Ben Carson claims he shielded white classmates from 1968 race riot

[Compost]

I don't know if Carson shielded classmates during the 1968 riots or not. The real point is that the leftist media was unable to do much damage with the West Point tale so they've moved on.

You gotta wonder why the bleep they don't simply attack his stand on the issues. Of course we know why. They'd have to muster some basic common sense arguments to do that. Instead they create controversy about stuff that he has or maybe hasn't done in the past. I'm reminded of Romney and the -family dog in the crate on the roof of the car- outrage and the -he was mean to some guy in high school- outrage.

It's pretty pathetic when petty BS is all you have to offer when you disagree with someone.

So your position is that the substance of the allegations are irrelevant as long as the denialists hold sway.

My position is, why say everything this guy says is false? It is very easy to allege something isn't true. I'm saying this is a distraction from the issues and is bullshit.

Did you give Barry Sorento as little slack when he was a want-to run, as you're giving Carson?

I'll give Carson the same slack the RWnuts like you gave President Obama.

Fair enough?

That's not an answer. It's a kindergarden taunt. Yawn.

You lose. Your comical hypocrisy is proven.

Lose? You are a hoot! You actually think I am competing with you!?!

 

[FJO]

I don't know if Carson shielded classmates during the 1968 riots or not. The real point is that the leftist media was unable to do much damage with the West Point tale so they've moved on.

You gotta wonder why the bleep they don't simply attack his stand on the issues. Of course we know why. They'd have to muster some basic common sense arguments to do that. Instead they create controversy about stuff that he has or maybe hasn't done in the past. I'm reminded of Romney and the -family dog in the crate on the roof of the car- outrage and the -he was mean to some guy in high school- outrage.

It's pretty pathetic when petty BS is all you have to offer when you disagree with someone.

So your position is that the substance of the allegations are irrelevant as long as the denialists hold sway.

My position is, why say everything this guy says is false? It is very easy to allege something isn't true. I'm saying this is a distraction from the issues and is bullshit.

Did you give Barry Sorento as little slack when he was a want-to run, as you're giving Carson?

I'll give Carson the same slack the RWnuts like you gave President Obama.

Fair enough?

So, why do you bitch when Republicans give as much slack to Dr. Carson as Democrats did to Senator Obama?

 

[Compost]

I don't know if Carson shielded classmates during the 1968 riots or not. The real point is that the leftist media was unable to do much damage with the West Point tale so they've moved on.

You gotta wonder why the bleep they don't simply attack his stand on the issues. Of course we know why. They'd have to muster some basic common sense arguments to do that. Instead they create controversy about stuff that he has or maybe hasn't done in the past. I'm reminded of Romney and the -family dog in the crate on the roof of the car- outrage and the -he was mean to some guy in high school- outrage.

It's pretty pathetic when petty BS is all you have to offer when you disagree with someone.

So your position is that the substance of the allegations are irrelevant as long as the denialists hold sway.

My position is, why say everything this guy says is false? It is very easy to allege something isn't true. I'm saying this is a distraction from the issues and is bullshit.

Did you give Barry Sorento as little slack when he was a want-to run, as you're giving Carson?

I'll give Carson the same slack the RWnuts like you gave President Obama.

Fair enough?

So, why do you bitch when Republicans give as much slack to Dr. Carson as Democrats did to Senator Obama?

Why are you jumping in? Because NY boy can't handle himself?

 

[FJO]

Ben Carson is beginning to sound like...

... some kind of black Forrest Gump.

If I recall, it was Forest Gump who ended up being a multi millionaire.
Pity he was not as "smart" as you.

 

[jknowgood]

At what point do the Carson fans say: "Wow, this guy is unhinged."

Never we are shocked that you still support Obama and want Hillary to be president.

 

[jknowgood]

It’s getting hard to tell what’s up and what’s down these days with GOP candidate Ben Carson. In recent days, he’s come under scrutiny for claims he has made about his past that don’t seem to align with reality.

Now the Wall Street Journal has gone back to fact check a claim Carson made last month, in which he says he shielded white students from rioting after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. The Journal could find no evidence the event occurred.

“It may have happened, but I didn’t see it myself or hear about it,” Gregory Vartanian, a white high school classmate of Carson’s who was on ROTC with him and is now a retired U.S. Marshal, told the Journal.

In Carson’s account to the Journal last month, black students unleashed fury and grief over the slaying of King on white classmates at Detroit’s Southwestern High. As a junior, Carson had a key to the biology lab because he worked there part-time. Carson claimed he hid a few frightened white students inside to shield them from the unrest. He could not recall any of their names.

None of the half-dozen former classmates of Carson or his high school physics teacher could recall white students hiding from rioting the in the biology lab when interviewed by the Journal — though they all remembered the riot itself.

Barry Bennett, Carson’s campaign manager, told the Journal there was no evidence Carson’s claims aren’t true.

“There’s no facts saying they are not true. We are guilty until proven innocent,” he told the paper. “You have no reason to believe that they are not true. There’s no evidence to point to the fact that they are even questionable.”

More: Another Ben Carson tale implodes: No evidence supports claim he shielded white classmates from 1968 race riot

Sounds like Carson is playing the "prove a negative" game: He makes stuff up and leaves it to others to prove it didn't happen.

So he can't talk about anything he's done in his life unless he has it on video tape. Got it, Adolph

A witness or someone remembering one his stories would be helpful. People are suspicious because nobody remembers the incidents he tells stories about.

Reminds me of Obama, it's 2008 all over again. No one remembered all those great things Obama said he did.

 

[Lakhota]

Stay classy, Ben.