Posted on 10/13/2015 10:33:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
The invective against Dr. Ben Carson coming from the left is extraordinary, even for the left. Now that Carson, one of the pre-eminent brain surgeons in America, has become a viable candidate for president, the left has labelled him everything awful it can come up with. One left-wing columnist, Charles Blow of The New York Times, even disparaged his intelligence.
But there were two attacks made this past week that should be beyond the pale even for the left.
The first was that Carson "blamed the victims" in the Roseburg, Oregon, community college mass murder.
How did that happen?
On Fox News, Carson noted that "the poor families of those individuals had to be hurting so badly." One of the hosts then made the following comment: "Dr. Carson, if a gunman walks up and puts a gun at you and says, 'What religion are you?' that is the ultimate test of your faith."
To which Carson responded: "I'm glad you asked that question. Because not only would I probably not cooperate with him, I would not just stand there and let him shoot me. I would say, 'Hey, guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can't get us all.'"
He was asked, in essence, what he would do. Whether one agrees or disagrees with what he says he would do, it was hardly "blaming the victims."
Yet, that is what the left accuses of him doing.
Chris Matthews on MSNBC: "Why would someone running for president ... lay the blame on those young people in Oregon who were just killed by a mass murderer?"
New York Daily News headline: "2016 contender Ben Carson defends remarks criticizing victims of Oregon shooting."
It was a grotesque libel.
But even that libel might have even outdone by the reaction to Carson's comments about the Holocaust and guns: "The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed."
Those comments were actually labeled anti-Semitic.
Now, while "greatly diminished" is debatable, the general view strikes me as simple common sense: Why wouldn't it have been a good thing if many Jews in 1930s Europe had had weapons? Of course it would not have prevented the Holocaust, but it might have saved some lives; and just as important, it would have enabled armed Jews to die fighting rather than to die unarmed and with no ability to fight. If Jews in Europe had been asked, "Would you like to be armed when the Nazis come to round you up?" what do Carson's critics think the great majority of European Jews would have answered? Indeed, what would the critics themselves answer?
No normal person thinks that armed Jews would have prevented the Holocaust (nor did Carson make such a claim). But no normal person should think that it would have not have been a good thing if many European Jews had weapons. The hallowed Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began with the Jews in the Ghetto possessing a total of 10 handguns. Imagine if they had a thousand.
In The Washington Post, David Kopel of the Cato Institute, who teaches Advanced Constitutional Law at the University Denver Sturm College of Law, cited the diaries of Jews who died in the Warsaw Ghetto. They expressed unalloyed joy at being able to kill some of their Nazi tormentors, and deep regret about not having been armed and been able to fight back sooner than they did.
But even if one believes that Carson and Kopel are wrong, how could one characterize Carson's comments as "anti-Semitic" or "blaming the victims [the Jews]"? How could one label statements expressing the wish that the Jews of the Holocaust had been armed "anti-Semitic"? Yet, among others, a contributing editor to the Forward, a leading Jewish newspaper, wrote that these remarks were "profoundly anti-Semitic, immoral and disgusting." And Carson was attacked by prominent Jews in Time and by the Anti-Defamation League.
The left is in full-blown smear-Carson mode. He is, after all, the left's worst nightmare -- a black Republican who is brilliant, kind and widely admired, including by many blacks.
It is a rule of left-wing life that black Republicans must have their names and reputations destroyed. The left knows that if blacks do not vote overwhelmingly Democrat, Democrats cannot win a national election.
So, the smearing of Dr. Ben Carson has just begun.
They hate him for bringing a significant amount of blacks off the Demorat plantation. It took decades to enslave them.
Disagreeing with Ben Carson is obviously racists. I’m just being consistent with today’s democRAT party.
“One left-wing columnist, Charles Blow of The New York Times, even disparaged his intelligence.”
That is, to quote James Earl Carter, “Like being called ugly by a frog.”
Well Im not too fond of the guy LOL
That is, to quote James Earl Carter, “Like being called ugly by a frog.”
Question:Isn't a toad uglier than a frog?
You are not fond of who?
I think you’re right because obviously that’s the only reason we don’t support Zero.
Carson is interesting, one day he will say something that is awesome the next day he will say something that makes me nervous, then he will say something awesome again....
Trump is saying a LOT of awesome stuff.
Jeb! is saying a lot of Suck and nothign awesome at all.
I would take Carson over Jeb! ANYDAY!
Trump Trumps it for now.
What really scares them is that Carson will be able to and WILL
tell the truth about every topic the left uses to bludgeon Christians and conservatives.
Oh, if Carson is the nominee/president I am going to MERCILESSLY bludgeon leftists who criticize him.
They started it.
The leftist media is despicable. The moment someone emerges as a threat to their entrenched power, the fangs come out and they seek to destroy him.
They hate Carson? Well … then they must be racists.
Carson is masterful at slowly, decisively, dismantling their gotcha questions. He doesn’t back down. They try to paint him into a corner, and he just keeps calmly repeating and expanding upon his point (as if teaching a 5 year old...which is about right when it comes to most of the MSM.)
I’ve said all along that Carson has more “intestinal fortitude” than the other candidates. Evidenced by the way he “came on the scene.” He gives a speech, eviscerating Obama’s policies, and Obama is sitting 10 feet away. None of the others have entered “the lion’s den” and been unafraid to say what needs to be said.
That speech - I found it very curious that Obama was scowling and Mooch was clapping her hands off.
What do expect from the left-wing drive-by media? Of course they are.
BTTT
Ben Carson spent decades never “thinking” about politics....so he is trying to make his ideology coherent.....he will be offtrack until he gets “educated” like he was with the “gun” issue. But his basic ideology is RATIONAL unlike Marxists who are totally IRRATIONAL.
I myself, did a compete reversal on several major topics when I educated myself, because of my basic logical skills (Christian Worldview). (Truth sets you Free). That is how they are destroying education by destroying Truth-—filling children with lies and misinformation-—and Ben Carson—just by living in this vile culture-—was exposed to the Lies-—like most. His basic logical (math) skills gives him the ability to think coherently though and remove the lies. No one is perfect-—but he has the humility it takes to learn the Truth.
I read John Lott’s book and became a total gun nut. Same with abortion-—I was pro-”choice”—LOL because I was ignorant of philosophy and psychology because I was a wishy-washy Christian. My views did a 180 degree turn through educating myself with the truth/facts.
then watch how fast the word 'racist' would be purged from the collective lexicon...
[ Ben Carson spent decades never “thinking” about politics....so he is trying to make his ideology coherent.....he will be offtrack until he gets “educated” like he was with the “gun” issue. But his basic ideology is RATIONAL unlike Marxists who are totally IRRATIONAL. ]
That can be a good/bad thing for Carson as a good thing we can know that he goes into his decisions thinking about them without the hubris of “My ideology says A so the answer is always going to be A” thing that most politicos have.
As long as he is humble then he would make a great president along the lines of a “Philosopher King” as opposed to the “Ideological Tyrant” that Obama represents.
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