Well, I see that a lot of people are getting some enjoyment out of this thread. Some have had kneejerk reaction (uhhh, er, uhm, cough, fake Rabbi, cough), and a few got it.
Full disclosure: I like a number of things about Ben Carson. Dr. Carson seems to be a very, very intelligent person and I think that a Carson candidacy would do the GOP good, if for no other purpose than to shake up the status quo. Were he to become the GOP nominee, if would give him just as hard a look as I do with every presidential nominee. Those who doubt this statement of mine can scour USMB and look and will find not even one negative statement of mine about him. In fact, I have indicated more than once that I find him to be a compelling personality.
It was also apparent to me that
nothing that Dr. Carson said was controversial. As a number of Conservatives said (and they nailed it, imo), Carson was expressing his opinon that ISIS adherents are so convinced of their beliefs that they are willing to die for them. He then indicated that this kind of dedication to a cause is missing in the USA. I am assuming that he is referring to the Right, since he was preaching to the choir when he gave that pep-talk. Actually, I don't think he said anything about the American Left at all in context of ISIS. By using ISIS as a prop, he was making a comparison of intensity, not of actual deeds done, for ISIS has committed crimes against humanity and I know of no sane person here who wants to support ISIS, neither from the Left nor from the Right. So, nothing controversial. To call it controversial is in and of itself very, very PC. Fox was PC.
Mac1958 - I thought that would interest you.
The WHOLE POINT of this exercise was to show that the very first outlet to make a controversy out of this, even with the word "controversy" in it's title, was FOX, a virulently extreme-hard-right leaning news outlet. This can only mean one thing, namely, that someone on the upper brass of FOX wanted a hit job on on Dr. Carson, and in doing so, broke Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Republican shall not eat Republican.
Some here accused the Left of wanting to be PC about this, but I myself am not being PC about it at all. There is no reason at all why one cannot use an enemy as a prop to make a point.
I think that the number of Righties assumed that the title to this OP was my title. But it wasn't. It is, WORD FOR WORD, the same as the title to the FOX hit-job on Carson.
Some got it. Many didn't.