Now Media Matters targets Ben Carson

WorldNetDaily ^ | Feb 23, 2013 | Garth Kant

[wesagain]

"Claims Obama critic is using his race to bolster career"

Media Matters has posted a “research article” claiming Dr. Benjamin Carson is just “the latest in a long line of black conservatives – from Clarence Thomas to Herman Cain – relentlessly promoted and propped up by right-wing voices in the media.”

The article, “Ben Carson’s Moment,” contains just a few original paragraphs and a slew of links to articles and videos.

Carson, the director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, struck a chord with many Americans when he delivered a devastating critique of Obamacare at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month, with President Obama seated a few feet away.

Though he already was the youngest head of a major division at Johns Hopkins, the first surgeon to successfully separate conjoined twins and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, it was the prayer breakfast speech that catapulted him into headlines.

According to the Atlantic, he “voiced concern about the national debt and argued the case for a flat tax, using the Bible’s injunction to tithe a set percentage, and for health-savings accounts, a medical option that has gained currency among conservatives. Crucially, he delivered this speech from a podium just feet from President Obama.”

Media Matters chose to focus on the surgeon’s race.

“After Carson used a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in front of President Obama to trumpet conservative arguments about economics and health care, News Corp........

[ronnie raygun]

The ACLU, the black caucus and the NAACP will side with anyone black or white to attack thier own to prevent the truth about thier scam they have running to control thier own and keep thier chairs at the big table. Keep them dumb and numb and feed them crumbs

[wesagain]

"and begin their destruction with those left in the U.S. that can think. "

Houston, we have a problem!

[Twinkie]

“Notion” has been his favorite word to use when he wants to convey that some person or the other is stupid and wrong (that’s just my opinion of it). - I think what you say is simply calling it what it is, and that he is in many people’s eyes - a vile person and a thug manipulator. - I “wish” it were different; but it isn’t, and I’m at a loss about just what exactly to pray. - So, I guess the Lord may be amused at some of my awkward attempts.