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"Meet the Press" this morning, Donald Trump was asked about Ben Carson:
Well, I feel badly for Ben. I've gotten to like Ben. And it's a tough thing. I mean, he writes a book where he went after his mother, hit her on the head, or wanted to hit her on the head with a hammer. Hitting a friend in the face with a lock, with a padlock, hard in the face, stabbing somebody, only to be broken up by a belt buckle. Which, if you know about belt buckles, they turn and they twist. I don't think they're going to stop a knife with the force of a strong man. And when he writes that he has pathological disease in a book, now he obviously wrote this book prior to thinking about running for office, I assume. But he said he has pathological disease.... Well, if you have pathological disease, that's a problem. I mean, he wrote it. I didn't write it. But he's going to have to explain a lot of things away. The scholarship situation, the dinner with Westmoreland when Westmoreland wasn't there. And the pyramids. You know, a pyramid is a solid structure, essentially. Other than a little area for the pharaoh. And you don't put grain in a pyramid because it's all solid.
He used the same material on
"Face the Nation":
When you are talking about hitting your mother over the head with a hammer -- and I'm sure you never said that. And I never said that or thought that. And hitting a friend in the face with a lock, with a padlock, and stabbing somebody, and, you know, lots of -- and saying you have psycho -- when you have pathological disease, which he said. And now the whole thing comes out about West Point, where he was talking about scholarships at West Point. And, you know, I have been -- I know a lot about West Point. West Point doesn't do the scholarship thing. So, a lot of -- a lot of questions are being raised. And the pyramid situation is a little bit different, because, frankly, if you know anything about the pyramids, you know they are pretty solid structures. They don't have -- they didn't have steel, where they would span it and they would create a big vacuum underneath. Those are solid structures. So, you're talking about storing grain in the pyramids. Well, they have very little space. They have space for small rooms, where the pharaohs had their coffins and where the pharaohs were buried, essentially. So, a lot of -- a lot of things are going on. And I don't know. I just don't know what to think. I hope it -- I hope it works out fine for Ben. I just don't know what to think....
Pressed by the moderator to admit this material is "quite secondary":
Well, I think when you say that you stabbed someone, and was saved by a belt buckle -- and that's pretty unlikely, because a belt buckle will turn. You know, a belt buckle is not going to stop a knife. The belt buckle itself will turn. And when you say you hit your mother over the head with a hammer, or tried to, those are pretty -- and when you write in book that you have pathological disease, pathological disease is not cured. And, you know, you had dinner with Westmoreland -- now, I hear Westmoreland may not have been in the area where the dinner took place at that time, according to his schedule. So, I don't know about that. And maybe it's right and maybe it's wrong, but those are pretty tough charges. And they were written by him himself. The pathological stuff was written. That's very serious, pathological disease.
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The grain is in a secret chamber in middle-earth. They just haven't found the elevator shaft inside the pyramids yet.
When they do, it's all over for midwest grain farmers. Because there's going to be a shit-load of grain coming out of middle-earth, I'm-a telling you fer sure...
I wonder if there are rats in middle-earth.
Oh crap!
(seriously, it's over for the doctor...)
"pathological disease" - Trump himself might be suffering from potentially incurable superfluous redundancy.
Trump has a way of hanging a tag on a person.
Jeb: Low Energy.
Carson: Pathology and Pyramids.
When the time comes if he hangs the "Corrupt" tag on Hillary we'll know he means business.
I am Laslo.
Westmoreland was not at an event on or near Memorial Day, but Carson would have had a chance to meet him the previous February.
Carson is not attributing the West Point offer to Westmoreland - and he didn't really do that in the book. The next sentence after the meeting with Westmoreland is that "later" he "was offered" (passive voice) the scholarship.
(I speculated that Carson was correcting a ghostwriter, but he didn't correct him enough. Or was it somebody else who canged it?)
Trump is maybe not up to speed on all this.
Also, worthy of note: Vietnam is spelled as two words in that book: Viet Nam. That's really old fashioned and may very well have come from Carson himself. (or was that his evangelical publisher's style?)
Trump as usual exposing with precision the weakest link in Ben Carson's candidacy which is himself. Well done!
Trump is the only one with the guts to question. Carson's fabrications. All the others are too worried about upsetting Carson's crazy supporters
Trump is enlisting the leftist media in his attacks to bring Ben Carson down. Three weeks ago he told George Snuffleupagus, (a contributor to the Clinton Crime Family and former Sesame Street character) that he would have to go after Carson:
"Probably. At some point, yes, which I actually look forward to doing," Trump said, adding that at the moment, "I can't do it. He's been so nice to me."
Personal attacks are not unexpected from narcissists.
Apparently Carson never suspected the Pyramid Inquisition.
I am Laslo.
@Steve Uhr said...
Trump is the only one with the guts to question. Carson's fabrications. All the others are too worried about upsetting Carson's crazy supporters.
So Trump never fabricates and Carson is the only candidate with "crazy supporters"?
Whatever T-rump does or says is always correct according to his crazy crowd because he can determine whatever passes through his brain on its way to his mouth at warp speed to be precisely the one and only correct answer to the world's most complex problems.
Trump should know a little about writing stuff and then getting called on it. Does anyone remember Trump University? Those suing him sure do.
Who knew Donald Trump knew the intricacies of fighting with belt buckles. On his off time is he a forensic pathologist of some sort?
The Bible says the grain was stored in each city. (Genesis 41:48) Rabbi Hertz, in his Chumash (1936) says in his comentary to 41:45, that Egyptologists say Joseph's new name, Zaphenath Paneah, means "Food Man of the Life"
His commentary to Genesis 47:19 says:
both we and our land 'The old feudal nobility of Egypt disappeared during the Hyksos period, and from the time of the eighteenth Dynasty onward, we find the land, which had formerly been held by local proprietors, belonging either to the Pharoah or to the temples. At the same time public granaries make their appearance, he superintendent of which became one of the most important of Egyptian officials' (Sayce)
That sounds like archeologists had already found possible grain storage sites, or at least records of them. They weren't the pyramids!
Nor did the children of Israel build pyramids (another misconception) but storage cities for Pharoah - called Pithom and Ramesis. (Exodus 1:11)
The Pharaoh Ramesis II, whose mummy is now in Paris, (Wikipedia says Cairo but I remember reading how he was being treated for an infection or something in Paris) named everything after himself, including things previous rulers had built.
They didn't always use pyramids. By the time Joseph came around, they had probably stopped building pyramids. They are only thought to have been used from about 2700 BC until about 1700 BC. After that, they used tombs. Although some were built much later in the Sudan, even as late as 300 CE. There are only about 135 pyramids in Egypt.
Sometime after the High Priest of Amun Pinudjem II died (it is said, in 969 BC) the remains of about 50 Egyptian kings were moved to his tomb to protect them from grave robbers. The mummies of the Pharoahs kept on being moved and moved to protect them.
"Carson is not attributing the West Point offer to Westmoreland - and he didn't really do that in the book. The next sentence after the meeting with Westmoreland is that "later" he "was offered" (passive voice) the scholarship."
The issue with the west point scholarship is really dubious journalism. Politico misattributed to Carson what he actually said. Now, its true that West point doesn't in fact offer scholarships. But they would pay for his education. He says they offered him a paid for education at west point. Which he turned down. Nowhere did he say he received a scholarship. But if you are being offered to have your education paid for fully its' the equivalent of a scholarship.
So lets not fault Carson for saying he was offered what amounts to a scholarship if in fact he was. And there was no evidence that he wasn't.
Politico had to actually walk back their headline.
I'll also note that the media is doing an awful lot of vetting on claims made in his book. Did they perform such due diligence when discussing Obama's books? He clained that his mom was denied claims by her medical insurance. He used composite charaters. He even said that the scenes in the book may contain composites.
The media allowed his book to contain poetic licenses almost without question.And don't get me started on white washing his involvement with Rev Wright. CNN had a no Wright policy where they refused to cover his book.
So, sure, lets vet the guy. Where was the vetting when it was the other guy? And if youre going to vet the guy don't put words in his mouth.
" Which, if you know about belt buckles, they turn and they twist. I don't think they're going to stop a knife with the force of a strong man."
I know a little about belt buckles since I wear a belt. And I know that the buckle itself does not really turn. The belt might twist. But the buckle itself is solid. So if you swung a belt buckle at someone, so long as the solid end of the buckle hit the person holding the knife you might actually do some damage.
Further, as belts are longer than your waste you could swing it and the person with the knife would be at a disadvantage until they closed the gap.
Carson said they didn't do this to "one President Barack Obama" Carson cited Bill Ayers, claiming that people didn't want to say they knew each other.
It is certainly true there was all kinds of false stuff in Barack Obama;s autobiography. Obama, however, had said that some of the people were compsoites, and that let him get away with it.
There's actually one bit of fact checking that Carson could haqve cited that nobody has made too much of but probably Carson himself is not aware of it:
https://books.google.com/books?id=GrCMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT458&dq=obama+ebony+color+tribune&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAGoVChMI3bH6jseByQIVx1g-Ch0AUw_Q#v=onepage&q=obama%20ebony%20color%20tribune&f=false
OR see:
http://theobamafile.com/obamarace.htm
Also in his memoir, Obama writes of one of the watershed moments of his racial awareness -- time and again in remarkable detail. It is a story about a Life magazine article that influenced him. The report was about a black man who tried to bleach his skin white. When Obama was told no such article could be found in Life, he says "it might have been Ebony.
He is 9 years old, living in Indonesia, where he and his mother moved with her new husband, Lolo Soetoro, a few years earlier. One day while visiting his mother, who was working at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Obama passed time by looking through several issues of Life magazine. He came across an article that he later would describe as feeling like an "ambush attack."
The article included photos of a black man who had destroyed his skin with powerful chemical lighteners that promised to make him white. Instead, the chemicals had peeled off much of his skin, leaving him sad and scarred, Obama recalled.
"I imagine other black children, then and now, undergoing similar moments of revelation," Obama wrote of the magazine photos in "Dreams."
Yet no such photo exists, according to historians at the magazine. No such photos, no such article. When asked about the discrepancy, Obama said in a recent interview, "It might have been an Ebony or it might have been ... who knows what it was?" (At the request of the Tribune, archivists at Ebony searched their catalogue of past articles, none of which matched what Obama recalled.)
In fact, it is surprising, based on interviews with more than two dozen people who knew Obama during his nearly four years in Indonesia, that it would take a photograph in a magazine to make him conscious of the fact that some people might treat him differently in part because of the color of his skin.
I wouldn't trust a Presidential candidate who didn't on occasion want to attack his mother with a hammer. Who among us hasn't had those feelings. The fact that Ben Carson successfully resisted these impulses is an endorsement of his character. I would much rather have Ben Carson as president than Lizzie Borden........On a somewhat more esoteric level, I note that when Carson achieved fame and success , he didn't ditch his wife for a supermodel. To some extent that makes me question his judgment. What good is a wall of triumph, if you don't have a supermodel by your side to help you enjoy it.
"I'll also note that the media is doing an awful lot of vetting on claims made in his book. Did they perform such due diligence when discussing Obama's books?"
Agreed.
But I still would like to support someone that can stand up to the scrutiny.
Higher Standards are not necessarily a Bad Thing.
I am Laslo.
Laslo wrote:
But I still would like to support someone that can stand up to the scrutiny.
Higher Standards are not necessarily a Bad Thing.
I am Laslo.
That is fair. Only I also don't like being played by the media when they distort the story to begin with and the person ends up trying to knock down a straw man.
And actually this is what Carson says about the belt buckle:
I had real anger issues. I would just fly off the handle and really become quite irrational and try to hurt people with baseball bats, hammers, whatever. In this particular case, I happened to have a large camping knife. And, you know, one of my friends angered me. And I just lunged at his abdomen with the knife. Probably would have seriously injured or killed him, but he happened to have on a large metal belt buckle under his clothing, upon which the blade broke.
So it wasn't an instance of fighting with a belt buck it was an instance of a knife hitting a buckle and breaking. That is totally reasonable. What is this, the belt turns garbage Trump is spewing. If you stab at someone and instead hit a solid metal object it may in fact deflect a blade and even break it.
So, a second story about carson that seems to be stretching for conflict.
You know, somebody could have looked throrugh issues of the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature from about 1965 till about 1973 to see if there was any kind of an article published in any kind of major magazine of general interest about a man who bleached his skin white and damaged his skin doing so.
They surely weren't all gone from all libraries by 2008.
By the way, World War I was called the European War (War, European) in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature all the way up to 1976!
And Carson might not have thrust that camping knife at the other boy with all that much force. so the statement that might be wrong would be:
"Probably would have seriously injured or killed him."
Maybe not so.
"Well, I feel badly for Ben. I've gotten to like Ben."
If you believe that, I got some prime casino property in Atlantic City that I'd like to show you.
THen theres one I cant find a link on, where someone said carson was the smartest guy in the class. And some journalist thought he had a gotcha and said there wasn't a class with the exact name. And the Carson team countered, maybe he misremembered the name of the class.
High crimes and misdemeanors!!!!
I don't plan on voting for the guy, but its certainly a fact that they are scrutinizing him in ways they don't for most others. When Meghyn Kelly asked about Donald Trump calling women bitches he had a whole twitter war with her and said he wouldn't go on Fox news. Those statements are easily verifiable, and further were made when Trump was in the public eye. He didn't want to deal with addressing those issues.
But Carson should have address the name of the class he was in 30 years ago?
"Mr carson, in your book you said you had worn blue sneakers when you were 12 years old. We looked into it and NIKE DIDN"T HAVE BLUE SNEAKERS THAT YEAR. Explain yourself!"
Too much of it seems to be that level of gotcha vetting.
The whole argument was probably over the toy from a Happy Meal at McDonald's. The knife in question was a plastic knife which explains it's breaking. The story was somewhat embellished in that it happened when Carson was five years old.
Do people really want Carson to get the nomination? He would have no chance of beating Hillary. And I'm not a Clinton supporter. Just not living in fantasy land.
The other scandal apparently is the he has a weird view about what pyramids were used for. He thinks they were used to store grain. Despite leading archaeologists thinking that they were tombs.
And this is a scandal why? Because he disagrees with archaelogists over a trivial matter that has nothing to do with anything? Lefties think that biology doesn't determine sex, but that you can assert your sex simply by thinking it so. And if you diverge from that opinion you hate transgendered people. That is far more extreme a thought based on magical thinking than assuming that a pyramid wasn't used for what archaeologists thought.
Why would I care if he got that answer wrong?
These are not real scandals.
"The legendary, deadly Tool Belt Fight."
> He [Carson] would have no chance of beating Hillary.
He might, he does better than the other candidates with women and blacks. I think Trump will lose badly with women. More likely, I think Trump will succeed in taking down both Carson and himself, hardcore Trump support isn't that high.
Carson is so impressed with himself that he is setting up a his own favorite tale of worshipful legends ahead of time. Like George Washinton's cherry tree and coin throwing skills, he was a prodigy at everything.
Trump is simply accusing him of telling the truth when everyone knew the hagiography was way exaggerated. So Ben are you telling the truth ?
The Religious Spirit is a Lying Spirit. So Lying Spirit , are you telling the truth?
jr565 said...
And this is a scandal why?
His claim that "scientists" said aliens had something to do with the pyramids is far weirder and stupider than the grain-storage thing.
Steve Uhr said...
Do people really want Carson to get the nomination?
The thought of any of the major candidates, esp. Billary, being president gives me the willies. Sometimes it's nice to be old.
Carson is not my guy, but this is all BS.
While attending US military academies is usually called an "appointment", the academys' own recruiting literature and posters refer to it as a "scholarship". So WTF.
Buckles stopping knives? Even less has stopped bullets.
Pyramids? The only ones I'm concerned with are the ones being printed on dollars by our government.
The pyramids weren't really granaries. Trump is correct about that.
I guess Dr. Carson never saw the DeMille movie "The Ten Commandments," which depicted the Egyptian granaries more accurately:
http://tinyurl.com/qx7ch4n
But it's not Dr. Carson's fault. He doesn't know any better.
Medieval Christians had wrongly interpreted the pyramids as the granaries in which grain had been stored after Joseph had prophesied a famine.
http://tinyurl.com/qatoxn9
And that Christian myth has hung around ever since, despite it being factually false.
"Carson is so impressed with himself that he is setting up a his own favorite tale of worshipful legends ahead of time. Like George Washinton's cherry tree and coin throwing skills, he was a prodigy at everything."
I think it was Dizzy Dean who said, "It ain't bragging if you can do it."
You might remember that.
Ben Carson has a facebook page. On it today you will see a copy of the recruitment ad for West Point ... in which it says "full government scholarship" ... he also has copies of a syllabus for a class that he took that the media said never existed. Also is a copy of a news article in the student newspaper that backs up his account of an incident from 1970 which a reporter from the Wall Street Journal Said never happened. Blog it Ann.
Lots of Trump this weekend (SNL and 2 Sunday talk shows), all without substance--perfect for an unserious electorate.
If the Sunday morning shows want Trump to talk about Carson, it should be in reference to their respective policy proposals, instead of the latest media frenzy over a Republican candidate. (Dickerson did bring up Trump's tax plan, but for naught.)
Carson admitted he had a ghostwriter, and the ghostwriter filled in details that Carson didn't remember.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-memoir-exaggerations_563f5dd3e4b0307f2cadc60c
Speaking Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Carson admitted that the course name that appeared in his book was inaccurate, but said his campaign had found the student newspaper article and would release it.
"I wonder why, with all their investigating abilities, they can’t find it. We found it and we’re going to be putting it out," he said. "The course, I guess was called Psychology 1-0. know, when you write a book with a co-writer and you say that there was a class, a lot of time they’ll put a number or something just to give it more meat. You know, obviously, decades later, I’m not going to remember the course number."
Later on Sunday, Carson shared a syllabus for a 2002 psychology class called "Perception" on his Facebook page, writing "Allow me also to do the research for the Wall Street Journal reporter. Here is a syllabus for the class you claim never existed. Still waiting on the apology."
For the Hagiography overwhelmed by Saint Carson, it might be good to remember that surgery is a technical school learned muscle memory activity. It requires zero intellectual effort beyond memorizing the physics of using human hand tool movements.
That leaves the Good Doctor's political training to date being whatever worked down at small world of the Advent's pride cult.
It seems a lot of people are upset at the obvious bias of the media.
I agree with this sentiment.
That said, asking the media to forego their partisan ways is like asking Jews to stop being such moneygrubbers or asking blacks to stop shooting each other and to quit eating watermelon.
The Media are like Asian drivers: they do it poorly, but it is the only way they know.
I am Laslo.
All my brothers dodged the draft. I would have dodged it too, except the draft ended when I graduated high school.
My brothers and I enlisted.
I know it seems dishonorable, but they gave us one stripe out of basic training, and I was a whore for stripes.
Carson and Trump? Yea, I don't know what they did, but they ain't got no DD-214, I guarantee. I think they suckered Selective Service pretty darn good, is what I think.
I bet they ain't got no rebel flag in their possession. Not in any of their homes and beach houses, and not on any of their pickup-trucks. No sir'y Bob.
I bet they don't even got no CB handle, 'ceptin maybe one of those itchy-coo names.
"are you telling the truth ?"
For Trump and anyone who supports him, the truth is an entirely malleable and contextual affair, to be said for whatever advances the goal of the moment. It's sales and real estate at every step.
traditionalguy said...
Carson is so impressed with himself
JUST. LIKE. YOU.
drops mic
traditionalguy said...
Carson is so impressed with himself
JUST. LIKE. YOU.
drops mic
it might be good to remember that surgery is a technical school learned muscle memory activity. It requires zero intellectual effort beyond memorizing the physics of using human hand tool movements. <---you do not exist. If someone were to ask you to calculate voltages or titrate a dosage, you would soil yourself. Whatever you do, on this blog you have never demonstrated any intellectual effort whatsoever. I guarantee you could never attain an MD degree.
Obama, Democrat, says that the Iranians will not lie about their nuclear weapons which they are building
Hilary, Democrat, said she didn't know her husband was cheating
Hilary, Democrat, said her emails had no national security information
Hilary, Democrat, said she didn't know the embassy in Benghazi was not secure
Hilary, Democrat, said the Benghazi terrorist attack was caused by a video
But what does all this matter?
Ben Carson, Republican, thought that the Pyramids were built as granaries
Ben Carson, Republican, lost his temper in dangerous ways several times about fifty years ago
This matters.
At the next debate, why not ask all the Republicans: "How do you spell chrysanthemum?"
I'm surprised to learn that @traditionalguy is an expert on the what makes a good surgeon. I would never have guessed, based on his other Althouse postings, that he would be an expert on the topic, perhaps even a surgeon himself. Although if the profession truly does not require much in the way of brains his newly professed expertise isn't all that surprising.
One universal and contemptible characteristic of all lawyers of my acquaintance, is that they do not value anything that they themselves do not know. Doctors are the obvious superiors of lawyers for prestige in the society and what could be more clear than trad's catlike jealousy worthy of a redheaded southern lawyer.
Everybody knows that the purpose of the pyramids was to house secure email servers.
The Cult of Saint Carson is strong today. Forgive me if I do not worship surgeons. I have known many prominent ones and enjoy their company. But they have a strange need to be worshiped for all they do to make help human life on earth better. Only they know how magnificent they are in heroic efforts to save people.
Praise and thanks and honor and wealth and reverence belongs to them without limitation, except for their very real limitations in the other areas where they do not know anything about what the are talking about.
it has nothing to do with his fitness for office,
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/us/ben-carson-just-proved-he-never-lied-liberal-media-in-full-retreat
we're speaking of fair coverage, not the unpersonning given to Palin, or Cain, or a generation earlier, Clarence Thomas,
Trump is a snarkbag whose job is too malign other Republicans, get the nomination and lose to Hillary. Once that is accomplished, he can resume being the quintessential crony capitalist with great rewards in his future.
Trump is a snarkbag whose job is too malign other Republicans, get the nomination and lose to Hillary. Once that is accomplished, he can resume being the quintessential crony capitalist with great rewards in his future.
Much like you. Except substituting "malign(ing) other Republicans" with "kissing the penis heads of other Republicans".
Hombre is a snarkbag whose job is too (sic) kiss the penises of other Republicans, get the nomination and lose to Hillary. Once that is accomplished, he can resume being the quintessential crony capitalist with great rewards in his future.
Hahahahahaha.
Here's RitmoSockPuppet (6:20), inept, paid lefty troll, taking time out from the cafeteria food fight to dazzle with his erudition.
Thanks, Ritmo.
I am a bit surprised that the media made such a big deal about Romney's behavior in high school, Carson's offer of scholarship, and yet, it does not want to discuss Sander's love affair with USSR, Castro brothers and sandinistas in the 1980ies. Isn't where Sander's love for socialism came from?
no, they are only looking for counterrevolutionary tendencies, Wright, an acolyte of Fidel and Muammar, don't qualify, neither did PLO flack Khalidi, or superannuated Chavista Ayers,
You're welcome.
It doesn't take much erudition though to point out that you're just a willingly unpaid troll for kissing Republican phallusies and making sure only one side ever gets criticized.
Cheerleading one side pro bonor might leave you with something resembling political peyronie's but hey, as long as you're ok with getting that lopsided then go wild and rock out with your crock out, Old Man.
"It doesn't take much erudition though to point out that you're just a willingly unpaid troll for kissing Republican phallusies and making sure only one side ever gets criticized."
But only one side is ever criticized in the media - the republicans. I wonder if you don't notice this due to natural stupidity or you are paid for simulating it.
So it sounds like you want to institute a sort of "fairness doctrine" that will criticize a Democrat for the occasional, rare stupid remark as often as Republicans are criticized for making much more frequently stupid remarks. Either that or pretend that FOX and PJM are not really "media".
Well, they're not serious media, we know that.
Remember, reality has a liberal bias. It's unfair not to blindly accept the fictional narratives constructed by right-wingers in order to balance this and give them some glory, too. No matter how wrong they are. It's all about even-handedness and the glory required for right-wingers, simply for being a right-wingers.
> Remember, reality has a liberal bias.
Hey, I like reading fantasy as much as anyone but I don't confuse it with reality.
"it might be good to remember that surgery is a technical school learned muscle memory activity. It requires zero intellectual effort beyond memorizing the physics of using human hand tool movements." Right. That's why we farmed out the really complicated stuff to robots, like the wielders car manufacturers use. Cause you dont want thinking to get in the way while brain surgeoning.
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Remember, reality has a liberal bias. It's unfair not to blindly accept the fictional narratives constructed by right-wingers in order to balance this and give them some glory, too. No matter how wrong they are. It's all about even-handedness and the glory required for right-wingers, simply for being a right-wingers."
Nonsense. The reality has a liberal bias is one of those things you guys repeat amongst yourselves to avoid having to support your viewpoints. The rest of it is the nonsense you repeat amongst yourselves to justify shouting down other viewpoints. It's the story you tell for the reason you want to shut down FoxNews and AM talk radio even though you have most all of the rest of the media.
This response to an interviewer's question is an instant classic:
JANSING: Is he the one you tried to knife?
CARSON: I'm not giving any information about who the person was that I tried to knife.
Trad guy said
"For the Hagiography overwhelmed by Saint Carson, it might be good to remember that surgery is a technical school learned muscle memory activity. It requires zero intellectual effort beyond memorizing the physics of using human hand tool movements"
So Carson is just exactly like Dennis Rodman. Learned muscle memory, and memory good enough to learn the play book and tendencies of 100 or so competitors.
That is likely the most childish inane comment I've seen since the last time I visited Talking Points Memo.
R&B's: "Remember, reality has a liberal bias"
That explains perfectly the lack of toilet paper in Venezuela.
Not to mention food.
But it's all good! It's like a permanent "stay-cation" while on a diet!
Hooray for lefty policies!
The great pyramid at Giza has a large gallery runnng for maybe a hundred feet or so. Angled up at @ 15 deg it was thought that it was used as an observatory while the structure was being built.
It may also have been used in building.
Yeah, fuckers, keep at it. Ok, he's not an archaeologist like all of you, he just read about it in his Bible, not on Wikipedia where the truth lies.
Now point to your fucking trigeminal nerve.
Now fix it.
If this is the limit of the substance that can be arrayed against Dr. Carson, he must be the perfect man.
chuck said... 11/8/15, 4:34 PM
I'm surprised to learn that @traditionalguy is an expert on the what makes a good surgeon.
He's not all that wrong. Surgery is a skill that's not all that related to other medical knowledge. Fred Demara, "The Great Imposter" was able to perform skilled surgery (learned by consulting books and talking to people) during the Korean War aboard a Canadian naval ship.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1900621_1900618_1900605,00.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Waldo_Demara
Demara disappeared to his room with a textbook on general surgery and proceeded to speed-read the various surgeries he was now forced to perform, including major chest surgery. None of the casualties died as a result of Demara's surgeries.
Of course, Ben Carson also had to graduate medical school.
Different versions of the stabbing story have appeared over the years (not counting the one in the movie)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/27/carson-stabbing-story-full-of-holes.html (published Tuesday 10.27.15 8:30 PM ET)
In three (the 1990 book, "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence" and the 1996 book "Gifted Hands" and the 2007 book Take the Risk ) it was because Bob changed a radio station; in the 2000 book "The Big Picture" and the 2011 book "America the Beautiful," no cause is given; but in the 2014 book, "One Nation", a classmate came along and began to ridicule him.
In both of the two earlieest books it is a camping knife, (the movie based on Gifted Hands has him whittling, but that's clearly an alteration) in 2000, he doesn't say anything about the knife, in 2007 he describes it as pocketknife (in Gifted Hands he said he carried a camping knife in his back pocket) in 2011, it's just a knife, and in 2014 it is "large camping knife."
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