The only question left is whether he hangs around long enough to help another conservative media favorite who has no business being the nominee, Donald Trump, storm to victory at the GOP convention, before handing the presidency to Hillary Clinton.
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“The whole point is to distract the populace, to distract me”, he added. Of course the offer of a full scholarship flattered me. In a separate interview with “This Week” on Sunday, Carson responded to Trump’s comments.
“People are clearly able to see what’s going on”, Carson said Sunday on ABC’s This Week. He said he decided not to apply and went to Yale University instead to pursue medicine. “There was no application process [at West Point]”.
“My job is to call you out when you’re unfair, and I’m going to continue to do that”, he said.
Carson has brushed off numerous media’s questions and accusations.
The retired neurosurgeon said on several Sunday talk shows that he’s being scrutinized more closely than any other presidential candidate. It also claimed that the candidate had “admitted” the fabrication.
Now, in a remotely rational world, the last few days should have effectively ended Ben Carson’s presidential campaign. In many cases, Carson implied only that he received a formal offer from West Point. “It only fits into Dr. Carson’s narrative of a witch hunt” by the media.
By mid-afternoon, Politico posted a new version of its story that no longer included the wording that Carson had “fabricated” a part of his biography.
Ben Carson states it is time to move on from questions concerning the accuracy of his life story.
Trump also said on CNN that Lee Atwater, the 1988 campaign presidential manager for George H.W. Bush, floated the idea that Trump could run as Bush’s VP nominee. It tells the story of Carson’s rise from a childhood in inner-city Detroit to director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. “We’re responsible for the personal stories we tell about our lives and we need to be asked about them”, New Jersey Gov. Christie stated about Carson on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. In Carson’s telling, they were not built to be tombs, as historians and archeologists say.
“Absolutely not”, he told the network’s “This Week” news program.
Carson said that he will let the American people decide what’s true.
When asked if his brother was the person he attempted to stab, Carson answered, “I’m not giving any information about who the person was that I tried to knife…” Asking if he had made a mistake in recounting the story, he said, “I don’t think so. So unless you were the victim of that temper, why would you know?” As overjoyed as I felt to be offered such a scholarship, I wasn’t really tempted. “I am always going to call that out when I see it”. His bombastic, made-for-TV personality and history as a reality TV star mean that he is simply not held to the same standards as other candidates.
In fact, applicants to West Point must be sponsored by a member of Congress or the secretary of the Army. If accepted, they attend tuition-free: There are no “scholarships” at West Point beyond the benefits that all cadets get.
Carson and his campaign forcefully reject any suggestion he has been less than completely truthful.
“Each college required a ten-dollar non-returnable entrance fee sent with the application”, Carson wrote.
To me these stories all fit a pattern very similar to, though slightly different from, the one we all saw with Brian Williams.
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“Ben Carson is very well-educated and well-spoken and he’s not part of the Republican establishment”, said Jason Cook, 41, a mechanical engineer from Crowley, Texas. “He considered it but in the end did not seek admission”, Watts said.
