CNN interviewed Armstrong Williams early this evening. He gave as excellent a run down as could be given. Carson contracted four speeches over the course of 11 years for this company, through a speakers bureau. The company was looking for a neurosurgeon opinion on the product for a PBS Healthy Eating program.
Carson likes the product and takes the product. He is into natural remedies and foods as well as traditional medicine and diet. He was perfect for the Mannatech. He still likes the product, but got out of the contract for anymore speeches or productions because they came under investigation and he was opposed to the written script contents he was given in Las Vegas, where the promo speech was to be made. He did not give the speech at all and has not returned to them.
I don’t buy that this is a significant stumbling block for Dr. Carson. I do not believe that he has the charisma to take this all the way to the presidency. As far as this incident however, it just is not going to stick.