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RUSH: Let me ask you a question, folks. Does any of this with Ben Carson amount to anything at all like Bill and Hillary and their abuse of their library foundation and their personal enrichment? Multimillionaires out selling influence on the come to foreign governments? Hillary's involvement in the Keystone pipeline deal and Bill's as well, where they are enriched from the decision? Does anything that Carson's done get anywhere near that kind of corruption on the Clinton side? Then CARSON asks... You ask questions about veracity of what she's done? I want you to go back and ask her...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So here you have someone like Ben Carson with his life and his resume, and they're trying to destroy him. They're trying to destroy him the way they destroy everybody in politics. One of the ways they're doing it now, apparently in his book he talks about some of his experience as a young man where he says he was a young tough, a brute, he was mean, was a bully to people. And the media is running around saying, "You know what, he's just trying to make himself look tough 'cause he's so boring. We can't...

Simple analysis shows Ben Carson’s support is driven by the White guilt, “We’ll show you we’re not bigots!” crowd. Carson is a nice and decent human being. He has a soothing way of speaking and makes most of his points when he stays within is narrow field of knowledge. He is Black and a conservative Republican. All of these qualities make him an attractive candidate for a certain segment of the Republican rank and file: The White guilt crowd. Supporting Carson gives them the chance to congratulate themselves and proclaim, “I am not a bigot. I oppose Barack Obama not...

Donald Trump has been dethroned — at least in Iowa. A new Quinnipiac University poll out Thursday shows that Ben Carson now leads the GOP presidential field in the Hawkeye State by an 8 point margin, winning the support of 28 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers to Trump's 20 percent. That's a big reversal and a big drop for Trump, who just last month led Carson in the state 27 percent to 21 percent, Politico reports.