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“......So why is this happening?

Because the left has seen recent polls showing that Ben Carson has not only the highest ratings among current candidates on the question of honesty and trustworthiness but perhaps the highest ratings ever for any presidential candidate. While Carson finds more than 60 percent of voters believing him to be honest, the opposite is true for both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, each of whom have about 60 percent saying they are not honest and trustworthy.

That’s why Hillary-loving Politico and Donald Trump - who tweeted out another typical Trump whopper - “WOW, one of many lies by Ben Carson! Big story” - are on the rampage. Actually, it’s no story at all. But you attack a candidate where he is strong, and that’s what Trump and the media - who seem to take their vetting responsibility much more enthusiastically when it comes to Republicans - are doing by questioning Dr. Carson’s honesty.

Carson is on a knife edge here and much depends on his behavior as well as to whether the media can actually prove a lie; Carson insists there is no lie to find and that “lying is a grave sin.” His press conference performance was fairly solid, righteous indignation just reaching the edge of acceptability, the next step beyond which would be politically comparable to Howard Dean’s campaign-ending scream; that would suit the liberal media just as well.

If no actual fabrications are unearthed - Politico’s overreach (and Donald Trump’s typically outrageous and mean-spirited recasting and exaggeration of Dr. Carson’s childhood story) could make Carson the sympathetic victim. Indeed, Carson predicted that very thing on Friday.”.....

http://spectator.org/articles/64592/politico%E2%80%99s-friday-fabrications