Posted on 06/04/2014 8:37:20 AM PDT by Cheerio
In an interview with Dr. Ben Carson for Meet the Press's web-based feature Press Pass, NBC host David Gregory dismissed Carson's call for "a government that placed the Constitution of the United States at the highest level": "There are some people who say that. That's a very highly charged thing to say. Where is the Constitution not placed in the right level today?" [Listen to the audio]
Carson gave Gregory a dose of reality: "Because it helps to define what the role of the government is. It doesn't include being in every aspect of our lives....when you take people who are perfectly capable of doing things and you pat them on the head and then you say, 'There, there, you poor little thing, we're going to take care of this and this, you won't have anything to worry about.'"
Earlier in the exchange, Gregory actually lectured Carson on the importance of big government for African-Americans: "Government intervention certainly mattered for African-Americans legislatively, through the judiciary. And certainly beyond just African-Americans, the idea of government stepping in to help people who are being left behind certainly shows evidence of working. Do you agree with that? Is that a fundamental role for government?"
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Who is David Gregory?
Yikes….how subversive can you get…actually knowing the Constitution and what it plainly says. Can’t have that in the New World Order.
Dr. Carson makes a lot of sense from what I have heard from him.
He’s the keynote speaker at a charity dinner I’m attending in September. I’m looking forward to hearing him in person.
Earlier in the exchange, Gregory actually lectured Carson on the importance of big government for African-Americans: “Government intervention certainly mattered for African-Americans legislatively, through the judiciary. And certainly beyond just African-Americans, the idea of government stepping in to help people who are being left behind certainly shows evidence of working. Do you agree with that? Is that a fundamental role for government?”
It’s right in your face. The media’s agenda.
“the idea of government stepping in to help people who are being left behind certainly shows evidence of working”
Actually, no it doesn’t. The actual results of this have been devastating to “African American” families.
The only thing that “worked” about it is the self-righteousness it engendered in the liberals who supported it.
Half of America needs their rights revoked until such time as they can understand what they actually are.
That pesky Constitution always hangs radicals up!...just damn!
Nail on the head.
CARSON: [...] has the government been helpful? No question. During Jim Crow and things like that, stepping in, in those situations, was a very helpful and needful thing to do. The problem is when you keep extending that, when you take people who are perfectly capable of doing things and you pat them on the head and then you say, “There, there, you poor little thing, we’re going to take care of this and this, you won’t have anything to worry about.”
Half of America needs a course in how radicals want to ruin this country!
The Civil Rights era was not about 'people being left behind'. It was about people who were being systematically and institutionally discriminated against and being forced to say behind. It was supposed to level the playing field, not tilt it in the other direction...................
Dick Gregory’s bro....................
He’s saying, “If it wasn’t for big government, you’d still be on the plantation. You ungrateful ______.”
Black unemployment is between 20% and 60%. Yeah, that’s working.
It’s already ruined. We have to fix what they destroyed. Without liberals in it would be best.
I don't mean to make light of Ben Carson or others ... just commenting on what I think is an important (missing) element in our efforts to re-claim America .... the people that SHOULD be listening .. aint ... and the ones that are .. don't give a shit.
Damned frustrating
It’s SMALL WONDER that Mr. Gregory’s audience continues to DWINDLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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