Baloney. This is a hit job. Read the entire article. Carson has not been attempting to fabricate something, he mentions it in a book or two as surrounding a dinner he attended where he met Gen Westmoreland, whom he remembers encouraged him to apply to West Point and that he’d get a full-ride. That is totally believable as a casual dinner conversation and probably made quite the impression.
Westmoreland could offer to nominate him, but you don’t get offered a scholarship until you actually apply and are admitted (and obviously not everyone who is nominated gets admitted). Carson never even applied. But his book very clearly states he was offered a scholarship and that he turned it down.
See this MSNBC reporter’s twitter - he has posted the relevant parts of the book:
https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin
West Point, however, has no record of Carson applying, much less being extended admission.""""""""......
They said it I didn't, they admitted their fabrication. Kind of in the neighbor hood of all the Hillary fabrications, bullets flying all around me.
I'm sure when he/they wrote that book, he didn't know he would one day run for the presidency, and that fabrication would not hurt him, but yikes lookey here Ben, it's gonna hurt.
Laughable that you are telling others to read the entire article, especially since it includes an actual admission from Carson’s campaign manager that Carson’s claim of being “offered a full scholarship to West Point” is untrue!
Then why did his campaign admit that he did?
I think you're more right than wrong. Carson writes, specifically, that he was offered a full scholarship to West Point. Carson was in some sort of ROTC program, and he easily could have been told by some official, "Someone like you could get a full scholarship to West Point."
And he simply remembers it wrong, or took too much away from that discussion.
I'm no Carson fan, but this is not a big deal.