Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

Gray Lady > Pray Lady ?

 

I mentioned that earlier, and it makes zero sense. What's dishonest about refusing to retake a test with no prep time because of something that happened when the professor was in control of the tests? Does Ben Carson understand the way humans interact?

 

And 149/150 students in ANY class are going to throw out their grade and credit because of a paper-shuffling screw-up?

Bullshit. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit.

Just another of Fartson's Fractured Fairy Tales.

 

The story doesn't even make him look good. Conservatives upset by Obama's limp-wristed, namby-pamby foreign policy are throwing in behind a guy who, by his own admission, wouldn't even confront an Ivy League psych professor over some obvious bullshit?

 

Come on, you have a better pet name for him than that. Let's hear it. Let it out.

 

Marines, Army, whatever. I'm sure it's a totally true story, and that the media will investigate, find the recruiter, and see that it checks out:

The First Lady has offered a kaleidoscope of images to the public, but today she added the most curious one yet: Private Hillary.

Speaking at a lunch on Capitol Hill honoring military women, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that she once visited a recruiting office in Arkansas to inquire about joining the Marines.

She told the group gathered for lunch in the Dirksen Office Building, according to The Associated Press, that she became interested in the military in 1975, the year she married Bill Clinton and the year she was teaching at the University of Arkansas law school in Fayetteville.

She was 27 then, she said, and the Marine recruiter was about 21. She was interested in joining either the active forces or the reserves, she recalled, but was swiftly rebuffed by the recruiter, who took a dim view of her age and her thick glasses. 'Not Very Encouraging'

"You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman," Mrs. Clinton said she was told, adding that the recruiter dismissed her by suggesting she try the Army. "Maybe the dogs would take you," she recalled the recruiter saying.

Hillary Clinton Says She Once Tried to Be Marine



former President Bill Clinton told a crowd in Columbus, Indiana, today that his wife had tried to join the Army. "I remember when we were young, right out of law school, she went down and tried to join the Army and they said 'Your eyes are so bad, nobody will take you,'"

Bill Clinton Says Hillary Tried to Join the Army

 

Just Democrats being smart. #cran

 

You mean he's full of shit? Yes.

 

The story is that everyone else lied and said they didn't read the notice about there being a retest, but that "Dr. Carson" couldn't tell a lie. He chopped down the cherry tree.

 

I think there's a kernel of truth in most of his tales.

 

We already know Hillary is a liar.

 

And, don't forget, not only did the Marines reject her, but NASA also broke poor 8-year-old Hillary's heart:

Before Hillary Clinton put 18 million cracks into the "highest, hardest glass ceiling," she ran smack into one at NASA, the presidential candidate recalled at a New Hampshire town hall meeting on Thursday.

"You are talking to someone who wanted to be an astronaut," Clinton said when asked about her support for funding space exploration. As a young teenager, Clinton said she wrote to NASA. She said they wrote back, "Thank you very much, but were not taking girls."

Hillary Clinton: I wanted to be an astronaut

Sure, no one has ever been able to corroborate the tale, but I'm sure it's true:

The story is clearly politically useful, and comments on its actual authenticity have predictably split along partisan lines. Clinton herself never indicated she kept the letter, so there’s no documentation at her end.

Nor is there any at NASA’s end, I was told by NASA Headquatrers spokesman Bob Jacobs in a recent email exchange. “As you might imagine,” Jacobs wrote, “NASA received thousands of letters from young and old alike asking about how to become an astronaut.”

“As a matter of policy,” he explained, “correspondence with the public is not retained as a permanent record.” Consequently, he added, “NASA has no record of the letter”, elaborating that “it’s just not the kind of thing the agency would have tracked in ’61 or ’62.”

“We do, however, have some examples of other letters and public statements by NASA officials that suggest in the early 1960s the guidelines and requirements for astronauts would have likely precluded women,” he added, “although they were not gender specific.”

One sample letter that was retained, in 1966, followed that format. Written to a girl in Michigan who wanted to become a space veterinarian, the letter from William O’Donnell referenced a “list of prerequisites” to provided guidance for her selection of school subjects. The letter also advised her that by the time she became old enough to formally apply, the list “may have changed substantially.” It did not say she would never be picked because she was female.

Clearly the letter was written as an encouragement to the girl, not a flat rejection that she shouldn’t even bother thinking about applying because she was female. The fact that she was a girl never came up in the letter, and actually the tone was sympathetic and supportive.

The Space Review: “We don’t take girls”: Hillary Clinton and her NASA letter