The reality is the media's SUDDEN obsession with Dr. Carson can be traced to the results of the latest Quinnipiac poll showing that, among white voters, Hillary Clinton loses to ALL GOP candidates... GOP gets 56 (+/-); Clinton 44 ( +/-).
The Dems/media have to take out Carson- and they will- Trump doesn't have to tick off Carson's supporters.
Just saying.
Trump should stay quiet on this. Carson seems to be imploding.
This should help Trump get those 24% of Carson supporters! Seriously, what Ben did was wrong, but if Trump would shut up he could probably get some of those votes, but instead he’s going to make an ass out of himself and get even with Carson. Does he think this is going to get Carson’s supporters to back him? Cruz’s plan is coming together now.
Libs gotta attack ANY legitimately BLACK man in order to
help their gal Hitler-y get elected AND protect the
“legacy” of their “First Mulatto President, Barack Hussein
Obama”.
Trump, please, stay out of this one. There is plenty to criticize Carson on without this. The press is lying, again. Don’t get caught taking temporary advantage of a lie.
The Donald may want to try for facts rather than a hit piece from Polutico. The Left could end up getting a two’fer if they can now paint Donald as a Vindictive Racist!
Might have been strategically smarter for Trump to side (at least somewhat) with Carson against the unhinged media. Carson’s numbers were likely to deflate in the coming weeks anyway, and if not, Trump could have started to highlight Carson’s weakness on illegals/amnesty.
Carson is doing as well as he is because nobody has been going after him. Now he’s a threat, so people are starting to go after him. But I don’t much credence in the Carson v. Hillary poll, because at this point Carson is just a blank to most people so it’s just a popularity poll about Hillary. That will change.
So Trump takes the side of Politico and the rest of the Leftist media in the electronic lynching of Dr. Carson. No conservative would do that. He is toast. Go Ted!!!
Looks like we Freeps aren’t the only ones who fell for Politico’s lies. Trump got caught, too.
I hope to see him apologize to Carson for jumping the gun on this.
Trump made a mistake here and he needs to say so, even call up Carson and apologize for piling on.
totally agree...this is 1 time Trump should stay totally quiet or even a bit understanding...the damage is done, don’t pile on to a really good person who made rather minor mistakes in a book long ago. Compared to the lies in Obama’s books and the total lie his presidency is, this is minor.
Biden has gotten away with lots more lies, fabrications and hallucinations. And then the is Bill and Hillary...nuff said
Yeah, why is helping the MSM? This is Trump’s to win but attacking another Republican at the behest of the media is just RINO.
This is probably not a wise thing for him to do at this point.
I’m for Cruz too, and I see this as a cheap shot by Trump (who I actually think is good for the party ). This just cheapens him. (I like Trump and Carson too but Cruz is my #1 pick).
“There’s something very strange here, there’s something very strange that’s going on”
I said that after the pyramid story.
I am with you on Cruz and the rest. What does Trump see as the benefit of going after Carson and risk alienating some of his supporters.
Just yesterday, Trump was pointing out how awful Politico is. Well, they were awful today. I remember back in the days of college applications my peers often used the word scholarship when it was really a “financial aid gift based on need”.
Trump is often MUCH looser with his recollections, using hyperbole and superlatives constantly.
Since Carson explicitly stated he never even applied to West Point, and only applied to Yale, he was most likely remembering a recruiter (not Westmoreland, who is never connected with any offer) saying something along the lines of “with your ability and record we can get you in, and it won’t cost you anything”. He is remembering (in the book) the recoollections of an 18 year old. It is a memoir, not a dissertation in physics.
I have a feeling this is going to evolve into a situation where many of the same people who constantly go after the MSM for lying will turn a completely blind eye to Carson lying.
Sorry folks, but this isn’t just a trumped up bit of nothing.
Carson is increasingly appearing to be a candidate who not only lies, but lies about inconsequential things that are often easily refuted by a little bit of digging.
Is that what we want in a nominee?
Seems to me that Politico has unwittingly did us a favour by clearing out a potentially terrible candidate before he imploded in the general election.
Where were CNN’s investigations when Obama was running the first time? Seems like they couldn’t care less about Obama’s carefully hidden background, and were perfectly content to take all of his claims as gospel truth.
And yet they claim they aren’t biased. /spit
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/press-trashes-politico-scoop-on-ben-carson/article/2575827
Did Ben Carson admit to fabricating a story about his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point nearly 50 years ago?
The website Politico thought it caught the retired neurosurgeon red-handed, but others think the Arlington, Va., based publication rushed to judgment.
Kyle Cheney of Politico wrote that the Carson campaign “admitted that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.” Cheney fingered Carson’s book Gifted Hands as evidence of the GOP front-runner’s misdeeds.
But that story seemed to unravel soon after it came out, as other journalists began to point out that the book does not make any mention of Carson having applied to West Point, nor being accepted into the institution.......