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Ben Carson’s Past Faces Deeper Questions
http://www.wsj.com/articles/ben-carsons-past-faces-deeper-questions-1446861864 ^

Posted on 11/06/2015 10:31:41 PM PST by springwater13

In his 1990 autobiography, “Gifted Hands,” Mr. Carson writes of a Yale psychology professor who told Mr. Carson, then a junior, and the other students in the class—identified by Mr. Carson as Perceptions 301—that their final exam papers had “inadvertently burned,” requiring all 150 students to retake it. The new exam, Mr. Carson recalled in the book, was much tougher. All the students but Mr. Carson walked out.

“The professor came toward me. With her was a photographer for the Yale Daily News who paused and snapped my picture,” Mr. Carson wrote. “ ‘A hoax,’ the teacher said. ‘We wanted to see who was the most honest student in the class.’ ” Mr. Carson wrote that the professor handed him a $10 bill.

No photo identifying Mr. Carson as a student ever ran, according to the Yale Daily News archives, and no stories from that era mention a class called Perceptions 301. Yale Librarian Claryn Spies said Friday there was no psychology course by that name or class number during any of Mr. Carson’s years at Yale

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1990; baltimorerobbery; carson; clarynspies; elections; giftedhands; perceptions301; popeyesrestaurant; yale; yalelibrarian
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1 posted on 11/06/2015 10:31:41 PM PST by springwater13
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To: springwater13
Barack 0bama's Past Still A Closely Guarded Secret!
2 posted on 11/06/2015 10:33:54 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: springwater13

It’s behind a subscription wall, but I saw a poster say that if you google the title and then click the link via google, you can read it. I just did it and it works for me.


3 posted on 11/06/2015 10:35:13 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: TigersEye

We have a filthy, despicable left-wing media in our nation and the people are starting to wake up to it.


4 posted on 11/06/2015 10:35:40 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Care to share?


5 posted on 11/06/2015 10:36:36 PM PST by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: doc1019
HAVE AT IT!
6 posted on 11/06/2015 10:39:50 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE MAKE YOUR DONATION NOW - GO MONTHLY IF YOU POSSIBLY & RELIABLY CAN!)
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To: springwater13

Oh come on. Ben is infallible.

He is on top of the polls, goes to church on Saturday, knows Joseph stored grain the Pyramids, hits his mother with a hammer, stabs his friends, and is such a great brain surgeon that he stopped being a brain surgeon to run for President, because that’s what brain surgeons do, go straight from the operating room to the WH.


7 posted on 11/06/2015 10:39:54 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: doc1019
It is because Wall St Journal articles require a subscription.

To short circuit this process....just Google the title of the article.

8 posted on 11/06/2015 10:41:11 PM PST by spokeshave (MDSM = Mentally Discombobulated Screaming Media)
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To: springwater13
OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!!!!

The horror.

9 posted on 11/06/2015 10:42:11 PM PST by ifinnegan
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To: onyx

Apparently you don’t know what sharing means. I refuse to subscribe to the WSJ when all this will come out for free in a day or two.


10 posted on 11/06/2015 10:44:58 PM PST by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Thanks. That worked. Look like Carson may have some ‘splayin to do.


11 posted on 11/06/2015 10:46:53 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: springwater13

The left always lets you know whom they fear...


12 posted on 11/06/2015 10:47:57 PM PST by piasa
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To: Rome2000

What is wrong with going to church on Saturday?


13 posted on 11/06/2015 10:48:43 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Steelfish

When all thi silliness fails I can only imagine what the media’s going to do to his wife...


14 posted on 11/06/2015 10:48:58 PM PST by piasa
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To: springwater13

They can ask all the questions they want

but before they publish the questions I would hope they would go to the Carson campaign and ask them for an explanation.(and give them time to respond)

Once the questions are published it all sounds ominous and there may be some innocent explanations

The BS about Westpoint could have easily been cleared up if they went to the campaign first


15 posted on 11/06/2015 10:49:28 PM PST by woofie
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To: Steelfish

I sure hope so. Neither party of politicians will ever be held accountable until
the media has been held accountable and forced to act like actual journalists.


16 posted on 11/06/2015 10:49:54 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: piasa

The problem is each story chips away at his reputation for honesty. They are palinizing him. So he lied about a stupid class at Yale? Who cares right? OK, well add that to being held at gunpoint at Popeye’s. No evidence. The stabbing, hammer, rocks, bricks of his youth. No evidence. The sheltering white students during a high school race riot mentioned in the WSJ story. No evidence. Now you get into the kooky pyramid grain stuff. The creationism evolution debate. Transgender bathrooms. Support for TPP. Support for amnesty. and on and on and on.

I get people here hate politico and want to rally around Carson today but objectively the guy is a walking disaster area as a candidate. He’s not going to be the nominee.


17 posted on 11/06/2015 10:54:29 PM PST by springwater13
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To: springwater13

Something’s wrong when you’re a successful brain surgeon and yet feel the need to indulge in Walter Mitty fantasies.


18 posted on 11/06/2015 10:55:40 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Sanders/Cruz in 2016!)
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To: doc1019

Interestingly I was just about to post the link to you from google, but clicked it in preview, only to find that it took me to the subscription wall. The trick seems to only work if you highlight the title, copy it, go to google, paste it, and click the link from there.


19 posted on 11/06/2015 10:57:44 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

TY


20 posted on 11/06/2015 10:58:47 PM PST by doc1019 (Out of my mind ... back in 5)
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