The word "fabricated" was used in the headline. If you can find where it was used by his campaign please provide a quote.
Good grief - when you “concede that the story was false,” fabrication is rightly implied.
Well, Politico felt the heat and walked that characterization on back. They changed their headline and added this note:
Editor's note: POLITICO stands by its reporting on this story, which has been updated to reflect Ben Carson's on the record response. The original story and headline said that Carson's campaign had admitted he "fabricated" a "full scholarship" from West Point, but now Carson denies that his campaign's statement constituted such an admission, and the story and headline were changed to reflect that
Would be nice if Politico were a little more honest about their culpability, but they don't want to admit they did anything wrong, and yet they needed to withdraw an obvious false headline.