Posted on 11/10/2015 4:10:32 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
DETROIT, MI - Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson's account of being offered a full scholarship at West Point was called into question this week after the military academy said he never applied to the school.
Carson admitted Friday that he never applied to West Point. Rather, the neurosurgeon from Detroit said he was informally offered a scholarship by a top U.S. Army general, but decided not to pursue it.
However, The Detroit News reports that the encounter Carson was referring to, and that is described in his best-selling 1990 autobiography "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story," does not match historical records.
Carson's book says he met with the U.S. Army's chief of staff, Gen. William Westmoreland, on Memorial Day 1969, after marching as a top ROTC cadet for Detroit's former Southwestern High School. But Westmoreland's schedule says he was in Washington that day.
Don’t tell Mark Levin. He stated tonight that every smear against Carson has been 100% refuted. So therefore none of this can possible be true /s/
Levin has also said that anyone supporting TPP should not be considered for the nomination, so that eliminates Carson. Why don’t he and Rush quit shadow boxing with all this B.S. and start calling out these candidates on the issues.
2) So-called "conservatives" continue to support a lifelong liberal
It's a strange world we are living in.
Has Mark ever called out his buddy Ted Cruz on trying to have it both ways on TPP? Voting for cloture to move it along and then claiming he’s against it to be on record as opposing it? I’ve typically enjoyed Mark over the years but he’s been irritating me lately. I think he’s another one who doesn’t know how to properly assess this election.
If he was in high school and the good general did a tour of various high schools and talked to high performing black kids about applying, why would there be a record of anything.
I don’t think Carson said that he applied, just that it was suggested that he should.
Sorry scumbags, you don't get to make up an accusation then demand the accused prove it untrue.
Use to be REAL journalists had standandards. Use to be “hmm I cannot prove the accusation, so I need to keep digging.”
Now just make the accusation, do a half ass job of verifying and claim your accusation true.
What really pathetic is supposed “Conservatives” are more then willing to pimp the lie.
Stupid behavior children. IF they can use these tactics against Carson successfully, YOUR candidate of choice will be next.
You mean calling them on the issues Like St Ted of Texas being for TPP before he was against it?
So, no records to verify the accusation so the accusation must be true?
Sorry scumbags, you don’t get to make up an accusation then demand the accused prove it untrue.
Use to be REAL journalists had standandards. Use to be “hmm I cannot prove the accusation, so I need to keep digging.â€
Now just make the accusation, do a half ass job of verifying and claim your accusation true.
What really pathetic is supposed “Conservatives†are more then willing to pimp the lie.
Stupid behavior children. IF they can use these tactics against Carson successfully, YOUR candidate of choice will be next.
Oh no. My records from 1969 indicate almost nothing about my life. I do recall military riot control training being one of the last things I did before being discharged in 04-69 even though the MLK riots happened in 68. Kerry remembers incursions into Laos in December 1968 under Nixon. Must be a 60’s thing.
In 1985 I met and talked with Gen Jimmy Doolittle for almost an hour. Definitely a highlight of my life.
I couldn’t tell you the month let alone what day it was that this happened.
It’s a liberal world we are living in. And people consistently voice their support for more.
Unsurprisingly liberals agree with them.
No fences. Amnesty on certain terms. Lesser evil pols. crony capitalism that benefits their portfolio, support for overseas wars we have no business being involved in. All things a LOT of so called ‘conservatives’ today support just as much as any liberal.
And most moderates besides. It makes them feel good or profits them. Or both. If they wanted it to stop they have a rather unorthodox and demonstratively poor way of showing it.
And of course, good conservatives scoff at anything that is actually the guts of Christianity, so they never get upstaged by the real God....
Well, according to some asshole newspaper looking into my background, they could say that sometime in November, 1970, in the Mekong Delta, I never met or walked out on a briefing by Gen. Cushman.
He dropped in on our group in Ben Tre City when he heard we were there.
I had to leave because I had severe stomach cramps and vomiting due to something I ate. Missed his talk and I was very disappointed.
No photos of the General to prove that I ever saw him. Just my word, but I do have photos of Madame Binh’s “Little Red Schoolhouse” (aka VC headquarters) where a MG Team was living.
I did see Westy once, walking into the Pentagon while I was covering a story there, but never officially met him. I don’t remember the date but I could look it up in my notes or newspaper articles concerning the communist riots that took place there later on.
The reason I’m writing these little, somewhat unimportant vignettes, is that you often cannot accurately remember every day of your life in which you met someone of note.
Hell, I’ve met Johnny Unitas, Art Donovan, Gino Marchetti (and his wife and daughter), but I can’t tell you when, only where and approximate years - have a Johnny U autograph). Baltimore Colts football champions from the 50’s.
Also met Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers but don’t have an exact date, only I know it was about 6 months before he died. This is important for people who would want to challenge my credibility on certain things I write about and personal contacts with people in the news.
I can, though, tell you what he wore and looked like as I walked with him outside after his talk.
Ben Carson and some decent reporters have now been able to verify many of the things he wrote in his book or said in speeches, something the leftist media failed to do over a period of months.
Journalism has now been subverted and perverted to the point that honest journalism is now a secondary thought for much of the mainstream media.
Little unimportant things become a “force majeur” while the truth takes on a JV status.
Best defense against this perversion is to take good notes (and date them), photos if possible, and save newspaper clippings of events that you have attended, if you are or plan to be in the public eye. Best way to shut your enemies up.
I know that most people can’t do this, but for those who write, it is crucial that you save your documentation, notes, etc. for every story you write (even if they are not published), because there is always some leftist bastard who will try to take you down, as you have seen here at FR.
Your documentation can put a big stake through the Lying Left and we need more of that on every level of communication in the country.
It is time that we took the media back from our enemies and their dupes. Ben Carson and honest journalists are doing it, so we need to follow his lead.
Destroy the leftist media and you can free so many Americans from lies, disinformation, misinformation, and subversion.
Time is short so time to get our “truth” ammo out of storage and into action.
Cruz and Sessions did their best to make TPA a bill that would preempt the problems currently in the TPP bill. Rand Paul and another Senator blocked their immigration language amendment, which was a large part of Cruz’s ultimately voting “No”.
Looking at the dates, I think I figured out that if he did talk directly to Westmoreland, it would have been after the deadline for beginning the application process anyways. In other words, Carson was telling a fairy tale.
Memorial Day is not in February. It’s in May.
Memorial Day is not in February. It’s in May.
100% correct. But voters seldom are policy wonks. Impressions on TeeVee clips is what matters to 90% of voters.
Christianity is not about turning your people over to muslims and communists. Never was or will be.
Nor is christianity about promoting and empowering evil. God pretty much tossed his right hand man over it idea. I’ll go with his example.
Cruz has never supported TPP(the Trans Pacific Partnership). What he did originally support before ultimately opposing was the TPA (Trade Promotion Authority) which allows all trade deals negotiated by the executive to be given an up or down vote with no amendments. He had originally supported the TPA because it would help the next president (who will hopefully be a conservative) to negotiate good trade deals without the unions being able to gum up the works.
Actually, Mark, as always, is right. Westmoreland was in Detroit. Simply not on the exact date Carson gave in his book (or in an interview). But quite close to the date he did give.
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