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Ben Carson Just Admitted to a Serious Lie
Fortune ^ | November 6, 2015 | Ben Geier

Posted on 11/06/2015 11:07:27 AM PST by detective

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To: detective

So, it’s not racist to attack a black Republican, but hands off of black Democrats? Carson should hit back at the racist media and play the race card.


41 posted on 11/06/2015 11:30:41 AM PST by CASchack
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To: detective
Wow.
Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain all over again.

A Conservative American with black skin gets traction, and the Media puts on the full-court press to destroy him (or her).
Kind of weird. And very sick.

42 posted on 11/06/2015 11:30:43 AM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: detective

I understand COMPLETELY: I work for the federal government in Washington, DC, probably the most pc place on the face of the globe, BUT...

Here on this site, I humbly recommend that we not knuckle under and jump through liberal hoops at their command.


43 posted on 11/06/2015 11:30:52 AM PST by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: Blueflag
"What's special about #1"

In reply #1 I had made the same points as the article you cited.

I was saying I agree with the article.

44 posted on 11/06/2015 11:32:09 AM PST by detective
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To: euram

And I see folks are still looking for plaster saints, even if it’s plaster colored with asphalt....


45 posted on 11/06/2015 11:32:11 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective

I truly hope that the rest of the GOP field comes out in support of Carson on this, and excoriate Politico and all the MSM media, for today it’s Carson, tomorrow it’ll be one of them.

Every single GOP candidate should view the media as enemy number one, worse than Clinton. They need to eviscerate them more fiercely than their worst enemy, and they need to do so in their faces.


46 posted on 11/06/2015 11:33:05 AM PST by aquila48
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To: aquila48

It’s going to blow back on the liberal MSM.


47 posted on 11/06/2015 11:35:48 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective

no surprise this hack believes it:

http://fortune.com/author/ben-geier/

msm sux


48 posted on 11/06/2015 11:35:48 AM PST by Baladas
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To: euram
see all the Carson white guilters are still in denial.

Ya know what?

I have had enough of this!

You are a Trumper? Correct? Well I am a Cruz supporter and have been receiving the same flak from the Trumpers since his emotional laden personality campaign began. I say that because I don't see much thinking going on here and this is why I am not surprised by the constant "harpy" like behavior.

I also find it amusing that self proclaimed conservatives don't seem to have any analytical skills and are running wild on emotional rhetoric.

Do yourself a favor, and continue to back your guy, but stop the useless unprovoked insults.

I know that I for one will appreciate it.

49 posted on 11/06/2015 11:36:55 AM PST by Cold Heat
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To: detective

oops! Amen!


50 posted on 11/06/2015 11:37:24 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: stocksthatgoup

wait a second does this have anything to with Benghazi and people being left to die? Hummm, didn’t think so.


51 posted on 11/06/2015 11:38:59 AM PST by WHBates
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To: Obadiah

If Trump and Cruz really want to look good in this, they’ll defend Dr. Ben here.


52 posted on 11/06/2015 11:39:38 AM PST by libstripper
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To: detective

Well I hate to tell you that Carson was still telling this story on his FaceBook page a few months ago.

I would say that what Carson has done over time is embellish a story to the point that most people believe he actually applied for and received admission to West Point. However it has become a fabrication over time due to Carson’s failure to clarify the facts right away.


53 posted on 11/06/2015 11:40:03 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: detective

His book says that:
1. He was offered a scholarship
2. He only applied to one school, which was not West Point

These two are not contradictory - he received a verbal/casual offer from a General. He knew it wasn’t a formal offer as he stated he only applied to one school (i.e. not West Point).


54 posted on 11/06/2015 11:40:22 AM PST by impimp
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To: Cold Heat

The differences between the top few GOP hopefuls and anything on the Democrat side are so vast as to make their own differences look quite tiny.

None of the GOP figures are envisioning ruling as a despot, the way Obama has been doing, pushing past traditional conservative Constitutional boundaries just because nobody will call him or her on it. The GOP side’s policy preferences should be viewed in that perspective, IMHO. When Bernie or Hillary say they want something, on the other hand, you can count on their being Obama II to get it.


55 posted on 11/06/2015 11:41:58 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective

The piling on starts. Wait till Rush plays the clips on Monday from the MSM news programs tonight.


56 posted on 11/06/2015 11:42:43 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: detective
This appears that Carson understood at the time it was a scholarship. West Point as explained by Rush is all paid once you are accepted. Everyone one who attends gets a "scholarship". This seems a put-up job by the media.

I am concerned about Carson's associations with a buddy of Farrakhan as his campaign manager, and the odd stuff about the pyramids which seems to go beyond basic tenants of evangelical Christianity to the realm of a mythology. Also, his Immigration Stance.

Lets move on beyond this West Point story, and consider the source for what it is. Anyone who takes "Politico" seriously is naive.
57 posted on 11/06/2015 11:42:49 AM PST by BigEdLB (Congress will have blood on their hands if anything happens because of the Iran appeasement)
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To: detective

So Fortune magazine is so racist that they have joined the dregs of humanity at Politico in the electronic lynching of the only Black man in the race. That he is an exemplary man makes this racist attack even more shameful.


58 posted on 11/06/2015 11:42:49 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: JohnBrowdie

“there is no such thing as a scholarship to west point. not only is tuition free, if you manage to get nominated and admitted, they pay you to attend.”

I went to a military grad school for free. I told my civilian friends I got a tuition free scholarship. Maybe not exactly true but stated in a way a civilian could understand.


59 posted on 11/06/2015 11:43:09 AM PST by Bruce Kurtz
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Carson was not careful and a misleading interpretation took off. But once we dig to the facts, everybody knows what he intended (he was personally assured of eligibility based on the known facts) and that it would have been a reasonable way to put it in an environment where everything is not being parsed to death by eternally hostile agents. This is not a stark contradiction that is trying to hide behind a game like “what is is.”


60 posted on 11/06/2015 11:46:05 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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