“The problem is that Carson’s campaign ADMITTED he lied.”
Not true.
This is the diabolical part of it.
They acknowledged Politico’s distortion of what was in Carson’s book was not true.
Politico went and did two things:
1) They actually verified the event with Westmoreland and Medal winners in Detroit and provided the actual date it happened which was wrong, apparently, in the book.
That was fail one on Politico’s part. Carson, understandably, didn’t remember exactly the date and wrongly said it happened at a Memorial Day event. Politico, looking for dirt, was able to pick up on that but it backfired a bit when they did at the same time they tried to discredit Carson and make it look like Carson never even attended such an event, found that indeed that event did happen.
They actually verified Carson in trying to call smear him as a fabricator.
2) They did a thorough search of the Academy’s records (who do you think was helping them get access to nearly fifty year old applications?) for something that was not claimed in the book.
This is the classic lie-based straw man. Politico can use their leftist allies in the military hierarchy to pull up all this information on applicants of fifty years ago, not find Carson, then say this is a smoking gun proving a lie, when in actual fact Carson never said he applied to the school or for a scholarship.
I saw this same kind of convoluted parsing of the facts four years ago when Herman Cain was vetted out of the race for sexual shenanigans.
I pray we get the same result this time, and Carson is drummed out of the running.
There are already MULTIPLE alarm bells ringing on Dr. Carson’s fitness to serve. This is just one more.
P.S. The media hates Cruz with a passion. If there were similar dirt on Cruz it would already be public. That right there tells me something: Cruz doesn’t have anything to “parse away”; instead, there is simply nothing to find.