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Ben Carson’s past called into question again as claims he hid white classmates during race riots
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ben-carson-hid-white-classmates-race-riots-af-article-1.2426739 ^

Posted on 11/07/2015 9:53:20 AM PST by springwater13

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To: EagleUSA

I’m wondering why the left is attacking Carson.
I think it’s because Carson said on Oct 28th that marriage was between a man and a woman.

That caused the left to lose it’s focus on anything that would take down Trump and start attacking Carson.


21 posted on 11/07/2015 10:09:57 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: springwater13

The “media” is tasked with picking ‘em off until there’s
only one left standing - the Donald. Then they will
finish him off easy as pie - a hit piece or two - coupled
with ridiculing his appearance & numerous wives - VOILA!
- President Hitler-y Rottingham Clintoon!!


22 posted on 11/07/2015 10:10:42 AM PST by Twinkie (JOHN 3:16)
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To: TBP
So they are trying to MAKE his story untrue, even if it is true. and they believe that if they just claim it's false often enough, it will be, no matter what the actual facts are.

And it will work.

They did it to Cain, they did it to Palin, they did it to Bush. The media creates the narrative, and it takes a lot of skill and charisma to fight it. Reagan could do it, and Trump is doing it.

That is my biggest thing I love Trump for is he is dismantling the narratives that the media is constructing.

My guy is Cruz, but he isn't good enough to take on the media in this way yet.

23 posted on 11/07/2015 10:10:45 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Only reason that this is happening is that Carson beats Hillary by a mile in the polls.

Of course, I am shocked that a politician would ever embellish his record! (For fun check out how LBJ earned his Silver Star!)

24 posted on 11/07/2015 10:10:53 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859))
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To: springwater13

Gee if only the media had just looked a drop into Obama’s past like they are doing with Carson, even 10 percent would have been something..like that Rashid Khalidi tape, still waiting for the LA Times to release it, come on already its been SEVEN YEARS


25 posted on 11/07/2015 10:11:15 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

He did a GREAT job at the debate.


26 posted on 11/07/2015 10:11:56 AM PST by TBP (with the wrong hand)
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To: Politicalkiddo
Ya' THINK?, wait until tomorrow to find out what Carson claims next. Can't wait./s

This new revelation reminds me of a White person saying, yeah, but I have Black friends too.

That medical skeleton in his closet had more useful purposes that he anticipated.

27 posted on 11/07/2015 10:13:10 AM PST by annieokie
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To: ConservativeMind

I’m not just talking about these MSM stories. His political support for gun control, for instance, made him dead meat in my eyes. He has no charisma, no common sense, and obviously cannot cope with the media. I was never voting for him before, so what the media says is irrelevant to me. I’m just tired of hearing “Ben Carson this...Ben Carson that..” Dude has no chance in any case.


28 posted on 11/07/2015 10:14:41 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("This is the way the world ends--Not with a bang, but a whimper.")
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To: springwater13

Wow, the media is vetting Carson almost as much as they did Obummer.
What a freakin joke! the media is beyond dispicable.


29 posted on 11/07/2015 10:14:48 AM PST by rainee (Her)
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To: Politicalkiddo

I wouldn’t vote for him because of his views on 2A and amnesty coupled with my thought that we wouldn’t know his name if he were white.

Those things aside, it seems that Ben Carson has committed the most grievous of Uncle Tom sins - Black While Republican.

If nothing else he shouldn’t be abandoned in the face of hypocritical media (or Jeb, or Trump maneuvering) in a rectal exam of his self-documented history because NONE of that was EVER done for the Kenyan in Chief.

The clue here for Ben is that Trump gets over because he doesn’t give a crap. He’s a fighter - and Ben should be too. Why would Ben give two shits about what Media says or questions? Water off a duck’s back just like Debbie “Mayonnaise Hair” Wasserman Schultz, just like any Democrat ghoul and then on to your point if you have one.


30 posted on 11/07/2015 10:14:53 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Stentor

Perfect.


31 posted on 11/07/2015 10:15:21 AM PST by sparklite2 (All will become clear when it is too late to matter.)
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To: springwater13

Sarah Palin: a highly rated female conservative governor,

Herman Cain: a successful black conservative CEO,

Ben Carson: a renowned black conservative neurosurgeon.

Message from the communists - if you’re black or female you’d better not stray over to the right....or else.

Although I’m not for Carson since I think the better CEO of the USA will be Trump, and some of Carson’s policy positions are questionable - I hope the American people are finally wise to the rotten to the core leftists.


32 posted on 11/07/2015 10:16:42 AM PST by Aria
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To: springwater13
Let's ask this guy to clear all of these Carson questions up....I'm sure he was there, with Carson....and there (during the knife and hammer attacks), oh, and there (with Westmoreland), too.....


33 posted on 11/07/2015 10:17:35 AM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: springwater13
spoke with a half dozen of Carson’s classmates

My 1968 graduating class alone from Denby H.S. consisted of approx. 640 students. There were about 3000 students in the school and the only ones I remember were about 4 guys on the swim team which included my best friend Gary. Other than the pool, Gary and I never shared a class together.........

So the term "Classmate" involving a Detroit public school is a very, very broad term..........

34 posted on 11/07/2015 10:17:57 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: TBP

But the MSM isn’t the only media anymore. Social media is almost as powerful now, and of any candidate, only Trump knows how to effectively message in social media.

For example, when the Carson stories started a few days ago, they started with a company called Buzzfeed. Most people here don’t know who or what Buzzfeed is, but it is a gigantic, major player in social media. Very liberal, very clever, and very, very good at framing their narratives.

When Buzzfeed started putting up articles, I knew Carson was in trouble. Why? Because the people who read Buzzfeed for news, think it is all actually true. Then they post those articles on their FB page, they link the articles on Twitter, they post images from the articles on their Tumblr and Instagram pages, and before you know it, those that swim in the ocean of social media have seen the story dozens of times from dozens of different places in just a few hours. So it has to be true, right?

A press release or an interview in one place is not enough to counter that narrative. Nor is having a single websource print a retraction going to start to undo the damage.


35 posted on 11/07/2015 10:18:41 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - Sign up for my new release e-mail and get my first novel for free)
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To: springwater13

Here is a true story that no one but me can relate. Those I intervened on behalf of probably wrote it off as nothing, but it wasn’t.

In my neighborhood the whites generally lived on one side of a 30 acre orchard. Looking down was the poorer neighborhood, with mostly blacks. One day my brother and I were playing in this orchard, when he and a friend decided to yell down to the group playing football “n****r n****r n****r” and run off laughing towards home. Everyone else left but me, you see I knew one of those people from down the hill, we had classes together. They came up looking for blood, but I looked this fellow 10 year old in the eye and told him “my brother is a brat” and that “I will tell my dad about it” and apologized. They all asked my name andT these young boys from the “ghetto” walked away from me without a grumble. They ended up being my friends throughout HS. My brother, was every bit 7 years old. The boy that led them up the hill, became head of the NAACP in our community after his father, who became friends with my dad. I don’t think anyone else remembers this, but on such things turn the world. Maybe some remember but I don’t think so.

How is that story any different than Carson’s? Even if no one remembers him doing this, it is a fact in one persons mind. Someday when we have our life “displayed” back at us during a judgment we will know a lot more. Until then, anything that comes at Ben Carson I will dismiss as a paid attack. Either bring the facts, provable facts or QUIT with the slanderous stories. That is my opinion and I am sticking to it.


36 posted on 11/07/2015 10:19:19 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (If God himself said every 50 years debt should be erased, and land returned, who am I to disagree?)
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To: EagleUSA
Expect a lot more of this kind of crap from the radical left media attacking Repub candidates they are worried about.

Zactly. Even as a VP candidate, He will draw about 1/3 of black votes and would set a distinct contrast to the indoctrinated communist in the white house.

37 posted on 11/07/2015 10:19:38 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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To: Gaffer

I don’t think Trump had anything to do with this in any way shape or form....if that’s what your implying...

The one to look at is The Clinton Crime Family....now there you will find a lot to imply about...


38 posted on 11/07/2015 10:21:36 AM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: springwater13
Vetting presidential candidates is SOP. No big deal

I remember 2008..

MSM employees vet Obama:

Scientists prove planetary conjunction, convergence of several comets, and several hypernovas occurred at the time of Obama's birth . . . .

39 posted on 11/07/2015 10:21:44 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: HarleyLady27

He did tweet out some rather questioning comments. That much is true. There was a thread this morning about it.


40 posted on 11/07/2015 10:22:58 AM PST by Gaffer
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