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.
“In 1985 I met and talked with Gen Jimmy Doolittle for almost an hour. Definitely a highlight of my life.”
In 1962 I met this HOT blond girl at a U.S.O. dance in Chicago. WOW! Can’t remember her first or last name...
Barack Obama doesn’t keep records of all of his White House visitors.
And he’s claimed that the Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright visits were by different people with those names.
TPA is a terrible idea too.
We are going thave to start shopoting these lying scumbags of the media hit squads. This is a total lie that he even made the statement yet now the scum in media are raising the ante on their own lies! Guillotines from orbit on the media vermin. It’s the only way to be sure of exterminating the liars. ... The sad part is, so many just believe whatever lies are spewed from the media vermin.
Cause it never happened, but don’t tell anyone on Fox because they’ll argue with you and call you a racist for bringing it up.
Whatever.
I get the exact dates wrong all the time on events in my life.
But, I have pictures, so there’s that.
What the story probably doesn’t tell you is Westmoreland was in the area around that date and that would be more accurate, than being exact....
Apparently Levin doesn’t believe Army records. Carson is a lying SOB.
I don't believe they do. I have consistently asked supporters of the liberal leading the Republican field to name just one other liberal they trust and without exception they cannot do it. That leads me to believe they don't care if he is liberal meaning they are also. It's sad day for America when liberals both support liberal candidates and support the leftist media in their attacks on Republicans. A sad day indeed.
So, he was there on Independence Day
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Honestly, I would probably have voted against the TPA if it was up to me. However, conservatives can make a good case either way on TPA unlike the TPP which Sen. Cruz has never supported and which would be a disaster. Thus it is a huge problem when posters confuse his vote on TPA with the upcoming vote on TPP.
Carson specifically said he met with the general on Memorial Day 1969. Memorial Day is in May. The general was in Washington DC on Memorial Day and it’s been verified through Army records. He was in Detroit 4 months earlier in February. Anyone as “smart” as Carson claims to be would know damn well if he had dinner with General Westmoreland on Memorial Day 1969, of all days! Carson is a liar! And the chicken”sh*t media is giving him a pass because of the color of his skin, the same way they would not call Obama a liar.
There is a record which shows that Westmoreland was in the area in February of that same year for a dinner honoring Medal of Honor Recipients. That would fit just fine with Carson’s recollection.
Just as they did with Severe Conservative Mitt Romney. Just to avoid the words ‘I was wrong’.
Said the guy who helped elect Barack Obama.
Shall I show you to your cage, Norm?
Now, Carson said he only had $10 and so he only applied to one college because they all required a $10 application fee. Sounds like a whopper...
I’m not the guy that voted foe a man that gave money to a group that slaughters babies by dismemberment. You are.
I’m not the guy that voted for someone who helped gays marry. You are.
I’m not the guy that voted for someone who sent his operatives out to destroy Sarah Palin. You are
I’m not the man that voted for the guy who governed a state still trying to dig out from a financial apocalypse a decade after he left office.
YOU are.
And when the liberals and their brown shirts come knocking at your door, anyone with a brain will stand back and let them take you. Just as YOU stood back and let liberals take toe GOP and thus, America.
The media is lying.
There is amazing hatred/slander at FR toward Ben!
Your braindead “purist” vote helped elect a guy who did all of the above and worse.
So get into the cage. You deserve it and you know it.
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