Posted on 11/07/2015 2:13:20 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
As Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson defends his past descriptions of receiving a scholarship offer for the US Military Academy at West Point, new doubts have been on his past, including a story of how he sheltered white classmates during Detroit race riots. Carson blasted the media on Friday after several reports questioned the validity of his book, Gifted Hands, but the presidential hopeful told the press that they were being unfair and he felt like the victim of a âwitch huntâ.
Questions about Carson's assertions about his personal history, including his claim that he was a troubled youth beset at times by violent behavior, and his inaccurate pronouncements about historical events have gained attention as he has risen to the top of some national polls.
'I think what it shows, and these kinds of things show, is there is a desperation on behalf of some to try to find a way to tarnish me,' Carson said no Friday night during a news conference outside West Palm Beach. 'Because they have been looking through everything,' he added. 'They have been talking to everyone I have ever known and everybody I have ever seen. There has got to be a scandal.'
He told reporters, 'My job is to call you out when you're unfair, and I'm going to continue to do that.'
The most recent story under question is a harrowing tale he told last month of protecting his white high school classmates the day after Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968. Violent race riots hit the neurosurgeon-turned-politicianâs predominantly black Southwestern High School in Detroit. Carson, who was a junior lab assistant with a key to the schoolâs biology lab, sheltered his frightened friends from violence by bringing them into the workroom, he told the Wall Street Journal.
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Actually I really should clarify. you want to post your leftist crap un opposed and un debated. I ping those that have an interest in the truth. If they choose to engage leftists such as yourself thats their choice. Considering not one of you to date had addressed anything I say, it’s not like I need help doing to you what your posts do to themselves. If thats arrogant, it’s just the way it goes. I’m awesome anyway.
Note, this is a joke, at least as of this moment, the long knives are sure out for this poor guy. He must not have a mistress so they have to get really inventive.
“I still think Clinton was a decent President. Much better than Obama.”
You just reminded me of a verse about liberal idiots who voted for the Serial Rapist and Bathhouse Barry—twice.
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.
You don’t find the timing convenient? They had four months to dump on Carson but held off. Why?
Seems to be a lot of leftism among FR’s Trumpanzee brigade and its not all coming from the election season trolls.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3348010/posts?page=52#52
Yea but consider the source on that one. Not a leftist position he aver met he didn’t embrace outside this obsession.
“I still think Clinton was a decent President.”
I sure wish I had not read that. You make me sick.
The Trump supporters are relatively restrained here at FR but on twitter they let it all hang out.
I just had one inform me that the Israeli government is paying the entire cost of the Cruz campaign and that they killed Kennedy (Whatever that had to do with anything)
who the hell cares???
Anti-American troll.
all part of the plan
Shades of Eschoir.
Just take a look at white students hiding in a classroom in SA. Carson’s accounts are perfectly plausible.
Heck. There are black students assaulting white teachers on a daily basis. Yes. I do believe Carson sheltered whites from black assaults.
I agree with you.
Why? Because she lives a real life and has real kids who aren’t perfect conservatives?
Hmmm. If you’re talking about the same person who has a sign up date (remember that? sign up date) as you do, then yeah I guess we can say those new sign ups have an attitude.
You sure did. Why is that wrong?
And, like you said 4 years ago, yes 4 years ago, why should a sign up date matter? Guess it only matters when it’s not you, lmao.
“The new signups sure do come with a full dose of attitude these days.”
So you’re the only one who can have “attitude?”
She has an attitude problem? ROTFLMAO
I think the two of you have the same sign up date.
Are we still talking about sign up dates? Heh
Too many crazies.
But he is a “decent president” according to what has been shown (very few know the real story). That’s the story the American people have been fed. It’s the slant that our education system, entertainment, and news media is telling.
Why is it so hard to believe that many, even Conservatives, think he was a “decent” president?
Many still think Carter was a “decent” president. Many still think Reagan sucked, Nixon sucked, etc.
It’s really not that hard to believe when every institution for the last few decades is perpetuating this narrative.
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