REPORTER: He called you a child molester. Do you think he owes you an apology?
CARSON: Well, I don’t think he called me a child molester.
REPORTER: He compared your pathology to child molestation.
CARSON: Well, you know, I always find it a little amusing what people in the press like to say. You compare this, and therefore this is all the same. I don’t buy all that stuff, so those are questions you should ask Donald Trump.
Would some Freepers like to apologize to Donald now?
Actually Carson hit Trump even harder, questioning "the Donalds" ability to even understand what pathological means.
But Carson said Friday in South Carolina that someone should inform Trump what the word "pathological" means.
"It's the not the kind of dialogue that I would ever engage in. And I'm hopeful that maybe his advisers will help him to understand the word 'pathological' and recognize that does not denote 'incurable,'" Carson said when a reporter asked whether Trump's rhetoric was "appropriate" for a Republican front-runner.
"It's not the same," Carson added. "It simply is an adjective that describes something that is highly abnormal — and something that fortunately I've been able to be delivered from for half a century now."
Now that's good stuff. Suggesting Trump needs help from his advisors to understand a word, and that Carson wouldn't stoop so low as to engage in the kind of dialogue Trump demonstrated in his little tirade. This back and forth will be far more damaging to Trump than Carson.