Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson enters Tuesday’s fourth Republican presidential debate ahead of the GOP field by the slimmest of margins.
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And one of those stories, that he had dinner with Vietnam-era Gen. William Westmoreland in Detroit and was offered a full scholarship to West Point, has essentially been retracted.
In response to Carson’s argument, The Independent Journal Review has published several stories concerning President Obama that the media has either completely forgotten about, or covered rather mediocrely.
Carson had nothing to offer on these subjects during the debate other than saying, “People who know me know that I’m an honest person”.
The National Review said that the thing that Dr. Carson has said is the biggest discrepancy between the furor in the media and the irrelevance of his statements to any political issue.
But the best news for Carson, Rubio and Cruz could be that likely Republican primary voters overwhelmingly say the more they hear about them, the more they like them. In both situations, there are about a quarter of those polled who say they are undecided. When CNN said they couldn’t find those people to confirm the story, Carson rightly responded by asking how would they? He then pivoted towards Hillary Clinton and the accusations that she lied about the Benghazi attack. He is also right to object that other reporters checking his biography make his telling of his story sound like lies when they can not corroborate personal encounters and incidents from four or five decades ago.
During Tuesday night’s debate, Carson argued Democratic candidates, like front-runner Hillary Clinton, haven’t faced the same type of scrutiny. With Carson trailing him by just a point or so in the RealClearPolitics average of GOP nomination race polls, Trump zeroed in on a variety of chinks he sees in Carson’s armor.
Jimmy Kimmel talked about that painting (and others) in Carson’s home/shrine to himself: “If Donald Trump had a painting like this, we’d set him on fire”.
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“I guess a book was written, I don’t know where this all came from, but a book was written before he ran for politics, but he said he has pathological disease in the book”, Trump said during an appearance on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos”. And now people are closer to finding out how Republican candidate Ben Carson might improve the décor in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, after seeing his home in the photo gallery on NBC. “Man!” said Trump during a rally in Springfield, Illinois.
