Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Now doubts are cast on Carson’s story of sheltering white classmates during Detroit race riots
Daily Mail ^ | 11/7/2015 | Kelly Mclaughlin

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 ‘witch hunt’.

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-politician’s predominantly black Southwestern High School in Detroit. Carson, who was a junior lab assistant with a key to the school’s biology lab, sheltered his frightened friends from violence by bringing them into the workroom, he told the Wall Street Journal.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carson; elections
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 261-278 next last
To: Norm Lenhart

“As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him”

Titus 3:10


61 posted on 11/07/2015 3:15:25 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: moehoward

If you have a problem with that, don’t read it.


62 posted on 11/07/2015 3:15:57 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies]

To: re_nortex

If you’re not over the target, you won’t find resistance:

(5 mins.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M7l54aSNYg


63 posted on 11/07/2015 3:17:30 PM PST by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Yes. Let us on the conservative site Free Republic unite under the idea that Bill clinton was a decent president.


64 posted on 11/07/2015 3:18:26 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: DoodleDawg

“For the majority of Americans who’s taxes you will be raising,...”

That would be “whose taxes ...” You’re welcome!


65 posted on 11/07/2015 3:20:17 PM PST by EDINVA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Norm Lenhart

A “Decent President”? Bill Clinton? Huh? What exactly about his time in office is considered ‘decent’ to you? Was it his transferring American missile guidance tech. to China for campaign contributions maybe?


66 posted on 11/07/2015 3:20:38 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: bobby.223; Norm Lenhart

“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.”

Proverbs 26:4


67 posted on 11/07/2015 3:21:38 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: Norm Lenhart

“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.”

Proverbs 26:4


68 posted on 11/07/2015 3:22:04 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Says the fool that thinks rapists are decent presidents.


69 posted on 11/07/2015 3:23:52 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 68 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

All this suddenly discovered, minutes after Carson hits the top in the polls.

The left has a vast stockpile of accusatory material on every republican who can be a threat. They bring it out at a time calculated to best destroy the republican.


70 posted on 11/07/2015 3:24:16 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Norm Lenhart

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”

Jeremiah 17:9


71 posted on 11/07/2015 3:24:54 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 69 | View Replies]

To: I want the USA back

That’s right.


72 posted on 11/07/2015 3:25:49 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I’m dire God appreciates scripture being used to support a rapist.

Jesus better put some ice on that.


73 posted on 11/07/2015 3:25:54 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Norm Lenhart

Do you think your ‘decent’ President, Bill Clinton, was thinking of Proverbs 26:4 when he was cramming his cigars into that little girl Monica Lewinsky?


74 posted on 11/07/2015 3:27:31 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: NYer; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
“Another “media” lynching, much like they did to Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain.”

Clarence Thomas was a high tech lynching. I watched every minute I could of that trial. Most all the ones that knew both Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas said that she was not telling the truth. When you are harassed, you don't follow your harasser to the next job. I wrote to Clarence Thomas after the hearing and he wrote me back. The women who spoke out about his character had to wait till some ungodly hour to even be allowed to testify. Only about 8 were allowed to testify, but there were a while lot more that wanted to testify for Thomas. They gave Anita Hill prime-time. Biden was the chairman.


Cain is a different story. I had contributed to his campaign. He brought himself down. He should have told the truth from the start.

“Meanwhile, no challenges have ever been raised by them over Obama’s sealed student records, much less his questionable birth certificate. Where was the msm when Obama said: “If you like your health care provider, you can keep your provider.” They fawn over O and his save the planet policies while he and Michelle are burning up fuel on their worldwide travels, vacations and golf outings.”

Of course the media isn't going to ask Obama these questions. He is their Marxist, Socialist, Anti-American Muslim President.

75 posted on 11/07/2015 3:27:48 PM PST by FR_addict (Ryan needs to go!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: bobby.223; Norm Lenhart

“But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions (sins).” (Matthew 6:15)

Matthew 13:15...
“For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.”


76 posted on 11/07/2015 3:30:28 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: jwalsh07

“The BlackFemaleArmyCaptain is all in on high tech lynching”

-—Racist much, you ignorant a$$wipe


77 posted on 11/07/2015 3:31:00 PM PST by MichelleWSC3
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Norm Lenhart

Matthew 13:15...
“For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.”


78 posted on 11/07/2015 3:31:15 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Disgusting.


79 posted on 11/07/2015 3:31:24 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 76 | View Replies]

To: MichelleWSC3

Racist? Lol. I think you made a wrong turn. DU is on the left.


80 posted on 11/07/2015 3:33:08 PM PST by jwalsh07 (.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 77 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100 ... 261-278 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson