He got accepted to Yale. He had the supporters who told him he’d be given a scholarship.
Note the media firestorm over this one slight error vs. the total walk Obama got about his past.
People have caught on and ignore the media. Trump has been the first truly post-MSM candidacy. Well, you can go back to Reagan when the media was truly in control. Reagan just bypassed them and went straight to the American people.
Uh, there IS this little detail that you must be nominated by a U.S. Congressman from the district you live in before even being considered by West Point.
Exactly.
It degenerated down to playing with words - that West Point only has appointments, not scholarships, as if calling it a scholarship was damning, somehow making Carson a confabulator.
When in fact West Point refers to it as scholarship.
Expecting the news media to actually practice investigative journalism seems to be setting too high of a standard for that career path.
Great work Celmak!
Having been connected to the process, I know that (1) you do have to have a complete application to be formally offered admission to West Point, and (2) you do not have to have completed your package to be told in writing, through a Letter of Assurance, that you “will most likely be offered admission upon completion of” the application.
Even if, as claimed by the media, Carson never completed an application to West Point, his version could be essentially true, certainly as perceived by a comparatively unsophisticated 17 y/o boy. With West Point describing their admission as a “full scholarship” and providing these letters even to students who have not completed the application, this smear against Dr. Carson looks like much ado about nothing.
Start apologizing to Carson, MSM.
Great post, and from my observation, there are two, amongst many, who haven’t bothered...