[justlittleoleme]

Article Link: http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/02/03/ben-carson-gets-hoisted-petard-isnt-pretty-video/

Reporter: Do you regret, uh, announcing that that you were going to be going back to Florida and spurring some of this confusion?

Carson: Well, I didn’t make that announcement. Uh, I guess somebody talked to … other people…

Reporter: Well, your campaign told the press.

Carson: You know, *I* didn’t say it, so don’t blame me. [laughing]

Reporter: But you’re here telling us that people should know what’s going on in their campaign and hold people accountable, I mean that’s [crosstalk]

Carson: Well, let me ask you this question, is it okay after being on the road for after three weeks to go home to Florida and get a fresh change of clothes? Or is that a problem? Does that make someone into an evil, horrible person?

..... So, to summarize:

Carson admits his own campaign staffer talked to the media and said he was going to Florida.
Carson takes no responsibility for the actions of this staffer.
Cruz staffer tweeted a media report based entirely on what the aforementioned staffer said.
According to Carson, Cruz should take responsibility for that staffer.

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So Carson knew his campaign leaked this to the press. Then got angry that it snowballed from there.... He is kinda burrying the lead here isn't he.

And going home to get a change of clothes? Is Iowa or New Hampshire so rural that he can't send staff or go himself to buy some more clothes?

[babble-on]

That seems like a good summary. And the fact that half the media concluded from the Carson staffer’s statement that Carson was putting his campaign on hiatus also makes it seem like the Cruz staffer may have just made the same reasonable conclusion. Carson is an odd duck, at any rate.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

hey he’s going to Florida that means he’s out of the race 5 minutes before his people vote in Iowa,, yeah that’s it.. that’s secret code for he’s bowing out and his voters are up for grabs.. and whatever you do don’t bother to call the man to verify you might not get the answer you want.. if you are wrong just apologize later

[odawg]

“And going home to get a change of clothes?”

If you really, really wanted to take that in its most literal sense, you would have to conclude that Carson was preparing for another effort. You don’t go home to get a change of clothes if you are going to stay home.

NO ONE can honestly say that Carson was telegraphing that he was dropping out. Cruz and the CNN reporter may have gotten together to start the rumor.

[b4me]

“Carson admits his own campaign staffer talked to the media and said he was going to Florida.”
NO!

“So Carson knew his campaign leaked this to the press. Then got angry that it snowballed from there.... He is kinda burrying the lead here isn’t he.”
NO1

“Carson: Well, I didn’t make that announcement. Uh, I guess somebody talked to … other people…

I GUESS, is not saying he admitted or knew for certain - so you and article writer AGAIN are twisting people’s words to suite your own scenario/desire.

with regards to can’t some one else go buy him clothes, ya know you are just being silly. Any person in traveling job or even like this on campaign, has the right to go home when it fits into their schedule or when they so choose. All the other candidates stop home at times, so why not carson?

I read days before the caucus that carson was scheduled to go home. So was Christi and there was a third candidate not going directly to NH as well. CNN reported properly He was taking a break before going to DC then NH. CNN speculation and everyone one else tweeting twisted messages of the proper original news blurb have reading comprehension issues and came to wrong conclusions and took wrong action from there, or were purposely devious in what they did.

[HoosierWordsmith]

“And going home to get a change of clothes? Is Iowa or New Hampshire so rural that he can’t send staff or go himself to buy some more clothes?”
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Iowa is in flyover country...they’re so backwards that dry cleaners aren’t in business yet!

[Qwackertoo]

CNN, Carson campaign . . . all played a part.

Instead they play shoot the messenger.

It isn’t like the Cruz people made it up.