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Ben Carson Friday told CNN that its story questioning his accounts of violence as a youth as "a bunch of lies" and a "pathetic" attempt to distract him and the public from the real issues that are important. -snip- He also complained that he is being vetted in a way that President Barack Obama and presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are not. "What you all did with President Obama doesn't even come close to what you guys are trying to do in my case," he told her. "You're going to keep going back, trying to find, he said this 12...

Newly minted Republican presidential front-runner late Wednesday night went online to further a narrative that he has been using for weeks on the campaign trail, describing a childhood filled with homelessness, hunger and hard times. The retired surgeon used his Facebook page sometime after 11 p.m. to post a rambling defense of his lack of political experience, his pride at his years as a neurosurgeon, and a hard-luck boyhood in which he says he witnessed segregation first-hand. 'I grew up poor. I know what it is like to be homeless and hungry. I know the pain of poverty... I know...

Ben Carson insists that he was an angry young man who threw rocks at cars, tried to knife a friend, and almost whacked his mother on the head with a hammer. "Those claims are absolutely true. You know, I am a hundred percent sure that they're true," Carson told Fox News on Thursday, after CNN ran a story casting doubt on Carson's tale of youthful misdeeds. Carson called the CNN report "simply an attempt to smear and to deflect the argument to something else." In a report dubbed "a tale of two Ben Carsons," CNN reported on Thursday that two...

Ben Carson said Thursday that the names of two people he has previously identified as victims of his childhood violence are "fictitious." "I don't like to generally bring them in, the names I used for instance are fictitious names because I don't want to bring people into something like this because I know what you guys do to their lives‎," Carson told reporters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Ben Carson's career in politics 13 photos: Ben Carson's career in politics Carson's comments follow a CNN investigation published earlier Thursday that probed his descriptions of his violent past. He has said he...

In 2008, a mere month prior to Election Day, CNN investigative report Drew Griffin uncovered a game-changer: then-candidate Barack Obama had lied about his adult relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers. Watch the video. Watch CNN's Anderson Cooper drop it as a nothingburger. Neither CNN nor the rest of the DC Media would ever touch the subject again. Fast-forward eight years. In what is obviously a racially-motivated effort to disqualify a free-thinking black man, CNN is pouring a half-dozen investigative reporters into Detroit with the goal of destroying Carson's rise to power. This is part of the CNN's DNA. Going back...

Yes, you read the headline correctly: mild-mannered presidential candidate Ben Carson got very combative and angry during an interview with CNN's Alisyn Camerota. The confrontation began when Camerota played a clip of Carson joking that "many" Americans were stupid, and asked who he thought were stupid. Carson responded that those who wanted to keep Americans dependent on federal programs were the "stupid" ones as far as he was concerned. "So, just to be clear, people who support food stamps or Medicaid or welfare..." "I didn't say that, now you're trying to put words into my mouth," Carson cut in. "Why...

...host Jake Tapper continued to question Carson on his view of a Muslim being president of the United States. At the end of the video someone can be heard off camera saying, “This interview is over.”

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is standing by his view that a Muslim should not be president of the United States, telling The Hill in an interview on Sunday that whoever takes the White House should be “sworn in on a stack of Bibles, not a Koran.” This is one of those wonderful moments when the too-cute-by-half media cynically sets up a gotcha journalism moment to trip up the GOP candidates in order to knock them down. It’s a media art form at this point. Not. this. time. This time it backfired, and beautifully. Because finally, we are having a...

Ben Carson appeared with Sean Hannity tonight to clarify what he meant when he said “I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation.”On Meet the Press yesterday, Carson said that he doesn’t believe Muslims should be president because their faith does not align with the Constitution. He was criticized left and right, but his campaign defended the remarks and insisted the people are with them on this.On Hannity tonight, Carson said that “we do not put people at the leadership of our country whose faith might interfere with them carrying out the duties...

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said he would not support a Muslim as President of the United States. Responding to a question on "Meet the Press," the retired neurosurgeon said, "I would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that." He also said that Islam, as a religion, is incompatible with the Constitution. Carson, who is near the top of several early presidential polls, said a president's faith should matter depending on what that faith is. "If it's inconsistent with the values and principles of America, then of...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2004 Holy Land Foundation terror-funding case, announced on Sunday the group will be calling on Dr. Ben Carson to drop out of the race for the Republican Party presidential nomination over Carson’s statement he would not support having a Muslim as U.S. president. Carson made his statement in an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning, explaining he does not believe the values of Islam are consistent with the Constitution of the United States. CAIR made the announcement in a press release (excerpted below) sent out Sunday afternoon...

Chris Wallace grilled Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on “Fox News Sunday” over a recent op-ed the former neurosurgeon wrote in The Jerusalem Post, which called Obama the “Divider in Chief” and accused the president of using “anti-Semitic themes” in a recent speech.“Shockingly, his diatribe also was replete with coded innuendos employing standard anti-Semitic themes involving implied disloyalty and nefarious influences related to money and power,” Carson wrote, referencing Obama’s speech at American University where he said “it’s those hardliners chanting ‘Death to America’ who have been most opposed to the deal. They’re making common cause with the Republican caucus.”“Question,...

INCREDIBLE: DR. BEN CARSON STOPS BY "THE VIEW" AND DEMOLISHES LIBERALISM

On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Dr. Ben Carson utterly leveled Jesse Jackson's assertion that race plays a part in shooting incidents between police and the black community.