This was back in the dawn of the “Affirmative Action” concept when the Army and Westpoint were trying to increase the percentage of black cadets from 2% to 10%.
Carson was an excellent prospect and I can understand a four-star general telling him he could get a scholarship to Westpoint. Westpoint even advertised “scholarships” in the day.
Take a look
http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii533/ken3690/WstpointScholarship_zpsu7r34dqv.jpg
I don’t know how this all got started, other than to say politics is a down and dirty business big time at this level.
Bill Clinton’s underlings leaked a story one Friday in the 1990’s about the WH steward who cleaned up after he met Monica Lewinsky, then the underlings backed away from their original version forcing the newspaper given the leak (”Dallas Morning News”) to back off its story and look bad.
It was all deliberately done to help the cause of Clinton.
Did some GOPe underlings who support Carson as their hope of stopping Trump have a hand in planting this story and then forcing its retraction?
Ben Carson’s playing the tactic of blaming the liberal media is the old Republican Establishment tactic to suck conservatives into doing the GOPe bidding.
RIchard NixOn had his VP Spiro Agnew trash the liberal media to distract from his friendliness to Communists in China and the Soviet Union.
The GOPe agenda with Carson is clear. Suck in conservatives to divide the vote with Trump and Cruz so their man who I think is Rubio can be pushed through to win the Republican nomination for POTUS.
It looks like this situation is being ginned up with that in mind.
The candidate who attacks the media hardest may very well win. No one likes the media. They really are scum.
Now, as for Kyle Cheney`s concession that he fabricated his piece on Carson. He didn`t. That`s how I`m interpreting his decision to stealthily edit his piece to remove much of the error. But Ben Carson didn`t "admit" or "concede" to fabrication and he`s been tarred by Cheney as if he had. So I`ll keep the headline.
I think Politico was doing exactly what this author is the Federalist is doing with this piece. Creating a false headline and then droning on and on and parsing words and interpretations. Both are shoddy excuses for journalism, IMO.
I don't fault Carson for is interpretation of the ROTC thing. Seems harmless to me given he was a top ROTC performer and did meet Westmoreland. The only thing he can count on though is more of the same since he's put his life up through age 39 down on paper in his own words. Now, much older, those words are going to dog him because he is a Republican Candidate.
Very sad for liberals. Fantasies are supposed to have happy endings.
http://www.west-point.org/academy/malo-wa/educators/faqs.html
HOWEVER, since there is no tuition, room or board charges at West Point, scholarships stipulated "for tuition, room or board only" or based on need rather than merit cannot be accepted. If the scholarship can be used for textbooks, uniforms, or other expenses, inform the donor to make it payable to Treasurer, USMA. ..... and yes, if the scholarship goes into his cadet account, (as provided above) it will offset the cost of books, etc.
Sadly, the damage is done.
Maybe to take Hillary’s name out of the headlines because she signed that form which I hope will have her decorating a jail cell by Christmas
Carson’s biggest problem is supporting the TPP and his weakness on gun rights.
The scary thing is that people support him for reasons other than really knowing his politics.
They support him because he is a nice man.
This clearly sounds like Carson was being actively recruited by West Point and even sounds as if Carson felt he was "special" in being offered a "full scholarship." In other words, almost as if Carson himself doesn't know that everyone who is accepted gets the "full scholarship" in the first place. And, secondly, the language certainly implies that it was a sure thing.
But then, the Carson campaign then characterizes the conversation with the General as "brief." Then in the press conference, he starts talking about being introduced to a bunch of unnamed West Point bigwigs saying that they could get him in.
What this sounds like to me is that Carson is probably exaggerating at minimum, or outright inventing details and conversations that never happened. Why focus on the General if they only had a brief conversation, when Carson's book refers to it as having "dinner" with the man? It moves from sitting at a table with the General to standing at the buffet line.
File a slander suit, Dr. Carson. Make them pay millions for their defamation. Let that be the new way to finance campaigns.
Kyle Cheney will go on publishing more delusions with no accountability whatsoever. Let the reader beware.
Headline: Politico Lies to Destroy Republican Candidate
Nah. That’s not news.
It does not matter if Kyle Cheney fabricated part or all of the story. The story is out and the MSM is having a field day with it.
Rush has been casually mentioning that the media and the establishment fully expected (spell that, P L A N N E D) Carson to have a Herman Cain moment.
Well, the GOPe once again gott’er done.
Kyle Cheney is a graduate cum laude of the Dan Rather school of Journalism.
I am solid behind Trump, but I don't care who the person was, we in America have higher standards than this..
Whether Carson said or inferred or whatever, this was a bad mark towards America and Americans to stoop this low to make a point...
This author should be fired immediately and feel what's its like to be ‘branded’ with this vile nonsense...there are more respectable ways of getting your point across...
Anybody who bothered to read the article as I did could tell from the moment it was posted, was a hack job. Rule #1 as a matter of principle.. DON’T EVER, EVER TRUST THE LEFT WING MEDIA!
Before this story came out I considered Carson damaged goods, most reasons already discussed in above posts, I still think he would make an excellent Surgeon General in the Cruz administration, so far as what we know now about Carson.
Does Kyle Cheney know there was a credible rape charge against Bill Clinton? A man who could be first husband? Does he know about sluts and nuts teams that trashed Clinton’s conquests? And that Hillary was in on it?
When doing reviews of so called media exposes (with the editing problem I am refraining from using apostrophes or contractions in my responses) to FRs. Those reviews should contain the names and a still (photo) of the propagandist and the venue used. Which only a handfull of FRs do. Which I wish I could do but because of tech problemns can not.
But,what I find disgusting is instead we have FR candidate supporters, mostly Trump chumpions, gleefully using and repeating the lies and misrepresentations advanced by media . But never questioning that so called report until of course their sacred mcandidate gets attacked.
When it is the media and their miss informing that should be attacked.
