade?
Hey, CNN, editorialize much??
Ben Carson has lost 5 points in the current Reuters daily polling since the stabbing incident started to get wide exposure. Trump saw that and pounced.
Thanks, Ben. Hopefully, the many Freepers that connected the dots incorrectly will hear Ben's own words.
And Ben continued...On the issues....We should just lunge at the chance to shoot down Russian jets in Syria.
Carson sounds reasonable, but then he says things like our F15s should shoot down Russian jets in the MidEast... after we let the place go to hell.
CNN has gone more to the left than MSNBC and that is something.
My oldest turned 18 yesterday and was flicking through the news channels and said “Dad there is no news as most of this is about their opinions as if they were fact”. How right he is.
Today CNN just talked about a baby being put into a natural couple from a homosexual couple and attacking Trump and Carson.
Carson seems to be at odds with the anti Trump people On FR who whined about Trump comparing him with a child molester
Or better yet we should bend over, grab ankles and start begging in Russian when Putin says so.
Who in their right mind would run for a public office, any public office, and especially the POTUS office and write things about themselves in books knowing that they are out and out lies?
Do you think for one minute the people of the United States wants ANOTHER lying hypocrite in the Rainbow Hut after the crap that has gone on for 8 years?
This election is about immigration and amnesty, one you support, and WE the AMERICAN people have had a gut full of the crap the GOPe the media and the talking heads, and the spineless sissies in the House and Senate are taking this country....so lets talk about YOU being in the mess of all this with YOUR lies YOU wrote about in YOUR books....
When WE the Legal American Voters feel we can come to terms with YOUR lies then maybe we MIGHT think about it....
Maybe he did molest children. Seems an odd comparison to make...
"Hissy Fit".
CNN pretty nearly is having one.
Hey General Bennie, what about that Chinese soldiers in Syria? What say you??
I can imagine Trump calling Carson: “Was that tough enough? I can do more.” Carson: Nah, that will do for now, good work. My turn.”
They speak one right after the other this evening in Florida. Will be interested to hear if they cross paths and talk.
http://www.sunshinesummit.gop/agenda
...and Brutus was an honorable man.
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