Posted on 11/07/2015 2:13:20 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
As Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defends his past descriptions of receiving a scholarship offer for the US Military Academy at West Point, new doubts have been on his past, including a story of how he sheltered white classmates during Detroit race riots. Carson blasted the media on Friday after several reports questioned the validity of his book, Gifted Hands, but the presidential hopeful told the press that they were being unfair and he felt like the victim of a ‘witch hunt’.
Questions about Carson's assertions about his personal history, including his claim that he was a troubled youth beset at times by violent behavior, and his inaccurate pronouncements about historical events have gained attention as he has risen to the top of some national polls.
'I think what it shows, and these kinds of things show, is there is a desperation on behalf of some to try to find a way to tarnish me,' Carson said no Friday night during a news conference outside West Palm Beach. 'Because they have been looking through everything,' he added. 'They have been talking to everyone I have ever known and everybody I have ever seen. There has got to be a scandal.'
He told reporters, 'My job is to call you out when you're unfair, and I'm going to continue to do that.'
The most recent story under question is a harrowing tale he told last month of protecting his white high school classmates the day after Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968. Violent race riots hit the neurosurgeon-turned-politician’s predominantly black Southwestern High School in Detroit. Carson, who was a junior lab assistant with a key to the school’s biology lab, sheltered his frightened friends from violence by bringing them into the workroom, he told the Wall Street Journal.
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He ‘chose’ to run for the presidency.
If he didn’t know how much scrutiny that would bring, that is HIS fault — especially after he became an R just last year.
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The *moral equivalency* that they never vetted Obama or Clinton or whichever D is no defense.
WE know how they are. They have taken down some D’s in the past, but not many. They always come after the front-runner R. Always. And guess who they were proclaiming as the new front-runner this week.
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I concur with your assessment of the poster of this question.
“but the one thing that niggles in the back of my head is that Trump, just before he kicked off, had a substantial conversation with Bill Clinton.”
I like Clinton, but that conversation didn’t sound right to me either. And I didn’t like Trump’s answer when he was called out on it. It sticks in the back of my mind too.
My question is, who told the media they had that conversation?
We’ll see.
Nothing pisses of a leftist more than inconvenient truths that hamper their Forward! progress into the Right.
Too many on FR are ignoring the GOP-e scribblers who are suddenly wanting "conservatives" to rally around Ben Carson, essentially "because the MSM is mean to him." Well, the MSM is mean to a lot of people, but somehow, pundits in outfits like the National Review couldn't put their dislike of Donald Trump aside when the MSM was mean to him. I guess Donald Trump just isn't kindly and soft-spoken enough.
It seems like yet another curious incident of the dog in the night-time, but in this case, the dog didn't bark before, but he's barking now.
Mr. niteowl77
“I like Clinton, “
you wanna run that by us again?
I’m having doubts it was about a YouTube video...
“The BlackFemaleArmyCaptain is all in on high tech lynching.”
Carson should know a Republican is going to get a lot of scrutiny from the press. He should be very careful on what he puts in his book. Remember he was just on a book tour so this is relevant. Don’t blame her.
Would you vote for a candidate who promised a massive raise in the taxes you pay?
Yes, I do. I think he was a decent President. I would take him over Obama and his wife any day of the week.
You have a problem with that?
Yea. Me and pretty much every conservative alive.
I disagree. I believe he was offered a scholarship (that’s what it was called even though you had to serve 4 years in the military) Other people have found flyers back then where it was called a full scholarship. You only had to know someone who could help get you in and have good grades, good SAT scores, etc.
Carson was a highly intelligent black man with high ROTC marks and high academic grades. Like my daughter, Carson didn’t want to serve in the military. I read somewhere that Seventh Day Adventists were often conscientious objectors. I don’t know. This may have been his real reason for turning it down. I’m sure if he had pursued it, he could have gotten into West Point.
I don’t care what you think.
Move along.
Excellent post!
Who cares what a Clinton supporter thinks?
Who cares what a fool thinks.
Notice how this story includes a reference to the totally debunked story from yesterday.
I believe I just pointed that out.
“I like Clinton,”
...oh boy...
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