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Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship
Politico ^ | 11/06/2015 | Kyle Cheney

Posted on 11/06/2015 8:33:42 AM PST by GIdget2004

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I referred to Carson as Benny Hill because every nutty thing I learned about him this week brings the crazy Benny Hill music to my head. But at least Benny Hill was funny, Carson is just a weirdo. The only reason he was anything in this race is because the MSM was beating the bushes for ANYBODY that would be competition for Trump.


61 posted on 11/06/2015 8:49:17 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Death before disco.)
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To: GIdget2004

well gop voters...what say you now about the “brilliant” dr. ben, still love him?


62 posted on 11/06/2015 8:49:21 AM PST by dadfly
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To: GIdget2004

If Trump camp is smart, they’ll not utter a thing.

But I suspect Trump (or as somebody pointed out his underlings) couldn’t help kicking the wounded dog.


63 posted on 11/06/2015 8:49:45 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Amntn; GIdget2004; going hot; V K Lee; hoosiermama; RoosterRedux; JoeSeales; onyx; Jane Long

Shades of Biden in 1988 : )


64 posted on 11/06/2015 8:50:04 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: GIdget2004
The money quotes directly from Carson:

"Later I was offered a full scholarship to West Point."

"I also represented the Junior ROTC at a dinner for Congressional Medal of Honor winners, marched at the front of Detroit's Memorial Day parade as head of an ROTC contingent, and was offered a full scholarship to West Point"

65 posted on 11/06/2015 8:50:05 AM PST by frankenMonkey
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

We all know Obama was conceived because of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march.


66 posted on 11/06/2015 8:50:33 AM PST by Red Steel
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To: GOPJ

Neil Kinnoch redux : )


67 posted on 11/06/2015 8:50:37 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Georgia Girl 2
the Pyramids were for grain storage

People have just been mis-quoting him on that - he actually said brain storage (as in pharaos' brains)...;-)

68 posted on 11/06/2015 8:50:43 AM PST by Moltke
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To: DesertRhino
Amazing. I thought after Obama it wasn’t possible to get such information from universities. We sure don’t get his.

All the volumes and volumes of stuff on Obama, and tons of stuff we still don't know about. . and they find this on Carson. . I agree it's a negative, but can you imagine, if they really dug like they did Carson, the Palin emails, etc, what we would find? He wouldn't have even been considered for nomination in 2008. .

69 posted on 11/06/2015 8:50:54 AM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: GIdget2004

Why the F would you lie about that?

It is so easily checked.

You shouldn’t lie anyway. But this type of lying is just an ego boost.

This is a fatal character flaw.

Even cheating on your wife and making up and living right for 20 years is recoverable.

This is not.


70 posted on 11/06/2015 8:50:59 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: AlaskaErik

now it becomes: “what else has he lied about ?”


71 posted on 11/06/2015 8:51:26 AM PST by stylin19a (obama = Fredo Smart)
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To: GIdget2004

OK.. he’s toast. That one won’t be overcome or explained away.


72 posted on 11/06/2015 8:51:30 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: VictoryGal
This was no mere “mistake”. This was willfully lying to aggrandize himself

Well now he might get Brian Williams' vote.

73 posted on 11/06/2015 8:51:43 AM PST by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: GIdget2004

I thought that only a Congressman, or Senator, could offer appointment to the military academies.


74 posted on 11/06/2015 8:51:46 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Amntn

How does this lie compare to with Hillary’s?

I think Ben is done. But, the republicans should POUND this. I bet we see Sanders it.


75 posted on 11/06/2015 8:52:01 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: stephenjohnbanker

This doesn’t look good for the doctor.


76 posted on 11/06/2015 8:52:06 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Trump: As long as you are going to be thinking anyway...think big.)
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To: GIdget2004

What a pathetic hit piece. Anyone admitted to West Point gets a full ride. Anyone admitted must first be nominated by a Congressman or prominent military official. It is highly likely that Westmoreland and others at said banquet offered to nominate Carson because he was the top ROTC cadet in Detroit at the time.


77 posted on 11/06/2015 8:52:06 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: GIdget2004

You can’t survive something like this.

The man is a brain surgeon, that’s an extraordinary accomplishment, why would he feel the need to lie to make himself look good?


78 posted on 11/06/2015 8:52:09 AM PST by Cubs Fan ( liberalism=totalitarianism- http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/06/the-new-totalitarians-are-here/)
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To: GIdget2004

Carson’s campaign team should have done due diligence on his resume! Why didn’t they check these claims out before?
They should have known that any conservative black republican would be closely scrutinized!

I already had doubts about him, but this borders on Stolen Valor. And to think he’s been telling this lie for years and years. I guess West Point is not like Disney, they don’t check out every single misuse of their corporate name. Ben!! Now you wear the Scarlet Letter of the obvious Liar.


79 posted on 11/06/2015 8:52:26 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Tennessean4Bush

My older brother received an appointment to West Point and graduated,
as well, back about that same time frame.

It all started with a U.S. Senator from Mississippi.

It is a great honor to earn an appointment to West Point.
Carson dishonors those select few who are appointed each year.

Good riddance to Carson.


80 posted on 11/06/2015 8:53:09 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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