Posted on 11/12/2015 6:29:36 PM PST by markomalley
On CNN today, Donald Trump had another moment that is sure to haunt news and social media for days, when he made a comparison between Dr. Ben Carson and child molesters:
He said he's pathological, somebody said he's got pathological disease, other people said he said in the book, I haven't seen it but I know it's in the book that he's got a pathological temper or temperament. That's a big problem because you don't cure that. That's like, you know, I could say, they say you don't cure, as an example, child molester. You don't cure these people. You don't cure a child molester. There's no cure for it. Pathological, there's no cure for that.
Trump added "I'm not saying anything, I'm not saying anything other than pathological is a very serious disease," but he was arguably well past the point of no return by then. Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord was on later to discuss the comment and said the Trump just "reached out for something that he thought was pathological."
Yes, well .. reach better, guy. When a CNBC moderator made a comic book comparison with Trump, the Donald and his fans were outraged. Imagine if that moderator had said this about Trump.
The option they are giving us is that either Trump is too dumb to know comparing pediatric brain surgeon Dr. Carson to a child molester would be outrageous and go viral, or he knew that's exactly what would happen and maliciously made the comparison. That's what we're left with. Dumb or malicious.
Unless you want to chose both.
Hillary will roast Carson and his defeat will be worse than McCain or Dole.
I’m 61 and this is the most entertaining election I’ve ever seen ...and we still have a year left! LOL
His long closing eyes during debate verify your daughter’e experience.
I hope someone asks Carson point blank about this. He seems compelled to be truthful.
Hey man third thread. Hey liberal media ask Carson directly about his so-called ‘disease’ instead of Trump. Maybe they don’t want the answer as of yet. Think about it. ...
Wanna make a bet if Carson gets the nomination that the Dems and Hellary Clinton won’t hesitate to along with the rest of the liberal media who will question Carson about his heath wondering about any chronic disease that he may have? Take that to the bank.
They will demand he release his med records, of course.
Well no one ever accused Trump of being Reagan
Ping, in case you haven’t seen this.
LOL!! The ending especially!
As has been proven over the last seven years.
Makes you wonder how he performed surgery with his eyes closed half the time.
More people having a sexual orgasm over a perceived Trump remark. Carson talked about his pathological anger in, “Gifted Hands”. NO PEDOPHILIA, and Trump didn’t say that
If Trump had referred to his own behavior as pathological he'd probably be the recipient of such comparisons also.
I was thinking the same thing earlier. So far, its been a Hoot!
In fairness he didn’t actually say Carson was a child molester.
I’m no Trump fan but what he said and what the media is pushing are different things. Carson has plenty of crap to DQ him without Trump saying what he DID actually say. But what he did actually say was accurate. Distasteful? Facts often are.
I hate to defend the guy but if we all don’t stick with the facts on this, the media will turn their ‘victory on Cruz’.
Carson apparently is the first person to successfully separate
Siamese twins joined at the head?
I was a wee lad in 72 but remember how all hell broke loose with Eagleton.
We had like 6 channels on the TV.
I seem to see something off about Carson. Your daughter gives insight.
You’re right. He only referred to child molesters as being incurable as an example of a disease being incurable. He went on to say pathological disease is also not curable.
For sure. Not a doubt about it.
“If a Dr diagnoses himself as “pathological,†I would pay strict attention.”
Exactly! Trump is on target by calling attention to it. Carson is running a close second and Trump said as much tonight again in Iowa.
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