With his place as Republican front-runner solidified with the release of many new polls putting him above Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson is now seeing the ugly side of sitting on top of national polls. Just days after cementing his new status as the Republican standard-bearer, Politico released a fact-challenged hit piece designed to paint Dr. Carson as a liar who fabricated his rags-to-riches story in his own autobiography.
The claim they dispute is in regards to Carson’s retelling of a story in which he said he was offered a scholarship to West Point Academy. Politico attempted to disprove this story by searching West Point’s admissions records.
When they found that Ben Carson never applied, they wrote a piece that said the entire story was fabricated. What they failed to mention — or perhaps failed to notice — was that Ben Carson never said he applied in the first place.
Faced with that fact, Politico was forced to retract major portions of their original hit piece, but the damage had already been done. Dr. Ben Carson was now playing defense against accusations against his moral character. This is just the latest in a series of fact-free attacks on GOP candidates by the liberal media. To read more about the Politico story, continue on to page two:
I am glad you made them back off Doc Carson i despise bullies
WHO CARES HE IS STILL A DOCTOR AND WE NEED A BUSINESSMAN NOT BANDAIDS.
Much ado about nothing! “Left unchecked, Politico’s witch hunt into Dr. Ben Carson’s past could have been damning evidence against the prospective presidential candidate. Instead, it now become yet more proof of the unfair liberal bias with which the mainstream media writes.”
I was never in the Carson camp but I just hate to see how they are nit-picking his writings where I believe he had NO intention of lying. They are just playing with his words to come up with their desired results.
jenny, he most certainly did say it. and he said it within the past two weeks, multiple times to the media. it’s recorded. you can’t make up your own facts.
additionally, he said that westmorlan himself told him to go to west point. turns out, that’s also a fabrication.
Good!
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carson is Not presidential material. He has anger management problems, which look like he is self medicating himself into dronesville, He attacked his mother with a hammer, smashed in the face of someone else with a lock and stabbed someone in the stomach. These are Not high school hi jinks, they are called Attempted MURDER! he has never built anything, He has never negotiated any international deals, He is For Amnesty, Sanctuary cities and Anchor Babies. He is a bought an paid for politician…His daughter in law is from Syria. If he gets angry will he stab someone? He believes the Devil is behind Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. He keeps quoting the bible. He has lied about his ties to Big Pharma. Dangerous person. He is friends with Al Sharpton, wants Louis Farrakahn on his cabinet and “relates” to Trayvon Martin. Carson is the true Trojan Horse.
carson is a delusional, self medicating liar…he is Not presidential material and we, as a Nation, do Not need someone with an anger management problem near the Nuclear Button! his campaign is over…
AS THEY SHOULD