Posted on 08/10/2015 7:02:25 AM PDT by don-o
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s long-time business manager and friend told Breitbart News that Erick Erickson lied about his reasoning for not inviting Carson to the RedState event in Atlanta over the weekend.
RedState is a wholly owned subsidiary of Salem Communications, although overseen by Erickson—who is a Fox News Contributor. Salem Communications radio host Hugh Hewitt will be co-hosting the next GOP primary debate in California at the Reagan Library.
Erickson told the Washington Examiner he did not invite Carson because he allegedly saw Carson speak at a veteran’s event where Erickson is saying Carson only talked about himself and President Obama.
“I was at two different events for military non-profits in the last year,” Erickson stated. “They were non-profits that had asked Dr. Carson to speak about military veterans and the work he did with the disabled and both times he spent the entire time talking about himself and his battle with the president and it just struck me wrong.
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Contacted in London, where he has traveled on business, Armstrong Williams, Dr. Carson’s longtime business manager and confidant said, “This is an outrage. When I heard what Erick Erickson said about his justification for not inviting Dr. Carson, I immediately thought it was a smear and outright lie. I dare Erick Erickson to show transcripts....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Mr. Erickson’s cards are showing...
Forget Erick Erickson. YOU release the transcripts.
Erickson really blew this one.
Next he’ll be snubbing Sen. Cruz. Just watch. He does their bidding.
Maybe Erickson had been reading too much FR, the frequent home of smear jobs.
Which is something I hate to say because there is gold in the garbage, but the garbage is a colossal PAIN.
Who the hell is this nut Erickson?
All I know for sure was born in 75 and lived in Dubai till age 15, so he missed most of America as it was, just like Obama.
And now seem to have an opinion on everything, kinda like Obama. Glad he exposed himself as an ass so I can avoid him.
““I was at two different events for military non-profits in the last year,” Erickson stated. “
Can you name both of them and can you actually confirm this? Or can anyone of the vets in attendance verify your BS claim? This pathetic drone lies more than Hillary.
A Dubai-ous background? (Duck’n & runn’n)
I never go there, but, I believe I have heard Levin and others mention it. Kudos to Breitbart and the Carson campaign for pressing this.
We also found out that Erickson was heavily influenced to disinvite Trump by Mary Katherine Ham and Katie Pavlich—both Fauzx News contributors.
Rush Limbaugh got an earful from folks this weekend to no longer allow Erickson to substitute hot for him.
Now we see his flimsy excuse for not inviting Ben Carson to Saturday’s shindig?
I thought only Buddhist monks self-immolated.
Media: “Erick, this seems to be blatant racism.”
Erick: “Well, if I snub Trump you can talk about that instead right?”
Media: “Sure!”
So much sad superficiality going on.
One can say this about Democrats, most are sold out to a cause. It might be as evil as hell, but they believe. To see how shallow the GOP is, is to cry.
I will not watch or listen to a debate in which Carson is not included.
yep, when he disinvited trump I was suspicious. But now Carson too? Lightning strikes twice? Not a coincidence this guy is a closet lib POS. Rush should fire him as guest host ASAP.
Maybe Erickson is racist if this had been Obama isn’t that what we would have heard?
I hear you, and agree.
But I am not going to be played anymore. If Bush is the nominee, Clinton will win handily, and that is the Uniparty Plan for 2016.
Screw them.
The time to start a new national conservative party would have been 2013, after the debacle of 2012. However, American politics does not turn on a dime, and in 2014 the American public gave control of the House and Senate to the GOP.
Predictably, the GOP has squandered that and for eight months, has done nothing not approved by Obama.
Now we have 17 people running for President and all but three or four are worthless.
This isn’t good, I didn’t know Ben Carson was excluded also...he’s a good candidate, soft spoken, but makes sense on a lot of stuff...
IMO, if your going to have one candidate you should have them all...
Someone imploded this weekend, but it wasn’t Donald Trump as some have stated (for the fourth or fifth time).
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