Well, he’s still got his medical practice to fall back on.
I posted an article from Gawker about another possible lie from his book, but now I think Gawker might just be trolling everyone, because you could put whatever words in his mouth and it sounds like he might have said them. I’ll wait until someone else posts it.
What I do think that it would be very interesting is to check what did really happen under the context of the Vietnam war. As an ROTC it is more likely that Carson supported the War that at that time was becoming a very unpopular one, AFAIK Carson has declared that his focus was elsewhere but that he did not fought against the ones opposing the war, that he was just indifferent. :dubious: :dubious:
But really, to me making a big deal of Meeting Westmoreland and with the hindsight of all the years passed before Carson wrote his book, I’m less impressed with Carson, and I thought that was not possible. If I was writing the book I would had kept as far away as I could from Westmoreland or to make the meeting with him just an afterthought of a less important celebration. That would had been closed to reality too.
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Aha! Behold, how the liberal media operates! He wasn’t there on those days, but where was he on the* 25th*?! Smoking gub!
Correction to the last line of my post:
That would had been closer to reality too.
On Edit: But yeah, I also think that Ben Carson was and has a mind that is closed to reality.
I think this press conference marks the peak of Carson’s poll numbers. It’s all downhill from here.
Hostile towards the press, wants to ask the questions, thinks Obama escaped scrutiny.It’s all a bunch of LSM lies. Why, he was named the most honest studentin his class at Yale!
I did some research on this in the other thread.
I predict his book is going to rocket to the top of the best seller list, because it seems to be full of stories like this that he obviously made up, and liberals will laugh till their sides hurt.
i saw him claiming this. He seemed to believe it. He truly is crazy
Yup. No longer any question. He may not be dangerous (unless he’s elected to public office), but he is definitely not in touch with reality.
So I owe him an apology. I thought he was lying about his biography. I’m beginning to think that he believes every word he wrote. He must lie awake at night, having fantasies about himself, and within a few months, they are indistinguishable from real memories.
In an article on Carson in Saturday’s Chicago Tribune, the author links to a Facebook post by Carson himself in August, in which he responded to several questions. He answered a question about West Point with this:
Note that wording. “…thrilled to get an offer from West Point.” Even if he was only told by someone (Westmoreland or otherwise) that he had the credentials to apply to West Point (but never actually applied to the school, nor received an actual offer to attend), the way he words this reply certainly seems structured in a way to make the reader believe that an offer was explicitly extended by the school itself.
IMO, at best, Carson is as good at weasel words as any other politician. At worst, it looks like one in what may be a series of fabricated stories which he used to create a mythology around himself.
Oh joy, Dr. Seven Years of Fat Kine is landing here tomorrow to address the meeting of Puerto Rico statehood advocates. Means I’m gonna have the ?pleasure? of hearing the wackiness in person.
Not that this is an issue that really rallies the Latino vote. Most major stateside 'Rican organizations and leaders are anti-statehood, aggravatingly enough (and mostly Dem-aligned anyway). But the new Chair of the local GOP has said she will not support fundraising for candidates who do not support admission, so that probably drew him.
He’s loaded up and truckin’.
He gonna do what they say can’t be done. :dubious:
How did the son of a mother on food stamps and government assistance afford to attend medical school?
He couldn’t have just re-directed the rioters?
That must be it! He saw them running down the street, yelling “Where the white women at?” and he yelled “Thataway!” pointing in the wrong direction. So of course there’s no corroboration!
I didn’t realize that now you have to have cites for everything in your autobiography. I notice this is also the first time such a thing has been required of a candidate.
Carson’s winning this war with the media so far. Politico had to backtrack on their claim that Carson lied about West Point, since they attributed claims to him that he never made, and CNN is still busy claiming that since they can’t corroborate childhood stories from the 1960s, he must have made them up.
On the bright side, at least the media is being fair. Unlike the kid gloves treatment Obama got, the media is going hammer and tongs after any candidate who looks like they might be getting on top from either party. Rubio, Sanders, Carson, Trump, and Clinton have all been hit with unusually vicious media coverage in the past few months. All you can ask is that if the media’s going to call balls and strikes that way that they do it the same for all the frontrunners.
I think you mean Wall Street Journal.
Yes, the ones who recently reported that he was quiet and stayed out of trouble and concentrated on his studies. I remember just eight years ago how important temperament was for the Presidency, more important than experience. Ah, how times and standards change depending on who is running.