Posted on 11/09/2014 2:50:39 AM PST by MikeinMotley
Following an ABC News report that Fox News contributor Ben Carson is set to air an hourlong ad/documentary* “introducing himself to the American people” as part of a 2016 Republican presidential bid, Fox News has cut ties with him, according to aFox spokeswoman. The video is titled “A Breath of Fresh Air: A New Prescription for America” and, according to ABC News, will be heavily biographical, addressing Carson’s “rise from being born to a single mother with a poor childhood in Detroit to director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins for almost 40 years, known for his work separating conjoined twins.”
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Yes, he is bad on illegal immigration.
A nice man and a good speaker, but he is not what we need as POTUS. We need a strong man, one who will undo Obama’s damage and take on the MSM when they pull their stunts.
He thinks people in cities shouldn’t have guns.
He also likes revision to Obamacare. He thinks health care should be government funded and single payer.
Ben is not a rock solid Conservative. He is all over the place on the issues.
If I’m not mistaken, once a candidate announces for any public office, any network will have to end their contract with them or give their political opponents equal air time.
Since you asked, here is a retread post of a much better retread post written the day after the event....
Then there is Dr Carson.....
First, there is a TV movie “Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story “ It is a fantastic movie and Even if you read the book it is worth finding and watching.
I looked for my old post but couldn’t find it. My mind is not a clear on the subject as it was the day after I attended a Ben Carson speech.
It was held at the employee center auditorium of Eastman Chemical here in Kingsport. That is almost earth shaking. Eastman doesn’t make overt political action. The news paper played up Dr Carson’s visit to the middle school having the most black students for Black History month. I was prepared to hear a black history speech from the man I had been following on Cavuto and liked what I saw.
I was very surprised when he came out swinging........ pure Carson politics. The stage was set with a podium in the center. Dr Carson took the mike from the stand and walked to the front of the stage. His method was to walk slowly across the stage from one side to the other continuously delivering his points in an extremely articulate manner. All the while he maintained eye contact with his audience. He never stuttered, he never said uh or you know or such. He spoke very deliberately and quietly. No oratorical crescendos, just pure reason, deliberately and strongly driving home his points. Mostly and very pointedly, no teleprompter.
At times he would go to the podium, the front of the podium and lean against it, casually, no formal airs. He was just talking to us. No pretension.
This was from a brilliant brain surgeon that is clearly superior intellectually to almost everybody. The obvious unspoken message was the comparison to the Black Messiah.
I have posted several times that the man is supremely smooth. His words are a lethal stiletto. He reaches back into his youth or his college days to paint a picture of adverse circumstance or treatment. He stabs the opponent with the stiletto that is so sharp the victim doesn’t even feel it go in.... then he brilliantly twists the blade in a mortal political statement. It is a wonderfully acceptable technique.
He told about life in the projects of Detroit. He had to be careful when eating raisin bran to be sure the brown things were raisins, not roaches. Then he told us that his colleagues on the board of Kellogg might not like him telling that story. He did not boast his high corporate position on the Kellogg board of directors., he juxtaposed it with his life.
People came from miles away. We knew that to get a good seat we should go early. We went an hour and a half early. The auditorium was already 3/4 full. It was beyond standing room only. Eastman uses the building fortraining. They opened all the class rooms and piped in the event to the overflow.
This was for our city a singular event. Eastman just doesn’t do things political. A VP knew Dr Carson personally and was instrumental in bringing him. To me, it means there are some corporations sick and tired of Obama and see Dr Carson as a man with solid conservative values that has the knowledge and prestige and contacts to undo and then rebuild our health care system. He has served in various capacities in high positions and has inside knowledge and experience that Barack can only dream about. He has corporate backing and that means money.
Here on Free Republic he has already been declared to be lacking the Christ Like conservative purity many demand. That is supreme foolishness.
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to be president, but if one volunteers......We should take him up on it.
Paring up Cruz with a governor makes sense. Paring Cruz with a female governor has its advantages. Martinez from New Mexico would put two Hispanics on the ticket. Haley from South Carolina would be toxic in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin where unions still have some power, Fallin makes the most sense. Second term, good record, could be a good match.
ABC announced Fox is cutting ties. It didn't say that they are televising it.
OK and TX are too oil states from the same geographic region, however.
*two*
>>And it doesn’t matter how conservative is Carson — and there’s debate — the nation is fatigued by the 2nd black president (after Bubba), and won’t choose another, back-to-back. And that’s not “racist,” just the truth.
I agree. The Dems elected Obama because of the thrill up the leg created by electing “their” black president. Would we be any different for electing Carson to prove that we can blindly elect “our” black president. Is that what we’ve come to in America—a nation where we don’t do anything unless we can call it “a historic first”?
I bought his book yesterday and started reading it to see what he’s thinking. I’ll watch the video too. I’m not going to write him off, but I refuse to vote for a “Great Black Hope”. I will vote for a strong conservative who will fight the Progs rather than join them as Prog-Lite...period. Don’t care about the skin color.
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only airs in 22 states abc nbc fox my cw nov 8 and 9 check local listings
Mike
Sorry. I wasn’t clear. I was referring to the statement that Fox doesn’t want to appear to support one candidate over another. I know that Romney wasn’t on the Fox payroll.
“However, if Jeb or Christie gets the nomination, then I will most likely vote 3rd party. Yes I cannot stand another Bush, Clinton or Christie.
NO FREAKING WAY!!!!”
Ditto! However, get ready for Jeb to be rammed down our throats, I can see it coming.
But as a second-term governor who just Cruzed (so to speak) to reelection, has been a congresswoman, and serves as chair of the National Governors Association, why doesn’t she get consideration in her own right?
She also seems to be stronger on illegal immigration than any other governor and maybe even Cruz.
I’ve really got to start wondering now why she’s not a front runner on her own.
Look folks, like it or not, 2016 is not the time for conservatives to be chasing pipe dreams with vanity candidates who have no shot of actually winning (Ben Carson, Herman Cain, ROn Paul, whoever else the cat drags in). We need to rally around an acceptable established (though not necessarily “establishment”) candidate and learn to agree to disagree on a few things. Stop wasting time chasing the “perfect” candidate like we’re a bunch of socially autistic Rainmans or something.
“How many from ca?”
None since Nixon. Reagan was from Illinois. he just lived there. :(
Actually the only exception, I can find to my lil thesis is Texas. But wait, GHW Bush really was from sommers in New England. Maine maybe. So it took 30 years for us to get over LB&J.
nov 8 and 9
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Dang, that’s yesterday and today. Thanks. I’ll find the time slot on ABC. They sure didn’t do much promoting of this documentary.
Thanks again.
Your “analysis” is ridiculous.
How about you vote for the guy you want, and we’ll vote for the guy(s) we want, and we’ll see what happens?
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