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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I called it a trial. I meant hearing, but it must have seemed like a trial to Clarence Thomas. I think Clarence Thomas is one of the most underrated justices around. I was disgusted when Obama implied that Thomas wasn’t smart. The left still demonizes him. They can’t stand Thomas or what he stands for.
You have a problem with that?"
I never saw a liberal who was a decent anything, much less president.
“Yea. Me and pretty much every conservative alive.”
So Sarah Palin, Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh are not Conservatives? You make me laugh.
“Blessed is me when people reproach me, persecute me, and say all kinds of evil against me falsely, for My sake.”
Matthew 5:11
:)
Just like a phony liberal that won’t/can’t answer direct questions aren’t you? How in the heck have you ever lasted here on FR, claiming Bill Clinton was a “decent” president? How about Hillary? Do you like her also? Was she ‘Decent’ to? What has she done that impresses your easily fooled mind?
“The BlackFemaleArmyCaptain is all in on high tech lynchingâ€
“-—Racist much, you ignorant a$$wipe”
That remark is way over the top. You are looking to be the a$$hole with such remarks.
They all think Bill Clinton is a decent president and like him?
When did THAT happen?
Don’t fall for the Left’s disinformation campaign and demand perfection. No such person exists outside Jesus.
Posting Scripture doesn’t change the fact that you have an attitude problem and that you think a pro-babykilling sleaze was a decent president.
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you”
Matthew 5:44
Oh, don’t start with me.
If you don’t want comments don’t post.
WTH is wrong with you anyway. One of the biggest Trump cheerleaders saying you like Clinton ?!? That association will go a long way to help the cause.
Geez, with friends like these...
The new signups sure do come with a full dose of attitude these days.
Didn’tyou get the memo?
Decent presidents build Gorellick walls and help ensure that 3000 Americans die.
Who wouldn’t like a man that sent Reno to BBQ a bunch of religious types?
This id Free Republic! Don’t we support good man like that?
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
Luke 23:34
Its what I have said for Y E A R S
We are lousy with liberals. If openly declaring you like Clinton and consider him a decent president isn’t proof I don’t know WTF is.
“When did THAT happen?”
The election is a long way off and the trolls are outing themselves way too soon. They’re not as good as they use to be :)
Nothing new. I’ve seen Trump supporters advocate for Obamacare and a “good” universal healthcare system. One of them said abortion isn’t a big deal to him.
Proverbs 23:9...
Do not speak to fools, for they will scorn your prudent words.
Really something isn’t it? Well, maybe bfac likes the same kind of cigars that Billy Boy rammed into Monica Lewinsky! That might explain the attitude. Or maybe the attitude is just something else huh?
That wasnt even trolling. That was mindeless idiocy.
Good God I am so thankful Fallout 4 is out Tuesday. This madness is not worth the effort.
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