"Trying to hit my mom in the head with a hammer? That was around the same time as the stabbing incident."
Posted on 11/06/2015 5:41:37 AM PST by jimbo123
Ben Carson insists that he was an angry young man who threw rocks at cars, tried to knife a friend, and almost whacked his mother on the head with a hammer.
"Those claims are absolutely true. You know, I am a hundred percent sure that they're true," Carson told Fox News on Thursday, after CNN ran a story casting doubt on Carson's tale of youthful misdeeds.
Carson called the CNN report "simply an attempt to smear and to deflect the argument to something else."
In a report dubbed "a tale of two Ben Carsons," CNN reported on Thursday that two of its reporters tracked down 10 of Carson's former schoolmates and neighbors in Detroit: "None challenged Carson's story directly," CNN reported. "Only one said they'd heard vague rumors about one of the incidents, but all said this was not the boy they knew."
CNN said it has not been able to locate victims or witnesses to the various violent outbursts Carson has described in his book, "Gifted Hands."
Carson told Fox News's Megyn Kelly on Thursday, "I never used the true names of people in books, you know, to protect the innocent. You know, that's something that people have done for decades, for centuries. That's something that's commonly done.
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"Trying to hit my mom in the head with a hammer? That was around the same time as the stabbing incident."
We are officially down the rabbit hole with Carson. Frankly, I think he’s nuts.
Seriously?
And there are people on FR, and in polls, that actually support this guy?
About the age Trump smacked his music teacher (he was upset that she didn’t teach him correctly) and his parents sent him to military school.
What’s he trying to do? Get the violent Black vote? They usually don’t vote.
I agree with your assessment. I suggest a padded cell in a psycho ward somewhere.
I think he may have a future in grain storage in the desert.
What Carson said was... No, I am not going to give you there names, if they wish to step forward fine but I am not going to invade their privacy
That is the act of a decent human being not a pandering political hack who doesn't want to inject the media circus into these people lives without their permission.
Rather then pathetically flail around daily for some loser attack line, why don't you try making a case FOR you candidate instead for a change?
Not a Carson fan, but can anyone picture the MSM giving Obama this level of scrutiny?
Pathetic when “Conservatives” adopt the tactics of the Clinton News Network in an infantile smear attempt.
What Carson said was... No, I am not going to give you there names, if they wish to step forward fine but I am not going to invade their privacy
That is the act of a decent human being not a pandering political hack who doesn’t want to inject the media circus into these people lives without their permission.
Rather then pathetically flail around daily for some loser attack line, why don’t you try making a case FOR you candidate instead for a change?
Dr Carson’s bio is inspiring. Now he’s being attacked for overcoming a childhood of poverty & violence. It must be because he’s not a dem.
He’s now trying to prove he was actually violent? Rabbit hole indeed.
What a strange world we live in when a man is pleading with the media to believe him that he actually committed crimes, tried to beat his mother with a hammer and knife a friend. I really am beginning to think this guy is batshit crazy. Trump actually just needs to keep quiet and watch this guy continue to implode. Trump should be bashing the $hit out of Harry Reid for refusing to allow a vote on Kate’s Law. That will win him some serious points...
I am not a Carson fan, but what CNN and the mainstream media attempt to do to any Female or Minority Republican is shameful. Reminds me of their efforts to go after Justice Thomas. Without the Minority or Female vote, the Democrats know they are dead, so their media accomplices do whatever they can to eliminate threats to that vote.
For all the Zahi Hawass fans.
>>Not a Carson fan, but can anyone picture the MSM giving Obama this level of scrutiny?
Just like Herman Cain in 2012, the Leftist media doesn’t want to attack the black man—until he starts to rise to the top in the polls—and then he is a target that needs to be destroyed. Then they’ll blame it on Republican racism.
There appears to be a lot of non Carson supporters on FR. Do you think his religion has something to do with it? Some FR members are not very inclusive.
In a report dubbed “a tale of two Ben Carsons,” CNN reported on Thursday that two of its reporters tracked down 10 of Carson's former schoolmates and neighbors in Detroit: “None challenged Carson's story directly,” CNN reported. “Only one said they'd heard vague rumors about one of the incidents, but all said this was not the boy they knew.”
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He would have no chance against Hillary and her media minions.
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