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Ben Carson Just Admitted to a Serious Lie
Fortune ^ | November 6, 2015 | Ben Geier

Posted on 11/06/2015 11:07:27 AM PST by detective

This one's a doozy.

In a shocking turn of events following a rough few days, retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential favorite Dr. Ben Carson just admitted that he fabricated the story that he was admitted to West Point, the United States' Army's military academy.

The story was originally published in Carson's best-selling 1992 biography "Gifted Hands," according to Politico, which broke the news of the fabrication. In the book, Carson said he met with General William Westmoreland, a key figure in the Vietnam War, in 1969. He claimed that the meeting was followed by an offer of a "full scholarship" to West Point.

(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bencarson; carson; liar; mediabias
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This is why I can't stand the MSM.

The media is obviously targeting Dr. Carson and trying to destroy him.

The media are the ones who are lying.

Dr. Carson never said he was admitted to West Point or that he formally applied. He said he was told that based on his grades and his position in the ROTC he could have been admitted and could have gotten a scholarship.

Dr. Carson is very intelligent. It is almost certain that as an African American, a good student and an officer in the ROTC he could have gotten admitted to West Point.

I am sick of the MSM constantly lying.

1 posted on 11/06/2015 11:07:27 AM PST by detective
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To: detective

This is a lie. Politico lied. Let’s stop promoting their lie.


2 posted on 11/06/2015 11:08:07 AM PST by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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To: detective
No he didn't.

Politico are vermin.

3 posted on 11/06/2015 11:08:42 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: detective

Good time for the Republicans to take on their adversaries as they’ve started to with debate moderators: call them out on bias & lies, and start making arrangements to talk ONLY to objective journalists.


4 posted on 11/06/2015 11:08:55 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Trump/Cruz - Because you gotta win, first.)
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To: detective

These creeps should listen to Rush. West Point grad said it would have looked like a scholarship to Carson since fully paid with stipend.


5 posted on 11/06/2015 11:09:04 AM PST by Kenny (RED)
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To: detective

Fortune = Steps in it! lol


6 posted on 11/06/2015 11:09:06 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM and Elites want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: detective

When you say african american, do you mean a black?


7 posted on 11/06/2015 11:09:36 AM PST by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: detective
As of August 13 of this year, from Carson's Facebook post:

"The next question is from Bill. He wanted to know if it was true that I was offered a slot at West Point after high school," Carson wrote. "Bill, that is true. I was the highest student ROTC member in Detroit and was thrilled to get an offer from West Point."
8 posted on 11/06/2015 11:09:51 AM PST by frankenMonkey
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To: detective

Nope.
See here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357211/posts


9 posted on 11/06/2015 11:10:17 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Theo
"Politico lied. Let's stop promoting their lie."

I am not "promoting their lie". I am exposing it and refuting it.

10 posted on 11/06/2015 11:11:07 AM PST by detective
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To: detective

Ben Carson just RESPONDED to a serious lie.


11 posted on 11/06/2015 11:12:00 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i libeThe Democrats and their allies the GOPe rali sono feccia.)
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there is no such thing as a scholarship to west point. not only is tuition free, if you manage to get nominated and admitted, they pay you to attend.


12 posted on 11/06/2015 11:12:52 AM PST by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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To: detective

Immediately after Carson’s poll numbers were up, the media chose to pull out the attack stories that they had been saving for just such a moment.

The leftist media has already amassed a stockpile of dirt on every Republican candidate. They go back in the person’s life to find someone who will give them something they can use.

Never fails. They do this every time.

Meanwhile, they lie and cover up information about democrats.

The media bots need to burn in hell. May they be damned.


13 posted on 11/06/2015 11:13:22 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

When you say african american, do you mean a black?


They used to be blacks but I believe they became African American about 10 - 15 years ago. I wish they would make up their minds.


14 posted on 11/06/2015 11:13:28 AM PST by boycott
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To: Blueflag
"Nope. See here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357211/posts"

Read comment #1.

15 posted on 11/06/2015 11:14:09 AM PST by detective
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I say what Politico and Fortune are doing here is yet another high-tech lynching of an “uppity black man”, and should be responded to as such.


16 posted on 11/06/2015 11:14:41 AM PST by Junk Silver
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Yeah, I don’t jump through their hoops like so many of my fellow, well-trained Americans. I’m white, they’re black—simple. The day people start referring to me as a European American, I’ll think about changing my mind.


17 posted on 11/06/2015 11:16:01 AM PST by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: detective

The media makes up one story, and then later comes around and attributes it to Ben and “debunks” it.

GRR!

It should be enough to make Ben and Trump great friends, however the race shakes out for the nomination. Trump is the great bulldog siccing the media right now. We probably couldn’t have predicted any of these characters, or would have predicted a group of nothing but milquetoasts a la Jeb picking pettily at one another and taking huge offense at it.

If I may be sardonic, this current drama looks a lot less like it’s about men than it looks like it’s about God.


18 posted on 11/06/2015 11:16:11 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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Unfortunate that many here believed what the media wrote so desperate for their guy to win.

Can this be called the fog of politics.


19 posted on 11/06/2015 11:16:38 AM PST by RginTN
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To: detective

Looks like Ben is getting the Herman Cain treatment.

As a Cruz supporter I say, pray for Ben Carson.


20 posted on 11/06/2015 11:16:44 AM PST by Obadiah (The 90's called, they want their slimy Clinton back.)
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