Posted on 11/06/2015 11:58:15 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
RedState's own Leon Wolf did a great job exposing the Politico story about Ben Carson and West Point as a lie. Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel is also churning out great information on Twitter regarding the story.
I want to focus on what Donald Trump is doing with the story, however.
Yesterday, November 5, Donald Trump had this to say about Politico:
Look, Politico is so dishonest in so many different things. This Politico website or whatever the hell they call it, I mean, they write about me. We don't deal with them anymore because the level of dishonesty is incredible.
Today, November 6, Donald Trump is spreading the false Politico story about Ben Carson. Below is one of the several Trump Tweets citing the Politico piece.
What an incredible turnaround. It appears Trump is willing to do whatever it takes to destroy Carson, who is poised to disrupt his position as GOP frontrunner.
Yesterday, Trump seized on the silly CNN investigation of Carson's childhood. According to Trump, Carson's childhood might be a "total fabrication.?
Ironically, much of Trump's support is due to the perception that he tells the truth and shuns the mainstream media. It is now clear that he will abandon that notion when it suits him politically.
Everybody knows about it, but they know that it's not very important and also you run into trouble if you support the Keystone Pipeline.
Ben Carson is an honorable man that understands that it is supposed to be for,
Carson supports TPP "with reservations," one day after it gets published, and also is an amnesty pimp.
This was taken from the West Point explanation of what a candidate receives.
Will you please STFU, your brother received a full scholarship, West Point says so, just because you think you know all things, you don't.
I do think Cruz will cruise on by. Time will tell.
We have much to be concerned about in the meantime.
Pyramids are solid rock, except for a few narrow passages. They are not buildings.
Yes, 95% of Egyptologists disagree with Gentle Ben’s Pyramid as grain silo’s theory. Was on Fox News last night, and Fox typically shills for Carson, as they hate Trump and want him brought down. That’s 95% of the experts who think the Pyramids were for dead Pharoah and Family bodies only, not for grain. And Joseph didn’t build them either.
But Cold Heat disagrees. His turn to present his case. Oh, and Carson didn’t say some obscure grain silos in outlying areas shaped like steppe pyramids or regular pyramids. He said the Pyramids. Period. Where dead Pharoahs hung out while trying to ignore all the piles of grain surrounding their mummy cases.
Good Morning Cold. Hope you got some sleep.
Politico hit piece aside, still doesn’t explain the inconsistencies that still remain in Carson’s story, like how he was offered a scholarship to a school that doesn’t use them by a general who would have known this, or why Carson equivocated on Hannity about whether he had actually met Westmoreland.
Yes, 95% of Egyptologists disagree with Gentle Ben’s Pyramid as grain silo’s theory. Was on Fox News last night, and Fox typically shills for Carson, as they hate Trump and want him brought down. That’s 95% of the experts who think the Pyramids were for dead Pharoah and Family bodies only, not for grain. And Joseph didn’t build them either.
But Cold Heat disagrees. His turn to present his case. Oh, and Carson didn’t say some obscure grain silos in outlying areas shaped like steppe pyramids or regular pyramids. He said the Pyramids. Period. Where dead Pharoahs hung out while trying to ignore all the piles of grain surrounding their mummy cases.
Good Morning Cold. Hope you got some sleep.
“Up to today, while I could not support Trump, I did not dislike him.”
You must be unable to remember your previous posts or that we can easily view them.
There is no such thing as a “humble” neurosurgeon.
“CW has unhinged anger towards Trump because he exposed Walker as a weak candidate and it led to him dropping out of the race. When Walker was in the process of sinking, she was lashing out in all directions, and now Trump is the singular focus of her hate and bile.”
Ditto. Right you are, field.
This will NOT sway me to support Carson. He has lots more to answer for.
Yep. His popularity is that he is the anti-trump. Flashes of anger will not work to his benefit. The more he is probed the more he will be exposed.
You have a point... but then again, as far as this story is concerned, so does Red State
I see him more of the embodiment of MLK’s dream. I think he is trying to tell his story in a nutshell yet he is being caught up in the details. This was never an issue for our current Won. Remember his girlfriend who was only a copulation.
I don’t see him that way, but you are free to have your opinion.
Think most of his past is either made up or exaggerated to the point of being made up. Just a gut feeling.
He’s getting extremely confrontational now which is out of character.
I meant to say composite not copulation. OK, coffee time!
Three days ago, on Wednesday, A Quinnipiac poll came out showing Carson beating Hillary by 10 in the general. THE NEXT DAY, in a testimony to the MSM's ability to lap up talking points from Democrat campaigns, every network was wall-to-wall anti-Carson stories including the Politico fiction. The whole thing is an obvious hit job from Hillary's flying monkeys in the media.
As I said, where I come from, that’s not “involvement.”
That he made all kinds of money making speeches and writing books only makes my point stronger. He gives speeches for any group that gives money to the Washington Speaker’ Bureau. In fact, it’s quite possible, if all appearances were booked through the bureau, that he never even received a check from Mannatech, but rather from the bureau, less their fee.
By “involved,” I mean something greater than the de minimis (it’s Latin, but don’t be afraid of it) relationship of giving paid speeches.
I’ll show you “involved”:
1. I own a business. Up until July, I ran it day to day. I was intimately, substantively involved. Then I became disabled in July. Now, my wife, who had de minimis involvement till then, had to become substantively involved now that I can no longer run the business day to fay.
2. My business cooperates with a start-up. I helped start the start-up assisted in designing its services and products, and have been involved with the management decisions of the start-up. I also own shares. I am involved with that start-up business.
3. The start-up owns a piece of another corporation, and the two have interlocking boards of directors. I have been involved with the other corporation, but not very heavily. I’m partly involved with them.
4. I own shares in another start-up. Sadly, it hasn’t gone anywhere. Although I am a shareholder of record, I currently have no involvement, though I did in the past.
5. I own shares in another start-up. I am vaguely aware of what they do. I knew a founder through our common Alma mater. I have no role with the company other than I gave them a bunch of money and they gave me some stock certificates. I have no involvement with the company.
6. I own some shares in a publicly-traded company. I’m not a major shareholder, an employee, a member of the board, I know no one who runs or works for the company. I’m not involved.
7. I own shares in a mutual fund. It owns shares in an ever-changing mix of companies. I’m not in any way related to the mutual fund or any of the companies it owns (I think, I can’t even name the companies in which it owns shares). I’m not a director or an employee or a major shareholder. It’s in my portfolio. I don’t even know the name of the mutual fund off the top of my head. I’m unrelated. Yet, I own shares.
“Had he accepted, a form would have been filled out in his name and signed by the commandant of the regional ROTC and sent to WP admissions’”
Except for Carson never did fill it out, and there is no proof his ROTC Commandant ever sent anything in for him as he never filled out an application form for his Commandant to sign and send to West Point. It never happened. So how could Carson refuse an offer that was never made for an application that was never filled out by him or sent in by anyone. Hard to refuse an offer that never existed. And who gave him the offer? And who did Carson give his refusal to?
Round three Cold, lol. You just don’t come up with a plausible (emphasis on plausible) explanation for this. And Carson used the word “offer” in his autobiography, on his own Facebook page, and said it on PBS in his interview on the Charlie Rose show. He said “offer.” We all know what an offer means from West Point, and it’s not some nebulous thing. It’ something concrete.
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