Posted on 11/07/2015 2:13:20 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
As Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defends his past descriptions of receiving a scholarship offer for the US Military Academy at West Point, new doubts have been on his past, including a story of how he sheltered white classmates during Detroit race riots. Carson blasted the media on Friday after several reports questioned the validity of his book, Gifted Hands, but the presidential hopeful told the press that they were being unfair and he felt like the victim of a ‘witch hunt’.
Questions about Carson's assertions about his personal history, including his claim that he was a troubled youth beset at times by violent behavior, and his inaccurate pronouncements about historical events have gained attention as he has risen to the top of some national polls.
'I think what it shows, and these kinds of things show, is there is a desperation on behalf of some to try to find a way to tarnish me,' Carson said no Friday night during a news conference outside West Palm Beach. 'Because they have been looking through everything,' he added. 'They have been talking to everyone I have ever known and everybody I have ever seen. There has got to be a scandal.'
He told reporters, 'My job is to call you out when you're unfair, and I'm going to continue to do that.'
The most recent story under question is a harrowing tale he told last month of protecting his white high school classmates the day after Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968. Violent race riots hit the neurosurgeon-turned-politician’s predominantly black Southwestern High School in Detroit. Carson, who was a junior lab assistant with a key to the school’s biology lab, sheltered his frightened friends from violence by bringing them into the workroom, he told the Wall Street Journal.
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Burden of proof rests on the accusers.
New day, same smear tactics. Sorry “News Media” you don’t get to publish a smear and demand the victim prove your smear untrue.
The standard is you have to have proof before you publish. That you were unable to find proof is not proof of absence
That supposed “Conservatives” Campaign activists here have adopted these Leftist smear tactics raises serious questions.
Are they really “Conservatives” or just Leftist disruption bots?
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Now watch them freak out because the same tactics they are using against Carson have been directed AT them
Branagh. Olivier's delivery, the first time I heard it, struck me as artificial, especially the sliding rocket-note at the end, at "St. Crispin's Day-EEEEEEE!" Ouch!
That's even spotting Sir Laurence a Plantagenet point for his French last name.
I also liked the soundtrack of Henry V.
You spend all your time here using the Leftist debate tactics of personal attack and slander. Just which Leftist campaign are you working for Hillary or Bernie?
Lol. Politico lackey personified. Congratulations!
And here you are excusing lesser evil and leftists so your leftist Carson can BS his way into Power.
You do that a lot.
Bill Clinton is not a good man and was not a good president. The only reason he looks better than Obama was that he wasn't able to push it as far as Obama and he was less of an ideologue and more concerned with money.
The Clinton's are a crime family. They ran drugs in Arkansas, there is a list of "unexplained" deaths linked to the Clinton's, there were bribes and selling of the office just like Hillary is selling it now with the Clinton Foundation, and much, much more.
All of the people insulting you can help fill in the details, and should have, rather than attack you.
Yeah that would be a good idea because once Carson is challenged on it you would have to stop lying about his position or risk being laughed at more.
Well Prove that ;)
Burden of proof rests on the accusers.
New day, same smear tactics. Sorry “News Media†you don’t get to publish a smear and demand the victim prove your smear untrue.
The standard is you have to have proof before you publish. That you were unable to find proof is not proof of absence
That supposed “Conservatives†Campaign activists here have adopted these Leftist smear tactics raises serious questions.
Are they really “Conservatives†or just Leftist disruption bots?
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Now watch them freak out because the same tactics they are using against Carson have been directed AT them
Being laughed at by leftists is a good thing.
Lots of people do. I really think many people who will vote for Hillary are really voting for Bill.
All anyone needs do is look at your post history to see what side you are on. Lesser evil.
That is all anyone need know about you. Your own posts.
They are two sides of the same coin. Just like the democrats and republicans.
Got it. You are going to continue to be a mindless tool of the Leftist smear machine and we are going to continue to mock your idiocy in doing so
And you’ll keep electing leftists.
Age has a lot to do with it and how much time they have been able to spend trying to find out.
It’s not like the media helps with that you know. It takes some digging to find the truth.
It wasn't, actually. It was a repeated dismissal of abortion as not that important, I'll let someone else worry about keeping kids alive, etc.
Posts 16, 32, 52...
"It’s a fact, without a rational immigration policy we will never create a political climate where we have a chance to address other Conservative ‘litmus’ issues."
This is one of the reasons I no longer have any respect for Coulter, along with her Cruz birtherism. She said in her latest book that not even the right to life matters until we get the border secured.
Well, she can tell that to the next baby who's in line to be ripped apart. We're capable of doing more than one thing at a time.
From the Conservative Tree House. Also reported on Breitbart, Lucianne, Hot Air etc. So again, why do you support TPP?
Whoa , Carson Supports Obama Trade , Aligns Position With Establishment GOPe (Jeb, Rubio, Fiorina, Kasich, Christie
Posted on November 6, 2015 by sundance
Wow. Reset the Polls, This is YUGE !!
Candidate Ben Carsons support for Obama Trade (TPP) is a massive divergence from most conservatives and now puts him in direct opposition to Donald Trump.
Trump and Carson
(Via Wall Street Journal) Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Friday that he supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement negotiated by the White House ,aligning himself more with the GOPs establishment wing than with the social conservatives who have powered his campaign.
Mr. Carso’s backing of the 12 nation Pacific trade deal places him at odds with Donald Trump, his chief rival for support among anti establishment Republicans. Mr. Carson had expressed skepticism about the TPP, saying in a June interview with the Huffington Post that he would not give President Barack Obama ‘fast-track’ authority to negotiate the deal.
Now, a day after the White House posted the text of the TPP deal online, Mr. Carsons campaign said Friday that he supports the final product.
Mr. Carson, spokesman Doug Watts said, ‘believes the agreement does help to level the playing field in key markets and is important to improve our ties to trading partners in Asia as a counterbalance to China’s influence in the region.†Mr. Watts said Mr. Carson is “now inclined to support TPP, with reservations.’
Mr. Carson’s new support for the trade deal comes as the Republican Party’s decades-long support for free trade is splintering. Mr. Trump is leading a wing of anti-trade candidates that includes social conservatives Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee.
Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who had backed the ‘fast track’ legislation aimed at expediting TPP approval, backed away from the bill because he said Republicans couldn’t trust Mr. Obama and said approving the deal would open American companies to increased foreign competition and boost illegal immigration.
And yes, lots of us have noticed the incestuous political dealings of Manor Bush with the Klintonx Krime Syndicate, going all the way back to that mysterious 80's photo of Dubya and Neil Bush walking down the flight line of the Mena, Arkansas, airport. What the hell was Dubya doing there, back in the days when Barry Seal's (doomed) C-123 was a frequent illicit visitor?
My theory is, both the Clintons and the Bushes had ties to a bunch of crime rings that serviced the well-to-do and powerful in DC and beyond, and Slick Willie, back then, was a door guard and bouncer at the Mena Airport.
Someone has to write The Book that answers all these questions and begins to deliver the Great Justice against the cozy elitism and criminality of the last 25 years and more....... Sibyl Edmonds, remember her?
Please. Every conservative in America knows what clinton is and it ain’t Decent. or anything in the universe of decent.
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