Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

He said that in his book (I am told ... I haven't read it).

Perhaps the devil's in the ellipses, but assuming there's nothing untoward there, a fair reading suggests that nothing we've found out substantively undercuts what he wrote.

 

Why aren't a group of journalists way more concerned about the egregiously inaccurate Politico headline, and subsequent careless re-reporting by others?

 

The reporters have bad DNA.

 

LeBron James wasn't offered a scholarship to Ohio State.

 

Sure he was ... or at least he thought he was.

 

I really don't know what to believe anymore. Was the story about him hitting his mom with a hammer true?

 

It is Politico. Their headline was bullshit. They walked it back. Other media outlets, including Fox News, ran the "fabrication" headline pretty much verbatim. Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Shameful.

 

I think it's reasonable to wonder if Westmoreland ever extended such an offer, or something that could be understood as an offer. Your argument above, regarding that, is reasonable.

But taking Carson's story at face value, he "fabricated" nothing. And he certainly did not "admit" that he "lied" or "fabricated" regarding the offer. I kept reading the campaign quotes, over and over, for this "admission." I couldn't find it. He cut through the bullshit, right? Isn't that what journalists pride themselves upon?

"Bacon in same carcinogen category as cigarettes."

"The Association of American Universities recently polled more than 150,000 students at 27 institutions and found that 23.1 percent - nearly 1 in 4 - of undergraduate women and 5.4 percent of men had experienced some kind of unwanted advances."

 

She actually picked the hammer. Because fuck him.

(Name the movie for bonus points.)