Ben Carson: Bungling Surgeon

There's nothing in his background - at least in a cursory review (A few years at Politico, a few years at Statehouse News Service) - that sends up any red flags.

You're convinced of it because you've had 20 years of partisan messages attacking the messenger, not because it's true. Most objective analyses find media coverage to be centrist, slightly to the left. If you believe Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly & Glenn Beck, though, the media is chock full of raging socialists who want to turn America into a Marxist, centralized state.

 

They who sign the checks issue the orders. Deny that if you will, but in the real world, that's how it works.

 

Most of us can read. I guess when you're the smartest man ever you don't have to.

 

LOL. You read his resume, not his work.

(And, haven't looked at anything outside of the mainstream media.)

He's a guy, who as a student reporter, joined a protest he was supposed to be covering, and got arrested.

He's an activist, not a journalist, who compared his incarceration to that of the detainees at Guantanamo:

I was in Guantanamo for 12 hours.
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This unequivocal and undeniable violation of civil and constitutional rights may actually inspire more protests than it deters, but either way, George Orwell’s grim prophesies grow truer. And although Big Brother is only watching me for the next six months (part of a deal most protesters struck with the judge to dismiss the current charges if we stay out of trouble for half a year), I am genuinely scared.

Innocent arrest at the RNC - The Daily Free Press

He's a guy who rails against Bush, but is hired as an unbiased reporter:

Wrong. It was an “amBush” in waiting. A classic sucker punch from Mayor Michael Bloomberg, looking to bolster his reputation among Bush ‘ Co.

The marchers marched half a block and as suddenly as a Democratic Senator Zell Miller blindside, the line stopped. We heard shouting behind us and suddenly hundreds of cops doing the Texas two-step surrounded us with wire netting. In what seemed like a minute or two, we were handcuffed and sitting on the curb, some 300 of us bent, as some would have you believe, on spoiling Bush’s re-coronation.
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And I wondered to myself, is this what it has come down to in this post-9/11 world? Are constitutional rights to express oneself and assemble – rights for which thousands of Americans have died to preserve – less important than spoiling the pristine view of the Bush Administration and keeping New York’s mayor in good favor with the GOP?

Do you think there's a single reporter at Politico, who's written about Obama the way this guy had written about Bush, or who got himself arrested protesting the Obama administration?

If there is, I'd be interested in learning about him/her.

 

Even if you disagree with Dick, there's no doubt that he's dominated the board over the last couple of weeks.

Dick Whitman: Hall of Famer!

 

I don't view a message board as a competition like you guys do.

 

Which doesn't change the fact that Dick has won the board over the last couple of weeks.

 

Must be why you only have 189 likes and 63 trophy points.

 

So you don't think he's qualified to be president but you'd vote for him for over that old lesbian grandma murderer.

Brilliant.

And every dummy evangelical candidate captures the Iowa electorate and the national imagination only to fall apart once people begin realizing that playtime is over and they need someone running who actually has a chance at winning.

Carson isn't the guy who can win a general election.

 

I recently got a trophy. A trophy!!! That said I was "seriously likeable,"

So I got that going for me.

 

Finding this to be quite true. My paper might be the most conservative daily I have seen, and that wasn't always the case.

 

Brilliant, indeed.