Backtracking all ready. Looks like the alternative media is getting more powerful.
PoliticRAP does it yet again.
Let’s hope they have a good insurance policy. /s
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/press-trashes-politico-scoop-on-ben-carson/article/2575827
The website Politico thought it caught the retired neurosurgeon red-handed, but others think the Arlington, Va., based publication rushed to judgment.
Kyle Cheney of Politico wrote that the Carson campaign “admitted that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.” Cheney fingered Carson’s book Gifted Hands as evidence of the GOP front-runner’s misdeeds.
But that story seemed to unravel soon after it came out, as other journalists began to point out that the book does not make any mention of Carson having applied to West Point, nor being accepted into the institution.......
...Politico went for a hit and came up short. In the end, they stepped on a rake. Carson, whose campaign is largely built around bashing the media as biased attack machines for the left, will emerge not only unscathed, but stronger.
http://www.redstate.com/2015/11/06/politico-outright-lies-ben-carson/
I’ve been critical-harshly so-of Ben Carson’s campaign for the Presidency. But bullcrap is bullcrap, and this Politico story purporting to prove that Ben Carson’s campaign admitted to “fabricating” a story about his admission to West Point is absolute bullcrap. It definitely exposes one error on Ben Carson’s point in his retelling of an alleged conversation with General William Westmoreland-but Politico’s errors in its reporting are far more egregious, inexcusable, and intentional than anything they have uncovered with respect to Carson so far....
Limbaugh: ‘Friday, November Sixth Is The Assassination Attempt Of Ben Carson’ By The Media [VIDEO]
Politico is trying to cover up its lies. Carson and the other candidates need to emphasize the dishonesty of the MSM.
Trump also needs to recognize he was wrong in repeating the story and apologize.
Politico was able to do an in depth investigation and confirm what Carson has always said - that he didn’t apply to West Point.
They also confirmed a Westmoreland visit and event in Detroit that Carson would have attended - when I think their whole idea was to prove that false.
These guys are great journalists.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/376/254
[Pretending we’re still a nation of laws and not men. US v. Nixon (1974)]
Politico used the Dan Rather/See-BS method of “reporting”. Throw it out there (ring the bell) then challenge others to prove it isn’t true, and when and if they do the bell has already been rung.
It looks like Politico has egg all over it’s face on this one, and I am not a Carson supporter.
Seems like they tried to be too slick.
I think Trump made a mistake by jumping into it too.
When the MSM is involved, better to wait and be safe than sorry. Chances are the MSM is lying. He should know that.
Anyway, it will be interesting to see how he handles this, Carson handled it well, and Politico should be shut down IMO.
Too little. Too late. The damage has been done.
It’s getting where any idiot blogger can post a pack of lies.
What pisses me off is FReepers who ought to know better. If I fired off an angry reply on the main thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357149/posts
to every FReeper who swallowed the load and called Carson a liar, or an idiot or worse - I’d still be over there correcting people.
Can’t unring a bell, though.
And they need to do a little more backtracking in the article...
"When in doubt Lie! Lie Until You Cannot Lie Anymore!"
Carson wins this one. Politico caved. Bwahahahahaha!
Carson lied like hell when he said he was offered a “full scholarship”. He needs to explain why he thought it was necessary to embellish his record. Let me correct it.
“Ben Carson lies about being offered a West Point scholarship.â€
CARSON: But I did hear a lot of what you can’t do. Like when I joined the ROTC and I joined late so I wouldn’t have the full six semesters, I would only have five. And you know, I had a goal of achieving the office of city executive officer. Well no one had ever done that in that amount of time and everybody told me, you can’t do that. But long story short, it worked — I did it. I was offered a full scholarship to West Point, got to meet General Westmoreland, go to Congressional Medal of Honor dinners. But decided really my pathway would be medicine. [PBS, Charlie Rose, 10/9/15]
They are nothing but pieces of $h!t at politico. Bastards. No self respect. Willing to lie to turn this country into a $h!thole.
So here we go ... Threw some sh_t at the wall and it didn’t stick. Now on to the next pile of feces.
How do you spell S.O.B.’s?
A fabrication about a fabrication - what a surprise....